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Save the date for new PAD skills workshop
September is National PAD Awareness Month, and the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) will spend the month not only calling attention to causes and treatment for the disease, but also planning a peripheral arterial disease (PAD) skills workshop. The hands-on…
The latest innovation in intravascular ultrasound: Reconnaissance PV .018 OTW digital IVUS catheter
This advertorial is sponsored by Philips. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is now used in a wide variety of peripheral vascular interventions after having first been utilized in coronary circulation in the late 1980s. The increased complexity of endovascular interventions has required…
Innovation: ISET audience hears what’s on the horizon for CLTI patients
“I am going to give you reasons to be excited about your critical limb practice,” Peter Schneider, MD, professor of vascular and endovascular surgery at the University of California San Francisco, told delegates attending the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy…
New data support ‘routine’ use of IVUS during iliac vein stenting to optimize stent patency
A recent study on iliac vein stenting showed better short and mid-term patency rates when intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) was utilized prior to stent deployment in addition to multiplanar venography compared to venography alone. The data were presented at VENOUS2021, the…
CX Aortic Vienna reveals preoccupation with radiation reduction, showcases latest CT tech
Polling at CX Aortic Vienna points to a high level of vigilance over radiation exposure during endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR). This was among the messages to emerge from a discussion on the optimal use of aortic imaging for diagnostic purposes…