February 2008 Issue - Endovascular Today

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February 2008

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Chief Medical Editor's Page

Evaluating EVAR

By Barry T. Katzen, MD, Chief Medical Editor

Featured Technology

Improved Microcatheter Technology Enhances Navigation of Tortuous Vasculature

Terumo Progreat Omega Coaxial Microcatheter System and Glidewire GT

By Karthikram Raghuram, MD; Ahmed Kamel Abdel Aal, MD; Warren Dukes, RT; Sharon Woodard, RT; CassandrA T. Craig, RN; and Cynthia M. Brown, RN

Closure Update 2008

Overview of Vascular Closure

The Endovascular Today annual review.

By Zoltan G. Turi, MD

Closure Device Update

Assisted Compression Update

Challenging Cases

Catheter Thrombectomy to Reduce Emboli After Carotid Artery Stenting

Looking beyond distal embolic protection.

By Eduardo Hernandez, MD, FACC, and Zvonimir Krajcer, MD, FACC

Stent-Supported Coil Embolization of a Splenic Artery Aneurysm

A feasible technique that can be used effectively in select cases with wide-neck or fusiform aneurysms.

By Mark T. Baesl, MD, and Stuart Singer, MD

Cover Story

Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

An update on the progress made in identifying patients with AAAs and the work that must still be done.

By Robert M. Zwolak, MD, and K. Craig Kent, MD

Pitfalls and Complications of Fenestrated and Branched Endografts

Insight provided by dynamic imaging.

By Felix J.V. Schlösser, MD; Hamid R. Mojibian, MD; Alan Dardik, MD, PhD; Hence J.M. Verhagen, MD, PhD; and Bart E. Muhs, MD, PhD

Treating Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

Setting up your practice for an endovascular approach.

By Benjamin W. Starnes, MD, FACS

EVAR on Trial: What We Have Learned

Professor Roger M. Greenhalgh, MD, FRCS, discusses the progress made in studying endovascular AAA repair, its current global applications, and what the future has in store for evaluating this procedure.

Future EVAR Devices

With novel designs and improvements in technology, many of the problems encountered in patients with aneurysmal disease can be solved.

By Mark A. Farber, MD

An Interview with Marc Bosiers, MD

A vascular surgeon and leader in endovascular research discusses the next generation of peripheral stents, drug-coated balloons, and the progress of carotid stenting.

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