acute limb ischemia… The shunt as temporary bypass -a modest proposal 3 Aug 20194 Aug 2019 The rise of cardiopulmonary bypass life support has also given a rise to the need to keep large, obstructive cannulas in femoral arteries. ECMO cannulas are often kept in for…
amputation… Never say never 30 Jul 2019 If you work long enough, you will not only see everything, but you may end up doing something that you say you would never do. You will be confronted with…
AIOD… Arterial Restoration in CLTI with Remote Endarterectomy (EndoRE). 12 Jun 2019 The patient is a man over 70 years of age who came to the hospital with severe pain of his right foot and leg with walking short distances and at…
AIOD… Incidental Pheochromacytoma 11 Nov 2018 An oldie but a goodie from my first blog, "The Pipes Are Calling" on Medscape. This case came to mind when I recently diagnosed a pheochromacytoma from my clinic -middle…
amputation… Exovascularist’s Dilemma: Where Is Our LIMA to LAD 27 May 201827 May 2018 During our daily morning huddles, peopled by cardiologists and cardiac surgeons, one thing impresses me more than anything else. The assembled interventional cardiologists, world class and renown, they who can…
AIOD… Arterial Restoration -Something New, Something Old 13 Sep 2017 Something that I recently promised Dr. James S.T. Yao, I will be working to publish on my stent removal and extended remote endarterectomy cases and techniques. Meanwhile, here is a…
AIOD… The Unclampable: Strategies for Managing a Heavily Calcified Infrarenal Aorta 22 May 201723 May 2017 Leriche Syndrome -one of those disease names that adds to our work in a way that an ICD codes and even the "aortoiliac occlusive disease" fails to describe. When I…
AIOD… Salvage: A different approach to graft infections in the groin 2 May 201714 Jun 2017 The principles of salvage are in rescuing valuable undamaged goods in the setting of catastrophe. This guided me when a patient was flown in from an outside institution to our…
AAA… When both iliac systems are occluded below an abdominal aortic aneurysm: hybrid techniques on the cutting edge 2 Apr 20172 Apr 2017 The patient is an 70 year old man referred for evaluation of claudication that occurred at under a block of walking. He reported no rest pain or tissue loss. He…
acute mesenteric ischemia… When good enough is better than perfect: a case of end stage visceral segment aortic occlusive disease 27 Sep 201627 Sep 2016 The patient is a woman in her 60’s who self referred for complaint of abdominal pain, weight loss, and rest pain of the lower extremities. She is a 40 pack…
