Editor's Corner

The Importance of Precision Imaging When Treating Infrapopliteal Arterial Disease

11/14/2018

Craig Walker, MD

Cardiovascular Institute of the South, Houma, Louisiana

Craig Walker, MD Cardiovascula...

Craig Walker, MD, opens the December issue of VDM by discussing the benefits of intravascular ultrasound imaging versus only quantitative angiography of the tibioperoneal artery.

Craig Walker, MD, opens the...

11/14/2018

Vascular Disease Management

Editor's Corner

Could it be PARADISE Found or is SYMPLICITY the Answer to the Treatment of Hypertension?

10/22/2018

In this editorial, Richard R Heuser, MD and Nachiket J. Patel, MD, discusses the possibility of using a single procedure to reduce blood pressure without medications.

In this editorial, Richard R...

10/22/2018

Vascular Disease Management

Editor's Corner

Treating Limb Ischemia Secondary to Thrombosed Popliteal Artery Aneurysms

10/19/2018

Craig Walker, MD, opens this edition of Vascular Disease Management discussing Dr. Halim Yammine and colleagues’ case report of an elderly patient with a thrombosed popliteal artery aneurysm with previously failed surgical therapy secondary...

Craig Walker, MD, opens this...

10/19/2018

Vascular Disease Management

Editor's Corner

Effectively Screening PAD Patients for CLI

09/13/2018

Craig Walker, MD, provides comment on Dainis Krievins and colleagues' submission about the high prevalence of asymptomatic ischemia-producing coronary stenosis in patients with critical limb ischemia: anatomic and functional assessment with...

Craig Walker, MD, provides...

09/13/2018

Vascular Disease Management

Editor's Corner

Advantages of the Retrograde Approach in Treating Proximal Occlusive Disease

08/28/2018

Craig Walker, MD

Cardiovascular Institute of the South, Houma, Louisiana

Craig Walker, MD Cardiovascular I...

Craig Walker, MD, comments on a case report of a patient with CLI who was treated with popliteal artery access for a totally occluded right common and external iliac artery as well as a totally occluded right common femoral artery.

Craig Walker, MD, comments on a...

08/28/2018

Vascular Disease Management

Editor's Corner

The Final Frontier for Peripheral Access

07/16/2018

Ankur Lodha, MD

Guest Editor of Vascular Disease Management; Interventional Cardiologist, Lafayette General Medical Center Lafayette, Louisiana

Ankur Lodha, MD Guest Editor of V...

Peripheral lower extremity interventions have traditionally been performed from the contralateral groin approach. Antegrade access also was used as it provided better support and reach in the foot.

Peripheral lower extremity...

07/16/2018

Vascular Disease Management

Editor's Corner

An Innovative Device for Crossing Chronic Total Occlusions

07/16/2018

Pradeep Nair, MD

Interventional Cardiologist, Section Editor of Vascular Disease Management: New Technologies; Cardiovascular Institute of the South, Houma, Louisiana

Pradeep Nair, MD Interventional C...

CTOs comprise a large percentage of lower extremity arterial interventions. In my opinion, true lumen antegrade CTO crossing would be the preferred approach.

CTOs comprise a large percentage...

07/16/2018

Vascular Disease Management

Editor's Corner

Strategies for Successful Treatment of a Calcified Lesion

06/11/2018

Craig Walker, MD

Cardiovascular Institute of the South, Houma, Louisiana

Craig Walker, MD Cardiovascular I...

Dr. Walker comments on the case report by Konstantinos Stavroulakis, MD, et al, where a patient with gangrenous digits of the left foot and stage 4 CKD had a highly calcified critically stenotic popliteal artery.

Dr. Walker comments on the case...

06/11/2018

Vascular Disease Management

Editor's Corner

Venous Duplex Is Essential in Confirming Venous Insufficiency

05/16/2018

Craig Walker, MD

Cardiovascular Institute of the South, Houma, Louisiana

Craig Walker, MD Cardiovascular I...

Dr. Walker comments on the diagnosis of venous insufficiency and discusses the new device options available for the treatment of superficial venous insufficiency.

Dr. Walker comments on the...

05/16/2018

Vascular Disease Management

Editor's Corner

EKOS Device Facilitates More Rapid Thrombolysis Than Typical tPA Infusion

04/16/2018

Craig Walker, MD

Cardiovascular Institute of the South, Houma, Louisiana

Craig Walker, MD Cardiovascular I...

Craig Walker, MD, discusses the use of acoustic pulsed thrombolysis (APT) and the EKOS device in the treatment of acute life-threatening pulmonary embolization.

Craig Walker, MD, discusses the...

04/16/2018

Vascular Disease Management