| Autor: |
Gallino, Augusto Aboyans, Victor Diehm, Curt Cosentino, Francesco Stricker, Hans Falk, Erling Schouten, Olaf and Lekakis, John Amann-Vesti, Beatrice Siclari, Francesco and Poredos, Pavel Novo, Salvatore Brodmann, Marianne Schulte, Karl-Ludwig Vlachopoulos, Charalambos De Caterina, Raffaele and Libby, Peter Baumgartner, Iris Cardiology Working Grp Peripheral |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2014 |
| Popis: |
During the last decades, the clinical and research interest in atherosclerosis has been mostly focused on coronary arteries. After the publications of the European Society Guidelines and AHA/ACC Guidelines on Peripheral artery diseases, and of the Registry REduction in Atherothrombosis for Continued Health Registry, there has been an increased interest in atherosclerosis of the lower extremity arteries and its presence in multifocal disease. However, awareness in the general population and the medical community of non-coronary artery diseases, and of its major prognostic implications remain relatively low. The aim of this general review stemming out of an ESC Working Group on Peripheral Circulation meeting in 2011 is to enhance awareness of this complex disease highlighting the importance of the involvement of atherosclerosis at different levels with respect to clinical presentation, diagnosis, and co-existence of the disease in the distinct arterial territories. We also emphasize the need of an interdisciplinary approach to face the broad and complex spectrum of multifocal disease, and try to propose a series of tentative recommendations and measures to be implemented in non-coronary atherosclerosis. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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