Effectively Screening PAD Patients for CLI
Craig Walker, MD, provides comment on Dainis Krievins and colleagues' submission about the high prevalence of asymptomatic ischemia-producing coronary stenosis in patients with critical limb ischemia: anatomic and functional assessment with coronary CT-derived fractional flow reserve (FFRCT). | Read More
CLI patients with no cardiac history undergoing limb salvage surgery have a high prevalence of asymptomatic ischemia-producing coronary stenosis which may put them at increased risk, and pre-operative diagnosis with FFRCT may increase focus on peri- and post-operative cardiac care. | Read More
Vascular Closure Devices for Antegrade Punctures: The Evidence is Mounting
In this editorial commentary, Sahil A. Parikh, MD, discusses the accumulating research behind vascular closure devices for antegrade punctures, including the VASCADEVascular Closure System for closure of arterial and venous access sites. | Read More
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a condition that affects up to 20 million in the United States with an increasing incidence attributed to our aging popula | Read More
Advantages of the Retrograde Approach in Treating Proximal Occlusive Disease
Craig Walker, MD, provides his comments on a case report of a patient with critical limb ischemia who was treated with popliteal artery access for a totally occluded right common and external iliac artery as well as a totally occluded right common femoral artery. | Read More
