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SVS pushes out trio of mobile apps to aid CLTI treatment
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has launched three new mobile apps to help guide surgeons in the treatment and management of chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI). The apps help facilitate translating the Global Vascular Guidelines on the management of CLTI.…
Audible Bleeding now flows through SVS
The Society for Vascular Surgery would like to welcome the popular Audible Bleeding podcast into its communications family. SVS has reached and executed an agreement with the Audible Bleeding team that will navigate the popular podcast series to the Society.…
NESVS outgoing president makes diversity pitch
During the virtual annual meeting of the New England Society for Vascular Surgery (NESVS), outgoing president Marc L. Schermerhorn, MD, called for the NESVS to follow the lead of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) by creating a diversity task…
Former SVS president named to AMA RUC
The American Medical Association’s Board of Trustees has named SVS’ longtime coding expert and member Robert M. Zwolak, MD, as the AMA alternative representative to the organization’s RVS Update Committee (RUC), and alternative vice chair. The RUC is a unique…
Frailty still strongly linked to mortality after EVAR for AAA
An analysis of the Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) registry for elective abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) revealed that frailty continues to be highly correlated with mortality after the procedure among those aged 80 and over. Researchers from…
Foot vein arterialization study shows 77.8% limb salvage rate
Foot vein arterialization (FVA) is a safe procedure with good early graft patency and a limb salvage rate of 77.8%, Qi Yan, MD, and colleagues found during a retrospective review of patients treated between 2019–2020. Yan et al, of the…
HIFLO RCT finds increased wound closure, high-quality healing using mVASC microvascular tissue graft
Treatment with the mVASC microvascular tissue graft product (MicroVascular Tissues) results in superior wound closure compared to standard of care alone, the first randomized controlled trial using microvascular elements to treat microvascular dysfunction—the HIFLO trial—finds. Presented at the Symposium on…
Correct billing in severe trauma cases can be complicated
The management of the severely injured trauma patient often requires delicate coordination among multiple specialties, and multiple separate operative procedures are often necessary. In particular, the clinical management of concomitant vascular and orthopedic injuries can be complicated. As a practical…
Active stent-graft fixation below the renal arteries may have the least effect on aortic neck degeneration, study finds
Stent grafts with active fixation below the renal arteries as well as oversizing by less than 10% seem to have the least effect on aortic neck degeneration over time, according to a research team who conducted a retrospective review of…
‘Smile’ to benefit SVS Foundation
The holidays are close upon us, and many Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) members will be shopping online this month and next. The COVID-19 pandemic has, in fact, prompted many people to do even more shopping online then before. Those…