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New Dodero Center at UH will Revolutionize Limb Salvage

DAIC

Led by Mehdi Shishehbor DO, MPH, PhD, interventional cardiologist and a pioneer in the field of limb preservation, the Dodero Center will revolutionize care for patients at risk of losing a leg due to peripheral artery disease and diabetes. For patients with no other options, amputation may become imminent.

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Devices Flop for Severe PAD; CPR on LVAD Patients; Cancer Drugs for Heart Disease?

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- For patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) and chronic limb-threatening ischemia, drug-eluting stents and drug-coated balloons did not improve amputation-free survival compared with balloon angioplasty alone in the BASIL.

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AI Measures Fat Around the Heart, a Key to Predicting Heart Attacks

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The Efemoral Vascular Scaffold System (EVSS) offers a new approach to treating peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD) by addressing the specific anatomic challenges and complex biomechanics of patients with athero-occlusive disease in the leg. The global burden of peripheral artery disease.

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University Hospitals Receives Grant for New Limb Preservation Center

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Led by Mehdi Shishehbor DO, MPH, PhD, interventional cardiologist and a pioneer in the field of limb preservation, the Dodero Center will revolutionize care for patients at risk of losing a leg due to peripheral artery disease and diabetes. For patients with no other options, amputation may become imminent.

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Shockwave Medical Expands U.S. Peripheral IVL Portfolio with Enhanced Catheter

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The Shockwave E 8 catheter is designed to optimize the treatment of patients with calcified femoro-popliteal and below-the-knee peripheral artery disease (PAD), including patients with complex chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI). PAD affects more than eight million people aged 40 and older in the United States.

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Rise of the Lysenkoist Cardiologists

Dr. Anish Koka

years of age, P <0.001), cerebral or peripheral artery disease (6.2% While cardiologists have always recognized the presence of disease in the smaller arteries (microvascular disease), the presence of significant microvascular disease in the absence of epicardial disease is thought to be fairly rare.