title: Non-coronary atherosclerosis.
abstract: During the last decades, the clinical and research interest in atherosclerosis has been mostly focused on coronary arteries. After the publications of the European Society Guidelines and AHA/ACC Guidelines on Peripheral artery diseases, and of the Registry REduction in Atherothrombosis for Continued Health Registry, there has been an increased interest in atherosclerosis of the lower extremity arteries and its presence in multifocal disease. However, awareness in the general population and the medical community of non-coronary artery diseases, and of its major prognostic implications remain relatively low. The aim of this general review stemming out of an ESC Working Group on Peripheral Circulation meeting in 2011 is to enhance awareness of this complex disease highlighting the importance of the involvement of atherosclerosis at different levels with respect to clinical presentation, diagnosis, and co-existence of the disease in the distinct arterial territories. We also emphasize the need of an interdisciplinary approach to face the broad and complex spectrum of multifocal disease, and try to propose a series of tentative recommendations and measures to be implemented in non-coronary atherosclerosis.
authors.affiliation: Division of Vascular Medicine, Ospedale San Giovanni, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Augusto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gallino
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Aboyans
authors.forename: Curt
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Diehm
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cosentino
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Stricker
authors.forename: Erling
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Falk
authors.forename: Olaf
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Schouten
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lekakis
authors.forename: Beatrice
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Amann-Vesti
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Siclari
authors.forename: Pavel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Poredos
authors.forename: Salvatore
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Novo
authors.forename: Marianne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brodmann
authors.forename: Karl-Ludwig
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Schulte
authors.forename: Charalambos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vlachopoulos
authors.forename: Raffaele
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: De Caterina
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Libby
authors.forename: Iris
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Baumgartner
mesh_terms: D001012:Aorta, Abdominal; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D050197:Atherosclerosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D035002:Lower Extremity / Q000098:blood supply; D008638:Mesenteric Arteries; D016491:Peripheral Vascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D012077:Renal Artery; D034941:Upper Extremity / Q000098:blood supply
keywords: Atherosclerosis; Peripheral artery circulation