Tag: SCVS

SCVS issues call for abstracts as deadline approaches for 2025 symposium

The Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS) has issued a call for abstracts for its 2025 Annual Symposium, with just under two weeks left...
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The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories of March 2024

In March, the most read stories from Vascular Specialist include a new analysis which suggests of a ‘lack of reach’ of vascular voices within...

New data underscore physician experience levels required to derive benefit from...

Data from a new study that maps out the levels at which ad­verse postoperative events decrease following transfemoral carotid artery stenting (TfCAS) based on...

New analysis points to lack of vascular surgical voices in news...

A new study set to be aired at the 2024 Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS) annual meeting (March 16–20) in Scottsdale, Arizona, sheds...

Beyond ‘do better’: New year reflections from a vascular surgery trainee

The new year is a time for reflection. It is also an opportunity to rededicate, or if needed, reinvent ourselves. Vascular surgery training is...

Corner Stitch: On the vascular trainee opportunities on the conference calendar

Christopher Audu, MD, surveys the 2024 meeting landscape, highlighting prime opportunities for trainees to showcase their research. It is abstract submission, and this month I...

SCVS president becomes chair of American Board of Surgery

The American Board of Surgery (ABS) has named Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS) President M. Ashraf Mansour, MBBS, as its 2023–24 chair. He...

A vascular mission: Defying assumptions in the fight against amputation in...

Lyssa Ochoa, MD, is used to the assumptions. One: ”What a nice program you have.” Another: “It must be so nice that you can...

Robotic surgery: ‘We’ve missed the boat on this,’ says Houston vascular...

An emerging program at Houston Methodist aims to help prod those practicing in the vascular surgical space deeper into the field of robotic surgery. The...

Initial case series indicates lithotripsy can help TCAR expand into high-risk...

Lithotripsy may hold the key to enabling more carotid artery disease patients who require calcification treatment to undergo stent placement via a transcarotid artery...

Tackling health insecurity ‘from the top down and the bottom up’

The feeling of being “uncertain, anxious and vulnerable” defines a creeping health insecurity problem riddling parts of the U.S. patient population—demographics who are underserved...

SCVS 2023: DAPT linked to better post-TCAR outcomes versus other drug...

Recent data presentations have revealed reduced risks of stroke and mortality among transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) patients who receive dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT)—both preoperatively...

SCVS 2023: DAPT shows higher survival rate in patients with low...

A retrospective cohort study presented at the 2023 Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS) Annual Symposium in Miami (March 25–29) has found lower-extremity bypass...

SCVS 2023: Endovascular-first or -only approach to all CLTI patients ‘is...

Michael S. Conte, MD, one of the foremost experts in the field of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), took attendees of the 2023 annual meeting...

SCVS 2023: Four decades of AAAs in the US: Rare epidemiological...

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...

The year in review: 2022 was an amazing 12 months for...

Despite any number of challenges, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) had a hugely successful 2022 and looks forward to a bright 2023.  Executive Director...
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SVS vascular leaders: Cohort four of Leadership Development Program selected

Twenty-nine people have been selected for development as future leaders of the profession and the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS).  They represent cohort four of...

BEST-CLI attracts $3.3m funding injection to continue data analysis 

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has made a $3.3 million contribution toward the BEST-CLI (Best endovascular vs. best surgical therapy in patients with critical limb...

Leadership program applications due by Aug. 15

Learn to be a leader or enhance your leadership skills—applications to be part of the fourth cohort of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS)...

Female sex is associated with reintervention and mortality following elective EVAR

Women are more likely to die within five years of having elective surgery to repair an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) or need repeat surgery, according to...

Bolstering the workforce: Session details how to start a vascular training...

The workforce shortage issues set to plague vascular surgery over the next few decades, alongside an aging population and increase in vascular disease, formed...

Tissue samples show paclitaxel effect in minority of CLTI patients receiving...

Paclitaxel effect was witnessed in tissue specimens of a minority of chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) patients treated with drug-coated balloons (DCBs)—but was not dependent...

SCAI releases multi-society position statement focused on core competencies for endovascular...

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) has released a position statement outlining competencies for endovascular specialists who provide care for chronic limb-threatening...

Rockman: A family story of self-identity

Outgoing Society for Vascular Surgery (SCVS) President Caron Rockman, MD, delved into her family history from late-19th century and early- 20th century Russia to...
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The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories in March

Among the posts catching Vascular Specialist readers' eyes last month were the digital flipbook version of our March print edition, a new study looking...

Supply & demand: [Private] practice matters

Vascular surgeons in private practice could play a crucial role in alleviating one of the existential problems currently vexing the specialty: The training of...

Interview: SCVS leaders discuss training challenges, position of private practice, diversifying...

Barriers thrown up between the worlds of private or community vascular surgery and academic practice need to be dismantled for the betterment of the...

Vascular Specialist–April 2022

In this issue: In our April cover story, we report from the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS) Annual Symposium on new evidence that...

SCVS 2022: WIfI score does not predict successful healing after transmetatarsal...

A higher initial Wound, ischemia, and foot infection (WIfI) classification score at initial presentation in chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) patients who underwent a transmetatarsal...

SCVS 2022: ‘We should not allow our industry relationships influence how...

Industry players and device makers have helped spark new science and innovation in vascular surgery amid flatlining National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, but...

Corner Stitch: If you want to go far, go together

The COVID-19 pandemic left many of us missing social interaction and hungry for a change of scenery. As someone who had never been to...

The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories in May

A pointed letter aimed at electronic health record (EHR) behemoth Epic, an argument in favor of endovascular treatment of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (rAAAs)...

‘Highly implementable’ price sheet strategy sparks cost reduction in vascular procedures

A simple cost reduction strategy implemented among providers in an academic vascular surgery practice yielded data demonstrating sometimes significant cost savings—in the case of...

Vascular surgeons encouraged to consult talking points document on paclitaxel devices

Vascular surgeons are being encouraged to take consideration of a set of talking points about the risks and benefits of paclitaxel-equipped devices—which has been...

Sheahan: On professionals and professionalism

On March 19, 2019, I sat in the audience of the scientific sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery...

Your SVS: Storming into 2020 and horizons beyond

With significant progress made on many fronts in 2019, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is looking forward to the next horizon in 2020. In...

March 2020 is vascular recruitment month

Much has been made of the impending shortage of physicians in the United States, with ominous predictions that it could come as soon as...