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Colorado Springs/Iowa City
Joined April 2009
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Urgent 3v PMEG rescue of symptomatic T1a EL in less than 3 hrs, including back-table time (less than anesthesia time). @FotehMazinMD @cfbechara @mattsmeds @GustavoOderich #VascTwitter #VascSurg #AortaEd @UIowa_Surgery
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I’m a vascular surgeon. AI and robots won’t be replacing what I and my colleagues can do in the foreseeable future. Not just the technical aspects, but the judgment than comes from years of evaluating and treating patients.
How would you manage this asymptomatic 6.6 cm juxtarenal AAA in a 60-year-old man presenting with appendicitis? Smoker, history of cryptogenic stroke, stable claudication, CHF (EF 40%). Pay close attention to anatomy! @farkomd @AWBeckMD @westleyohman #AortaEd
ALT CT abdomen/pelvis and 3D reformat provided by Radiology.
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Once you have vascular control which is the hard part, vascular suturing on the robot is easier and more fun than open as you have 9x magnification, articulated instruments, no tremor, and you’re sitting comfortably 😅
#robot4HPB
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Tried a new device for transcaval embolization: Liverty steerable TIPS kit. Highly recommend. Made access a single pass and extraordinarily easy with 3D overlay. #AortaEd I have no financial disclosures! bd.com/en-us/products-and-so…
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Dr Lucy Wibbenmeyer discussing why “Health Equity in Burn Research Cannot Wait!” #SAFERTrauma @NatTrauma @Ameriburn @vanessapho @acsTrauma @docjainarpana @Levi_Lab @md_castanon – at Chicago, IL
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Absolutely. Profunda is the junk yard dog keeping the leg alive any way possible.
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Proud of the accomplished vascular surgeon @JeanetteManMD has become. But can’t take credit for her artistic abilities. #AortaEd #VascGraffiti #AortaArt @UIowa_Surgery
Very cool. Cant say I’ve seen that before.
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In 1963 Dr. Charles Dotter said, "The angiographic catheter can be more than a tool for passive means of diagnostic observation; used with imagination, it can become an important surgical instrument." On January 16, 1964, he performed the first angioplasty. #Vascular #CookHistory
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I’ve been eyeing this robotics platform by Vicarius Surgical for a long time and I am vi-curious to see what it can do. I like that the engineers/designers solved the surgical robotics problem in a different way. I wonder how strong it is and does it scale vicarioussurgical.com – at Los Angeles, CA
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This is what @HCrespoSotoMD and I did. Good risk patient. A lot of aortic plaque. #Aorta
ALT jr-AAA w/ anomalous renal arteries, sure it could have been done endo, but for this 60 yo healthy patient, open repair was the way (w/ written consent)