Results of polytetrafluoroethylene-covered nitinol stents crossing the inguinal ligamentKeith D Calligaro
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Vasc Surg 57:421-6. 2013
..W. L. Gore and Associates Inc, Flagstaff, Ariz) crossing the middle common femoral artery (CFA) on an emergency basis or who were considered high risk for open surgery...
Intra-abdominal aortic graft infection: complete or partial graft preservation in patients at very high riskKeith D Calligaro
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, 700 Spruce Street Suite 101, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
J Vasc Surg 38:1199-205. 2003
..In these patients selective complete or partial graft preservation was used...
- Should duplex ultrasonography be performed for surveillance of femoropopliteal and femorotibial arterial prosthetic bypasses?
K D Calligaro
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Ann Vasc Surg 15:520-4. 2001
..Our results support the routine use of DU as a part of a graft surveillance protocol for femorotibial, but not femoropopliteal, prosthetic grafts...
- Does the Vascular Surgery Board of the American Board of Surgery work?
Keith D Calligaro
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Vascular 12:86-8. 2004
..Although the Vascular Surgery Board of the American Board of Surgery is well intentioned, its focus and intentions are outdated because it is subservient to the American Board of Surgery...
- Choice of vascular surgery as a specialty: survey of vascular surgery residents, general surgery chief residents, and medical students at hospitals with vascular surgery training programs
Keith D Calligaro
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Vasc Surg 40:978-84. 2004
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- Choice of vascular surgery as a specialty: what is important?
Keith D Calligaro
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Semin Vasc Surg 19:180-6. 2006
..The findings in these surveys have helped vascular surgery program directors devise new and innovative training paradigms and to develop strategies to attract future trainees...
- Commentary on "Duplex-guided balloon angioplasty and stenting for occlusive and stenotic lesions of the infrainguinal arteries"
Keith Calligaro
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106, USA
Perspect Vasc Surg Endovasc Ther 19:32-3. 2007
- Guidelines for hospital privileges in vascular and endovascular surgery: recommendations of the Society for Vascular Surgery
Keith D Calligaro
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, 700 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
J Vasc Surg 47:1-5. 2008
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Keith D Calligaro
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
J Vasc Surg 48:237-43. 2008
- Acute arterial complications associated with total hip and knee arthroplasty
Keith D Calligaro
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, 700 Spruce Street Suite 101, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
J Vasc Surg 38:1170-7. 2003
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- Converting from general anesthesia to cervical block anesthesia for carotid endarterectomy
K D Calligaro
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Vasc Surg 35:103-6. 2001
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- Concomitant unilateral internal iliac artery embolization and endovascular infrarenal aortic aneurysm repair
Chong Lee
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia 19106, USA
J Vasc Surg 43:903-7. 2006
..The concomitant procedure may be preferable for infirm patients with normal renal function who would be greatly inconvenienced by two procedures...
- Five-year follow-up of an endovascular program initiated by vascular surgeons
Keith D Calligaro
Section of Vascular Surgery/Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Vasc Endovascular Surg 36:17-20. 2002
..Developing an endovascular suite using the above model is a safe and effective approach. The operating room may be the most practical location to establish an endovascular suite for many vascular surgeons...
- Does the timing of reoperation influence the risk of graft infection?
Stephen Kolakowski
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Vasc Surg 45:60-4. 2007
..This study compared the incidence and characteristics of graft infection in patients who underwent early vs late revisional surgery of lower extremity arterial bypass grafts...
- Management of infected aortic prosthetic grafts
Timothy W Swain
Lankenau Hospital, Wynnewood, PA, USA
Vasc Endovascular Surg 38:75-82. 2004
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- Management of juxtarenal aortic aneurysms and occlusive disease with preferential suprarenal clamping via a midline transperitoneal incision: technique and results
Sean V Ryan
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
Vasc Endovascular Surg 38:417-22. 2004
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- Initial experience with endovascular aortic aneurysm repair without cardiologists or radiologists--do vascular surgeons really need them?
Jeanette K Chang
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Vasc Endovascular Surg 38:413-6. 2004
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- Endovascular treatment of embolization of aortic plaque with covered stents
Matthew J Dougherty
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Vasc Surg 36:727-31. 2002
..Covered stents may obviate this risk. We report herein two patients with embolizing infrarenal aortic plaque successfully treated with these devices...
- Guidelines for hospital privileges in vascular surgery: an update by an ad hoc committee of the American Association for Vascular Surgery and the Society for Vascular Surgery
Wesley S Moore
Division of Vascular Surgery, UCLA Center for the Health Sciences, 10833 LeConte Avenue, Room 72-156, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6904, USA
J Vasc Surg 36:1276-82. 2002
- Management of infected prosthetic dialysis arteriovenous grafts
Sean V Ryan
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, 700 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
J Vasc Surg 39:73-8. 2004
..PGE offers the advantage of minimizing extensive dissection of well-incorporated uninfected graft segments and allows continued dialysis access at the incorporated portion of the graft...
- Risk factors associated with infection of lower extremity revascularization: analysis of 365 procedures performed at a teaching hospital
Jeanette K Chang
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Ann Vasc Surg 17:91-6. 2003
..Vascular services should institute strategies to ensure that appropriate prophylactic antibiotics are administered in a timely fashion before lower extremity revascularizations...
- One hundred twenty-five concomitant endovascular and open procedures for lower extremity arterial disease
Matthew J Dougherty
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
J Vasc Surg 37:316-22. 2003
..The concomitant approach offers the efficiency and convenience of single stage therapy and allows immediate treatment for inadequate endovascular results or their complications and potential cost savings...
- Salvaging prosthetic dialysis fistulas with stents: forearm versus upper arm grafts
Stephen Kolakowski
Section of Vascular Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, 700 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
J Vasc Surg 38:719-23. 2003
..Inasmuch as surgical revision of forearm grafts is usually straightforward, stenting should be reserved for use in high axillary grafts and other sites where surgical repair is difficult...
- Factors that predict prolonged length of stay after aortic surgery
Jeanette K Chang
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, 700 Spruce Street, Suite 101, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
J Vasc Surg 38:335-9. 2003
..Third-party payers should allow longer hospitalization for patients older than 75 years and for patients with significant pulmonary disease...
- Management of hemodialysis access infections
Sean V Ryan
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, 700 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Semin Vasc Surg 17:40-4. 2004
..This strategy has proven to be highly successful in the management of these complicated cases...
- Management of atherosclerotic carotid artery disease: clinical practice guidelines of the Society for Vascular Surgery
Robert W Hobson
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA
J Vasc Surg 48:480-6. 2008
..A possible exception includes patients with >/=80% carotid artery stenosis and high anatomic risk for carotid endarterectomy...
- Carotid endarterectomy with adjunctive cephalad carotid stenting: Complementary, not competitive, techniques
Michael N Tameo
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Vasc Surg 48:351-4. 2008
..The purpose of this review is to evaluate the efficacy of intraoperative carotid stenting as an adjunct to endarterectomy to salvage technical defects identified at the cephalad ICA endarterectomy site...
- Melioidosis presenting as an infected intrathoracic subclavian artery pseudoaneurysm treated with femoral vein interposition graft
Nancy Schindler
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia 19106, USA
J Vasc Surg 35:569-72. 2002
..Although autogenous vein replacement of infected arteries and grafts may be successful in the majority of cases, this strategy should probably be avoided when particularly virulent bacteria such as the organism in this case are present...
- A comparison of patch angioplasty and stenting for axillary venous stenoses of thrombosed hemodialysis grafts
Joseph V Lombardi
Section on Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Vasc Endovascular Surg 36:223-9. 2002
..These data suggest slightly better patency for the routine use of patch angioplasty for these lesions. However, the endovascular approach appears to be a reasonable alternative when surgical exposure is difficult...
- Safety and cost savings of endovascular procedures: are outpatient interventions feasible when combined with open surgery?
Joseph V Lombardi
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Vasc Endovascular Surg 36:231-5. 2002
..Even when open surgical exposure is planned, patients should be instructed preoperatively to anticipate discharge the day of their procedure to minimize resistance to this strategy...
- Percutaneous balloon occlusion of the inferior vena cava as an adjunct for treating ruptured type IV thoracoabdominal aneurysm and aortocaval fistula
C Francisco Espinel
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, PA, USA
J Vasc Surg 43:834-5. 2006
..Expanding endovascular capabilities of vascular surgeons enabled us to insert proximal and distal occluding balloon catheters into the vena cava which greatly minimized blood loss...
- Inferior vena cava filters in malignant disease
Beth P Jarrett
Section of Vascular Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Vasc Surg 36:704-7. 2002
..Oncologists should consider these sobering results when requesting filter placement in patients with advanced malignant disease...
