Pharmacological Therapies for Peripheral Vascular Disease
Edited by: Debabrata Mukherjee
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1841844578
Pub Date: 01 APR 2005
Type: Hardback Book
Patients with peripheral vascular disease (PVD) are at increased risk of death when compared with age-matched healthy controls. They are also, whether symptomatic or not, six times more likely to die within ten years when compared to patients without the disease. This excess mortality exists even if coronary artery disease is not clinically present, and makes the treatment of PVD a highly important and pressing topic.
In this fully up-to-date text, Dr Mukherjee and his excellent team of twenty-one contributors present the reader with all of the currently available clinical information for treating PVD patients effectively, discussing, for example, treatments such as:
* risk factor modification and therapy to prevent cardiovascular events
pharmacological therapy for claudication
* exercise training for the treatment of claudication
* surgical or endovascular revascularization.
Contents:Arterial Diseases
1. Lifestyle changes and risk factor modification ¿ Debabrata Mukherjee
2. Pentoxifylline and Cilostazol ¿ Leslie Cho
3. Antiplatelet therapy ¿ Steven Steinhubl
4. Lipid Lowering therapy ¿ Herbert Aronow
5. ACE/ARB in peripheral arterial diseases ¿ Bertram Pitt
6. Beta blockers in peripheral arterial diseases ¿ Joel Reginelli
7. Fibrinolytic therapy in peripheral arterial diseases ¿ Deepak Bhatt
8. Antithrombotic therapies ¿ Marco Roffi
9. Miscellaneous agents [Naftidrofuryl, Prostaglandins, L-arginine] ¿ Samir Kapadia
10. Pharmacotherapy for global cardiovascular risk reduction ¿ Kim Eagle