Tailored Venous Therapy

In This Issue

Guest Chief Medical Editor Dr. Kush R. Desai outlines the newest issue on venous care, with a central theme of tailoring therapy toward the specific patient at hand and balancing the known with the unknown.?

COVER STORIES

Drs. Misaki Kiguchi and Kyle Reynolds review several of the most impactful deep venous trials to date and help better understand current guidelines and what the future looks like.?

Dr. Manj S. Gohel summarizes significant clinical trials that have contributed to advances in superficial venous disease treatment.?

Gerald O’Sullivan, MD; Erin H. Murphy, MD; Stephen A. Black, MD; and Kush R. Desai, MD, discuss the concept of “venous stent maintenance” by sharing strategies for keeping stents open, a process that starts before the decision to stent is made and continues through follow-up.?

Drs. Alexandra Murillo Solera and José Antonio Diaz examine the inflammatory mechanisms in venous thrombosis.

Drs. Raghu Kolluri, Eri Fukaya, and Kumar Madassery describe the wide variety of presentations that can be called venous leg ulcers, the potential benefits of a classification system, and how to communicate with patients and providers.?

Dr. Neil Khilnani leads a discussion with Drs. Gloria Salazar, Ronald S. Winokur, and Aleksandra Jaworucka-Kaczorowska on the challenges to diagnose and categorize female pelvic pain of venous origin, with a focus on trial needs.?

Drs. Brent Keeling, Frances Mae West, Robert A. Lookstein, and Eric A. Secemsky each weigh in on what the treatment of pulmonary embolism will look like in 10 years.?

FEATURED TECHNOLOGY

A series of cases highlight Penumbra's Computer Assisted Vacuum Thrombectomy & embolization platforms designed to address the need for a safe and quick frontline option to venous disease. | Sponsored by Penumbra, Inc.?

Daniel Fremed, MD; Lorena De Marco-Garcia, MD; and Turna Mukherjee, MD, share two case reports that illustrate the early success of Inari's VenaCore thrombectomy catheter in managing challenging venous occlusions. | Sponsored by Inari Medical

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE

Read about key learnings from the initial 40 limited market evaluation cases for the FDA-cleared Agile Devices Angler?, a steerable and deflectable, 3.0-F outer diameter, 0.021-inch inner diameter microcatheter. | Sponsored by Agile Devices

MEDICAL AFFAIRS CORNER

In the Medical Affairs Corner, Drs. Kush Desai and Aravinda Nanjundappa share case reports highlighting the Abre? venous self-expanding stent system in complex, nontraditional scenarios. | Sponsored by Medtronic

DEPARTMENTS

As part of our recurring interview series, Prof. Athanasios Saratzis shares updates on a family of clinical trials currently underway, as well as his philosophies for collaborative, impactful study design and management.

SUPPLEMENT

Read about how experts are redefining the standard in PE care in our latest supplement celebrating 10 years of The National PERT Consortium?. | Sponsored by The PERT Consortium?