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Outpatient vascular care : Good, bad or ugly?

Dr. Anish Koka

Most have gotten used to egregiously bad coverage of current events that fills the pages of today’s New York Times, but even by their now very low standards a recent telling of a story about peripheral artery disease was very bad. The scintillating allegation by Katie Thomas, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Robert Gebeloff is that “medical device makers are bankrolling doctors to perform artery clearing procedures that can lead to amputations” The reporters go on to tell a story a

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Modeling the Decay in Probability of Receiving Endovascular Thrombectomy on the Basis of Time From Stroke Onset

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology, Volume 3, Issue 6 , November 1, 2023. BackgroundAmerican Heart Association guidelines specify infarct core volume as 1 determinant of eligibility for endovascular thrombectomy. Therefore, it is important to understand how time‐dependent infarct core growth translates to a patient's declining probability of thrombectomy eligibility.

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