Western Vascular Society

Monday, September 26

7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast With Educational Sponsors

8:00 am Scientific Session
8:00 am

Comparison of the Efficacy of the Transposed Upper Arm Fistula and Upper Arm Prosthetic Graft: A Single Institutional Review of 368 Procedures
Karen Woo, MD, Alik Farber, MD, Som Kohanzadeh, MD and James Mirocha, PhD Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

8:25 am Chronic Spinal Cord Injury Reduces Aortic Wall Shear Stress and Increases Diameter
Janice J. Yeung, MD, Thomas A. Abbruzzesse, MD, Hyun Jin Kim, Irene E. Vignon, Mary T. Draney, PhD, Kay K. Yeung, MD, John K. Karwowski, MD, Inder Perkash, MD, Charles A.Taylor, PhD and Ronald L. Dalman, MD Stanford University, Stanford, CA and University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
8:50 am Effect of a Clinical Pharmacy Service on Lipid Control in Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease
Thomas F. Rehring, MD University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and Colorado Permanente Medical Group, Denver, CO
9:15 am. Retroperitoneal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: Long-Term Follow-Up Regarding Wound Complications and Erectile Dysfunction
Jeffrey L. Ballard, MD, Ahmed M. Abou- Zamzam,Jr., MD, Theodore H. Teruya, MD, Timothy R.S. Harward, MD and D. Preston Flanigan, MD St. Joseph Hospital of Orange, Orange, CA, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA and Honolulu, HI
9:40 am Coffee Break
  10:00 am Endocompetence Leads to Increasingly Complex Cases without Sacrificing Safety in a Surgeon Based Endovascular Training Program
Jason Alexander, MD, Fred Weaver, MD, Douglas B. Hood, Vince Rowe, MD, Steven Katz,    MD and Albert Yellin, MD University Of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  10:25 am A Prospective Analysis of Critical Limb Ischemia - Factors Leading to Major Primary Amputation versus Revascularization
Ahmed Abou-Zamzam,Jr., Nephtali Gomez, MD, Afshin Molkara, MD, Theodore Teruya and Christian Bianchi Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA
  10:50 am  Long-term Thrombotic Recurrence After Non-operative Management of Paget-Schroetter Syndrome 
Jason T. Lee, MD,  John K. Karwowski, MD, E. John Harris, MD and Cornelius Olcott, IV, MD Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
  11:15 am Adjunctive Primary Stenting of Endograft Limbs During Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: Implications for Limb Patency
Nayan Sivamurthy, MD, Vascular Surgery, Darren B. Schneider, MD, Linda M. Reilly, MD,  Joseph H. Rapp, MD, Herman Skovobogatyy, Timothy A.M.  Chuter, MD UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
11:40 am The Incidence and Significance of Upper Torso Deep Venous Thrombosis
Kevin M. Major, Vincent L. Rowe, MD, Douglas B. Hood, MD and Fred A. Weaver, MD University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

12:05 pm                Adjourn

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