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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…
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Amazon Set Your Kindles Free

27 Jan 202027 Jan 2020
My Lenovo Yogabook C930 recently got a firmware update where the main screen image gets cloned to the e-ink display. By putting the device into tent mode, the LCD screen…
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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…
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Innovating Our Way Out of Not Having Enough Vascular Surgeons

1 Nov 2018
Innovating Our Way Out of Not Having Enough Vascular Surgeons This year's SVS meeting featured a sobering assessment about the vascular manpower deficit affecting North America at the E. Stanley…
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Video Presentation: Removing Stent Grafts and It’s Implications for Putting Them In

20 Sep 2018
This was presented at Dia De La Patología Aortíca Marbella organized by Dr. Fernando Gallardo. Here is the link.  
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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…
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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…
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In Medicine, We Can All Be Real-World Innovators

29 Jul 201729 Jul 2017
By W. Michael Park, MD   Innovation has become a virtue in the current culture. There is an  evangelical fervor around it. What are TED Talks but tent revivals for…
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Park Clamp

11 Oct 201611 Oct 2016
One of the reasons why I moved my family to Cleveland was to participate in innovation at the Clinic. One of the devices that I have been working on has…
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