Dr. Nathan Aranson is a vascular surgeon at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. He shares with us his experience using IVL for aortoiliac occlusive disease (AIOD).
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Dr. Nathan Aranson is a vascular surgeon at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. He shares with us his experience using IVL for aortoiliac occlusive disease (AIOD).
Topics: Peripheral IVL, PAD Applications - Iliac
Iliac artery calcium is particularly difficult to manage both safely and effectively with most endovascular tools and often requires costly and risky adjunctive procedures or surgical intervention, increasing morbidity and cost.
Topics: Peripheral IVL, DISRUPT PAD, Peripheral Clinical Data
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a significant focus on important clinical and economic factors such as hospital length-of-stay and hospital resource utilization. Hospitals have been forced to innovate in order to maximize the availability of these resources while treating critical patients.
Topics: Peripheral IVL, DISRUPT PAD, PAD Applications - TAVR Access, PAD Applications - BTK, PAD Applications - CLI, Peripheral Clinical Data, PAD Applications - EVAR
Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) has been used and studied across all peripheral vessels, with multiple published studies in CFA, SFA, Popliteal and Infrapopliteal arteries.
Topics: Peripheral IVL, DISRUPT PAD, Peripheral Clinical Data
Learn about Alternative Access Approaches and Techniques for TAVR in this case-based webcast CME certification, led by Drs. James McCabe, Ole De Backer, Chandan Devireddy, and Pradeep Yadav.
Acute recoil is a phenomenon in small arteries, such as those below-the-knee (BTK), when there is a significant reduction in luminal gain within just a few minutes after balloon angioplasty. Since the goal of BTK angioplasty is to maximize distal flow in order to heal wounds, recoil is a significant problem. As a result, reducing the incidence of acute recoil should be an important goal in improving BTK treatment.
Topics: Peripheral IVL, Peripheral Clinical Data, Shockwave S4
This case was the winner of the inaugural TopShock case competition at TCT 2019 – a satellite symposium sponsored by Shockwave Medical. This post was written by Dr. Thomas E. Waggoner for The Catalyst.
Topics: Peripheral IVL, PAD Applications - TAVR Access, Peripheral Conferences
Frank Arko III, MD is the Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Carolinas Medical Center, Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the busiest aortic repair centers in the world. He is a global expert on aortic repair techniques and peripheral arterial disease.
Topics: Peripheral IVL, Peripheral Conferences, PAD Applications - EVAR, PAD Applications - TEVAR
If we were to summarize LINC 2020 in one sentiment it would be: compelling science with great clinicians from around the world, and Shockwave IVL was no exception. We had the privilege of being spotlight-featured in ten physician presentations, representing four specialties, from five countries around the world. Talk about an international meeting! The speakers, featured in our IVL Booth Speaker Series, on the podium, and in the Main Arena, shared cases and first-hand experience of how IVL cracks calcium across a broad range of peripheral anatomy – from the iliacs to the ankles.
Topics: Medical Meetings, Peripheral IVL
But, right now we're in the early phases of the R&D program. In the meantime, don't miss the IVL application that heart teams are embracing already — maintaining transfemoral TAVR access through heavily calcified iliacs by using IVL.
