Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis : A Practical Guide to Therapy

by Aburahma, Ali F.; Bergan, John J.

• ISBN13: 9781846284465
• ISBN10: 1846284465
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-18
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

"Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis: A Practical Guide to Therapy" is the newest definitive text on the current techniques used in assessing vascular disorders. Readers of Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis will receive authoritative information and will be guided through the establishment and accreditation of a vascular laboratory and introduced to the physics of diagnostic testing. Chapters, written by selected experts, comprehensively explain the use of ultrasound in diagnosing cerebrovascular, renovascular, visceral ischemia and peripheral arterial disease as well as venous disorders and deep abdominal vascular conditions. Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis contains over 300 illustrations, many of them in colour. Due to the special sections which give clinical correlations, this book will be invaluable to physicians who treat vascular disorders, surgeons, cardiologists, vascular radiologists and the vascular laboratory staff.

Author Biography

John J. Bergan MD is founder of The Vein Institute in La Jolla and is a staff surgeon at Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, California, USA. Ali F. AbuRahma, M.D. is Professor of Surgery at the Robert C Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University, Charleston, West Virginia, USA. Dr Bergan is a world-renowned vascular surgeon who has already authored or edited twenty-nine textbooks, nine of which are on venous disorders, including, for Springer, Chronic Venous Insufficiency: Diagnosis and Treatment with Jeffrey Ballad (1-85233-172-0) and Atlas of Endoscopic Perforator Vein Surgery with Peter Gloviczki (3-540-76171-3). Dr Bergan and Dr AbuRahma have collaborated previously and were the editors of the Springer title Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis (1-85233-128-3), which was published in November 1999.

Table of Contents

Improving quality in noninvasive testing by certification and accreditation	p. 1
Qualifications of the physician in the vascular diagnostic laboratory	p. 7
Principles and instruments of diagnostic ultrasound and Doppler ultrasound	p. 11
Overview of cerebrovascular disease	p. 33
Overview of various noninvasive cerebrovascular techniques	p. 50
Duplex scanning of the carotid arteries	p. 60
The role of color duplex scanning in diagnosing diseases of the aortic arch branches and carotid arteries	p. 89
Vertebral artery ultrasonography	p. 97
Transcranial Doppler sonography	p. 103
Ultrasonic characterization of carotid plaques	p. 127
Carotid plaque echolucency measured by grayscale median identifies patients at increased risk of stroke during carotid stenting. The imaging in carotid angioplasty and risk of stroke study	p. 149
Duplex ultrasound in the diagnosis of temporal arteritis	p. 155
Duplex ultrasound velocity criteria for carotid stenting patients	p. 161
Use of transcranial Doppler in monitoring patients during carotid artery stenting	p. 167
Use of an angle-independent Doppler system for intraoperative carotid endarterectomy surveillance	p. 176
Clinical implications of the vascular laboratory in the diagnosis of cerebrovascular insufficiency	p. 183
Overview of peripheral arterial disease of the lower extremity	p. 207
Overview of noninvasive vascular techniques in peripheral arterial disease	p. 221
Segmental Doppler pressures and Doppler waveform analysis in peripheral vascular disease of the lower extremities	p. 231
Pulse volume recording in the diagnosis of peripheral vascular disease	p. 245
Duplex scanning for lower extremity arterial disease	p. 253
Duplex surveillance of infrainguinal bypass grafts	p. 262
Rationale and benefits of surveillance after prosthetic infrainguinal bypass grafts	p. 273
Rationale and benefits of surveillance after percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and stenting of iliac and femoral arteries	p. 279
Duplex ultrasound in the diagnosis and treatment of femoral pseudoaneurysms	p. 287
Lower extremity arterial mapping : duplex ultrasound as an alternative to arteriography prior to femoral and popliteal reconstruction	p. 293
Preoperative saphenous vein mapping	p. 303
Noninvasive diagnosis of upper extremity vascular disease	p. 312
Ultrasound imaging of upper extremity arteries : clinical applications	p. 325
Protocol and technique of dialysis ultrasound surveillance	p. 334
Noninvasive evaluation for congenital arteriovenous fistulas and malformation	p. 341
Clinical implications of the vascular laboratory in the diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease	p. 349
Overview of venous disorders	p. 369
Overview : plethysmographic techniques in the diagnosis of venous disease	p. 375
Venous duplex ultrasound of the lower extremity in the diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis	p. 385
Venous imaging for reflux using duplex ultrasonography	p. 394
Duplex ultrasound use for bedside insertion of inferior Vena Cava filters	p. 400
Venous stenting using intravascular ultrasound	p. 406
Ultrasound guidance for venous therapy : VNUS, endovenous laser treatments, and foam	p. 414
Clinical implications of the vascular laboratory in the diagnosis of venous disorders	p. 422
Deep Doppler in the liver vasculature	p. 431
Duplex evaluation of the renal arteries	p. 450
Duplex ultrasonography of the mesenteric circulation	p. 466
The role of color duplex ultrasound in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms and stent grafts	p. 476
Transcutaneous oxygen tension : principles and applications	p. 491
Role of magnetic resonance angiography in peripheral vascular disease	p. 497
Intravascular ultrasound applications	p. 506
Three-dimensional vascular imaging and three-dimensional color power angiography imaging	p. 517
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound	p. 529
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