Textbook of Peripheral Vascular Interventions PDF

Preface

This textbook, the second edition of our original Textbook of Peripheral Vascular Intervention, is a collaborative effort with Dr. Henry, myself, and Alan Burgess from Informa Healthcare Publishing. We have incorporated contributions from world opinion leaders in the areas of technical developments of endovascular devices and new treatment strategies. Our goal is to make the second edition the most definitive textbook available.

As the nature of medical care becomes more preventive, rather than crisis-driven, the diagnosis of treatments for peripheral vascular disease becomes more relevant to everyday practice. Helping patients deal with lifestyle changes resulting from disease becomes more relevant as our population ages. Approximately two million patients in Europe and the United States suffer from critical limb ischemia.Nearly half of these sufferers will require major amputation within one year after the onset of limb ischemia. In addition, in the United States, prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm is quite significant. In 2002, 200 000 abdominal aortic aneurysms were diagnosed, adding to the estimated one and half million patients who currently experience this disease. In fact, 10% of men older than 80 years of age have had a significant abdominal aortic aneurysm. Furthermore, 20% of the patients who undergo coronary intervention have renal artery stenosis, with as many as 50% of those patients having critical stenosis.

Embolic protection traditionally used for carotid intervention is now being applied in both femoral and renal applications.

We have also seen an explosion in our ability to screen patients with peripheral vascular disease; a potent predictor of comorbid cardiovascular disease.

The Textbook of Peripheral Vascular Interventions, Second Edition will discuss therapies that can make a real difference in the lives of patients. Effective, less invasive approaches to therapies for critical limb ischemia, chronic total occlusions, as well as therapies for some subsets, will be discussed. It is clear that in the future patients will be demanding less invasive procedures.

This book stands as a tribute to the pioneering work of Charles Dotter and Andreas Gruentzig. Their initial vision and successful demonstration of early techniques for peripheral intervention have guided the development of these endovascular interventions for the last 43 years. We hope that this textbook will serve as a practical source of information for students, physicians in training, radiologists, cardiologists, and vascular surgeons performing peripheral intervention, and that it will become a comprehensive introduction to endovascular techniques.

Dr. Henry and I would like to acknowledge the hard work of Mrs Valérie Davot whose help in coordinating our contributing authors was invaluable.

Richard R Heuser MD has donated all his royalties for this textbook to The American Heart Association and the Osler Fund at Johns Hopkins Hospital.