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Cardiology

Endovascular Venous Interventions

Built from Cardiovascular Catheterization and Intervention: A Textbook of Coronary, Peripheral, and Structural Heart Disease

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11 sections · 181 slides

  1. 01

    Introduction

    • Origins of catheter-based venous intervention
    • Scope of modern venous intervention
    • Venous beds treated by endovascular therapy

    3 slides

  2. 02

    The inferior vena cava

    • Inferior vena cava syndrome
    • Congestive features of caval obstruction
    • Stenotic disease of the inferior vena cava
    • Angioplasty outcomes in Budd-Chiari syndrome
    • Suprahepatic IVC obstruction
    • Caval stenting after liver transplantation
    • Caval stenting outcomes and complications

    7 slides

  3. 03

    Acute inferior vena cava occlusion

    • Causes of inferior vena cava occlusion
    • Clinical spectrum and patient selection
    • Timing of intervention in iliocaval thrombosis
    • Catheter-directed thrombolysis technique
    • Bleeding and embolic risk during caval lysis
    • Thrombus burden and filter capture
    • Pulmonary embolism rates with catheter therapy
    • Prophylactic filter placement during intervention
    • Ultrasound-assisted catheter-directed thrombolysis
    • CT venogram of caval thrombosis below a filter
    • Acute-on-chronic iliocaval occlusion
    • Indications for percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy
    • AngioJet rheolytic thrombectomy
    • AngioVac vacuum thrombectomy
    • AngioVac outcomes: the RAPID registry
    • Appearance after mechanical thrombectomy
    • Penumbra aspiration thrombectomy
    • Inari mechanical thrombectomy and the CLOUT registry
    • Rotational thrombectomy devices
    • Rising use of adjunctive mechanical therapy
    • Treating the lesion revealed by thrombectomy
    • Outcomes of caval stenting after thrombectomy
    • Patent cava after bilateral iliac vein stenting

    23 slides

  4. 04

    Chronic caval occlusion

    • Causes of chronic caval occlusion
    • Caval occlusion at the level of a filter
    • Rationale for delayed recanalisation
    • Acute versus chronic phase caval occlusion
    • Essentials of successful venous recanalisation
    • Access and direction of traversal
    • Blunt recanalisation technique
    • False passages and venous tears
    • Intravascular ultrasound during recanalisation
    • Sharp recanalisation technique
    • Risks of sharp recanalisation
    • Stent configurations for iliocaval reconstruction
    • Chronic caval occlusion treated through a filter
    • Inflow and outflow as the governing principle
    • Technical success and patency of iliocaval recanalisation
    • Iliocaval reconstruction without filters
    • Filter-related caval occlusion
    • Does an occluded filter reduce stent patency
    • Patency by reconstruction technique
    • Clinical benefit after iliocaval reconstruction
    • Dedicated venous stent technology
    • Stent migration in the vena cava

    22 slides

  5. 05

    Lower extremity veno-occlusive disease

    • Iliofemoral segment as sole venous outflow
    • Threshold for intervention in iliocaval disease
    • Embolic risk and accepted indications
    • When anticoagulation alone suffices
    • The ATTRACT trial
    • The CaVenT trial
    • The CAVA trial
    • The TORPEDO trial
    • Catch-up phenomenon in post-thrombotic syndrome
    • Pharmacomechanical versus catheter-directed thrombolysis
    • Lytic catheter intervention and PTS risk reduction
    • Thrombus clearance and post-thrombotic outcome

    12 slides

  6. 06

    Chronic occlusive disease of the limb

    • Iliofemoral versus femoropopliteal obstruction
    • Chronic left common iliac vein occlusion after treatment
    • Compensation in femoropopliteal occlusion
    • Axial transformation of the profunda femoris vein
    • Chronic total occlusion of the left iliac vein
    • Recanalisation of femoropopliteal disease
    • Evidence for femoropopliteal intervention
    • Recanalised left iliac vein after angioplasty and stenting
    • Limits of routine femoropopliteal recanalisation
    • Mechanical thrombectomy without thrombolysis
    • Access strategy in unilateral iliofemoral disease
    • Crossing the occlusion in the limb
    • Stent landing zones in the limb
    • Right iliac vein occlusion on venography
    • Judging technical success in low-flow segments
    • Kissing iliac stent deployment into the cava
    • Self-expanding stents in bilateral iliocaval veins
    • Completion venogram after iliocaval reconstruction
    • Dedicated venous stent trials
    • Razavi meta-analysis of iliofemoral stenting
    • Further meta-analyses of venous stenting
    • Restenosis, occlusion and bleeding after stenting
    • Razavi pooled data on iliac vein stenting
    • Randomised evidence for stenting versus medical therapy

    24 slides

  7. 07

    Non-thrombotic iliac vein lesions

    • Definition of non-thrombotic iliac vein lesions
    • From compression to fixed venous stenosis
    • Clinical presentation of NIVL
    • Prevalence of NIVL in advanced venous disease
    • Indications for stenting a non-thrombotic lesion
    • When not to stent a non-thrombotic lesion
    • Intravascular ultrasound in NIVL assessment
    • Non-thrombotic lesions versus post-thrombotic disease
    • Overtreatment risk in iliac vein compression
    • Limits of stenosis thresholds as predictors
    • Venography underestimates iliac vein stenosis
    • The VIDIO study
    • Recommended IVUS thresholds and dynamic assessment
    • Lesion preparation and stent length selection
    • Stent migration in venous stenting
    • Stent oversizing practice
    • Optimal stent diameters by venous segment
    • Surveillance after stenting for NIVL
    • Antithrombotic therapy after NIVL stenting

    19 slides

  8. 08

    Upper extremity venous disease

    • Epidemiology of upper extremity venous disease
    • Causes of central vein stenosis
    • Subclavian stenosis in haemodialysis patients
    • McCleery syndrome
    • Dynamic obstruction of the left subclavian vein
    • Selecting patients for upper limb intervention
    • Balloon venoplasty of central vein stenosis
    • Fibrotic lesions and stent use in the upper limb
    • Lead- and catheter-related venous stenosis
    • Surgery in venous thoracic outlet syndrome
    • Treatment algorithm in venous thoracic outlet syndrome
    • Treatment sequence in venous thoracic outlet syndrome
    • Axillosubclavian venous thrombosis
    • Paget-Schroetter syndrome
    • Total occlusion of the right subclavian vein
    • Subclavian stenting after rib resection
    • Secondary axillosubclavian thrombosis
    • Thrombolytic catheter in the axillosubclavian segment
    • Procedural approach in axillosubclavian occlusion
    • Venogram after catheter-directed thrombolysis
    • Bilateral assessment in venous thoracic outlet syndrome
    • Balloon angioplasty of the subclavian vein
    • Subclavian venogram after angioplasty
    • Crossing subclavian chronic total occlusion

    24 slides

  9. 09

    The superior vena cava

    • Causes of superior vena cava obstruction
    • CT venogram of severe superior vena cava stenosis
    • Endovascular therapy as first-line in SVC syndrome
    • Access and imaging for SVC intervention
    • Crossing and preparing the SVC lesion
    • Superior vena cava venogram confirming stenosis
    • Stent selection in the superior vena cava
    • Y-configuration stenting for brachiocephalic involvement
    • Relief of superior caval obstruction after stenting
    • Outcomes of superior vena cava stenting
    • Azizi meta-analysis of SVC intervention
    • Complications of superior vena cava stenting

    12 slides

  10. 10

    Summary

    • Core principles of venous recanalisation
    • Thresholds that guide intervention
    • Patency figures worth carrying
    • Complications to anticipate
    • Where the evidence remains unsettled
    • Conclusion

    6 slides

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