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1 Arterial occlusive disease.- Presentation.- Examination and risk factors.- Investigations.- Vasoactive drugs.- Surgical treatment.- 2 The surgical treatment of intermittent claudication.- Assessment.- Aortoiliac disease.- Femoropopliteal reconstruction.- 3 The critically ischaemic limb.- Definition.- Clinical features.- Management.- Results.- 4 When should arteries be dilated?.- Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty.- Technique.- Indications.- 5 Acute ischaemia and arterial embolism.- Thrombosis.- Embolism.- Clinical features.- Management.- 6 Amputation in peripheral vascular disease.- Indications.- Technique.- Results.- Rehabilitation.- 7 What is Buerger’s disease?.- Clinical features.- Prognostic factors.- Management.- 8 Aneurysms.- Pathogenesis.- Aortic aneurysms.- Surgery of leaking aortic aneurysms.- Dissecting aortic aneurysms.- 9 What about sex, doctor?.- Physiology.- Vasculogenic impotence.- Prevention of impotence.- Surgical treatment of vasculogenic impotence.- 10 Vascular surgery of the intestinal tract.- Anatomy.- Pathology.- Chronic intestinal ischaemia.- Acute intestinal ischaemia.- 11 Raynaud’s what?.- Physiology.- Raynaud’s syndrome.- Raynaud’s disease.- Raynaud’s phenomenon.- Assessment and investi-ation.- Treatment.- 12 The diabetic foot.- Pathophysiology.- Clinical presentation.- Assessment.- Management.- 13 Lumbar canal stenosis.- Cauda equina syndrome.- Anatomy.- Clinical features.- Diagnosis.- Treatment.- 14 Varicose veins.- Anatomy.- Physiology.- Classification.- Assessment.- Management.- Recurrent varicose veins.- Superficial thrombophlebitis.- Restless leg syndrome.- 15 Compression sclerotherapy for varicose veins.- Patient selection.- Injection technique.- Complications.- 16 Venous thromboembolism.- Pathogenesis.- Prevention of deepvein thrombosis (DVT).- Clinical features of DVT.- Management of DVT.- Recurrent DVT.- Pulmonary embolism.- 17 The post-thrombotic syndrome.- Clinical features.- Venous outflow obstruction.- Venous reconstructive surgery.- 18 Leg ulcers.- Aetiology.- Clinical features.- Diagnosis.- Management.