Before anesthetics, before antibiotics, before surgery had even become a scientific discipline, surgeons throughout history did not shy away from the treatment of aneurysms, aortic or otherwise. However varied their success, these ancient surgeons pioneered techniques that would become perfected…

Several months ago we asked our readers to respond to an eleven-part questionnaire dealing with outpatient endovascular centers (OECs). Forty-three of you took the time to respond, and most answered nearly every question; we thank you for taking the time…

I have never understood how the cardiology community is able to organize so many excellent trials while vascular surgeons struggle to complete a small handful. Appearing long after the well done NASCET and ECST, the recent CREST trial raised as…

The first endovascular treatment of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (EVAR) in North America was performed 20 years ago last November. Dr. Juan Parodi, Dr. Frank J. Veith, Dr. Michael L. Marin, Dr. Jacob Cynamon, and Dr. Claudio Schönholz performed the…

This issue’s editorial is a calling card by our newest editorial board member, Dr. Joseph Mills of the University of Arizona. Demography is destiny. For a triad of reasons, Southern Arizona is at the epicenter of the global diabetes epidemic.…

The Trans-Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus Document on Management of Peripheral Arterial Disease (TASC I), published in January 2001, resulted from cooperation between fourteen medical, radiological and surgical societies in Europe and North America. To briefly summarize TASC I, peripheral arterial lesions…

For more than 50 years, the federal government has accepted the responsibility for financial support of graduate medical education. Legislation passed during the 1960s – beginning with the term of President John F. Kennedy and included in President Lyndon Johnson’s…