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Lectures › Peripheral Vascular Disease
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm - epidemiology, indications for operation, recognition and early management of rupture
Peripheral arterial occlusive disease - risk factors, claudication, rest pain/tissue loss, the role of smoking, medical management, when to intervene (radiology, surgery), cardiac co-morbidity
Diabetic foot - neuropathy,ischemia, amputation
Carotid artery occlusive disease - TIA, stroke, high grade asymptomatic stenosis, when to intervene
Venous disease - phlebitis, varicose veins, DVT, postphlebitic syndrome
Acute arterial insufficiency - etiology, 6P's
Will NOT be discussed/ Outside reading recommended
- vascular duplex exams (except for carotid disease)
- Visceral arterial disease
- Raynaud's and other non-atherosclerotic arterial diseases
- Vascular biology, graft materials, types of bypass grafts
- angiography