Noninvasive Peripheral Arterial Diagnosis (eBook)

John J. Bergan MD is founder of The Vein Institute in La Jolla and is a staff surgeon at Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, California, USA. Ali F. AbuRahma, M.D. is Professor of Surgery at the Robert C Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University, Charleston, West Virginia, USA. Dr Bergan is a world-renowned vascular surgeon who has already authored or edited thirty textbooks, nine of which are on venous disorders, including, for Springer, Chronic Venous Insufficiency: Diagnosis and Treatment with Jeffrey Ballad (1-85233-172-0) and Atlas of Endoscopic Perforator Vein Surgery with Peter Gloviczki (3-540-76171-3). Dr Bergan and Dr AbuRahma have collaborated previously and were the editors of the Springer title Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis (1-85233-128-3), which was published in November 1999.

Table of Contents 6
Overview of Peripheral Arterial Disease of the Lower Extremity 8
Overview of Noninvasive Vascular Techniques in Peripheral Arterial Disease 22
Segmental Doppler Pressures and Doppler Waveform Analysis in Peripheral Vascular Disease of the Lower Extremities 32
Pulse Volume Recording in the Diagnosis of Peripheral Vascular Disease 46
Duplex Scanning for Lower Extremity Arterial Disease 54
Duplex Surveillance of Infrainguinal Bypass Grafts 63
Rationale and Benefits of Surveillance After Prosthetic Infrainguinal Bypass Grafts 74
Rationale and Benefits of Surveillance After Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty and Stenting of Iliac and Femoral Arteries 80
Duplex Ultrasound in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Femoral Pseudoaneurysms 88
Lower Extremity Arterial Mapping: Duplex Ultrasound as an Alternative to Arteriography Prior to Femoral and Popliteal Reconstruction 94
Preoperative Saphenous Vein Mapping 104
Noninvasive Diagnosis of Upper Extremity Vascular Disease 113
Ultrasound Imaging of Upper Extremity Arteries: Clinical Applications 126
Protocol and Technique of Dialysis Ultrasound Surveillance 135
Noninvasive Evaluation for Congenital Arteriovenous Fistulas and Malformation 142
Clinical Implications of the Vascular Laboratory in the Diagnosis of Peripheral Arterial Disease 150
Index 170