Jamie Bell
Carotid intervention linked to improved survival versus medical management in symptomatic...
New study data suggest that the interventional treatment of symptomatic carotid artery disease may result in an improved rate of age-adjusted overall survival compared to medical...
Silk Road celebrates milestone of 100,000 TCAR procedures
Silk Road Medical has announced the milestone of more than 100,000 transcarotid artery revascularisation (TCAR) procedures having been performed to date.
“A growing number of...
Smoking cessation remains a ‘ripe target’ for improved medication adherence in...
New data presented at the 2024 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) held June 19–22 in Chicago have revealed poor overall rates of medical therapy adherence...
Incentives and coaching offer promise for improving supervised exercise therapy completion...
Study findings were presented during Saturday, June 22’s Plenary Session 7 support current vascular guidelines advocating for effective supervised exercise therapy (SET) prior to...
Patient selection may explain ‘counterintuitive’ relationship between carotid stenting volume and...
High stroke and death rates relating to carotid stenting in the Pacific Northwest may be driven by the selection of high-risk patients with less...
TCAR and endarterectomy both ‘reasonable’ but stenting linked to worse outcomes...
A study examining outcomes between different carotid revascularisation procedures has concluded that transcarotid artery revascularisation (TCAR) and carotid endarterectomy (CEA) both represent a “reasonable choice” in severe chronic...
Early vascular evaluation can ‘significantly supplement’ wound healing and limit resource...
“Our findings ultimately suggest that vascular evaluation within six weeks of wound appearance can significantly supplement wound healing in wound centers,” said Saranya Sundaram,...
Early vascular evaluation can ‘significantly supplement’ wound healing and limit resource...
“Our findings ultimately suggest that vascular evaluation within six weeks of wound appearance can significantly supplement wound healing in wound centers,” said Saranya Sundaram,...
Chickasaw Nation study exemplifies how diversity can boost patient access to...
A “feasible and reproducible” intervention bundle characterized by surveys, provider education and patient screening has demonstrated the potential to not only identify gaps in...
Full smorgasbord of vascular surgery to be showcased during Friday’s International...
On Friday morning, June 21 (6:30–7:15 a.m. in the West Building, Level 1), VAM 2024 attendees will have the chance to take in an...
TCAR and endarterectomy both ‘reasonable’ but stenting linked to worse outcomes...
A study examining outcomes between different carotid revascularization procedures has concluded that transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) and carotid endarterectomy (CEA) both represent a “reasonable...
Patient selection may explain ‘counterintuitive’ relationship between carotid stenting volume and...
High stroke and death rates relating to carotid stenting in the Pacific Northwest may be driven by the selection of high-risk patients with less...
Radiation safety session seeks to address variability and improve access to...
“Variability is a source of inferior quality, poor outcomes and harm,” says Anil Hingorani, MD, vascular surgeon at New York University (NYU) Langone in...
CEA vs TCAR: Surgeons should be familiar with both procedures and...
When it comes to the ongoing debate of carotid endarterectomy (CEA) versus transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) in the treatment of carotid artery stenosis, operators...
Single-center analysis suggests improved longer-term outcomes with endarterectomy versus TCAR
A large, single-center analysis has found that, despite parity between the two procedures in terms of perioperative clinical outcomes, carotid endarterectomy (CEA) was associated...
ISC 2024 examines TCAR ‘explosion’ alongside advances in intensive medical therapy
This year’s International Stroke Conference (Feb. 7–9) in Phoenix, Arizona, hosted discussions on the current state of play in carotid stenosis treatment—and, most notably,...
Midterm CARAS study results show cerebral ischaemic event incidence “should not...
The final publication of midterm results from the observational CARAS study suggest that cerebral ischaemic event (CIE) incidence in asymptomatic carotid stenosis patients “should...
No relationship found between DW-MRI lesions and long-term stroke risk following...
A secondary analysis of existing clinical trial data has indicated that new ischaemic brain lesions detected via diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) following carotid...
Carotid stenting demonstrates comparable short- and long-term results to endarterectomy
Pooled patient-level data from more than 2,500 asymptomatic, non-octogenarian subjects have shown that carotid artery stenting (CAS) achieved comparable short- and long-term results to...
Benefits of percutaneous fistula creation further bolstered by five-year Ellipsys data
The Ellipsys vascular access system (Avenu Medical/Medtronic) can be used to easily and safely create durable percutaneous arteriovenous fistulas (pAVFs) for haemodialysis—with new, long-term...