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06/08/2017
Dr. Craig Walker, Clinical Editor, welcomes three new Section Editors to the VDM team: Dr. Richard Kovach, section editor on Carotid Disease; Dr. Pradeep Nair, clinical section editor on New Technologies; and Dr. Amjad AlMahameed, section...
Dr. Craig Walker, Clinical Editor, welcomes three new Section Editors to the VDM team: Dr. Richard Kovach, section editor on Carotid Disease; Dr. Pradeep Nair, clinical section editor on New Technologies; and Dr. Amjad AlMahameed, section...
Dr. Craig Walker, Clinical...
06/08/2017
Vascular Disease Management
Editor's Corner
06/08/2017
Dr. Craig Walker, Clinical Editor, welcomes three new Section Editors to the VDM team: Dr. Richard Kovach, section editor on Carotid Disease; Dr. Pradeep Nair, clinical section editor on New Technologies; and Dr. Amjad AlMahameed, section...
Dr. Craig Walker, Clinical Editor, welcomes three new Section Editors to the VDM team: Dr. Richard Kovach, section editor on Carotid Disease; Dr. Pradeep Nair, clinical section editor on New Technologies; and Dr. Amjad AlMahameed, section...
Dr. Craig Walker, Clinical...
06/08/2017
Vascular Disease Management
CLI Perspectives
06/06/2017

CLI Perspectives is headed by section editor J.A. Mustapha, MD, Metro Health Hospital, Wyoming, Michigan. 

Dr. Mustapha talks with Constantino S. Peña, MD, Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, Miami, Florida.

CLI Perspectives is headed by section...
Arterial disease can be imaged in many ways and in this issue, we are honored to have Dr. Constantino Peña from Miami, who will be sharing with us the different types of imaging currently available and the feasibility of each.
Arterial disease can be imaged in many ways and in this issue, we are honored to have Dr. Constantino Peña from Miami, who will be sharing with us the different types of imaging currently available and the feasibility of each.
Arterial disease can be imaged...
06/06/2017
Cath Lab Digest
CLI Perspectives
04/10/2017

CLI Perspectives is headed by section editor J.A. Mustapha, MD, Metro Health Hospital, Wyoming, Michigan.   

Dr. Mustapha interviews Steven Kum, MBBS, FRCS, Novena Vascular & Varicose Vein Centre, Mount Elizabeth Hospital; Director of Vascular Services, Department of Surgery, Changi General Hospital, Singapore.

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Dr. Steven Kum of Singapore believes that patients with end-stage disease can still benefit from a unique procedure called arterial venous flow reversal. Dr. Kum, a vascular surgeon, developed an endovascular procedure to not only create the...
Dr. Steven Kum of Singapore believes that patients with end-stage disease can still benefit from a unique procedure called arterial venous flow reversal. Dr. Kum, a vascular surgeon, developed an endovascular procedure to not only create the...
Dr. Steven Kum of Singapore...
04/10/2017
Cath Lab Digest
Case Report
04/10/2017

Dum Piawa, DO and Vincent Varghese, DO

 

Division of Interventional Cardiology and Endovascular Medicine, Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, New Jersey

Dum Piawa, DO and Vincent Varghese, D...
Inferior vena cava (IVC) thrombosis can present progressively with symptoms of leg pain, swelling, ulcer formation, and impaired quality of life. The presence of an IVC filter is an independent risk factor for IVC thrombus formation. We...
Inferior vena cava (IVC) thrombosis can present progressively with symptoms of leg pain, swelling, ulcer formation, and impaired quality of life. The presence of an IVC filter is an independent risk factor for IVC thrombus formation. We...
Inferior vena cava (IVC)...
04/10/2017
Vascular Disease Management
CLI Perspectives
03/05/2017

CLI Perspectives is headed by section editor J.A. Mustapha, MD, Metro Health Hospital, Wyoming, Michigan.  

Dr. Mustapha interviews Luis Mariano Palena, MD, from the Interventional Radiology Unit, Foot and Ankle Clinic, Policlinico Abano Terme, Abano Terme Padova, Italy.

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A patient with rest pain and single-vessel runoff will be defined as CLI just as much as a patient with rest pain and/or skin breakdown with absent flow to the foot, usually referred to as desert foot.
A patient with rest pain and single-vessel runoff will be defined as CLI just as much as a patient with rest pain and/or skin breakdown with absent flow to the foot, usually referred to as desert foot.
A patient with rest pain and...
03/05/2017
Cath Lab Digest
CLI Perspectives
02/07/2017

CLI Perspectives is headed by section editor J.A. Mustapha, MD, Metro Health Hospital, Wyoming, Michigan. 

This month, Dr. Mustapha interviews R. Kevin Rogers, MD, MSc, RPVI, Associate Professor, Program Director|Vascular Medicine & Intervention, Interventional Cardiology, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado

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I would love to see CLI Centers of Excellence across the world where there is multidisciplinary, efficient, and effective treatment of patients with CLI. This program would need to encompass multiple specialties, reside in a common physical...
I would love to see CLI Centers of Excellence across the world where there is multidisciplinary, efficient, and effective treatment of patients with CLI. This program would need to encompass multiple specialties, reside in a common physical...
I would love to see CLI Centers...
02/07/2017
Cath Lab Digest
Case Report
02/07/2017

Shwan Jalal, MD,Thomas P. Davis, MD, FACC, 
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab; 
Director, Peripheral Interventions and Disease, 
St. John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan

Shwan Jalal, MD,Thomas P. Davis, MD, ...
The Aspire Mechanical Thrombectomy Kit serves as a distal protection device for the tibial vessels when we do atherectomy. I use a blood pressure cuff to occlude the tibial vessels, then the Aspire system to remove any emboli from my...
The Aspire Mechanical Thrombectomy Kit serves as a distal protection device for the tibial vessels when we do atherectomy. I use a blood pressure cuff to occlude the tibial vessels, then the Aspire system to remove any emboli from my...
The Aspire Mechanical...
02/07/2017
Cath Lab Digest
Meeting Update
01/10/2017

Cath Lab Digest talks with Gunnar Tepe, MD, Professor of Radiology, Head of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Head of the Department, Academic Hospital of Rosenheim, Rosenheim, Germany

Cath Lab Digest talks with Gunnar Tep...
The Shockwave Medical Lithoplasty System uses lithotripsy to disrupt both superficial and deep vascular calcium.
The Shockwave Medical Lithoplasty System uses lithotripsy to disrupt both superficial and deep vascular calcium.
The Shockwave Medical...
01/10/2017
Cath Lab Digest
CLI Perspectives
01/10/2017

CLI Perspectives is headed by section editor Jihad A. Mustapha, MD, Metro Health Hospital, Wyoming, Michigan. 

This month, Dr. Mustapha interviews Christopher Boyes, MD, and  Phalan Bolden, MSN, MBA, FNP, Cardiovascular Nurse Practitioner, Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute-Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina.

CLI Perspectives is headed by section...
A CLI team was created using a multidisciplinary approach and a well-planned algorithm for treatment. Coordination of care between the different providers was improved though better communication between multiple disciplines, despite the...
A CLI team was created using a multidisciplinary approach and a well-planned algorithm for treatment. Coordination of care between the different providers was improved though better communication between multiple disciplines, despite the...
A CLI team was created using a...
01/10/2017
Cath Lab Digest