Atlas of Vascular Disease

Vascular diseases constitute the most common causes of This second edition of the Atlas of Vascular Disease reviews a disability and death in Western society. Atherosclerosis, throm number of important vascular disorders that are encountered in bosis, hypertension, and their clinical sequelae, including clinical practice, including aortic aneurysms and dissection, myocardial infarction, disabling claudication, limb loss, and peripheral arterial occlusive disease, renovascular hypertension, stroke, occur far too frequently. Indeed, vascular pathology in cerebrovascular disease, vasospasm, venous thromboembolism, one form or another is responsible for over one hundred billion venous insufficiency, and lymphedema. For each major vascular dollars of costs annually in the United States for medical condition, the pathophysiology, clinical presentation, associated expenses and lost productivity. conditions (eg, atherosclerosis, hypertension, and vasculitis), There have been rapid advancements in vascular biology, contemporary diagnostic testing (eg, vascular ultrasonography, pharmacology, and technology for vascular disease. Basic magnetic resonance imaging, and angiography), and therapeutic science discoveries have led to our recognition of the human strategies are discussed. One of the most perplexing issues vasculature as not simply a passive conduit, but as a complex to face the clinician is how to manage the patient undergoing organ that responds to both intrinsic and extrinsic stimuli with vascular surgery, since many of these patients have coexisting definable pathologic processes. In addition, technologic coronary artery disease. Therefore, we have devoted a chapter advances have redefined the role of imaging modalities.