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Job title: Consultant of vascular and endovascular surgery
Dr Konstantinos Stavroulakis is a Consultant Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon at St. Franziskus Hospital, Münster, Germany. He trained at the University of Crete Medical School until 2009. He moved to Germany in 2012 and became a Trainee of Surgery and Vascular Surgery at the Paracelsus Clinic Marl, Germany. He achieved his Postgraduate (Dr.med) qualification in March 2016 from the Westphälische… View more
Author(s): Adrian P Banning , Kristin L Hood , Aloke V Finn , et al Added: 3 years ago
Patients with diabetes have abnormalities in the growth and function of arterial smooth-muscle and endothelial cells and consequently have a particularly aggressive and diffuse pattern of atherosclerosis, leading to increased cardiovascular complications and mortality compared with the non-diabetic population.1–4 However, the molecular signalling underlying the accelerated atherosclerosis in… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Brian G Hynes , Thomas J Kiernan , Nicholas J Ruggiero , et al Added: 3 years ago
Stroke-related morbidity and mortality remain unacceptably high. Recent estimates suggest that it accounts for approximately one out of every 17 deaths in the US, and that a person dies from the direct consequences of stroke every three to four minutes.1 Of the almost 800,000 strokes that occur annually, 87% are ischaemic, the remainder occurring predominantly as a consequence of intracerebral… View more

Intervention
Author(s): Stuart J Head , Ad JJC Bogers , A Pieter Kappetein Added: 3 years ago
Abstract In many patients, comparable results can be achieved either with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The comparison of PCI versus CABG is frequently reported in randomised trials, national registries, multicentre collaborations and single-centre experiences. However, the patients included in these analyses are either highly selected … View more

Vascular Disease and Surgery

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Lesion Preparation with Orbital Atherectomy
Author(s): Evan Shlofmitz , Allen Jeremias , Richard A Shlofmitz , et al Added: 3 years ago
Coronary calcification has posed challenges to successful revascularisation since the development of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).1 Coronary artery calcification worsens clinical outcomes irrespective of the revascularisation strategy.2–4 Despite significant improvements in stent design over the past decades, including an improved ability to deliver a stent, severe calcification… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Intervention
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Dr Sandeep Nathan is currently the director of the coronary care unit at the University of Chicago Medicine in Illinois. He specializes in interventional cardiology, regularly performing coronary and peripheral vascular procedures, including transradial angiography. His research interests include balloon angioplasty, stenting, atherectomy, thrombectomy, cryoplasty and IVUS imaging. Dr Nathan… View more
Johanne Silvain
Job title: Prof. Johanne Silvain is professor of medicine at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France.
He is an interventional cardiologist, with experience in coronary angioplasty and OTC, and is Director of the Coronary Intensive Care Unit.He is licensed at the University of Medicine of Paris (UPMC) and is the author of over 100 publications in prestigious authoritative journals.The research interests of Dr. Silvain fall within the field of thrombosis (composition of thrombi) and antithrombotic… View more
Author(s): Paolo Sbarzaglia , Salvatore Notaristefano , Claudio Cavallini Added: 3 years ago
Saphenous vein grafts (SVG) have been extensively used in coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) as additional conduits to arterial grafts. However, it is well known that vein grafts may develop degenerative processes that may result in stenosis or occlusion1 in 12–20% of patients at the end of the first year and approximately 50% by 10 years.2 The main causes of graft disease are intimal… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Job title: Consultant Interventional Radiologist
Dr Jason Wilkins trained in medicine at St. Edmund Hall Oxford and was appointed as a Consultant Radiologist at King’s College Hospital in 2002. He is currently clinical lead for interventional radiology and musculoskeletal imaging. His specialist interests in intervention and musculoskeletal imaging include endovascular therapy, tumour ablation, venous and dialysis access and urolological… View more
Robert Gerber
Dr Robert Gerber is a Consultant Cardiologist at Conquest Hospital and Eastbourne District General Hospital in East Sussex. Having completed his medical training at King's College London, he went on to complete the MB/PhD programme. Dr Gerber is qualified in both General Internal Medicine and General Cardiology with a sub-speciality in Interventional Cardiology. He has also previously worked… View more