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Vascular surgery COVID-19 registry participants probe state of practice amid winter surge
The question of the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on vascular practice continues to occupy members of the specialty. Contributors to a global vascular surgery registry collecting data on its impact on scheduled operations and virus-related thrombotic complications detailed a series of…
Total endovascular aortic arch treatment shows promise in dissections, but secondary interventions remain ‘Achilles’ heel’
Speaking at the Virtual Aortic Surgery How to Do It Highlights conference (Dec. 17–18), Stéphan Haulon, MD, a vascular surgeon at Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Paris, France, discussed total endovascular treatment of the aortic arch in chronic dissections. Detailing global experience…
Pre-emptive embolization of aneurysm sac side branches prevents post-EVAR type II endoleak, study finds
According to Daniela Branzan, MD, a senior vascular surgeon at University Hospital Leipzig, in Leipzig, Germany, and colleagues, pre-emptive embolization of aneurysm sac side branches for patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is “safe and effective” in preventing type II…
VAM dates shifted to mid-August
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has shifted the 2021 iteration of its flagship conference, the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), to August in a bid to increase the likelihood of an in-person event. The meeting was originally scheduled to take…
Congress delays steep Medicare payment cuts
Both the House of Representatives and Senate have approved legislation to delay steep cuts to Medicare that were set to take effect Jan. 1, 2021. It is anticipated President Donald Trump will eventually sign the bill; however, if it is…
Quality initiative: New pocket guides now available
New pocket guides of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) clinical practice guidelines and reporting standards are now available, with printed guides sent to all members. SVS guidelines and reporting standards are extensively researched and written by leading vascular experts.…
Simulation-based training shown to build open vascular surgery skills
A recent systematic review found that “carefully designed and structured” simulation-based training (SBT) in open vascular surgery is effective and can improve technical skills, especially in less experienced trainees. But authors Jonathan Lawaetz, MD, of Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark), and…
‘Successful’ first-in-human use of the Efemoral scaffold system announced
Efemoral Medical has announced the first-in-human (FIH) use of the company’s Efemoral Vascular scaffold system (EVSS) with FlexStepv technology in the EFEMORAL I FIH clinical study. The medical device company said the technology offers a new approach to treat peripheral…
WIfI score found to be accurate across racial groups
The wound, ischemia and foot infection (WIfI) score is as accurate a predictor of risk for limb loss in Black people as it is among whites, an SVS Foundation-supported study found. The research on patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI)…
Revascularization ‘improves’ walking performance in claudicating PAD patients
Revascularization of the lower extremity improves hemodynamics, walking performance, quality of life and calf-muscle pathology in claudicating patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD), researchers in Nebraska found. Furthermore, baseline systolic pressure in the foot, at 15 seconds after relief of…