Peripheral artery disease: one-year single-centre overview

Peripheral Artery Disease Surgical Technique and Peripheral Artery Disease

Invasive treatment for patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) has changed dramatically. Medicare claims data from 1996 to 2006 reveal an almost doubling of lower-extremity vascular procedures: The use of endovascular repair increased 3-fold, bypass surgery decreased 42%, and the amputation rate decreased by 29%.1 For patients admitted to hospital for PAD between 1996 and 2005, the likeli...

Peripheral Artery Disease Percutaneous Treatment of Peripheral Artery Disease

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty is a minimally invasive therapy for the treatment of patients with peripheral artery disease who suffer from intermittent claudication or critical limb ischemia. The main advantages of the endovascular approach are a low complication rate ranging between 0.5% and 4%, a high technical success rate approaching 90% even in long occlusions, and an acceptable cl...

Peripheral Artery Disease

749 Endovascular therapy to relieve intermittent claudication or critical limb ischemia in patients with lowerextremity peripheral artery disease is now firmly established as an alternative to surgical revascularization. The advent of novel technologies allows percutaneous interventions of increasingly complex arterial disease previously reserved for surgical interventions. Although the durabil...

Peripheral artery disease.

Thoracoplasty: A 15 Year Single Centre Experience

Background:Thoracoplasty is removal of the skeletal support of the portion of chest allowing the chest wall to fall and fill the residual space. Thoracoplasty was originally described for the treatment to the sequel of pulmonary tuberculosis but later it was also considered for patients of chronic non bronchopleural fistulas secondary to many primary etiology .As far as tuberculosis is concerne...