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VAM 2022 will offer innovative formats
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Postgraduate Education Committee is breaking up the format in favor of change and innovation for two sessions at this year’s Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM). These in-person-only events will involve both networking and social media. Endovation: Endovascular Innovation for Urgent and Emergency Complex Aortic Disorders, 3–4:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 15 …
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American Venous Forum, AVF, BlueLeaf system, chronic venous insufficiency, CVI, deep venous reflux, Venous disease
AVF 2022: Emerging autogenous venous valve formation system sees ‘continual improvement’
An emerging endovenous valve formation system designed to treat patients with chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) with evidence of deep venous reflux has demonstrated continual improvement since U.S. investigators started performing clinical cases with the device 18 months ago, according to recently presented early data. The BlueLeaf procedure, currently undergoing clinical research worldwide, has shown a…
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Time’s nearly up: Apply for VAM travel scholarships by March 9
Time is quickly running out for medical students and general surgery residents to apply for Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) travel scholarships to attend the 2022 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in Boston this June. “I wasn’t sure what I wanted to be when I grew up,” one vascular surgeon tweeted, encouraging students and residents to…
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Tickets selling briskly for Gala: ‘Cheers to 75 Years’
More than 330 people have registered their intentions to raise a glass to toast the Society for Vascular Surgery’s quarter-century of helping vascular patients during the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in Boston this summer. They have already purchased tables and tickets for the SVS Foundation’s “Cheers for 75 Years” Gala on Friday evening, June…
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AVF 2022: Six-month CLOUT data indicate ClotTriever can effectively remove full spectrum of thrombus
Six-month outcomes from the ongoing CLOUT registry demonstrate the “safety and efficacy” of the ClotTriever thrombectomy system in a real-world deep vein thrombosis (DVT) population regardless of clot chronicity level, the 2022 annual meeting of the American Venous Forum (AVF) in Orlando, Florida (Feb. 23–26) heard. Norfolk, Virginia-based vascular surgeon David Dexter, MD, was delivering…
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VAM 2022: More science, discussion, streaming
With abstract selection finished this month and the lineup of many other sessions in place, organizers are excited about the offerings of the 2022 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM). VAM 2022 will be held June 15–18 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. Educational programming will be held all four days and exhibits will be open…
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VRIC input in 2021 helped strengthen research, says award-winner
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Vascular Research Initiatives Conference (VRIC) in 2021 helped Sriganesh (Sri) Sharma, MD, better understand his own work. During the free-wheeling discussion following his presentation, “I got a lot of meaningful input into my research,” he said. “I was introduced to perspectives of my own research that I hadn’t thought…
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Apply for VAM travel scholarships by March 9
Medical students and general surgery residents have until March 9 to apply for Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) travel scholarships that enable attendance at the 2022 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in Boston this June. The scholarships are the SVS General Surgery Resident/Medical Student VAM Travel Scholarship and the SVS Diversity Medical Student VAM Travel Scholarship.…
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endovascular aneurysm repair, IDE, Medtronic, PAD, Peripheral arterial disease, Society for Vascular Surgery, SVS, VAM, Vascular Annual Meeting
The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories in January
January’s top 10 includes “Our forever plague,” a combined editorial by Malachi Sheahan III, MD, our medical editor, on fake news and science, and coverage of the U.S. investigational device exemption (IDE) Aortic Research Consortium and how the chief investigators believe it has produced strong data on the use of fenestrated/branched endovascular aneurysm repair (F/BEVAR).…
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AAA, Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery, carotid artery stenting, Carotid stenosis, CEA, CSVS, Open repair, RCT, RCTs, spin
Interview: Combating the problem of spin, or overinterpretation, in RCTs
The presence of spin, or overinterpretation, in scientific papers that ultimately demonstrate statistically insignificant findings had been gnawing away at Thomas Forbes, MD, for quite some time. The practice, the University of Toronto vascular chair reflects, is by no means unique to vascular surgery but would often spring to the forefront of his mind as…