Vascular Medicine
- Optimizing diagnostic testing for venous thromboembolism
A thoughtful approach to diagnosing venous thromboembolism and screening for thrombophilic disorders.
- Renal denervation: What happened, and why?
Despite promising initial results, this treatment failed in its largest trial to date. Is it dead? Can it be revived?
- Renal denervation: Are we on the right path?
Before renal denervation can be a mainstream therapy, we need proof that it reduces blood pressure or clinical events.
- Another complication of cirrhosis
A patient with cirrhosis presents with acute abdominal pain and shock.
- Submassive pulmonary embolism (December 2016)
Readers comment on submassive pulmonary embolism (December 2016).
- Phlegmasia cerulea dolens from radiation-induced venous stenosis
The patient had received pelvic radiation 10 years earlier for prostate cancer.
Do patients with submassive pulmonary embolism benefit from thrombolytic therapy?The risk of hemorrhage is signifi cant, and the benefi t is unclear. A one-treatment-for-all approach cannot be applied.
- Thrombolysis in submassive pulmonary embolism: Finding the balance
In massive pulmonary embolism, thrombolytic therapy is usually indicated; in submassive cases the decision is not so clear.
