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Peripheral Arterial Disease of the Legs - References

Citations

  1. Hirsch AT, et al. (2006). ACC/AHA 2005 practice guidelines for the management of patients with peripheral arterial disease (lower extremity, renal, mesenteric, and abdominal aortic): A collaborative report from the American Association for Vascular Surgery/Society for Vascular Surgery, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology, Society of Interventional Radiology, and the ACC/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Develop Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Peripheral Arterial Disease): Endorsed by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Society for Vascular Nursing; TransAtlantic Inter-Society Consensus; and Vascular Disease Foundation. Circulation, 113(11): e463-e654.

  2. White C (2007). Intermittent claudication. New England Journal of Medicine, 356(12): 1241-1250.

Other Works Consulted

  • Creager MA, et al. (2008). Atherosclerotic peripheral vascular disease symposium II: Executive summary. Circulation, 118(25): 2811-2825.

  • Creager MA, Libby P (2008). Peripheral arterial diseases. In P Libby et al., eds., Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 8th ed., vol. 2, pp. 1491-1514. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.

  • Fowkes F, Leng GC (2008). Bypass surgery for chronic lower limb ischaemia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2).

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  • Husten CG, Thorne SL (2008). Tobacco: Health effects and control. In RB Wallace, ed., Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15th ed., pp. 953-998. New York: McGraw-Hill.

  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (2006). Your Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure With DASH (NIH Publication No. 06-4082). Available online: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/hbp/dash/new_dash.pdf.

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Last Updated: November 16, 2009
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