Endovascular Treatment of Peripheral Vascular Disease

Current Problems in Cardiology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 711-760

  Allaqaband, Suhail ^a   Solis, Joaquin ^a   Kazemi, Sepideh ^a   Bajwa, Tanvir ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CILOSTAZOL; CLOPIDOGREL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NITINOL; PENTOXIFYLLINE; RAPAMYCIN; RETEPLASE; STEROID; STREPTOKINASE; TENECTEPLASE; UROKINASE; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA DISSECTING ANEURYSM; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTICLE; ATHERECTOMY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLEEDING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BYPASS SURGERY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CAROTID STENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG ELUTING STENT; ENDOPROSTHESIS; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMOROPOPLITEAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; FEMOROPOPLITEAL BYPASS; FOOT CARE; FOOT ULCER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ILIAC ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INFRAPOPLITEAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KINESIOTHERAPY; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG EXERCISE; LERICHE SYNDROME; LIFESTYLE; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; POPLITEAL ARTERY ANEURYSM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTTHROMBOSIS SYNDROME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECANALIZATION; SMOKING CESSATION; STENT; STROKE; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; SUBCLAVIAN STEAL SYNDROME; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VENA CAVA FILTER; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY; WALKING;

ANEURYSM; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; ARTERIES; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PREVALENCE; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA SYNDROME; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VEINS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33749651518     PISSN: 01462806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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