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The Endovascular Forum brings you video cases presented at major clinical conferences in interventional radiology, interventional cardiology, vascular surgery, and vascular medicine. These videos showcase complex and sometimes controversial procedures demonstrating how your colleagues are performing innovative, cutting-edge techniques.
One of only a handful of cardiac surgeons in the United States performing the procedure, Dr. Robert Poston demonstrates a robot-assisted coronary artery bypass graft (RA-CAB). During this procedure, Dr. Poston makes...
The patient is an 80-year-old female who presents with left-hand numbness. Her medical history includes hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and lung cancer. Following the angiogram, the plan for this patient was to...
A 79-year-old male patient with 8 years post endovascular repair of AAA and bilateral popliteal artery aneurysms. The right aneurysm thrombosed causing significant claudication necessitating a femoral-popliteal...
A 76-year-old male with a ruptured AAA returns six months after emergent EVAR repair with a type II endoleak and interval increase in size in the endosac. The type II endoleak was confirmed during mesenteric angiography...
This is a challenging example of clinical and technical decision making in a patient with separate TAA and AAA pathologies. The questions of which one to treat first -- and how -- are presented in detail. The...
This case is a 58-year-old male patient with risk factors including elevated cholesterol, hypertension, and a history of heavy smoking who presents with lower extremity claudication. The endovascular strategy was...
The patient is a 74-year-old male with poorly controlled hypertension on two medications. He has a history of peripheral vascular disease and had a common iliac artery stent placed in the past. The patient has...
While in the hospital undergoing treatment for heart problems, physicians discovered that their patient, an elderly woman who is high risk because of advanced age, severe CAD, and congestive failure, had more than...
The patient is a 60-year-old asymptomatic right-handed female with a history of bilateral carotid endarterectomy. The left carotid was done 5 years ago; the right one 3 years ago. On duplex imaging, she was found...
A 55-year-old man presents with an expanding 6.1cm lengthy fusiform descending thoracic aortic aneurysm. Planned percutaneous endovascular repair with CSF pressure monitoring.
Dr. Gerald Zemel, an interventional...
This is a good example of the value -- and complexity -- of endovascular therapy for PAA in a 79 year-old male who was symptomatic from local pain and had angiographic proof of distal embolization with spontaneous...
This patient is a 75-year-old male with a common iliac artery aneurysm who was previously treated with a Wall Graft. He was lost to follow-up and now returns several years later with some pelvic pain. The aneurysm...
A 75-year-old man with asymptomatic high-grade left internal carotid artery stenosis is considered high risk for surgical revascularization due to extensive medical history including multiple endovascular interventions....
Management of non atherosclerotic renal arterial lesion in a 19-year-old male who previously underwent renal PTA. The clinical outcome was good but not durable. The patient re-presents 4 years later with worsening...
This is a high-risk, symptomatic patient who presents with right hemispheric (left body) symptoms. Non-invasive imaging studies including duplex sonography confirms the presence of a carotid stenosis on the right...
An 85-year-old male patient with a known abdominal aortic aneurysm and bilateral popliteal aneurysms. He presents for treatment of the popliteal artery aneurysms. He is asymptomatic but treatment is being performed...
This is a 44-year-old white female who presents with a history of increasing hypertension and fatigue. She has a history of "heart surgery as a child," but no medical records remain regarding the nature of that...
