Critical Limb Ischemia

Epidemiology of critical limb ischemia.- Definition, incidence and epidemiology of critical limb ischemia.- Natural history and evolution of peripheral arterial disease.- Patient prognosis with critical limb ischemia: an update of 164 patients.- Conservative management of critical limb ischemia.- Investigation and management of patients with chronic critical limb ischemia due to peripheral arterial occlusive disease.- The role of Prostaglandin E1 in patients with critical leg ischemia.- Antithrombotic therapy in chronic leg arterial disease.- Hemodilution in patients with peripheral obstructive arterial disease.- Assessment of microcirculation.- Assessment of the microcirculation by videocapillaroscopy in patients with critical limb ischemia.- Angioplasty.- Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty for crural obliterations.- Complications during and after percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) of iliac and peripheral arteries.- Efficacy and tolerance of recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator in patients with thrombotic or embolic occlusion of leg-arteries.- Angioplasty and combined procedures.- Below-knee excimer laser angioplasty associated with femoropopliteal bypass grafting.- Single-stage angioplasty and vascular reconstruction.- Combined endoluminal and surgical vascular reconstructions.- Simultaneous endovascular procedures in chronic and acute ischemia.- Bilateral critical limb ischemia in the elderly high-risk patient: an alternative for aortobifemoral bypass: combination of iliac artery intravascular stent with femoro-femoral cross-over bypass.- Distal reconstruction.- Bypasses to isolated popliteal artery.- Principles of infragenicular vascular reconstruction in patients with critical limb ischemia.- In situ vein bypass for critical limb ischemia.- Results of pedal and plantar reconstruction.- Critical limb ischemia - does the limb salvage rate justify the time-consuming reconstruction of pedal arteries?.- Venous allografts for critical limb ischemia.- Cryopreserved homologous saphenous veins in femorodistal arterial reconstructions.- Femorodistal reconstruction with the PTFE graft.- Surveillance of infrainguinal arterial reconstructions: importance of duplex-derived peak systolic velocity and ankle brachial index in femorodistal graft assessment.- Homologous vein grafts in femoropopliteal reconstruction: an over 10-year experience.- Surgical strategy after failed peripheral bypass surgery.- Local thrombolysis for occluded arterial grafts: Is the yield worth the effort?.- Plastic reconstructive surgery in patients with end-stage peripheral arterial disease.- Management of the diabetic foot.- Amputation in the dysvascular patient: techniques and levels.- Epidural spinal cord stimulation in the treatment of non-reconstructible peripheral occlusive disease (PAOD).