Skip to content

A Surgeon's Notes

to cut is to cure – a vascular surgery blog

Search
  • Home
  • About

Category: complications

AAA…

Off the guidelines: type II endoleak can derail the perfect EVAR

5 Jan 20215 Jan 2021
Every once in a while, I will make an exception to the SVS guidelines on AAA repair with regard to size at time of repair (link). I have a bunch…
AAA…

Lifelong surveillance after EVAR -is it worth it?

20 Jul 202020 Jul 2020
About ten years ago, I had a patient who came to see me for moderate carotid disease. While his carotid disease was asymptomatic, he also had metastatic colon cancer. With…
acute mesenteric ischemia…

Abdominal Stroke Alert!

16 May 202021 Jul 2020
It is a rare day that passes without the announcement of a stroke alert at CCAD. A reflex arc of activity is initiated, as time becomes the critical metric of…
Commentary…

Zebras, not horses: popliteal artery entrapment syndrome

17 Jul 201917 Jul 2019
Recalling the medical school adage, “when you hear hoofbeats, it’s probably horses, not zebras,” it is critical to think about rarities down on the differential list whenever you come across…
acute mesenteric ischemia…

Life imitates social media: a ruptured type V thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm or IT saves a life

21 Jun 201921 Jun 2019
It was only last month when I came across a post of an aortic aneurysm in a difficult spot (link) and I couldn't help chiming in some comments. Reading it…
AAA…

A lot of people can put in a stent graft, unfortunately only a few can take them out.

2 Sep 20182 Sep 2018
  I recently had to remove a stent graft for infection and got to thinking about how the number of people who could comfortably and confidently manage that has thinned…
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…
Carotid…

When Hybrid Seems Better: Carotid Trauma As a Model For All Trauma

24 Jun 201724 Jun 2017
History The patient is an 80 year old woman with lung cancer who was getting a port placed at her home institution. It was to be a left subclavian venous…
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…

Posts navigation

Older posts
Blog at WordPress.com.
Cancel