Acute type A aortic dissection (TAAD) is a common and highly morbid aortic emergency with a mortality rate of 1% per hour without surgical treatment. Many patients present with grave malperfusion ...
Endovascular aortic repair (EVAR) has progressed rapidly during the last 15 years. An overview of the expanding frontier of EVAR is shown in Table 1. The first experience with fenestrated stent grafts ...
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a worldwide health care problem, and pulmonary embolism response teams (PERTs) have emerged to provide immediate multidisciplinary care to patients who present with acute PE ...
The rigors and trials of medical school and residence programs often do not prepare physi- cians for the potentially confusing and frustrating world of reimbursement. In order to understand physician ...
The catheter-based approach to the repair of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms was first attempted in the early 1990s by both individual clinicians with "homemade" devices and start-up commercial ...
Case examples demonstrating the use of Indigo® System Lightning™ 7 Computer-Aided Mechanical Aspiration, which is designed for fast and efficient thrombus retrieval. A woman in her mid 70s presented ...
In 2014, Penumbra broke into the peripheral thrombectomy space with the release of the first Indigo System catheters, the 5-F CAT5 catheter and the 3-F CAT3 catheter (Penumbra, Inc.). These were ...