J Korean Med Assoc.  2003 Jul;46(7):636-648.

Peripheral Arterial Disease

• Koh YB

Abstract

Peripheral arterial disease include disease all disorders involving carotid artery, vertebral artery, subclavian artery brached out from aortic arch, upper extremities arteries, thoracoabdominal aorta, its visceral arteries and lower extremities arteries. Rapid advances in vascular surgery (especially arterial surgery) began after World War II, beginning with the treatment of arterial lesions with vascular repair and with bypass procedures, and vascular diseases previously noted beyond the surgical treatment can be corrected by recent vascular surgery. This evolution of vascular surgery has attributed to the development of arteriography, anesthesia, blood transfusion, antibiotics, anticoagulation and synthetic graft materials. These advanced vascular surgical techniques have yielded a cornerstone for the development of the modern organ transplantations. Recently, the incidence of vascular diseases in Korea increased remarkably than before and clinicians should pay attention to make early diagnosis and to perform appropriate treatment for these diseases. Because the detailed desriptions regarding all these vascular diseases in is limited space are difficult, the author would like to describe clinical aspect of the commonly encountered peripheral arterial diseases such as atherosclerotic occlusive disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm, diabetic foot, cerebrovascular disease, Buerger's disease of lower extremities with introducing clinical manifestation of acute and chronic peripheral arterial occlusive disease.

Keyword

Peripheral vascular disease; Atherosclerotic occlusive disease; Abdominal; Aortic aneurysm; Diabetic foot; Cerebrovascular disease; Buerger's disease

MeSH Terms

Anesthesia
Angiography
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Aorta
Aorta, Thoracic
Aortic Aneurysm
Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal
Arterial Occlusive Diseases
Arteries
Blood Transfusion
Carotid Arteries
Diabetic Foot
Early Diagnosis
Incidence
Korea
Lower Extremity
Organ Transplantation
Peripheral Arterial Disease*
Peripheral Vascular Diseases
Subclavian Artery
Thromboangiitis Obliterans
Transplants
Upper Extremity
Vascular Diseases
Vertebral Artery
World War II
Anti-Bacterial Agents

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