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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…
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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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The Hands of a Surgeon

29 Jul 201920 Jul 2020
My partner, Lee Kirksey, Vice-Chair of Vascular Surgery, just got a paper on-line (link) about the curiously increasing volume of open surgical repairs we were experiencing from 2010-2014 at the…
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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…
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If the odds are against the patient, who is for the patient?

7 Jan 20168 Jan 2016
The first patient, a man in his late 70's, ruptured in the emergency room at around four in the afternoon on a weekday, which was fortuitous, as the hospital was…
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