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UCSF News reports that U.S. only a small number of nursing home residents are alive and ambulatory one year after undergoing lower extremity revascularization procedures with those still alive gaining little, if any, function: Only a few U.S. nursing home residents who undergo lower extremity revascularization...

Every year, more than a half-million Americans undergo procedures to have a narrowed coronary artery propped open with a small metal mesh tube, or stent. The procedure is common for certain patients who’ve experienced a heart attack or other arterial blockages, and it helps to restore blood flow. But in about one...

A clinical study led by UCSF Vascular Surgeon Marlene Grenon, M.D., C.M. looked at the effects of physical inactivity on vascular endothelial function and arterial stiffness, two measures that relate to cardiovascular risk. The results showed that a short term exposure to physical inactivity leads to quantifiable...

Advances in the treatment of complex aortic aneurysms — especially novel endovascular devices and hybrid procedures — make it possible to choose the right procedure for the right patient at the right time to minimize risk and maximize long-term benefit, says Michael Conte, M.D. , chief of the Division of Vascular...

Space Medicine in the 21st Century: A Panel on Commercial and Governmental Opportunities On Thursday, February 2, 2013, UCSF Vascular Surgeon Marlene Grenon, M.D., C.M., will moderate a session in which a panel of experts will discuss the lessons learned from the recent Red Bull Stratos Jump and how current and...

SFGate.com, the website of the San Francisco Chronicle, reports on the health challenges of space tourism, highlighting a paper published by UCSF Vascular Surgeon Marlene Grenon, M.D., C.M. and colleagues in the British Medical Journal discussing the field of space medicine for non-experts and clinicians alike...

UCSF News reports on the link between depression and increased risk of peripheral artery disease (PAD) in a study conducted at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. The Heart and Soul Study research team was led by UCSF vascular surgeon Marlene Grenon, M.D., C.M. and included faculty at both UCSF Medical Center and...

The UCSF Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery announces the opening of the UCSF Center for Limb Preservation & Wound Care. Led by vascular surgeon Michael S. Conte, M.D. (pictured left), and podiatric surgeon Alexander M. Reyzelman, D.P.M. (pictured right), the Center, the first of its kind in the Bay Area...

Warren Gasper, M.D., junior fellow in the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and a member of the research lab of Christopher Owens M.D., was awarded first prize in the poster competition at the annual meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) for the poster Percutaneous Peri-Adventitial...

Bypass surgery to repair blocked arteries in the legs leads to more durable and long-lasting results in approximately twenty-percent of patients with two copies of a specific gene variation, one inherited from each parent. The study, co-funded by Vascular Cures and the NIH, was led by Michael S. Conte, M.D., Chief...

Linda M. Reilly, M.D., Professor of Surgery in the Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery at UCSF, has been inducted into the prestigious "Society of Scholars". Established in 1967 by Johns Hopkins University, the Society recognizes individuals whose careers began at Hopkins, and later rose to prominence in...

Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan died on December 13, 2010 of complications related to a tear in his aorta. A USA Today article suggested that "Holbrooke most likely was unaware that his aorta had ballooned into an aneurysm". Holbrooke, who was 69, died several days after...

Despite substantial research showing that Peripheral artery disease (PAD) puts people at increased risk for heart attack, stroke, amputation and other vascular-related coniditions, PAD remains significantly underdiaganosed and undertreated. “These are very vulnerable patients,” says Michael S. Conte, MD,, chief of...

UCSF vascular surgeons have introduced a new "flow reversal" system designed to improve the safety of carotid artery stenting procedures. The FDA approved the first flow reversal system for clinical use earlier this month based upon the results of a recently completed clinical trial. Flow reversal systems...

Michael Conte, M.D. has been named the Chief of the Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery. Dr. Conte was previously on the faculty at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Dr. Conte's clinical and research expertise encompass carotid artery disease, diabetic vascular disease, diseases of the aorta/visceral...