Volume 15 - Issue 11 -
Commentary
CFA, Profunda, and SFA Disease: Is There a Role for Endovascular Reconstruction When a Patient is Not a Surgical Candidate?

Sofia D.C. Vianna, MD; Omosalewa Adenikinju, MD; Brandon P. Olivieri, MD; Timothy E. Yates, MD; Robert E. Beasley, MD

Department of Vascular and Interventional Radiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida

VASCULAR DISEASE MANAGEMENT 2018;15(11):E127-E129

Available data suggest that common femoral artery atherosclerosis with or without patch angioplasty has a high 5-year patency rate and a relatively low rate of postoperative complications. | Read More

Editor's Corner
The Role for Endovascular Reconstruction in CFA Disease

Craig Walker, MD

VASCULAR DISEASE MANAGEMENT 2018;15(11):E126

Craig Walker, MD, opens the November issue of VDM by discussing the treatment of common femoral artery (CFA) disease in patients who are not surgical candidates for CFA endarterectomy. | Read More

Case Report
Causes and Management of Failing Unibody EVAR Grafts

Hiranya A. Rajasinghe, MD1; Larry E. Miller, PhD2; Santiago H. Chahwan, MD1; Alvaro J. Zamora MD

1The Vascular Group of Naples, Naples, Florida
2Miller Scientific Consulting, Asheville, North Carolina

VASCULAR DISEASE MANAGEMENT 2018;15(11):E130-E132

Patients treated with the lower-profile AFX Strata endograft have an increased risk of type III endoleak which may be treated with relining, according to a case report. | Read More

Case Report
Multimodality Imaging of an Extracardiac Shunt Due to an Anomalous Left Pulmonary Artery to Left Upper Pulmonary Vein Communication

Hannes Melnyk, MD1; Hubert Gufler, MD2; Dietrich Stoevesand, MD2; Jochen Schröder, MD1; Konstantin Heinroth, MD1

1Department of Medicine III and 2Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

VASCULAR DISEASE MANAGEMENT 2018;15(11):E133-E135

Hannes Melnyk, MD, and colleagues discusses the case of a young patient without known malformations who presented with extracardiac shunt between the left pulmonary artery and the left upper pulmonary vein. | Read More