Vascular Disease and Venous Thromboembolism

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is common and often unrecognized. Patients with PAD are at high-risk for adverse cardiovascular events. Management of lower extremity PAD has two components: aggressive treatment of cardiovascular risk factors as well as treatment of lower extremity symptoms. In some cases of carotid and renal artery disease, interventional treatment is performed in asymptomatic lesions with hopes of altering the natural disease history and reducing future events.