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SEISMIQ IVL offers targeted approach to increasingly complex PAD
This video is sponsored by Boston Scientific. Nicolas Mouawad, MD, chief of vascular surgery at McLaren Health in Bay City, Michigan, discussed the growing challenge of treating peripheral artery disease (PAD) as an aging patient population presents with increasingly complex,…
Redefining pain management in amputations with cryoXT
This video was sponsored by AtriCure.
THRIVE study demonstrates a CAVT-first approach lends itself to better outcomes when compared to surgery in patients with acute limb ischemia
The THRIVE study – which shows that computer-assisted vacuum thrombectomy (CAVT™) is associated with reduced related readmissions and complication rates in the management of lower extremity acute limb ischemia (ALI) when compared to surgical embolectomy – offers “compelling evidence that…
SVS president calls time on disengagement and disunity: ‘It’s time for a change’
Vascular surgeons should come together to present a unified voice in the world of medicine—it’s time for a change, to recommit, build bridges and find common ground across a fragmented membership, and time for leaders who are willing to engage…
Heart and vascular centers: ‘It’s a financial thing, that’s the whole reason for their existence’
“The reason to avoid a heart and vascular paradigm is [that] there really is no paradigm. There’s no set standard for how these things should function. There’s certainly no evidence that they benefit patient care,” says Malachi Sheahan III, MD,…
VAM 2025: Crawford Forum probes four reasonable strategies to empower vascular surgeons
“Go back home and get a vascular center or […] get a vascular department, or, you know, assess the compensation [survey] results and, at least start considering a union, if it’s something feasible.” That was the new Society for Vascular…
Insights from the GREAT registry: ‘We have achieved freedom from aortic-related mortality in just over 95% of patients’
Dennis Gable, MD, from The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano in Plano, Texas, discusses the unique imprint of the five-year follow-up from the GREAT registry and analyses the results in patients with aortic dissection. “We have just over 97% of patients…
Insights from the GREAT registry: ‘We had a follow-up of over 95% for all patients’
Dennis Gable, MD, from The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano in Plano, Texas, principal investigator for the thoracic component of the GREAT registry, explains that this is a real-world evaluation of use of WL Gore’s aortic products in the abdomen and…
Lightning Bolt 7 technology sets the pace for clot removal
NIH-funded research on the use of AI in vascular surgery: A decade in the making
Vascular surgeon-scientist Elsie Gyang Ross, MD, recently secured coveted funding through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Project Grant Program (R01)—a rare feat for one so young having managed to achieve the career landmark before the age of 40.…