Frank J. Criado, MD

Clinical Editor's Corner

Endoanchors Are Slick, Safe New Technologies, But Applications Remain Somewhat Unclear

11/27/2013

The Heli-FX endoanchor showed technical success in initial results of the ANCHOR registry. Their use will continue to evolve.

The Heli-FX endoanchor showed...

11/27/2013

Vascular Disease Management

Editor's Corner

VDM Changes to a Double-Blind, Peer-Review Journal

09/05/2008

Frank J. Criado , MD;

VDM is going all peer-review, and will immediately adopt the journal format that everyone expects in such a publication.

VDM is going all peer-review,...

09/05/2008

Vascular Disease Management

Commentary

SFA Intervention in the Treatment of Total Occlusions: Can Endovascular Therapy Compete with Surgical Bypass?

08/01/2008

Frank J. Criado , MD;

I read with interest the report by Cho et al. on the results of SFA intervention for treatment of occlusive (not stenotic) lesions. They compared the 6-month outcome of PTA alone with stenting using the Smart nitinol device. We are not told...

I read with interest the report...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Commentary

Current Developments With Carotid Stenting (CAS): The Perfect Vascular Storm Re-Visited

09/05/2008

Frank J. Criado , MD;

CAS developments were portrayed as “The Perfect Vascular Storm” in the second issue of VDM (December 2004). These were the days before VDM had decided to adopt a new format and become a peer-review journal. In that article, I described and...

CAS developments were portrayed...

09/05/2008

Vascular Disease Management

Commentary

Conquering CTOs

08/25/2011

Frank J. Criado , MD;

I have no doubt the vast majority of the Journal’s readers would find CTO recanalization to be quite a familiar term. However, one would not need to go back that many years to be reminded that endovascular treatment of CTOs (chronic total...

I have no doubt the vast...

08/25/2011

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Commentary

Commentary: Emergency Stent-graft Repair for Thoracic Aortic Injury

09/05/2008

Frank J. Criado , MD;

Emergency Stent-graft Repair for Thoracic Aortic Injury by Castelli et al. is an important paper that lends further credence to the notion that endovascular repair is rapidly becoming the new standard of care in the treatment of traumatic...

Emergency Stent-graft Repair for...

09/05/2008

Vascular Disease Management

Editorial Message

The GlideWire Supremacy:
20 Years and Counting

08/01/2008

Frank J. Criado , MD;

The idea for this editorial emerged in my mind while reviewing the article “A Comparison of Interventional Guidewires in a Canine Model” by Huang et al. The authors set out to test three different wires in the setting of an in vivo...

The idea for this editorial...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Editor's Corner

Stent-Graft Repair of Thoracic Aortic Diseases: A New Frontier in Endovascular Therapy

09/05/2008

Frank J. Criado , MD;

The FDA announced approval of the first thoracic endograft device (Gore TAG) on March 23, 2005. It signaled the true beginning of a new era in endovascular therapy, and the unmistakable 'message' that thoracic aortic surgery is about to be...

The FDA announced approval of...

09/05/2008

Vascular Disease Management

IAGS (International Andreas Gruentzig Society) Proceedings

Bridging the Gaps Surrounding Coronary Artery Stenting: The Current State of Carotid Stenting

08/01/2008

Frank J. Criado , MD;

I’m going to give you a perspective on where we see the current state of carotid artery stenting from the regulatory and reimbursement perspectives, and perhaps a bit of technical unmet needs and future prospects. Obviously, this is going to...

I’m going to give you a...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Editor's Corner

When "Wonderful New Technologies" Fail...

09/05/2008

Frank J. Criado , MD;

Our Editor-in-Chief reflects upon our field’s “wonderful new technologies” and uses this topic as the foundation for this month’s Editor’s Corner.

Our Editor-in-Chief reflects...

09/05/2008

Vascular Disease Management