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Your SVS: Membership deadline is June 1
The next membership application deadline for 2020 is June 1. Be part of all SVS has to offer its members, including the online community SVSConnect, which has featured robust resources and conversations on COVID-19, plus free or reduced-rate subscriptions to…
Dispatches: Vascular surgery and pandemic redeployment in New Orleans
At one point in the COVID-19 pandemic timeline, New Orleans was in a perilous position. In late March, the Louisiana governor reported that the state bore the highest rate of growth in cases anywhere in the world—and the Big Easy…
SVS ONLINE: How VAM program was transformed for virtual alternative
How do you turn a live event for thousands of participants and exhibitors into a trimmed-down, online experience? Carefully, and not easily. “We got here because COVID-19 happened,” wryly observed Matthew Eagleton, MD, chair of the Society for Vascular Surgery…
VESAP5 debuting by Aug. 1
The fifth edition of the Vascular Educational Self-Assessment Program (VESAP) will be available before the beginning of August, when VESAP4 expires. The online program, with a companion app for off-line use, is designed to meet the requirements of the Vascular…
Positive two-year data from ALPS registry of LimFlow system published
LimFlow SA today announced publication of positive two-year data from the ALPS registry of the LimFlow percutaneous deep vein arterialization (pDVA) system. Results were published online yesterday in the Journal of Endovascular Therapy and will also appear in the August print issue…
Embracing new definition of healthcare as digital age confronts holdouts
There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged our healthcare system like nothing before. We have confronted other diseases like influenza, tuberculosis, AIDS and even the opioid epidemic; but we have never before shut down the world economy…
Herbert Dardik, vascular luminary and lower-extremity bypass pioneer, dies at 84
The vascular surgery world has lost one of its leading lights. Herbert Dardik, MD, a giant of the specialty renowned for his innovative work on the umbilical vein graft and as a champion of emerging vascular surgeons, has died. He…
CX 2020 LIVE: Charing Cross Symposium unveils live, interactive digital event
The Charing Cross (CX) Symposium, with its world-class faculty and unique focus on live audience participation, has announced the launch of a not-to-be missed and timely vascular and endovascular education virtual event: CX 2020 LIVE. Mark your calendars for this live…
TOBA III clinical trial results published
Intact Vascular has announced the peer-reviewed publication of its Tack optimized balloon angioplasty (TOBA) III 12-month clinical trial results in the Journal of Vascular Surgery. The multi-center, single-arm, prospective study investigated the combination of the Tack endovascular system with Medtronic’s IN.PACT Admiral drug-coated balloon as…
Vascular science webinar slated for May 28
Editors across the Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS) group of journals are staging a special webinar Thursday, May 28, at noon (EST) on hot topics of the moment in the world of vascular science. The virtual event, being hosted by…