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…
bypass… Debranch First! or Why Haven’t We Done This All Along for Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysms? 12 Jul 202021 Jul 2020 Context Despite all the advances in endovascular repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms, no data shows their superiority in the mid to long term compared to open repair. That is why…
AAA… When You Pay Your Own Way, You Chose Value 28 Apr 201928 Apr 2019 The patient is an active man in his 60’s with a history of hypertension who had known about a right common iliac artery aneurysm for several years and had come…
innovation… 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…
AAA… 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.
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…
AAA… Never Stop Following Stent Grafts -Type IV endoleak causing slow growth in 12 year old stent graft 26 Nov 201526 Nov 2015 The patient had undergone EVAR for bilateral common iliac artery aneurysm with the original Gore Excluder stent graft a dozen years before with coil embolization and extension to the…
open aneurysm surgery… Ruptured Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm In 88 Year Old -a survival 22 Aug 201522 Aug 2015 The patient, an active 88 year old man, was transferred from an outside institution after a CT scan revealed a 9cm thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm on workup of sudden onset back…
