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ACC/AHA 2005 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Peripheral Arterial Disease (Lower Extremity, Renal, Mesenteric, and Abdominal Aortic): A Collaborative Report from the American Association for Vascular Surgery/Society for Vascular Surgery,* Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology, Society of Interventional Radiology, and the ACC/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Develop Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Peripheral Arterial Disease)
Alan T. Hirsch, MD, FACC, FAHA, Chair, Writing Committee Members,
Ziv J. Haskal, MD, FAHA, FSIR, Co-Chair, Writing Committee Members,
Norman R. Hertzer, MD, FACS, Co-Chair, Writing Committee Members,
Curtis W. Bakal, MD, MPH, FAHA, Writing Committee Members,
Mark A. Creager, MD, FACC, FAHA, Writing Committee Members,
Jonathan L. Halperin, MD, FACC, FAHA, Writing Committee Members ,
Loren F. Hiratzka, MD, FACC, FAHA, FACS, Writing Committee Members,
William R.C. Murphy, MD, FACC, FACS, Writing Committee Members,
Jeffrey W. Olin, DO, FACC, Writing Committee Members,
Jules B. Puschett, MD, FAHA, Writing Committee Members,
Kenneth A. Rosenfield, MD, FACC, Writing Committee Members,
David Sacks, MD, FACR, FSIR, Writing Committee Members ,
James C. Stanley, MD, FACS, FACR, FSIR, Writing Committee Members ,
Lloyd M. Taylor, Jr, MD, FACS, Writing Committee Members ,
Christopher J. White, MD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI, Writing Committee Members¶,
John White, MD, FACS, Writing Committee Members ,
Rodney A. White, MD, FACS, Writing Committee Members ,
Elliott M. Antman, MD, FACC, FAHA, Chair, Task Force Members,
Sidney C. Smith, Jr, MD, FACC, FAHA, Vice-Chair, Task Force Members,
Cynthia D. Adams, MSN, APRN-BC, FAHA, Task Force Members,
Jeffrey L. Anderson, MD, FACC, FAHA, Task Force Members,
David P. Faxon, MD, FACC, FAHA, Task Force Members**,
Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, Task Force Members**,
Raymond J. Gibbons, MD, FACC, FAHA, Task Force Members ,
Jonathan L. Halperin, MD, FACC, FAHA, Task Force Members,
Loren F. Hiratzka, MD, FACC, FAHA, Task Force Members**,
Sharon A. Hunt, MD, FACC, FAHA, Task Force Members,
Alice K. Jacobs, MD, FACC, FAHA, Task Force Members,
Rick Nishimura, MD, FACC, FAHA, Task Force Members,
Joseph P. Ornato, MD, FACC, FAHA, Task Force Members,
Richard L. Page, MD, FACC, FAHA, Task Force Members and
Barbara Riegel, DNSc, RN, FAHA, Task Force Members
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Endorsed by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Society for Vascular Nursing; TransAtlantic Inter-Society Consensus; and Vascular Disease Foundation
This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Foundation Board of Trustees in October 2005 and by the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee in October 2005.
When citing this document, the American College of Cardiology Foundation requests that the following citation format be used: Hirsch AT, Haskal ZJ, Hertzer NR, Bakal CW, Creager MA, Halperin JL, Hiratzka LF, Murphy WRC, Olin JW, Puschett JB, Rosenfield KA, Sacks D, Stanley JC, Taylor LM Jr, White CJ, White J, White RA. ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease (Lower Extremity, Renal, Mesenteric, and Abdominal Aortic): A Collaborative Report from the American Association for Vascular Surgery/Society for Vascular Surgery, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Interventional Radiology, Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology, and the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Develop Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Peripheral Arterial Disease). American College of Cardiology WebSite. Available at: http://www.acc.org/clinical/guidelines/pad/index.pdf.
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* AAVS/SVS when Guideline initiated,now merged into SVS 
Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology official representative 
Society of Interventional Radiology official representative 
Society for Vascular Surgery official representative 
¶ Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions official representative 
** Former Task Force member during this effort 
 Immediate Past Chair 
 Can also be found on the World Wide Web sites of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiograpy and Interventions (www.scai.org),Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology (www.svmb.org),Society of Interventional Radiology (www.sirweb.org), and Vascular Disease Foundation (www.vdf.org). 
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