Dear Colleague

 

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a growing health care concern that places a considerable burden on both afflicted patients and health care systems. Patients with PAD have an increased risk of mortality, myocardial infarction, and cerebrovascular disease. They also suffer from significant functional limitations in their daily activities, and the most severely affected are at risk of limb loss. There is, therefore, a pressing need to provide patients with effective management strategies for the disease. The Inter-Society Consensus (TASC) II guidelines were developed to provide an international consensus on the diagnosis and treatment of PAD. To keep abreast of the changing clinical landscape, the TASC II documentation is constantly evolving to encompass the latest clinical and technical updates in PAD. The guidelines, therefore, provide health care workers with the only international consensus that provides dynamic information on the diagnosis and treatment of PAD.

The objective of this website is to provide physicians and health care providers with a comprehensive source of information about TASC II and PAD in general.

It is hoped that by using the TASC II website, physicians will be able to diagnose and implement early management more easily, thereby improving the outcomes of patients with PAD worldwide.

Professor Lars Norgren, MD, PhD, FRCS (TASC II co-chair)

Professor William Hiatt, MD (TASC II co-chair)

On behalf of the TASC II Working Group