The potential for interventional radiologists of peripheral arterial disease.

It is unfortunate that in the peripheral arena surgeons often get the first referral for patients with peripheral arterial disease. Interventionalists should present themselves as vascular specialists to the referring community. Peripheral vascular disease in the future will be primarily an interventional specialty. Endovascular interventions are safe for people with claudication and interventionalists should offer them. If interventionalists provide comprehensive care and thoughtfully enter a market with the will to compete, it is very likely that they will succeed.