TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Pain Associated with Arterial and Venous Vascular Disease A1 - Cohen, Robert I. A2 - Bajwa, Zahid H. A2 - Wootton, R. Joshua A2 - Warfield, Carol A. PY - 2016 T2 - Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, 3e AB - By late middle age 5% of men and women will have developed peripheral arterial disease and within 5 years 25% of these will develop pain at rest, ulceration, and gangrene (critical limb ischemia).1 Physicians who practice in the specialty of pain medicine need to be familiar with the causes and treatment of pain due to peripheral vascular disease because it has a high prevalence. Appropriate therapy and management can significantly improve the quality of life for patients. Pain medicine physicians, by encouraging secondary or tertiary preventive therapy, have the opportunity to improve the life expectancy of their patients with symptomatic peripheral vascular disease of whom more than 50% have disease of the coronary and/or carotid arteries. This chapter will outline the disease conditions and treatments for pain associated with peripheral vascular disease.2 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1131935969 ER -