Περίληψη:
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.
Συγγραφείς:
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
