2016 AHA/ACC Guideline on the Management of Patients with Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease: Executive Summary

Writing Committee Members; Marie D Gerhard-Herman; Heather L Gornik; Coletta Barrett; Neal R Barshes; Matthew A Corriere; Douglas E Drachman; Lee A Fleisher; Francis Gerry R Fowkes; Naomi M Hamburg; Scott Kinlay; Robert Lookstein; Sanjay Misra; Leila Mureebe; Jeffrey W Olin; Rajan A G Patel; Judith G Regensteiner; Andres Schanzer; Mehdi H Shishehbor; Kerry J Stewart; Diane Treat-Jacobson; M Eileen Walsh; ACC/AHA Task Force Members; Jonathan L Halperin; Glenn N Levine; Sana M Al-Khatib; Kim K Birtcher; Biykem Bozkurt; Ralph G Brindis; Joaquin E Cigarroa; Lesley H Curtis; Lee A Fleisher; Federico Gentile; Samuel Gidding; Mark A Hlatky; John Ikonomidis; José Joglar; Susan J Pressler; Duminda N Wijeysundera

doi:10.1177/1358863X17701592

2016 AHA/ACC Guideline on the Management of Patients with Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease: Executive Summary

Vasc Med. 2017 Jun;22(3):NP1-NP43. doi: 10.1177/1358863X17701592.

Authors

Writing Committee Members¹; Marie D Gerhard-Herman, Heather L Gornik¹, Coletta Barrett², Neal R Barshes³, Matthew A Corriere⁴, Douglas E Drachman^{1

5}, Lee A Fleisher⁶, Francis Gerry R Fowkes^{1

7}, Naomi M Hamburg³, Scott Kinlay^{1

8}, Robert Lookstein^{1

3}, Sanjay Misra^{1

9}, Leila Mureebe¹⁰, Jeffrey W Olin^{1

3}, Rajan A G Patel⁷, Judith G Regensteiner³, Andres Schanzer^{1

11}, Mehdi H Shishehbor^{1

3}, Kerry J Stewart^{3

12}, Diane Treat-Jacobson³, M Eileen Walsh¹³; ACC/AHA Task Force Members; Jonathan L Halperin, Glenn N Levine, Sana M Al-Khatib, Kim K Birtcher, Biykem Bozkurt, Ralph G Brindis, Joaquin E Cigarroa, Lesley H Curtis, Lee A Fleisher, Federico Gentile, Samuel Gidding, Mark A Hlatky, John Ikonomidis, José Joglar, Susan J Pressler, Duminda N Wijeysundera

Affiliations

¹ 1 Writing committee members are required to recuse themselves from voting on sections to which their specific relationships with industry and other entities may apply; see Appendix 1 for recusal information.
² 2 Functioning as the lay volunteer/patient representative.
³ 3 ACC/AHA Representative.
⁴ 4 Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society Representative.
⁵ 5 Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Representative.
⁶ 6 ACC/AHA Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines Liaison.
⁷ 7 Inter-Society Consensus for the Management of Peripheral Arterial Disease Representative.
⁸ 8 Society for Vascular Medicine Representative.
⁹ 9 Society of Interventional Radiology Representative.
¹⁰ 10 Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery Representative.
¹¹ 11 Society for Vascular Surgery Representative.
¹² 12 American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Representative.
¹³ 13 Society for Vascular Nursing Representative.

PMID: 28494710
DOI: 10.1177/1358863X17701592

No abstract available

Keywords: ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guideline; acute limb ischemia; antiplatelet agents; bypass surgery; claudication; critical limb ischemia; endovascular procedures; limb salvage; peripheral artery disease; smoking cessation; supervised exercise.

Publication types

Practice Guideline
Review

MeSH terms

Consensus
Humans
Lower Extremity / blood supply*
Peripheral Arterial Disease / diagnosis
Peripheral Arterial Disease / epidemiology
Peripheral Arterial Disease / physiopathology
Peripheral Arterial Disease / therapy*
Predictive Value of Tests
Risk Factors
Treatment Outcome