Vascular Surgery

• 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

The following topics will NOT be discussed, therefore outside reading is recommended:

• vascular duplex exams (except for carotid disease)
• Visceral arterial disease
• Raynaud's and other non-atheroscvlerotic arterial diseases
• Vascular biology, graft materials, types of bypass grafts
• angiography