Ask the Experts: A focus on stenting for lower extremity peripheral arterial disease

Robert S Dieter: 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 (endo...