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Sanford invents Breakthrough Device for TAAA
An investigational device invented at Sanford Health in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, that helps high-risk vascular disease patients has been granted a Breakthrough Device designation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Patrick Kelly, MD, a Sanford Health vascular surgeon,…
WVS 2021: Community surgeons report improved rAAA survival after adoption of EVAR-first approach
Overall survival improved from 71% to 80% after a group of community practice surgeons started using an endovascular-first approach to ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (rAAA) repair. Scott S. Berman, MD, a vascular surgeon at Pima Heart & Vascular in Tucson,…
Endologix launches randomized study of Alto EVAR device
Endologix today announced that the first patient has been enrolled in the company’s JAGUAR study to compare outcomes for the company’s Alto abdominal stent graft system to other commercially available endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) devices for the treatment of abdominal…
‘Do we need to do a better job of making devices that fit female anatomy?’
It was a burning question posed from the conference floor, and it led to some approving social media nods in its aftermath: Does the tone of conversation around the vascular anatomy of females need to morph into a discussion about…
Females were 30% less likely to undergo surgery for PAD, national database study finds
A review of more than 1 million patients receiving vascular surgery over a 16-year period identified significant sex-related disparities in the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) and peripheral arterial disease (PAD)—with females 30% less likely to undergo surgery in…
First patient enrolled in AAA-SHAPE Netherlands study
Shape Memory Medical has announced the initiation of AAA-SHAPE Netherlands, the company’s prospective, multicenter early feasibility study of the Impede-FX RapidFill device when used for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) sac management during elective endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR). The Dutch study’s first procedure…
Annual Business Meeting—for members only
Attend Saturday’s Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Annual Business Meeting to participate in important Society business. This is SVS’ second Annual Business Meeting for 2021; the first was a virtual meeting held in June. That meeting included the transition of…
VAM: Spotlight on Thursday
It’s Thursday and the Vascular Annual Meeting is in full swing. Here are some sessions today for you to consider, including the first Presidential Address in a double-header of speeches. 6:30 to 8 a.m. Feed your body and your brain at…
Special session on diversity enters VAM agenda
Over the course of more than a year, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) have been brought into sharp focus by a compendium of events inside and outside of medicine. As U.S. society has reckoned with the socioeconomic and cultural consequences…
Just 16% of US centers in VQI offer SVS guideline-compliant open repair for AAA, new study finds
There is a stark downward trend in the number of U.S. centers in the Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) that meet the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) clinical practice guidelines for open repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), new research to…