Abstract

A focus on stenting for lower extremity peripheral arterial disease

Author(s): Robert S Dieter and Aravinda Nanjundappa

Robert S Dieter*1: is the Director of Vascular Medicine and Cardiovascular Interventions at Hines VA Hospital (IL, USA). He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Loyola University Medical Center, Stritch School of Medicine. He has completed advanced fellowship training in Vascular Medicine and Endovascular Therapies. As the Director of Vascular Medicine, he specializes in the management of patients with complex vascular diseases. He manages patients with strokes, mini strokes (transient ischemic attack) and those at risk for having strokes, in particular those with carotid artery blockages requiring angioplasty/stenting or those with holes in the heart (patent foramen ovale). He also specializes in blockages in the arteries to the kidneys (renal artery stenosis), which can lead to high blood pressure or kidney failure. In fact, Dr Dieter has published on new and potentially safer methods to treat blockages in the renal arteries. Dr Dieter performs minimally invasive abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (endograft) and has extensive training in the management of patients with claudication, as well as taking care of patients with critical limb ischemia and nonhealing ulcers (leg sores) – particularly in patients with diabetes. 

Aravinda Nanjundappa2: joined the faculty of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, as an Assistant Professor and Director of Vascular Medicine and Peripheral Interventions in the Division of Cardiology. He has completed a vascular medicine and interventional peripheral vascular fellowship at Georgetown University and Washington Hospital Center (DC, USA), as well as completing residency training in internal medicine and a fellowship in cardiology at Seton Hall University (NJ, USA). He also completed a fellowship in interventional cardiology at the University of Florida Health Sciences Center in Jacksonville (FL, USA). Specialties include vascular medicine and vascular interventions. His expertise includes the management of several conditions: claudication; critical limb ischemia; nonhealing ulcers; and renal artery stenosis. His speciality also includes the treatment of stroke patients, particularly patients with carotid artery disease requiring angioplasty/stenting