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…
Endovascular therapy (EVT) has increasingly become the initial clinical option for treating both claudication and critical limb ischemia (CLI). Similar to the evolution of open bypass surgery, EVT began above the knee and has been progressively extended to the infrapopliteal…
Introduction The term chronic critical limb ischemia (CLI) was first coined in 1982 and was intended to describe limb-threatening arterial insufficiency in the absence of diabetes mellitus (DM). Since the initial description of CLI, the incidence and prevalence of DM…
Heparin is routinely used during vascular and endovascular surgery; its use is ubiquitous among hospitalized patients. Vascular surgeons must therefore be familiar with both the major nonbleeding and bleeding complications associated with its use. The most important nonbleeding complications include…
Historical Background Vascular reconstruction of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) using venous autografts dates back to the early twentieth century. Carrel and Guthrie described the technique of vascular anastomosis after developing the model in canines. In 1906 they published their experience…