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Study highlights need for ‘continuous comparative assessments’ to guide endograft treatment decisions
A recent study comparing outcomes of endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) patients has reported no statistically significant differences in mortality or secondary rupture rates between standard Cook, Medtronic and Gore endografts, suggesting similar safety in a real-world setting. Michael O. Falster,…
SCVS 2023: Four decades of AAAs in the US: Rare epidemiological study establishes women are diagnosed and repaired 10 years later than men
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) diagnosis and repair occurs among women almost 10 years later than in men—with similar age-adjusted mortality—the 2023 Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS) annual meeting in Miami (March 25–29) is set to be told. The finding…
Vesteck completes first-in-human use of several Suture-Tight devices
Vesteck scientific advisory board members along with key opinion leaders from around the world have successfully completed the first three in-human cases with the Suture-Tight catheter, a press release reports. Dai Yamanouchi (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) and Dainis Krievins…
SVS launches web-based perioperative care guide
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has launched its “Management Guide on the Perioperative Care of Patients with Vascular Disease,” a multidisciplinary resource for care of patients with vascular disease who require an intervention. The American Society of Anesthesiologists, the…
The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories of January 2023
In January 2023, most popular among the Vascular Specialist readers were several stories from the recent Southern Association for Vascular Surgery meeting, including a report of data shared to demonstrate the benefits of vascular involvement in non-vascular-led cases; an update on the use of the Human Acellular…
SVS Foundation board approves latest pilot programs to help underserved
The SVS Foundation has awarded grants to two Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) members to help them serve the underserved as part of the Vascular Care for the Underserved program—the initiative formerly known as VISTA (Vascular Volunteers In Service To…
NIH funding for vascular surgeon-scientists: ‘We need more funded vascular surgeons and better coverage of SVS priorities’
Presenting at the 2023 Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) annual meeting in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, Amin A. Mirzaie—a pre-medical student at Emory University in Atlanta—offered observations on the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) “modestly” aligned vascular surgical funding…
‘Unique’ vascular meeting set to update surgeons, prioritize audience debate
Prioritizing “entertaining and informative” sessions, the 29th Annual Pennsylvania Hospital Vascular Symposium and the 3rd Annual Pennsylvania Hospital/University of Pennsylvania Non-invasive Vascular Laboratory Symposium (April 21–22) in Philadelphia returns, providing the latest open surgical and endovascular management of vascular disease.…
Viz.ai launches AI-powered Viz Vascular Suite
Viz.ai has announced the launch of Viz Vascular Suite—artificial intelligence (AI)-powered software enabling vascular care teams to automatically detect and triage care for suspected pulmonary embolism, right heart strain, aortic dissection, and abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). The company submitted a new 510(k)…
Medtronic announces first enrollment in head-to-head global randomized trial evaluating durability of EVAR
Medtronic has announced the first patient enrollment in the ADVANCE trial, a head-to-head randomized controlled trial of two leading aortic stent graft systems, the Medtronic Endurant II/IIs stent graft system and Gore Excluder abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) device family systems.…