Work by Drs. Katherine Reitz, Daniel Hall, and Edith Tzeng Published in JAMA Cardiology

The paper “Association Between Smoking and Post-Procedural Complications Following Open and Endovascular Interventions for Intermittent Claudication” by Katherine Reitz, MD, and co-authors, who include our faculty members Daniel E. Hall, MD, MDiv, MHSc, and senior author Edith Tzeng, MD, was published in JAMA Cardiology (journal impact factor: ~15). The authors stress the importance of smoking cessation for patients with intermittent claudication before these revascularization procedures, as this group was found to have a 48% higher risk of early post-procedural complications.