May 2014 Issue - Endovascular Today

Table of Contents

Issue

May 2014

Comprehensive CLI Therapy

Clinical experience drives limb salvage decision making.

Supplement

Choosing the Right Device for the Patient

Experts discuss how anatomy and technology affect durability.

In This Issue

Guest Chief Medical Editors' Page

Collaborative, Comprehensive CLI Treatment

By Jihad A. Mustapha, MD, and Prof. Thomas Zeller, MD

Cover Stories

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Critical Limb Ischemia in the Era of the Affordable Care Act

Is it fiscally responsible to perform primary amputation as treatment?

By Mary L. Yost, MBA

A Team-Based Strategy for Optimal CLI Care

This fast-track, collaborative approach has made our practice the national benchmark in Italy for achieving low major amputation rates.

By Francesco Liistro, MD; Italo Porto, MD, PhD; Paolo Angioli, MD; Kenneth Ducci, MD; Giovanni Falsini, MD; Simone Grotti, MD; Lucia Ricci, MD; Giorgio Ventoruzzo, MD; Filippo Turini, MD; Guido Bellandi, MD; and Leonardo Bolognese, MD

Tibioperoneal CTOs in Patients With Critical Limb Ischemia

Using cap analysis to design and implement crossing strategies.

By Jihad A. Mustapha, MD; Larry J. Diaz-Sandoval, MD; and Fadi Saab, MD

The Retrograde Approach for BTK Chronic Total Occlusions

Tools and techniques for achieving access in even the most complex cases.

By Miguel Montero-Baker, MD

Angiosome-Directed Therapy for the CLI Patient

Case studies and the literature show the benefits of direct and indirect flow revascularization.

By Jihad A. Mustapha, MD; Larry J. Diaz-Sandoval, MD; and Fadi Saab, MD

Distal Embolization During Percutaneous Lower Limb Interventions

Identifying specific patients and lesion types that are at high risk of distal embolization could result in improved limb salvage rates and reduced morbidity and mortality.

By Leonardo Marques, MD; Michael Preiss, MD; Stephanie Lehrke, MD; Silke Hopf-Jensen, MD; Joana Carvalho, MD; and Prof. Stefan Müller-Hülsbeck, MD

Assessing Patency After Endovascular Treatment of Patients With CLI

Surveillance strategies and decision making processes.

By R. Kevin Rogers, MD, MSc, RPVI, and Arash Aghel, MD

Wound Healing After Endovascular Procedures

Revascularization is the first step on a long road to recovery, but sustained healing requires customized treatments for each patient.

By Alan Block, DPM, MS, FASPS, FACFAS

A Case-based Review Of Pedal Intervention

Pedal Arch Revascularization

The rationale behind this procedure and tips from preprocedure planning to intervention.

By Arthur C. Lee, MD, and Matheen A. Khuddus, MD

Retrograde Transmetatarsal Artery Access