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Vascular surgery history: Putting specialty on the map in a broader sense
The people, discoveries, innovations and events that brought the vascular surgery profession to where it is today formed the bedrock of the subject matter for this year’s John Homans Lecture—“Who put the vascular in vascular surgery?”—at the 2025 Vascular Annual…
Researchers examine safety of prophylactic spinal fluid drainage in open and endovascular TAA and TAAA patients
“Spinal fluid drainage be considered when the risk of spinal cord injury from the procedure is greater than the risk of severe complications from spinal fluid drainage.” This was one of the concluding findings of a study presented during the…
Humacyte announces Symvess ECAT approval from US Defense Logistics Agency
Humacyte announced today that Symvess has been awarded Electronic Catalog (ECAT) listing approval from the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency. ECAT is an internet system that provides the Department of Defense (DOD) and other federal agencies with access to manufacturers’ and…
Gore announces MDR expanded indication for the Viabahn VBX balloon-expandable endoprosthesis as a bridging stent
Gore today announced CE-mark approval of an expanded indication for the Gore Viabahn VBX balloon-expandable endoprosthesis (VBX stent graft) when used as a bridging stent with branched and fenestrated aortic endografts in the treatment of aortic aneurysms involving the renal…
Novel MRI technique for CLTI poised to address ‘medieval problem in modern medicine’
“We want to change global standards. What we’re doing isn’t working. Patients are getting hurt and devices are failing—we want to be able to make sure devices we’re using today are safe, so that we can build new devices that…
Presenting a united front to address vascular surgery’s structural and financial challenges
Vascular surgeons must present a unified front in order to address structural and financial challenges facing the specialty, Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) President-Elect Keith Calligaro, MD, said in summing up this year’s E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum at…
RESCUE II results on Thrombolex’s Bashir endovascular catheter for PE published
Thrombolex recently announced the publication of RESCUE-II study results in JACC: Advances. The RESCUE-II study was a single-centre, prospective study evaluating the safety and feasibility of on-the-table (OTT) pharmacomechanical lysis (PML) without postprocedural infusion when treating patients with acute intermediate-risk…
Cook Medical issues Class I recall for Beacon Tip angiographic catheters
Cook Medical has initiated a Class I recall of its Beacon Tip 5F angiographic catheter. This follows reports of tip separation that could result in serious injury or death. The recall, identified as the most serious type by the Food…
SCAI publishes chronic venous disease management guidelines
The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) has released new, evidence-based clinical practice guidelines to support the treatment of chronic venous disease (CVD). Published in JSCAI with an accompanying technical review, the document offers recommendations on a range of…
StentIt launches first-in-human trial of bioresorbable stent to treat below-the-knee CLTI
StentIt has announced the successful implantation of its Resorbable Fibrillated Scaffold (RFS). As part of the VITAL-IT 1 study, patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) below the knee have successfully been treated using the RFS implant. In this clinical procedure,…