Focus on echovascular imaging assessment of arterial disease: complement to the ESC guidelines (PARTIM 1) in collaboration with the Working Group on Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Diseases

Muriel Sprynger (1) , Fausto Rigo , Marie Moonen (1) , Victor Aboyans (2, 3) , Thor Edvardsen (4) , Monica de Alcantara , Marianne Brodmann (5) , Katerina Naka (6) , Serge Kownator , Iana Simova , Charalambos Vlachopoulos , Jean-Claude Wautrecht , Patrizio Lancellotti (7) , Victor Delgado , Raluca Dulgheru (7) , Kristina Haugaa , Frank Flachskampf (8) , Alessia Gimelli , Bernhard Gerber (9) , Nuno Cardim (10) , Bernard Cosyns (7) , Denisa Muraru (11) , Pier Giorgio Masci , Maurizio Galderisi (12)

1 CHU-Liège - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège
2 Service de Chirurgie Thoracique et Vasculaire - Médecine vasculaire [CHU Limoges]
3 NET - Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale
4 Oslo University Hospital [Oslo]
5 Department of Internal Medicine
6 Michaelid Cardiac Ctr
7 GIGA-Research - Groupe Interdisciplinaire de Génoprotéomique Appliquée
8 Uppsala University
9 IREC - Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique
10 Hospital da Luz
11 Unipd - Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua
12 University of Naples Federico II = Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II

The main goal of the present document is to provide a set of practical recommendations for ultrasound imagers who are interested in artery diseases or for physicians who intend to undertake vascular procedures. This is the first part of the work. It is dedicated to general principles of ultrasonography, cervicoencephalic, subclavian, aortoiliac and lower extremity arteries, abdominal aorta, and popliteal aneurysms. It also discusses miscellaneous items such as medial arterial calcinosis, arterial embolism, arteritis, arterial stents and bypasses, false aneurysms, aortic dissection, popliteal entrapment syndrome, and iliac endofibrosis.

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]; Santé publique et épidémiologie

Muriel Sprynger, Fausto Rigo, Marie Moonen, Victor Aboyans, Thor Edvardsen, et al.. Focus on echovascular imaging assessment of arterial disease: complement to the ESC guidelines (PARTIM 1) in collaboration with the Working Group on Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Diseases. European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, 2018, 19 (11), pp.1195-1221. ⟨hal-02042611⟩