Vascular Surgery

Current Questions

Aires A. B. Barros D'Sa, Peter R. F. Bell, Simon G. Darke

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780750613811
• eBook ISBN: 9781483165288
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Surgery & Surgical Medicine

Vascular Surgery: Current Questions discusses the queries concerning modes of therapy, surgical practices, and management of vascular problems. This book contains 19 chapters and begins with an overview of the clinical vascular laboratory. The succeeding chapters deal with the risk factors in peripheral vascular disease and the pragmatic viewpoint of carotid body tumors and carotid endarterectomy. Considerable chapters are devoted to several surgical options and practices for specific vascular disease management. Other chapters discuss the challenges in prevention of vascular surgical sepsis, treatment for diabetic foot, and amputation. The final chapters describe the clinical features and therapeutic management of chronic venous insufficiency and deep vein thrombosis. This book will prove useful to consultants and trainee vascular and general surgeons and other specialists who share in the overall management of patients with vascular problems.

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Contributors
• Chapter 1: The clinical vascular laboratory – requirements and recommendations
• Chapter 2: Risk factors in peripheral vascular disease and their modification
• Chapter 3: Carotid endarterectomy – a pragmatic viewpoint
• Chapter 4: Carotid body tumours – the premise of the vascular surgeon
• Chapter 5: Should we operate on thoracoabdominal aneurysms?
• Chapter 6: Abdominal aortic aneurysms – a topic of enlarging interest
• Chapter 7: How can we prevent complications from elective aortic surgery?
• Chapter 8: Mesenteric ischaemia – recognition reaps rewards
• Chapter 9: Renal artery disease – when should it be treated surgically?
• Chapter 10: Iliac artery occlusive disease – what is the role of surgery?
• Chapter 11: Selection of patients for and assessment of femorodistal bypass
• Chapter 12: Operative techniques and adjuvant measures influencing outcome in femorodistal bypass
• Chapter 13: Vascular surgical sepsis – challenges in prevention
• Chapter 14: The popliteal artery – sinister harbinger of pathology
• Chapter 15: The diabetic foot – how can it be saved?
• Chapter 16: Lower limb amputation – time for critical appraisal
• Chapter 17: Chronic venous insufficiency – should the long saphenous vein be stripped?
• Chapter 18: Deep vein thrombosis and its sequelae – how can they be averted?
• Chapter 19: How do I audit my general/vascular surgery?
• Appendix
• Index