Volume 6 - Issue 2 - March/April 2009
Review »
Limitations of Current Management of Acute and Chronic Type B Dissections
author affiliations:
From *Malmo University Hospital, Malmo Sweden and §University College London Hospital, London, England.
Disclosure: The authors report no financial relationships or conflicts of interest regarding the content herein.
Manuscript submitted October 15, 2008, provisional acceptance given November 17, 2008, accepted December 11, 2008.
Correspondence: Brian J. Manning, MD, Endovascular Center, Entrance 44, Plan 4, 20502 Malmo, Sweden. E-mail: brianjmanning@gmail.com
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Natural history and evidence for intervention<
Clinical Review »
Optimal Strategy in Lower Extremity Peripheral Percutaneous Interventions: An Interventionalist’s Perspective
author affiliations:
From the Midwest Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Davenport, Iowa.
Disclosure: Supported by the Nicolas and Gail Shammas Research Fund at the Midwest Cardiovascular Research Foundation (MCRF). MCRF has received research grants from ev3 and Foxhollow.
Manuscript submitted December 4, 2008 and accepted January 9, 2009.
Address for correspondence: Nicolas W. Shammas, MS, MD, Cardiovascular Medicine PC, 1236 E. Rusholme, Davenport, IA 52803 E-mail: shammas@mchsi.com
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Abstract
Peripheral artery disease
Clinical Review »
Laser Venous Interventions
author affiliations:
From the Academic Vascular Surgical Unit, Hull Royal Infirmary, E. Yorks, United Kingdom.
Disclosure: Dr. Carradice and Dr. Chetter disclose that Diomed (Cambridge, U.K.) provided research grants (50% of a research nurse’s salary over a 12-month period) to facilitate trials at Hull Royal Infirmary, but had no involvement or influence in the drafting, or decision to publish this or any other paper.
Manuscript submitted September 12, 2008, provisional acceptance given December 2, 2008, accepted December 11, 2008.
Address for correspondence: Daniel Carr
Clinical Review »
Why Thrombosis Prophylaxis Fails
author affiliations:
From the Division of Vascular Surgery, NorthShore University Health System, Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, and the Robert R. McCormick School of Bioengineering Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
The author discloses no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein.
Manuscript submitted November 11, 2008, provisional acceptance given January 12, 2009, final version accepted January 30, 2009.
Address for correspondence: Joseph A. Caprini, MD, MS, FACS, Louis Biegler Professor of
Case Report »
Don’t Forget Fogarty
author affiliations:
From the Department of Cardiology, St. Luke’s Medical Center, and the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona.
The author reports no conflicts of interest regarding the content herein.
Manuscript submitted February 10, 2009, provisional acceptance given February 19, 2009, and final version accepted February 23, 2009.
Address for correspondence: Richard R. Heuser, MD, FACC, FACP, FESC, FASCI, Director of Cardiology, St. Luke’s Medical Center, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, 1331 N. 7th S
Editor's Corner »
On the death of King George II in 1760: Aortic Dissection in Perspective
“On the 25th of October he [King George II] rose as usual at six, and drank his chocolate; for all his actions were invariably methodic. A quarter after seven he went into a little closet. His German valet de chambre in waiting heard a noise, and running in, found the King dead on the floor.”1 Nichols was directed to open and embalm the royal body. What he found (and meticulously described2) was the first clear account of the condition we now know (after Laennec) as aortic dissection (AD): “...the pericardium was found distended with a quantity of coagulated blood, nearly a pint...; the
