The Peripheral Vascular Disease Committee (PVD Committee) for The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) was challenged to develop appropriate use (AU) regarding intervention for aortoiliac, renal, femoropopliteal, and tibial arterial diseases. The scope of work was limited to catheter-based procedures and did not specifically include medical or surgical therapeutic alt...

Exposure of murine bone marrow (BM) cells to ionizing radiation (IR; 4 Gy) resulted in >95% inhibition of the frequency of various day types of cobblestone area-forming cells in association with the induction of apoptosis in hematopoietic stem cell alike cells (Lin(-) ScaI(+) c-kit(+) cells; IR: 64.8 +/- 0.4% versus control: 20.4 +/- 0.5%; P < 0.001) and progenitors (Lin(-) ScaI(-) c-kit(+) cel...