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iliocaval venous…

Leave Nothing Behind -IVC filter edition

17 Jul 202021 Jul 2020
Why There is a Literature on Filter Removal A long time ago, there was the IVC clip which survives today as a vestigial CPT code. Then in the 1980’s, the…
Commentary…

The Pain Operations

3 Mar 2019
A body floating in space, a fetus in the womb, a dad lounging in his favorite chair, share the feature of weightlessness and represent the absolute neutral position (figure above)…
Gonadal Vein…

May-Thurner Syndrome Causing Pelvic Congestion -Pathoanatomy Movie

22 May 2017
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Gonadal Vein…

Nutcracker Syndrome Pathophysiology and Pelvic Congestion Syndrome 

22 May 20178 Jun 2017
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iliocaval venous…

Chronic IVC occlusion causing venous claudication and ulcers requires treatment

8 Apr 201710 Apr 2017
The patient is a gentleman from out of state who had called about problems he was having with walking and with leg ulcers that wouldn't heal. He is in his seventies…
iliocaval venous…

POTS+May-Thurner’s Syndrome: Rare Disease Causes Rare Disease?

18 Jan 201718 Jan 2017
The patient is a younger man in his twenties who began having dizzy spells associated with near syncope and tunnel vision. He was previously an athlete and was fit and…
iliocaval venous…

The Cost of Success in Iliocaval Venous Thrombosis: Efficacy is Only One Aspect of Device and Procedural Innovation

24 Sep 201624 Sep 2016
 The patient is a young woman who three weeks prior to presentation developed sudden low back pain and left leg pain while exercising on an elliptical. This pain worsened through…
CTA…

3D VR Images from CT Data Very Useful in Open Surgical Planning: Popliteal Venous Aneurysm

15 Sep 2016
Patient is a middle aged man with history of DVT and PE who in preoperative workup for another operation was found to have a popliteal venous aneurysm affecting his right…
pseudoaneurysm…

Complex femoral pseudoaneurysm with arteriovenous fistula and large hematoma treated with novel hybrid therapy

8 Aug 20168 Aug 2016
The patient is a middle aged man who after an interventional procedure was referred to my clinic with an expanding hematoma due to a pseudoaneurysm complicated by an arteriovenous fistula.…
Nutcracker Syndrome…

Nutcracker Syndrome: A Simplified Approach With Gonadal Vein Transposition

12 Jun 201612 Jun 2016
The patient is a young woman in her twenties who developed severe right sided abdominal and back pain about 4 months prior to presentation associated with bouts of bloody urine.…

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