Moore's Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

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Building an Outpatient Interventional Suite

The United States has the most advanced health technology in the world. At the same time, we have one of the most inefficient health care delivery systems. Most of the technology-driven care is concentrated in hospitals, which are inherently inefficient.…

Lower Extremity Amputation

Overview and Historical Perspective Amputation is thought to be one of the oldest surgical procedures. The earliest artificial limb dates from the Samnite wars of 300 bc . Until the time of Ambroise Paré (1510–1590), the techniques for amputation surgery…

The Wound Care Center and Limb Salvage

Knowledge about the management of wounds is a distinct subspecialty requiring knowledge of both normal and nonhealing wound physiology, products to accelerate wound healing, and new therapies for the treatment of recalcitrant wounds. Many subspecialties—such as vascular surgery, plastic surgery,…

Diabetic Foot Complications: A Primer for Vascular Surgeons

Diabetic foot complications are common, costly, and impactful. The experience of many diabetic programs has demonstrated that multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary management of patients with diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) can significantly reduce complications and produce outstanding outcomes ; participation in these…

Noninfectious Complications in Vascular Surgery

With an increasing number of endovascular interventions replacing open vascular reconstruction, the management of open surgical complications may become less familiar to surgeons currently finishing training. Complications after aortoiliac and peripheral arterial reconstruction often develop and progress rapidly to produce…

Prosthetic Graft Infection

The development of prosthetic biomaterial devices has made it possible to treat conditions that otherwise would have resulted in significant morbidity and mortality. Examples of such clinical conditions include but are not limited to aortic aneurysms, hemodialysis access in patients…