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Deadline for inaugural SVS visiting professorship to advance young surgeons’ careers nears
The Society for Vascular Surgery’s (SVS) Young Surgeon Section (YSS) will close applications for its inaugural visiting professorship on Jan. 31. This scholarship program will provide mentorship opportunities, foster professional development and introduce young vascular surgeons to diverse clinical and…
Cagent Vascular initiates the Serranator POINT FORCE observational registry
Cagent Vascular has announced the start of the POINT FORCE registry, a postmarket clinical follow-up study of the Serranator percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) serration balloon catheter. This prospective, multicentre, single-arm study will enrol a minimum of 500 patients at up…
Gore announces first commercial implant of Excluder conformable AAA endoprosthesis with Active Control system in Canada
Gore recently announced the first commercial use of its Excluder conformable abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) endoprosthesis with Active Control system in Canada. The news coincides with Health Canada approval of the device for the treatment of AAA patients with aortic…
Tracci assumes presidency of Southern Vascular
Margaret (Megan) Tracci, MD, has become the first-ever woman president of the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS). The University of Virginia professor of surgery assumed the role at the close of the 2025 SAVS annual meeting in St. Thomas,…
FDA announces plans to address medical device shortage risks
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a statement outlining measures to enhance protections against medical device shortages. According to Michelle Tarver, director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), supply chain disruptions—often caused by natural…
SVS gets moving on PAD-related grant
All those steps logged during the SVS Foundation’s exercise challenge in September will help the Foundation—and researchers—take new steps to unlock new treatments for peripheral artery disease (PAD). The foundation’s Vascular Health Step Challenge, during National PAD Awareness Month, raised…
ESVS publishes 2025 vascular trauma guidelines
The European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) has developed new guidelines for the care of patients with vascular trauma. The 2025 clinical practice guideline document was recently published as an open-access article in press in the European Journal of Vascular…
New data support role of F/BEVAR for treatment of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms
A recent prospective, multicentre cohort study provides insights into early and late aortic-related mortality and rupture after fenestrated and branched endovascular aneurysm repair (F/BEVAR) of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (TAAAs). Researchers claim these are likely to represent the most comprehensive data…
Gore receives CE mark for lower profile Viabahn VBX endoprosthesis
Gore has announced recent CE mark of a lower profile Viabahn VBX balloon expandable endoprosthesis (VBX stent graft). Medical Device Regulation (MDR) approval of this innovation builds on a proven device which has become an important tool for treating complex…
One-year SAVVE trial results are ‘most encouraging data ever produced for a bioprosthetic vein valve’
The one-year data from the SAVVE trial represent the “most encouraging clinical data that have ever been produced for a bioprosthetic deep vein valve” in more than half a century of attempts at developing such a device, according to one…