Introduction The number of patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) is continuously increasing in the setting of an aging population and increasing global disease burden of diabetes. A recent meta-analysis of 34 studies estimated that over 202 million people worldwide…
Acute arterial mesenteric ischemia may be challenging to diagnose and treat, resulting in high rates of mortality despite advances in operative technique and critical care. The first superior mesenteric artery (SMA) embolectomy for acute mesenteric ischemia was reported by Klass…
The introduction and propagation of screening programs for abdominal aortic aneurysm and the more frequent application of cross-sectional imaging has resulted in an increased detection of small-diameter abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs). Consequently, the management of these small aneurysms is becoming…
Historical Background Dotter and Judkins first described percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) using a rigid catheter in 1964. By March 1977 approximately 1800 patients with femoral-popliteal arterial occlusions and stenoses had been treated using this technique, as reported in an international…