CLI Perspectives

CLI Programs and Patient Care: A Nurse Perspective

10/06/2019

Bailey Ann Estes , AGNP-C, MSN, RN-BC, RCIS, RNFA;

This month, Dr. Jihad Mustapha interviews Bailey Estes, BSN, RN-BC, RNFA, CNOR, RCIS. She is a cardiac cath lab nurse and research coordinator at Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene, Texas. The team she works with is focused on treating...

This month, Dr. Jihad Mustapha...

10/06/2019

Cath Lab Digest

CLI Perspectives

Limb Salvage Based on the Best Access Site to Maximize Crossing of Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Caps at Origin and at Reconstitution

05/29/2018

Jihad A. Mustapha , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Fadi Saab , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

A deeper understanding of CTOs in tibial arteries was recently described by Saab et al1 in a study designed to determine if cap morphologies can be used to predict the success of different interventional approaches for the access and crossing...

A deeper understanding of CTOs...

05/29/2018

Cath Lab Digest

CLI Perspectives

Defining CLI From the Front Lines of Care

09/06/2017

Jihad A. Mustapha , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Eric C. Scott , MD;

In my own practice, I have lowered the threshold to pursue the presence of PAD in patients with non-healing wounds.

In my own practice, I have...

09/06/2017

Cath Lab Digest

CLI Perspectives

Leading CLI Operators to Gather at the AMPutation Prevention Symposium

04/28/2017

Jihad A. Mustapha , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

The AMPutation Prevention Symposium, to take place in Chicago, August 9-12, 2017, is where the world’s leading critical limb ischemia (CLI) operators gather to participate as a community of clinicians.

The AMPutation Prevention...

04/28/2017

Cath Lab Digest

CLI Perspectives

The CLI CTO: When, Where, and How to Best Cross

07/27/2016

Gary M. Ansel , MD, FACC;

Jihad A. Mustapha , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

In CLI, the CTO is never straightforward and tends to be associated with many additional obstacles. With us during this issue is Gary Ansel, MD, who has had a long history of treating CTOs and has pioneered many of the currently used CTO...

In CLI, the CTO is never...

07/27/2016

Cath Lab Digest

CLI Perspectives

The Latest CLI Therapeutic Options

08/01/2015

Robert E. Beasley , MD, FSCAI, FSIR;

Jihad A. Mustapha , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Eric C. Scott , MD;

It is essential that we continue an open-mind approach to the CLI patient and always offer the best therapeutic option for the presented lesion.

It is essential that we continue...

08/01/2015