Peripheral Vascular Interventions: An Illustrated Manual

This compact, richly illustrated text presents a uniquely visual representation of the procedures interventionalists
need to master to perform peripheral vascular interventions successfully. Written and illustrated by a skilled
practitioner with many years of hands-on clinical experience, it shares his knowledge, advice, and techniques, giving
readers the sense of sitting side-by-side with him at the angiography table.

Special Features:

More than 570 instructive, fully labeled schematic drawings showing the sequence of steps in common peripheral vascular
interventions (excluding the vessels of the heart)
Covers the physiologic, anatomic, and technical fundamentals of procedures undertaken in the abdomen and lower and
upper extremities
Includes detailed information on materials (e.g., stents, guidewires, cannulas, sheaths, and balloon and angiography
catheters) and methods (e.g., retrograde and antegrade catheterization of the femoral artery, crossover
catheterization, venous access, angiography, stent placement, local thrombolysis, and much more)
Focuses on procedures chosen for their clinical relevance and frequency of occurrence in everyday practice
Shares the authors wealth of clinical experience in time-saving tips, tricks, warning signs, risks, complications, and
hazards to avoid
Especially for the beginning interventional radiologist, but also for the more experienced practitioner who wants to
optimize procedures, this book provides the didactic visual examples and descriptions to perform interventions
confidently and successfully. It is an ideal reference and refresher for residents, fellows, and practitioners in
radiology and interventional radiology, vascular surgery, and angiology.