Within the last few years, new stent designs have been developed to meet the demands in the SFA. This article reviews the factors leading to the reduction of SFA stent fracture rates in newer stent ...
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a worldwide health care problem, and pulmonary embolism response teams (PERTs) have emerged to provide immediate multidisciplinary care to patients who present with acute PE ...
The catheter-based approach to the repair of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms was first attempted in the early 1990s by both individual clinicians with "homemade" devices and start-up commercial ...
Acute type A aortic dissection (TAAD) is a common and highly morbid aortic emergency with a mortality rate of 1% per hour without surgical treatment. Many patients present with grave malperfusion ...
Assuming that there is a proper indication for IVC filter placement, the procedure is performed using sterile technique. In some instances, IVC filter placement has been performed using intravascular ...
In 2014, Penumbra broke into the peripheral thrombectomy space with the release of the first Indigo System catheters, the 5-F CAT5 catheter and the 3-F CAT3 catheter (Penumbra, Inc.). These were ...
During the Second World War, Michael Debakey demonstrated that lives and limbs could be saved using surgical treatment of vascular injuries. 1 With the development of endovascular techniques, it ...
Anatomically, critical limb ischemia (CLI) is characterized by multilevel and multivessel disease (eg, aortoiliac, femoropopliteal [FP], and infrapopliteal [IP]), but fewer than 10% of CLI patients ...