Patient Presentation A male in his early 70s with a history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and COVID-19 ...
After its first introduction by Seldinger, percutaneous vascular access through the common femoral artery (CFA) has become the most widely used route of access to the arterial system for peripheral ...
Contego Medical announced the first commercial procedures were performed with the company’s Neuroguard IEP system. Ac ...
Biotronik announced the enrollment of the first patients in its BIO-OSCAR FIRST trial, which is designed to confirm the ...
Flow Medical announced the closing of a $5 million seed funding round that will allow the company to accelerate the ...
The codes describing endovascular procedures for lower extremity revascularization have been completely revised, effective January 1, 2011. This was done in response to requests to continue bundling ...
Dr. Singh is a consultant for Cook Medical. All seven of the commercially available abdominal aortic endograft devices perform well when used within the confines of their instructions for use.
Patient Presentation A man in his late 50s presented to the emergency department with 4 weeks of acute-onset, severely ...
This article is a companion to “Coding for Lower Extremity Revascularization in 2011,” which was published in Endovascular Today'sMay 2011 issue. In January 2011, 16 new codes were introduced, ...
Multiple factors, rather than a single process, are implicated in the pathogenesis of TAA. Whereas abdominal aneurysms are characterized by severe intimal atherosclerosis, chronic transmural ...
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 ...
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 ...