Interviews

PE is an undertreated disease in the United States. There are approximately 600,000 cases of pulmonary embolism per year and about 60,000 deaths per year in the U.S. Many of those cases go undiagnosed but of those that are diagnosed, most are...

I am advocating medical (non-invasive) intervention alone to reduce the risk of stroke associated with asymptomatic carotid stenosis (of any severity). Medical intervention, here, refers to combined non-invasive strategies to reduce risk of...

Risk stratification for pulmonary embolism is extremely important and I think we’ve not tended to do that over the years as this has evolved. Risk stratification shows whether or not a patient can be simply anticoagulated or if they are at...

About a decade ago, I was at a meeting and had a colleague discussing carotid stenting and showing photos of traditional CEA incisions, which were 4 to 6 inches in length and left an unslightly scar, which  got me thinking that he was right...

Vena caval filters came about in the early 1970s to prevent pulmonary embolisms. In the 1990s, they developed retrievable filters, but this involved its own risks and costs so we thought that a bioconvertible filter was best for protection...

Pulmonary embolism can be and frequently is a life-threatening condition and we’re taking patients now with a significant clot burden, a significant degree of debility from pulmonary embolism, and treating them with ultrasound-assisted...

The PACIFIER Trial evaluated prevention of restenosis with paclitaxel-coated PTA balloon catheters in stenosis or occlusion of femoropopliteal arteries versus a control group treated with uncoated balloons. We specifically looked at the...

There are about 1 and a half million people in the United States who have an undiagnosed problem called an abdominal aortic aneurysm. If they are under- or undiagnosed during the patient’s lifetime, there is a significant chance that they may...

There have been 2 major advances in endovascular laser therapy for varicose veins. First is the advent of lasers using 1470 nm and other water-specific wavelengths. Second is the use of jacket-tip laser fibers.

The study got started due to the fact that a company in the Seattle area called EKOS had an exciting new technology involving ultrasound for breaking up blood clots and they designed a number of catheters for breaking up blood clots in...