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Using a Virtual Reality Trainer to Prepare for Difficult Cases

With a difficult MI case, you might have a few minutes to save a life. That is a few minutes to choose and navigate a guidewire and catheter, take arteriograms, find the lesion, dilate, and place a stent. Practicing on a simulator before you are actually faced with a life-threatening case is an ideal way to help you become prepared.

By Theodore A. Bass, MD, and Kevin J. Kunkler, MD

Operator Experience Versus Embolic Protection in the Carotid Arteries

A review of the data regarding the theoretical advantages of embolic protection devices over unprotected CAS procedures.

By James A.M. Smith, DO

Chronic Upper Extremity AVG Thrombosis With Concomitant Central Thoracic Venous Occlusion

Moderator: Mark L. Lessne, MD, FSIR;
Panelists: Karem Harth, MD; Brian P. Holly, MD; and Theodore F. Saad, MD

Meeting the Challenge

By John A. Kaufman, MD

Roundtable Discussion: AV Use of Covered Stents: Dos and Don’ts

Experts share their tips on when, how, or if to deploy covered stents in the setting of arteriovenous grafts and/or fistulas.

With Ziv Haskal, MD, FSIR, FAHA, FACR, FCIRSE; Theodore F. Saad, MD; Haimanot (Monnie) Wasse, MD, MPH, FASN, FASDIN

Top Tips in Interventional Oncology

Clinical and technical insights into treating hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, renal cell carcinoma, lung cancer, bone cancer, and in the palliative care setting.

By Siddharth A. Padia, MD; Theodore Bryan, MD; Rebecca Bennett, MD; Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh, MD, FSIR, CCRP; Raul N. Uppot, MD; Robert Suh, MD; Paul I. Mallinson, MBChB, FRCR, FRCPC; Peter L. Munk, MDCM, FRCPC, FSIR, FFRRCSI (Hon); Miyuki Sone, MD; and Yasuaki Arai, MD, FSIR, FCIRSE

True Long-Term Results: What Have We Learned?

A discussion of updated long-term data from randomized studies and their implication on the approach to endovascular aneurysm repair.

By Theodorus G. van Schaik, MD; Kak K. Yeung, MD, PhD; Hence J.M. Verhagen, MD, PhD; and Jan D. Blankensteijn, MD, PhD