CV Directions Vol. 2, No. 2 | Page 8

CV  Manish Mehta, MD Vascular Surgeon The Vascular Group - Albany, NY President & CEO Center for Vascular Awareness “...treating ruptured AAAs, stent graft improvements worth making, and how to build PAD awareness” In a 2008 interview with Endovascular Today, Dr. Manish Mehta discussed his team’s multidisciplinary approach to treating rAAAs. He states their “primary approach” to rAAAs is endovascular, though they maintain an OR set up for both EVAR and open repair. He also discusses issues with conducting randomized-controlled trials INTER VIEW Photo from YouTube, “TAVR (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement) - Dr. Manish Mehta,” Albany Medical Center, 2011. of EVAR for the treatment of rAAAs, an argument that Frank Veith, mentioned below, has used to discount more recent RCTs that demonstrated EVAR as no