2017 ESC Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases, in collaboration with the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS)
Victor Aboyans, Jean‐Baptiste Ricco, Marie-Louise Bartelink, Martin Björck, Marianne Brodmann, Tina Cohnert, Jean‐Philippe Collet, Martin Czerny, Marco De Carlo, Sebastian Debus, Christine Espinola–Klein, Thomas Kahan, Serge Kownator, Lucia Mazzolai, A.R. Naylor, Marco Roffi, Joachim Röther, Muriel Sprynger, Michał Tendera, Gunnar Tepe, Maarit Venermo, Charalambos Vlachopoulos, Ileana Désormais, ESC Scientific Document Group, Petr Widimský, Philippe Kolh, Stefan Agewall, Héctor Bueno, António Coca, Gert de Borst, Victoria Delgado, Florian Dick, Çetin Erol, Marc Ferrini, Stavros K. Kakkos, Hugo A Katus, Juhani Knuuti, Jes S. Lindholt, Heinrich P. Mattle, Piotr Pieniążek, Massimo Piepoli, Dierk Scheinert, Horst Sievert, Iain Simpson, Jakub Sulženko, Juan Tamargo, Lâle Tokgözoğlu, Adam Torbicki, Nikolaos Tsakountakis, José Tuñón, Melina Vega de Céniga, Stephan Windecker, José Luis Zamorano, Stephan Windecker, Victor Aboyans, Stefan Agewall, Emanuele Barbato, Héctor Bueno, António Coca, Jean‐Philippe Collet, Ioan Mircea Coman, Verónica Dean, Victoria Delgado, Donna Fitzsimons, Oliver Gaemperli, Gerhard Hindricks, Bernard Iung, Peter Jüni, Hugo A Katus, Juhani Knuuti, Patrizio Lancellotti, Christophe Leclercq, Theresa A. McDonagh, Massimo Piepoli, Piotr Ponikowski, Dimitrios J Richter, Marco Roffi, Е. V. Shlyakhto, Iain Simpson, José Luis Zamorano, Parounak Zelveian, Markus Haumer, Dzmitry Isachkin, Tine De Backer, Mirza Dilić, Ivo Petrov, Majda Vrkić Kirhmajer, Debora Karetová, Eva Prescott, Hamdy Soliman, Ants Paapstel, Kimmo Mäkinen, Slavco Tosev, E. Messas, Zurab Pagava, Oliver J Müller, Katerina Κ. Naka, Zoltán Járai, Thorbjorn Gudjonsson, Michael Jonas
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The disclosure forms of all experts involved in the development of these guidelines are available on the ESC website http://www.escardio.org/guidelines. The Addenda and Questions and Answers companion documents of these guidelines are available at: www.escardio.org/Guidelines/Clinical-Practice-Guidelines/Peripheral-Artery-Diseases-Diagnosis-and-Treatment-of For the Web Addenda which include background information and detailed discussion of the data that have provided the basis for the recommendations see https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehx095#supplementary-data Current background information and detailed discussion of the data for these Guidelines can be found in ESC CardioMed - Section 49 Peripheral arterial diseases ... ... Guidelines summarize and evaluate available evidence with the aim of assisting health professionals in selecting the best management strategies for an individual patient with a given condition. Guidelines and their recommendations should facilitate decision making of health professionals in their daily practice. However, the final decisions concerning an individual patient must be made by the responsible health professional(s) in consultation with the patient and caregiver as appropriate.