
Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
A Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice
- 7th Edition - July 5, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Ian Loftus, Robert J. Hinchliffe
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 4 6 2 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 4 6 3 - 8
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Request a sales quoteVascular and Endovascular Surgery provides a short, up-to-date and practical reference guide for surgical trainees and established consultants needing a refresher.
The seventh edition has been edited and fully revised by respected experts in their fields, and provides a full list of current references and relevant resources. It presents the main clinical updates from recent years in this evolving specialty, including new clinical trial data for aneurysm repair, lower limb revascularisation and venous interventions.
This volume is part of the Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice series, the pre-eminent reference for trainees in general surgery and those preparing for the FRCS examinations. Each volume summarises key issues within each surgical sub-specialty and provides evidence-based recommendations to support practice.
- Concise and easy to follow – ideal for exam revision or as a refresher aid
- Fully updated with latest evidence on recent developments, management issues and operative procedures
- Provides an evidence-based rationale for contemporary clinical practice and guidelines in controversial areas of vascular surgical practice
- Details of relevant investigations and evidence-based recommendations to support practice
- Key references to support content, plus a comprehensive list of references in the accompanying eBook
- Links to recommended online videos for further learning
Higher surgical trainees preparing for the FRCS examinations. Surgical residents preparing for the board exams in specific specialties. Students wishing to progress from Specialty Training (ST)1 through to ST3 need to pass their MRCS exams. Once these have been completed and their place in a surgical post secured they then go on to working on the necessary skills to pass the FRCS exam. This exam marks the completion of 6 years of higher surgical training. This series is designed primarily for those studying for the FRCS, but those still working on their MRCS exams will also find these useful
- Instructions for online access
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Series Editors’ preface
- Editors’ preface
- Evidence-based practice in surgery
- Contributors
- Chapter 1. Epidemiological risk factors and risk stratification for peripheral arterial disease
- Introduction
- Epidemiology of peripheral artery disease
- Natural history of peripheral artery disease: limb-specific, cardiovascular morbidity and mortality
- Conclusions
- Chapter 2. Assessment of chronic lower limb ischaemia
- Introduction
- Intermittent claudication
- Differential diagnosis
- Chronic limb-threatening ischaemia
- Staging of chronic limb-threatening ischaemia – wound, ischaemia and foot infection
- Rare causes of ischaemia
- Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome
- Cystic adventitial disease
- Persistent sciatic artery
- Fibromuscular dysplasia
- Endofibrosis of the iliac artery
- Buerger’s disease
- Diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease
- Non-invasive haemodynamic tests
- Chapter 3. Medical treatment of chronic lower limb ischaemia
- Introduction
- Undertreatment of peripheral artery disease
- Peripheral artery disease diagnosis and screening
- Modifying cardiovascular risk
- Additional pharmacological interventions
- Intermittent pneumatic compression
- Angiogenesis and stem cell therapy
- Conclusions
- Chapter 4: Intervention for chronic lower limb ischaemia
- Introduction
- Presenting symptoms
- Global Vascular Guidelines on the management of chronic limb-threatening ischemia
- Exercise therapy
- Medical therapy
- Global trends toward revascularisation treatment
- A regional approach to intervention
- Percutaneous treatment for aorto-iliac disease
- The angiosome concept
- Primary amputation
- Chapter 5. The diabetic foot
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Development of foot ulceration
- Management
- Medical problems on the surgical ward
- Charcot neuro-osteoarthropathy
- Chapter 6. Amputation, rehabilitation and prosthetic developments
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Indications for amputation
- Amputation level
- Surgical considerations
- Amputee rehabilitation
- Pain management
- Early post-operative rehabilitation
- Sports activities for amputees
- Prosthesis prescription and recent developments
- Long-term sequelae of amputees
- Summary
- Chapter 7. Revision vascular surgery
- Introduction
- Graft occlusion
- Supra-inguinal graft thrombosis
- Infra-inguinal graft thrombosis
- Graft infection
- Graft aneurysms
- Carotid artery
- Revision surgery after endovascular aortic aneurysm reconstruction
- Revision surgery after infected endovascular aortic aneurysm reconstruction
- Revision after thoracic endovascular aortic aneurysm reconstruction
- Chapter 8. Management of acute lower limb ischaemia
- Introduction
- Aetiology
- Clinical features
- Initial management
- Revascularisation
- Further management
- Special considerations
- Stent graft thrombosis
- Acute limb ischaemia in neonates, infants and young children
- Overall prognosis in acute limb ischaemia
- Conclusions
- Chapter 9. Vascular trauma
- Introduction
- Mechanism of injury
- Sequelae of vascular injuries
- Clinical assessment
- Resuscitation and initial management
- Special investigations
- General principles of management of vascular injury
- Endovascular management of vascular trauma
- Cervical vascular injuries
- Thoracic vascular injuries
- Abdominal vascular injuries
- Extremity vascular trauma
- Chapter 10: Extracranial cerebrovascular disease
- Introduction
- Risk factors
- Aetiology
- Presentation of carotid disease
- Investigation of patients
- Management of cerebrovascular disease
- Management of carotid disease
- Surgical management of carotid disease – carotid endarterectomy
- Endovascular treatment of carotid disease
- Peri-procedural haemodynamic problems
- Distal embolism
- Chapter 11. Vascular disorders of the upper limb
- Introduction
- Clinical examination
- Occlusive disease
- Aneurysmal disease
- Upper limb embolism
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Subclavian–axillary vein thrombosis
- Chapter 12. Primary and secondary vasospastic disorders (Raynaud’s phenomenon) and vasculitis
- Introduction
- Raynaud’s phenomenon
- Conclusion
- Vasculitis
- Chapter 13: Peripheral and abdominal aortic aneurysms
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Pathophysiology
- Clinical features
- Screening
- Principles of management
- Repair of intact abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Operative repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Juxta-renal abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Peripheral aneurysms
- Chapter 14. Thoracic and thoraco-abdominal aortic disease
- Introduction
- Imaging of the thoracic aorta
- Thoracic aortic aneurysms
- Thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysms
- Recent technological advances
- Thoracic dissection and acute aortic syndrome
- Treatment of chronic type B dissections
- Traumatic aortic injury
- Chapter 15. Renal and visceral arterial disease
- PART 1. Disorders of The Renal and Mesenteric Circulation:
- Part 2. Mesenteric vascular disease
- Chapter 16. Central venous and dialysis access
- Introduction
- Central venous access
- Renal replacement therapy
- Permanent dialysis access
- Access in children
- Access for non-renal indications
- Acknowledgement
- Chapter 17. Varicose veins
- Introduction
- Pathophysiology
- Epidemiology and natural history
- Clinical presentation
- Clinical assessment
- Venous investigations
- Treatment
- Evidence for varicose vein interventions
- Areas of controversy
- Rationing of varicose vein treatments
- Conclusions
- Chapter 18. Chronic leg swelling
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Summary
- Dependency and inactivity
- Lymphoedema
- Chapter 19. The acutely swollen leg
- Introduction
- Pathophysiology of oedema
- Medical history
- Physical examination
- Differential diagnosis
- Deep venous thrombosis
- Post-thrombotic syndrome
- Catheter-directed thrombolysis
- New treatment modalities
- Other pharmaco-mechanical devices
- The future
- Chapter 20. Vascular anomalies
- Introduction
- Classification
- Vascular tumours
- Tufted angioma
- Kaposiform haemangioendothelioma
- Vascular malformations
- Conclusions
- Index
- Edition: 7
- Published: July 5, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 328
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780702084621
- eBook ISBN: 9780702084638
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