Volume 16 - Issue 1 - January 2019
Editor's Corner
A Potential Danger Signal Associated With Paclitaxel-Eluting Devices
VASCULAR DISEASE MANAGEMENT 2019;16(1):E1-E2.

Dr. Walker comments on a hotly debated meta-analysis by Katsanos and colleagues on the risk of death following application of paclitaxel-coated balloons and stents in the femoropopliteal artery of the leg. | Read More

Case Report
Transcatheter Removal of Right Atrial Thrombus in a Child With Recent Surgical Atrial Septal Defect Closure

Nikolaos G. Eleftherakis, MD and Evangelos S. Karanasios, MD

Department of Pediatric Cardiology, ‘Agia Sofia’ Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece.

VASCULAR DISEASE MANAGEMENT 2019;16(1):E9-E10.

We present an original case of right atrial free-floating thrombus removal with a special retriever, in a young girl after operation for atrial septal defect closure.  | Read More

Case Report
Experience With the Use of Perilesional and Intralesional Recombinant Human Epidermal Growth Factor (Nepidermin) in the Treatment of Patients With Chronic Venous Ulcers

María Teresa Cacua Sánchez, MD,1 and Luis Fernando Giraldo, RN2

1Peripheral Vascular Surgeon, Universidad El Bosque, Specialist in Healthcare Management, Universidad Sergio Arboleda, Centro de Cirugia Ambulatoria IPS (C.C.A.), Centro Medico Nuestra IPS, Bogotá, Colombia; and 2Professional Nurse, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana University Teaching Specialist, Clinica de Heridas Giraldo, Bogotá, Colombia.

VASCULAR DISEASE MANAGEMENT 2019;16(1):E3-E8.

The purpose of this study was to describe the results in the healing of venous ulcers with the perilesional and intralesional use of nepidermin in patients with a clinical, etiology, anatomic, and pathophysiology (CEAP) class VI venous insufficiency… | Read More

Endovascular Techniques
A Tactical Approach to Arterial Access for Critical Limb Ischemia

Vinayak Subramanian,1 Rohan Pasi,2 Eric M Weekman,3 George L Adams, MD4

1UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; 2Enloe High School, Raleigh, North Carolina; 3North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; and 4UNC REX Healthcare, Raleigh, North Carolina.

VASCULAR DISEASE MANAGEMENT 2019;16(1):E11-E14.

Critical limb ischemia (CLI), characterized clinically by rest pain or tissue loss resulting from peripheral arterial insufficiency, is the end stage of peripheral artery disease (PAD). | Read More