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February 2008

Chief Medical Editor's Page
By Barry T. Katzen, MD

News

FEATURED TECHNOLOGY:
Improved Microcatheter Technology Enhances Navigation of Tortuous Vasculature
By Karthikram Raghuram, MD; Ahmed Kamel Abdel Aal, MD; Warren Dukes, RT; Sharon Woodard, RT; Cassandra T. Craig, RN; and Cynthia M. Brown, RN

CLOSURE UPDATE 2008
Overview of Vascular Closure
By Zoltan G. Turi, MD

Closure Device Update

Assisted Compression Update

CHALLENGING CASES
Catheter Thrombectomy to Reduce Emboli After Carotid Artery Stenting
By Eduardo Hernandez, MD, FACC, and Zvonimir Krajcer, MD, FACC

Stent-Supported Coil Embolization of a Splenic Artery Aneurysm
By Mark T. Baesl, MD, and Stuart Singer, MD

COVER STORY
Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
By Robert M. Zwolak, MD, and K. Craig Kent, MD

Pitfalls and Complications of Fenestrated and Branched Endografts
By Felix J.V. Schlösser, MD; Hamid R. Mojibian, MD; Alan Dardik, MD, PhD; Hence J.M. Verhagen, MD, PhD; and Bart E. Muhs, MD, PhD

Treating Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
By Benjamin W. Starnes, MD, FACS

EVAR on Trial: What We Have Learned
Featuring Professor Roger M. Greenhalgh, MD, FRCS

Future EVAR Devices
By Mark A. Farber, MD

DEPARTMENTS
Innovations

Conference Calendar

An Interview With Marc Bosiers, MD

Cover image (TeraRecon, Inc., San Mateo, CA) courtesy of Roy K. Greenberg, MD, and Kate Pfaff, BS, of the Cleveland Clinic.