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VIVA 2021: IN.PACT Admiral DCB found to provide ‘high five-year freedom from clinically driven TLR’ in patients with complex lesions
Real-world data drawn from the IN.PACT Global study looking at five-year freedom from clinically driven target lesion revascularization (TLR) among prespecified chronic total occlusion (CTO), long lesion and de novo in-stent restenosis (ISR) cohorts “continues to confirm long-term clinical safety…
VIVA 2021: Consensus established for appropriate use of IVUS in peripheral interventions
A worldwide committee of 40 cross-specialty medical experts achieved what was hailed as the first-ever consensus for the appropriate use of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) in peripheral vascular disease (PVD) interventions. Global experts conducted a systematic and comprehensive review of key…
Cuts to Medicare: ‘As vascular disease complexity increases, reimbursement for complex care decreases’
Outgoing Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society (MVSS) President Kellie Brown, MD, has seen fundamental changes to the way vascular surgery is practiced during her 20 years as a surgeon. The advance of endovascular techniques. The arrival of the electronic medical record…
AI and transforming vascular surgery
The 2021 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) Roy Greenberg Distinguished Lecture saw delegates hear about the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to transform vascular surgery. Elsie Gyang Ross, MD, assistant professor of surgery at Stanford University, told attendees during her Aug.…
Surgeons relate patient-reported outcomes experiences
Ashley K. Vavra, MD, and Christopher J. Smolock, MD, talk to Vascular Specialist about why they decided to collect patient-reported outcomes (PROs), how they got started with them and the challenges they have faced. Vavra is a member and Smolock…
VQI partners with Symmetric Health Solutions to improve device identification accuracy
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) has announced a partnership with Symmetric Health Solutions aimed at elevating the consistency and integrity of medical device data utilized by vascular health professionals. The link-up with the healthcare supply…
Spotlight: Vascular surgeons in the news
Daniel Clair, MD, has been named the inaugural chair of the newly formed Department of Vascular Surgery in the Section of Surgical Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and professor of vascular surgery in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine,…
UCLA-SVS review course starts Oct. 1
There’s less than a month left to register for the Sixth Annual UCLA-SVS Symposium set to take place Oct. 1 to 3 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. “A Comprehensive Review and Update of What’s New in Vascular…
Save the date for new PAD skills workshop
September is National PAD Awareness Month, and the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) will spend the month not only calling attention to causes and treatment for the disease, but also planning a peripheral arterial disease (PAD) skills workshop. The hands-on…
Endologix launches randomized study of Alto EVAR device
Endologix today announced that the first patient has been enrolled in the company’s JAGUAR study to compare outcomes for the company’s Alto abdominal stent graft system to other commercially available endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) devices for the treatment of abdominal…