Endovascular Procedures For Lower Extremity Vascular Disease: Basics of Endovascular Intervention

The application of endovascular procedures to lower-extremity vascular disease is well established for many common vascular diseases and has often supplanted conventional open surgical approaches. Endovascular therapy for arterial disease in the lower extremity encompasses treatment of acute ischemia, chronic ischemia, and aneurysmal disease. The fundamental skill set and techniques employed are common to all these processes. This chapter details these techniques and therapies. Key words: access closure, access complications, acute limb ischemia, chronic limb ischemia, intravascular ultrasonography, lower-extremity angiogram, transcollateral access, transpopliteal access