Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

by Beard, Jonathan D.; Gaines, Peter A.

• ISBN13: 9780702030116
• ISBN10: 0702030112
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-13
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science div

Summary

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery provides surgeons in higher training and those wanting an update in this sub-specialty with a practical reference source of the most current information on recent developments, the latest management issues and operative procedures, thoroughly referenced and supported by evidence-based data. This is one of eight volumes comprising the Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice series, which for this Fourth Edition is now produced in full colour. This text is the established reference source for the specialist general surgeon.

Author Biography

Edited by Jonathan D. Beard, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, The Sheffield Vascular Institute; Honorary Professor of Surgical Education, The University of Sheffield and Peter A. Gaines, Consultant Vascular Radiologist, The Sheffield Vascular Institute; Honorary Professor of Radiology, Sheffield Hallam University. Series edited by Simon Paterson-Brown, Consultant General and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon and O. James Garden, Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery, both of the University Department of Surgery, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Series preface	p. xi
Editors' preface	p. xiii
Evidence-based practice in surgery	p. xv
Further reading	p. xvii
Epidemiology and risk factor management of peripheral arterial disease	p. 1
Assessment of chronic lower limb ischaemia	p. 17
Medical treatment of chronic lower limb ischaemia	p. 37
Intervention for chronic lower limb ischaemia	p. 47
The diabetic foot	p. 75
Amputation, rehabilitation and prosthetic developments	p. 97
Revision vascular surgery	p. 111
Management of acute lower limb ischaemia	p. 129
Vascular trauma	p. 147
Extracranial cerebrovascular disease	p. 167
Vascular disorders of the upper limb	p. 195
Primary and secondary vasospastic disorders (Raynaud's phenomenon) and vasculitis	p. 217
Peripheral and abdominal aortic aneurysms	p. 235
Thoracic and thoraco-abdominal aortic disease	p. 253
Renal and intestinal vascular disease	p. 267
Central venous and dialysis access	p. 285
Varicose veins	p. 303
Chronic leg swelling	p. 323
The acutely swollen leg	p. 341
Vascular anomalies	p. 355
Index	p. 369
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