June 5 - 8, 2008 SVS Annual Meeting!

Come and meet us at booth 814 of The SVS Annual Meeting June 5 - 8, 2008 at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA. We are going to showcase our complete suite of cardiovascular products including VascuBase™, VascuPro™, EkoPro™ with our comprehesnive outcome analysis tools. Do not miss the show!

1. Correlation of Cerebral Oximetry Measurement with Carotid Artery Stump Pressures During Carotid Endarterectomy.
   Eugene S. Lee, Dean L. Melnyk, Michael A. Kuskowski and Steven M. Santilli . Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Vol. 34, No. 5, 403-409 (2000) DOI: 10.1177/153857440003400504
   http://ves.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/5/403
   
   

2. Pitfalls in Achieving the Dialysis Outcome Quality Initiative (DOQI) Guidelines for Hemodialysis Access?
   James K. Fullerton, Robert B. McLafferty, Don E. Ramsey, Maurice S. Solis, Laura A. Gruneiro, Kim J. Hodgson. Annals of Vascular Surgery: Volume 16, Number 5 / October, 2002, pp 613-617

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3. Endovascular Stent Graft Repair of Abdominal and Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms. A Ten-Year Experience With 817 Patients.
   Michael L. Marin, Larry H. Hollier, Sharif H. Ellozy et al. Ann Surg. 2003 October; 238(4): 586-595. DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000090473.63393.e9
   http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1360117
   
   

4. Revascularization and Quality of Life for Patients with Limb-threatening Ischemia
   Alexander S. Tretinyak , Eugene S. Lee , Michael A. Kuskowski , Michael P. Caldwell , Steven M. Santilli . Annals of Vascular Surgery: Volume 15, Number 1 / January, 2001

   http://www.springerlink.com/index/Y0QY5KLTBQ39GKPT.pdf
   
   
5. Major Lower Extremity Amputation in an Academic Vascular Center.
   Ahmed M. Abou-Zamzam, Theodore H. Teruya, J. David Killeen, Jeffrey L. Ballard. Annals of Vascular Surgery; Volume 17, Number 1 / February, 2003
   
   http://www.springerlink.com/index/LUCJC5RKG52K0FEU.pdf
   
   
6. The Fate of a Patent Carotid Artery Contralateral to an Occlusion.
   Matthew L. Brengman, Sean D. O'Donnell, Phillip Mullenix, James M. Goff, David L. Gillespie, Norman M. Rich. Annals of Vascular Surgery; Volume 14, Number 1 / January, 2000
   
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7. Subintimal angioplasty as a primary modality in the management of critical limb ischemia: comparison to bypass grafting for aortoiliac and femoropopliteal occlusive disease.
   Hynes N, Akhtar Y, Manning B, Aremu M, Oiakhinan K, Courtney D, Sultan S; J Endovasc Ther. 2004 Aug;11(4):460-71
   
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8. J Vasc Surg. 2006 Mar;43(3):504-512
   Volume 43, Issue 3, Pages 504-512.e2 (March 2006)
   
   Two-year outcome with preferential use of infrainguinal angioplasty for critical ischemia
   Presented at the Vascular Surgical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 2003, Glasgow, Scotland, and the Association of International Vascular Surgeons (AVIS), 2004, Snowmass, Colorado.
   Syed N. Haider (FRCS (I)), Eamon G. Kavanagh, MD, Martin Forlee, FCS (SA), Mary P. Colgan, MD, Prakash Madhavan (FRCS (Ed)), Dermot J. Moore, MD, Gregor D. Shanik, MD
   
   Received 25 August 2005; accepted 6 November 2005
   
   Objective
   Infrainguinal angioplasty provides a minimally invasive alternative to bypass surgery in patients with critical ischemia. This study aimed to determine the 2-year patency, limb salvage, and survival rates in patients who underwent infrainguinal angioplasty in a unit where angioplasty is used preferentially whenever possible for critical ischemia.
   
   Methods
   A total of 333 consecutive patients who presented with rest pain, tissue loss, or both and who underwent an infrainguinal intervention in the 4-year period between January 1998 and January 2002 were divided into femoropopliteal and femorodistal groups. The TransAtlantic Inter-Society Consensus angiogram scoring system was used to classify the lesions. Angioplasty was the preferred procedure in all patients for whom a stump or portion of a superficial femoral artery was patent. Exclusion criteria included the concomitant or sequential treatment of iliac lesions. Patients were followed up after surgery with ankle-brachial indices and duplex ultrasonography.
   
   Results
   A total of 180 patients underwent 198 angioplasties. Primary cumulative patency, limb salvage, and survival for femoropopliteal angioplasty (n = 166) at 2 years were 75%, 90%, and 88%, respectively, and 60%, 76%, and 82% for infrapopliteal angioplasty (n = 32). At 30 days, mortality was 2.7%, and the complication rate was 8.3%. There was a restenosis rate (>50%) of 68% and 65% at 2 years for the femoropopliteal and infrapopliteal angioplasty groups, respectively. Seven patients required repeat angioplasty of the same site, 30 underwent subsequent bypass, and 16 of 43 occluded limbs were amputated. A total of 153 comparative control patients underwent 162 bypass procedures during the same period. Primary cumulative patency, limb salvage, and survival for femoropopliteal bypass (n = 80) at 2 years were 69%, 87%, and 76%, respectively, and were 53%, 57%, and 64% for infrapopliteal bypass (n = 82). The 30-day mortality for bypass was 5.2%, the complication rate was 35%, and 31 limbs were amputated.
   
   Conclusions
   The results of this study on the intermediate-term outcome of angioplasty suggest that angioplasty, when used preferentially for critical ischemia, in anatomically suitable patients provides very acceptable limb salvage and survival despite a relatively high restenosis rate.
   
   
9. Open surgical repair of children less than 13 years old with lower extremity vascular injury
   Michael C. Dalsing, MD, Dolores F. Cikrit, MD, and Alan P. Sawchuk, MD, Indianapolis, Ind
   
   Purpose: We sought to review the diagnosis and treatment of children with lower extremity vascular injury.
   
   Methods: We performed a query of our vascular surgery database from 1996 through 2002 to determine those with lower
   extremity vascular injuries requiring surgery who were also less than 13 years of age. Patient demographics, presentation,
   cause, surgical specifics, and outcome were sought.
   
   Results: Six children (2 girls and 4 boys) with an average age of 6.8 years (range, 2-9 years) were found. The causes were
   3 blunt injuries, 2 iatrogenic injuries, and 1 penetrating injury. Associated injuries were common. There were 3 femoral
   and 3 popliteal artery injuries. Two were pseudoaneurysms (common femoral and popliteal artery), and 4 were acute
   occlusions, of which 3 experienced a delay in diagnosis. There was one primary below-knee amputation. Four reverse vein
   bypasses were performed, and one vein patch repair of a pseudoaneurysm was performed. Generally, 7 to 9 O interrupted
   Prolene (Ethicon, Inc, Somerville, NJ) repairs were performed. A delay in diagnosis (2 blunt injuries) resulted in 2 major
   amputations and 1 insensate foot. Four reconstructions are functioning with viable limbs (follow-up, 5-49 months). An
   associated brain injury resulted in the only death.
   
   Conclusions: Vascular blunt injury is especially insidious in children. However, an aggressive approach of vascular repair,
   even extensive bypasses with reverse vein, will allow limb salvage in the absence of a diagnostic delay. ( J Vasc Surg 2005; 41:983-7.)