The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine - Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Volume 70 Number 6 November 2003	back to contents

Endovascular Therapy for Atherosclerotic Occlusion and Stenosis from the Infrarenal Aorta to the Infrapopliteal Arteries	393-400
F. Scott Nowakowski, M.D.¹, and Hank J. Freeman, M.D.²

¹Assistant Professor of Radiology and ²Diagnostic Radiology Resident, Department of Radiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.

Address all correspondence to F. Scott Nowakowski, M.D., Department of Radiology, Box 1234, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One East 100th Street, New York, NY 10029.

ABSTRACT

Aortoiliac and peripheral vascular disease that cannot be treated medically is generally treated by vascular surgeons and/or interventional radiologists. Advances in technology have allowed endovascular therapy to become a therapeutic option for atherosclerotic disease from the aorta to the femoropopliteal region. Distal peripheral disease is still approached surgically; however, further technological advances may lead to a more active role for endovascular therapy at this level.

KEY WORDS

Peripheral vascular disease, infrarenal aorta, iliac arteries, femoral arteries, popliteal arteries, minimally invasive, vascular surgery, endovascular therapy.

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