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Vascular surgeons descend on DC: Maiden SVS leadership conference takes advocacy efforts to legislative doorstep
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) held its inaugural Advocacy and Leadership Conference Sept. 14–16, drawing vascular surgeons, trainees and healthcare advocates from across the country to the nation’s capital for three days of policy education, leadership training and direct…
TADV without venous branch coiling still yields strong limb salvage rates among ‘no-option’ CLTI patients
Transcatheter arterialization of deep veins (TADV) done without the coiling of venous outflow branches achieved sufficient distal perfusion after three months among “no-option” chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) patients, according to results from a study published in the Journal of Vascular…
FastWave Medical appoints principal investigators for IVL pivotal trial
Venita Chandra, MD, clinical professor of surgery at Stanford Health Care in Stanford, California, will serve as a co-principal investigator for the upcoming investigational device exemption (IDE) pivotal trial of Artero, FastWave Medical‘s peripheral electric intravascular lithotripsy (E-IVL) system. The…
Designated multispecialty CLTI teams may help in amputation fight
Teams formally defined as specializing in chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) were associated with a decreased risk of major amputation among a subset of BEST-CLI trial sites, a paper recently published online ahead of print in the Journal of Vascular Surgery…
Esprit BTK receives Health Canada approval for treating below-the-knee CLTI
Health Canada has authorised the Esprit BTK everolimus-eluting resorbable scaffold system for the treatment of below-the-knee (BTK) chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI), Abbott revealed today in a press release. Until this recent Health Canada approval for the Esprit BTK system, Abbott…
Multidisciplinary approach to diabetic foot ulcers in rural America leads to NIH grant
Samantha Minc, MD, MPH, associate professor of surgery at Duke University, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R03 grant to support her research project, “Understanding diabetes and peripheral arterial disease [PAD]-related amputation in North Carolina.” The R03…
MVSS 2025: Ross Milner ascends to Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society presidency
Ross Milner, MD, the Louis Block professor of surgery and chief of vascular surgery at the University of Chicago, became the new president of the Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society (MVSS) in Cincinnati, Ohio, over the weekend. Milner took over from…
MVSS 2025: Gore iliac branch device ‘equally effective’ in both IDE and registry studies
Researchers have reported comparable five-year outcomes of the Gore Excluder iliac branch endoprosthesis (IBE; Gore) in both the investigational device exemption (IDE) and GREAT registry studies of the device. Meghan Barber, MD, a vascular surgery fellow at the University of…
WVS 2025: David Rigberg takes over as president of Western Vascular Society
David Rigberg, MD, clinical professor of surgery, at the UCLA Gonda School of Medicine in Los Angeles, has taken over as president of the Western Vascular Society (WVS). Rigberg became the 2025–26 WVS president at the society’s annual meeting in…
SYMPHONY-PE trial demonstrates positive efficacy, efficiency, and safety results
Imperative Care has announced efficacy and safety results from the pivotal SYMPHONY-PE trial evaluating the company’s Symphony thrombectomy system in the treatment of acute pulmonary embolism (PE). Results of the SYMPHONY-PE trial were presented in a late-breaking session at the…