Volume 6 - Issue 5 - Sept/Oct 2009
Feature
Case Report
09/18/2009
Sibasankar Dalai, MD
Seven Hills Hospital, Vizag, India
Sibasankar Dalai, MD
Seven Hills Hosp...
We report a patient with recurrent deep vein thrombosis (DVT) for last 8 years. He maintained therapeutic level of international normalized ratio with oral anticoagulants and aspirin. However he continued to have recurrent massive DVT.
We report a patient with recurrent deep vein thrombosis (DVT) for last 8 years. He maintained therapeutic level of international normalized ratio with oral anticoagulants and aspirin. However he continued to have recurrent massive DVT.
We report a patient with...
09/18/2009
Vascular Disease Management
Case Report
09/18/2009
1Naren Gupta, MD, 2Ross Milner, MD
1Naren Gupta, MD, 2Ross Milner, MD
...
A 32-year-old woman with symptoms of pelvic venous congestion presented with a computed tomography of her abdomen that showed proximal compression of the left renal vein between the superior mesenteric artery and the aorta. In addition the...
A 32-year-old woman with symptoms of pelvic venous congestion presented with a computed tomography of her abdomen that showed proximal compression of the left renal vein between the superior mesenteric artery and the aorta. In addition the...
A 32-year-old woman with...
09/18/2009
Vascular Disease Management
Review
09/18/2009
The development of bare-metal stents (BMS) and optimal post-procedure antiplatelet therapy in the mid 1990s resulted in marked reductions in acute and subacute stent thrombosis, bleeding complications, negative remodeling, and acute vessel...
The development of bare-metal stents (BMS) and optimal post-procedure antiplatelet therapy in the mid 1990s resulted in marked reductions in acute and subacute stent thrombosis, bleeding complications, negative remodeling, and acute vessel...
The development of bare-metal...
09/18/2009
Vascular Disease Management
Review
09/18/2009
Treatment options for primary liver tumors and metastatic liver neoplasms have increased in the past decade in response to the incidence of these tumors; HCC is the most common primary liver cancer, while liver tumors are the sixth most...
Treatment options for primary liver tumors and metastatic liver neoplasms have increased in the past decade in response to the incidence of these tumors; HCC is the most common primary liver cancer, while liver tumors are the sixth most...
Treatment options for primary...
09/18/2009
Vascular Disease Management
Column
New Techniques
09/18/2009
Frank J. Criado, MD
Union Memorial Hospital/Medstar Health, Baltimore, Maryland
Frank J. Criado, MD
Union Memorial H...
Endovascular intervention has become the most common treatment modality for management of supra-aortic trunk (SAT) brachio-cephalic arterial occlusive disease. This is particularly so for patients presenting with stenosis (not total...
Endovascular intervention has become the most common treatment modality for management of supra-aortic trunk (SAT) brachio-cephalic arterial occlusive disease. This is particularly so for patients presenting with stenosis (not total...
Endovascular intervention has...
09/18/2009
Vascular Disease Management
Insights
Commentary
09/18/2009
Contemporary management of aortic diseases is changing dramatically as it goes through a revolution of sorts, propelled — in a large measure — by the ability to visualize the vascular anatomy with a degree of definition and refinement we...
Contemporary management of aortic diseases is changing dramatically as it goes through a revolution of sorts, propelled — in a large measure — by the ability to visualize the vascular anatomy with a degree of definition and refinement we...
Contemporary management of...
09/18/2009
Vascular Disease Management
