Walter J. McCarthy, MD

Below is a list of scientific publications for which this practitioner was either the primary author or a contributor. Citations come from PubMed, a database of biomedical literature, life science journals and online books. PubMed is a service of the US Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Click on the title of the cited work for more information (this will take you directly to PubMed.gov). Listings go back five years.

1. Superficial femoral artery plaque and functional performance in peripheral arterial disease: walking and leg circulation study (WALCS III).
   McDermott MM, Liu K, Carroll TJ, Tian L, Ferrucci L, Li D, Carr J, Guralnik JM, Kibbe M, Pearce WH, Yuan C, McCarthy W, Kramer CM, Tao H, Liao Y, Clark ET, Xu D, Berry J, Orozco J, Sharma L, Criqui MH.
   JACC Cardiovasc Imaging
   2011 Jul
   4(7):730-9.
   
2. Treadmill exercise and resistance training in patients with peripheral arterial disease with and without intermittent claudication: a randomized controlled trial
   McDermott MM, Ades P, Guralnik JM, Dyer A, Ferrucci L, Liu K, Nelson M, Lloyd-Jones D, Van Horn L, Garside D, Kibbe M, Domanchuk K, Stein JH, Liao Y, Tao H, Green D, Pearce WH, Schneider JR, McPherson D, Laing ST, McCarthy WJ, Shroff A, Criqui MH
   JAMA
   2009 Jan 14
   301(2):165-74
   
3. Physical activity during daily life and brachial artery flow-mediated dilation in peripheral arterial disease
   Payvandi L, Dyer A, McPherson D, Ades P, Stein J, Liu K, Ferrucci L, Criqui MH, Guralnik JM, Lloyd-Jones D, Kibbe MR, Liang ST, Kane B, Pearce WH, Verta M, McCarthy WJ, Schneider JR, Shroff A, McDermott MM
   Vasc Med
   2009 Aug
   14(3):193-201
   
4. Endoleaks after endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: management strategies according to CT findings
   Bashir MR, Ferral H, Jacobs C, McCarthy W, Goldin M
   AJR Am J Roentgenol
   2009 Apr
   192(4):W178-86
   
5. Honor and responsibility, preparing the next generation
   McCarthy WJ
   J Vasc Surg
   2008 Mar
   47(3):682-7
   

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• Many of the problems that involve particularly the arteries can be treated without doing an open operation. So we don’t have to cut through the skin to do them. They’re done with catheters. And that’s where the most exciting technology really is right now.

  Particularly the older patients have problems with these arteries in the central parts of their bodies. And it used to be that we’d have to open up that area, and then treat them directly. Now we can often do it just with a puncture in the skin somewhere. And then with a catheter, we can get in to where we have to and do the work from the inside, so that they can stay one or two days in the hospital and then go home instead of having a very lengthy recovery.

  Probably the most gratifying thing is when they come back after they’ve had their procedure done. And we do the follow-up exam, and they’re doing well. And they’ve gotten over the pain that they were having, or they’ve gotten over the serious narrowing of the arteries that they’ve had and they can get on with their life.