Gerald Dorros, MD, DSc, FACC, ScD

Editorial

The Army of Medicine without Any Soldiers

06/09/2009

The United States is in a recession, and shifting priorities have relegated medicine, health care and health insurance to secondary issues. Thus, the real issue of health care will not come to the forefront and receive significant attention....

The United States is in a...

06/09/2009

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Editorial

FDA Approval Does Not Mean What You Think it Does!

08/06/2010

Gerald Dorros , MD, DSc, FACC, ScD;

J INVASIVE CARDIOL 2010;22:382–384 _________________________________________________ The Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is well known to Americans, as are their terms “FDA approval” and...

J INVASIVE CARDIOL...

08/06/2010

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Editorial

American Health Care, and Notably Cardiovascular Care, Cannot be Defined by WHO Mortality Rankings

10/25/2011

Gerald Dorros , MD, DSc, FACC, ScD;

Adam J. Pressman , MBA;

The costly American health care system, allegedly, has overpromised and underperformed, and, as such, a reduction in public and private funding for research and physician compensation seems, to some, justified. This perspective, the focus of...

The costly American health care...

10/25/2011

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Commentary

What Was, What Is, and What Will Be!

07/30/2015

Gerald Dorros , MD, DSc, FACC, ScD;

Dr Dorros warns that in the current health-care climate, cardiologists face the danger of becoming mere technocrats, employed and dictated to by health-care executives, whose main focus is the financial bottom line. Cardiologists must remain...

Dr Dorros warns that in the...

07/30/2015

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Renal Function and Survival After Renal Artery Stent Revascularization May Be Influenced by Embolic Debris

08/01/2008

Gerald Dorros , MD, DSc, FACC, ScD;

Lynne Mathiak , RN;

Thomas He , PhD;

Robert L. Minor Jr., MD, FACC;

Robert Harner , MD;

Sandra McCurdy , RN;

Paula Krause , RN;

Michael R. Jaff , MD, DO;

ABSTRACT: Four years of follow-up renal function and survival data were obtained on 544 patients who underwent 714 successful renal artery stenosis (RAS) stent revascularizations. The mean serum creatinine (SCr) was unchanged at 4 years (1.6...

ABSTRACT: Four years of...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Editorial

Carotid Stenting: A Gordian Knot to be Unraveled (Part I of II)

08/01/2008

Gerald Dorros , MD, DSc, FACC, ScD;

Balloons, stents and embolic protection devices, as treatment for extracranial obliterative disease, have created in recent decades a predicament not dissimilar to the percutaneous treatment of coronary angioplasty and mitral valvuloplasty....

Balloons, stents and embolic...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Editorial

Carotid Stenting: A Gordian Knot to be Unraveled (Part II of II)<br />

08/01/2008

Gerald Dorros , MD, DSc, FACC, ScD;

Conclusions. As this nascent period of endovascular carotid procedures draws to an end, what is clear, crystal clear to me, is that a significant conundrum exists. The Gordian knot to be unraveled is not whether stent-supported carotid...

Conclusions. As this nascent...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology