Access site management

Case Report

Infection: A Perilous Complication of a Closure Device

07/28/2015

The use of vascular closure devices has grown, and it has been associated with complications.The authors present a case of a patient with suture-based VCD-related infection following diagnostic coronary angiography and discuss treatment...

The use of vascular closure...

07/28/2015

Vascular Disease Management

Transradial Series

Crossover from Radial to Ipsilateral Ulnar Access: An Additional Strategy in the Armamentarium of the “Radialist”

04/03/2015

Mauricio G. Cohen , MD, FACC;

Vikas Singh , MD;

The following case is part of a series of transradial-focused reports directed by section editor Dr. Samir Pancholy. This case series is supported by an educational grant from Medtronic.

The following case is part of a...

04/03/2015

Cath Lab Digest

Radial Access Technique

Forearm Arterial Anatomy and Flow Characteristics: A Prospective Observational Study

03/31/2015

Samir B. Pancholy , MD, FACP, FACC, FSCAI;

Laura A. Heck ;

Tejas M. Patel , MD, DM;

Morphometric data on Caucasian radial and ulnar arteries are limited, with no data on flow interdependence in the forearm arterial circuit. We evaluated 250 upper extremities in 125 patients, performing ultrasonography to measure and compare...

Morphometric data on Caucasian...

03/31/2015

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Interview

Jeffrey Lawson, MD, Describes Development of a Bioengineered Blood Vessel

03/03/2015

Jeffrey H. Lawson , MD, PhD;

Jeffrey Lawson, MD, of Duke University, discusses engineering of an implantable blood vessel from donor vascular cells. The technology has received US Food and Drug Administration fast-track designation for approval, and clinical trials are...

Jeffrey Lawson, MD, of Duke...

03/03/2015

Vascular Disease Management

Conversations in Cardiology: Is a hematocrit drop after uncomplicated PCI really a bleeding complication?

02/03/2015

John Bittl , MD;

Richard G. Bach , MD;

Barry Borlaug , MD;

Morton J. Kern , MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA;

Lloyd W. Klein , MD;

Habib Samady , MD;

Augusto D. Pichard , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Bonnie H. Weiner , MD, MBA, FSCAI, FACC;

Mitchell W. Krucoff , MD;

Gregory J. Dehmer , MD;

Kirk N. Garrett ;

Do people think that aggressive hydration combined with typical procedural blood loss could push the Hgb down by 3gms, or am I fooling myself?

Do people think that aggressive...

02/03/2015

Cath Lab Digest

Letters to the Editor

Sharing an Idea: Use of Pulse Oximeter on the Toe to Locate and Manually Compress the Common Femoral Artery After Cardiac Catheterization Procedures

10/15/2014

Qaiser Shafiq , MD, MMSc;

Recently in the evening after another busy day on the inpatient service, I passed by our cardiac catheterization lab and heard about a patient developing a right groin hematoma at the femoral access site after cardiac catheterization.

Recently in the evening after...

10/15/2014

Cath Lab Digest

Featured Abstracts

Selected Abstracts From the 4th Annual Amputation Prevention Symposium

08/24/2014

Vascular Disease Management presents abstracts from research and data presented at the 4th Annual Amputation Prevention Symposium held in Chicago in August.

Vascular Disease Management...

08/24/2014

Vascular Disease Management