Peripheral vascular disease is the obstruction of large arteries that are not in the heart or brain. With the advent of percutaneous treatment techniques, such obstructions are now often being treated by cardiologists. This issue provides current information on diagnosis, medical management, and percutaneous procedures for peripheral vascular disease.

Peripheral vascular disease (PVD) is a slow and progressive circulation disorder. It may involve disease in any of the blood vessels outside of the heart and diseases of the lymph vessels—arteries, veins, or lymphatic vessels. This issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics examines the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of this pandemic disease.

The entire spectrum of vascular disease is examined in this issue of Cardiology Clinics. Topics include carotid artery disease, endovascular interventions for thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurismal disease, critical limb ischemia, contemporary treatment of venous thromboembolic disease, renal artery stenosis, resistant hypertension, advances in peripheral arterial disease revascularization, stroke interventions, medical management of PAD, pre-operatory evaluation of vascular patients.

This issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Herbert Aronow, will discuss Updates in Peripheral Vascular Intervention. This issue is one of four selected each year by the series Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Matthew Price. Topics discussed in this issue will include: Vascular access, alternative vascular access and vascular closure/hemostasis, Wires, catheters and sheaths, balloons and stents, Plaque modification (eg., atherectomy, lithoplasty) devices, Embolic protection, Renal and mesenteric artery intervention, Iliac intervention, Fem-pop intervention, Below-the-knee intervention, Acute limb ischemia intervention, Catheter-directed therapy for pulmonary embolism, Intervention for liofemoral DVT and May Thurner, Venous ablation, among others.

This issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Ehrin Armstrong, will cover a wide variety of aspects of Endovascular Treatment of PAD and Critical Limb Ischemia. Topics covered in the issue include, but are not limited to: Current Status and Outcomes of Iliac Artery Endovascular Intervention; Current Endovascular Management of Acute Limb Ischemia; Mechanisms Underlying Drug Delivery to Peripheral Arteries; Biological Mechanisms of Restenosis After Endovascular Intervention; Drug Coated Balloons; Current Role of Atherectomy for Treatment of Femoropopliteal and Infrapopliteal Disease; Inframalleolar Intervention and Extreme Access for Limb Preservation; and Emerging and Future Therapeutic Options for Femoropopliteal and Infrapopliteal Endovascular Intervention, among others.

This issue of Cardiology Clinics, curated by Drs. Mark A. Creager and Stanislav Henkin, will explore topics related to Vascular Medicine. This issue is one of four selected each year by the series editorial board: Jamil A. Aboulhosn, David M. Shavelle, Terrence D. Welch, and Audrey H. Wu. Topics in this volume include, but are not limited to: Medical management of peripheral artery disease, Revascularization strategies for acute and chronic limb ischemia, Acute aortic syndromes, Thoracic aortic aneurysms, Abdominal aortic and visceral artery aneurysms, Renal and mesenteric artery disease, Extracranial carotid artery disease, Venous thromboembolism, Varicose veins and chronic venous insufficiency, Raynaud phenomenon and other vasospastic disorders.

This issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, Guest Edited by Dr. Mark B. Stephens, is devoted to Cardiovascular Disease. Articles in this issue include: State of the Heart: Overview of disease burden of cardiovascular disease from an epidemiologic perspective; Heavy Heart: Economic burden of heart disease with projections/implications for impact on the health care system; Prevention of Heart Disease; Coronary Artery Disease; Congestive Heart Failure; Valvular Heart Disease; Peripheral Vascular Disease; The Athlete’s Heart and Sudden Death; Metabolic Syndrome: systems thinking in heart disease; Women and Heart Disease; Heart Disease in Children; and Cardiac Imaging.