Branch of internal medicine, which deals with vascular disease
Angiology
![The human circulatory system.](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Grafik_blutkreislauf.jpg/225px-Grafik_blutkreislauf.jpg) The human circulatory system.
Red indicates oxygenated blood, blue indicates deoxygenated.
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System
| Circulatory
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Significant
diseases
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Specialist
| Angiologist
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Angiology
(from
Greek
?γγε?ον
,
ange?on
, "vessel"; and
-λογ?α
,
-logia
) is the medical specialty dedicated to studying the
circulatory system
and of the
lymphatic system
, i.e.,
arteries
,
veins
and
lymphatic vessels
.
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In the
UK
, this field is more often termed
angiology
, and in the
United States
the term
vascular medicine
is more frequent. The field of vascular medicine (angiology) is the field that deals with preventing, diagnosing, and treating vascular and
blood vessel
related diseases.
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Overview
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Arterial diseases include the
aorta
(
aneurysms
/
dissection
) and arteries supplying the legs, hands, kidneys, brain, intestines. It also covers arterial
thrombosis
and
embolism
;
vasculitides
; and
vasospastic disorders
. Naturally, it deals with preventing
cardiovascular diseases
such as
heart attack
and
stroke
. Venous diseases include venous thrombosis, chronic
venous insufficiency
, and
varicose veins
. Lymphatic diseases include primary and secondary forms of
lymphedema
. It also involves modification of risk factors for vascular disease like high
cholesterol
, high
blood pressure
.
Cardiovascular risk factors such
high blood pressure
, elevated
cholesterol
and others fall under the specialty of vascular medicine.
Vascular medicine training
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Vascular medicine (angiology) training is well established in some European countries. The first European educational Working Group was born in 1991 in Milan (EWMA) becoming in 1998 a European Scientific Association
VAS Vascular Independent Research and Education European Organization
with several European educational programmes: European Fellowship, European Master, CESMA-UEMS European Diploma and Postgrad Courses. In the
United States
there are several independent vascular medicine training programs and twelve NIH funded three-year programs as well. These programs are suitable for either
Internal medicine
specialists as a
fellowship
or for
cardiologists
. In 2005, the first vascular medicine boards were administered by the
American Board of Vascular Medicine
. For current education and training in vascular medicine, see
Society for Vascular Medicine
.
References
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External links
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