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Peripheral Artery Disease & Bypass Surgery

Medical background for Peripheral Bypass including anatomy, disease development, symptoms, staging and treatment.
Format

Online
Course

  • Nomenclature
  • Peripheral arteries anatomy
  • Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis and staging
  • Treatment
Course contents

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) - medical background

Presentations

Quizzes

PAD

More than 230 million people are suffering from Peripheral Artery Disease

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Nomenclature

Tibia

Shinbone

Fibula

 Calf bone

Inguinal ligament

Groin ligament 

Posterior

In (from) the back 

Anterior 

 In (from) front  

Lateral

Away from middle 
 

Superficial 

Close to the surface 

Medial

Towards middle

Infrainguinal

Below the groin

Infragenicular

  Below the knee  

Inframalleolar

Below the ankle

Bifurcate 

Divide/ split

Fibular or Peroneal?

Many of the arteries, veins, nerves, and muscles in the leg are named according to what bone they are near.
At one point in its history, both the Greek term perone and the Latin term fibula were competing to describe the smaller bone of the leg.
This is why the artery that runs near the smaller leg bone has two names: the peroneal artery and the fibular artery.
The term fibula eventually became the standard name for the bone, but many of the related names based on perone have remained.
The international standard for anatomical nomenclature, states that both fibula and perone derived names are acceptable but lists the fibula derived names as the preferred terms.

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Medical 

Advisor

MSc

Master of Science

Physiology

Thesis in Gen. Physiology
Meet the instructor

Kjersti Johansen

Kjersti has a Master's degree in General Physiology from the University of Oslo, Norway. She started her career in Pharmaceutical sales and Marketing before joining the Medical Device business. She is enthusiastic about communicating knowledge from clinical publications and other sources and is the "Mother of Guidebooks". 
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