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Peripheral vascular disease affects millions of people worldwide causing a multitude of symptoms ranging from pain to tissue loss. The most severe form, critical limb-threatening ischemia, has a high mortality rate. Various treatments exist to help preserve the limb and improve patient symptoms. A multidisciplinary approach must exist to succeed in limb preservation, as we will further discuss in detail in subsequent chapters.
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Madassery, S., Patel, A. (2023). Introduction. In: Madassery, S., Patel, A. (eds) Limb Preservation for the Vascular Specialist. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36480-8_1
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