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Changing Compliance to Change the Game: IVL for Transfemoral EVAR/TEVAR Access
Frank Arko, MD, Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute, Atrium Health, Charlotte, North Carolina
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August 2022
2152-4343
In this interview, Frank Arko, MD, Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute, Atrium Health discusses his use of IVL to maintain transfemoral EVAR/TEVAR access in patients with calcified vessels. Dr. Arko reviews the Shockwave PAD III RCT data including recently published 1- and 2-year results, as well as the results of the Shockwave PAD OS iliac cohort. Dr. Arko then shares a case example of how IVL allowed him to use transfemoral access in a patient with calcified iliac and CFA disease.
