ESC Guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of peripheral artery diseases: Document covering atherosclerotic disease of extracranial carotid and vertebral, mesenteric, renal, upper and lower extremity arteries: the Task Force on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Artery Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

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Published in Eur Heart J on August 26, 2011

Authors

European Stroke Organisation1, Michal Tendera, Victor Aboyans, Marie-Louise Bartelink, Iris Baumgartner, Denis Clément, Jean-Philippe Collet, Alberto Cremonesi, Marco De Carlo, Raimund Erbel, F Gerry R Fowkes, Magda Heras, Serge Kownator, Erich Minar, Jan Ostergren, Don Poldermans, Vincent Riambau, Marco Roffi, Joachim Röther, Horst Sievert, Marc van Sambeek, Thomas Zeller, ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines

Author Affiliations

1: 3rd Division of Cardiology, Medical University of Silesia, Ziolowa 47, 40-635 Katowice, Poland. michal.tendera@gmail.com

Associated clinical trials:

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