Noninvasive Peripheral Arterial Diagnosis

Overview of Peripheral Arterial Disease of the Lower Extremity.- Overview of Noninvasive Vascular Techniques in Peripheral Arterial Disease.- Segmental Doppler Pressures and Doppler Waveform Analysis in Peripheral Vascular Disease of the Lower Extremities.- Pulse Volume Recording in the Diagnosis of Peripheral Vascular Disease.- Duplex Scanning for Lower Extremity Arterial Disease.- Duplex Surveillance of Infrainguinal Bypass Grafts.- Rationale and Benefits of Surveillance After Prosthetic Infrainguinal Bypass Grafts.- Rationale and Benefits of Surveillance After Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty and Stenting of Iliac and Femoral Arteries.- Duplex Ultrasound in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Femoral Pseudoaneurysms.- Lower Extremity Arterial Mapping: Duplex Ultrasound as an Alternative to Arteriography Prior to Femoral and Popliteal Reconstruction.- Preoperative Saphenous Vein Mapping.- Noninvasive Diagnosis of Upper Extremity Vascular Disease.- Ultrasound Imaging of Upper Extremity Arteries: Clinical Applications.- Protocol and Technique of Dialysis Ultrasound Surveillance.- Noninvasive Evaluation for Congenital Arteriovenous Fistulas and Malformation.- Clinical Implications of the Vascular Laboratory in the Diagnosis of Peripheral Arterial Disease.

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.