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The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories of January 2024
In January, the most read stories from Vascular Specialist include a U.S. Aortic Research Consortium analysis of F/BEVAR preoperative risk factors in AAAs/TAAAs; a reflection on lessons learnt one year on from BEST-CLI; Southern Vascular’s election of its first female…
Redemption through perseverance
In the late 1970s, a neurosurgeon at New York’s St. Luke’s Hospital operated on a beautiful, young, rising soprano who studied opera at a major New York conservatory. She was delightful, full of the joy of living, and orphaned at…
First patient enrolled in HERCULES randomized trial comparing ESAR and EVAR
The first patient has been enrolled into the HERCULES trial, which compares endosuture aneurysm repair (ESAR) to standard endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) in the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) with wide proximal necks. HERCULES is an investigator-driven trial led by Michel Reijnen, MD,…
Could metformin be first-ever medical treatment that is effective at managing aneurysm disease?
There is a global interest in assessing whether metformin, which has a long track record of safety and efficacy, is relatively inexpensive and is taken by millions of people every day for type-2 diabetes, has an effect on the progression…
First patient treated in ZFEN+ fenestrated endovascular graft study
Cook Medical has announced the first patient treated in the clinical study of the Zenith Fenestrated+ endovascular graft (ZFEN+) in the U.S. The procedure was performed on Jan. 29, 2024, at the University of Texas Health (UTHealth) in Houston, Texas, by…
ESVS 2024 clinical practice guidelines on the management of abdominal aortoiliac artery aneurysms—what’s new?
The updated European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) 2024 clinical practice guidelines for the care of patients with aneurysms of the abdominal aorta and iliac arteries, have been published online this month in European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery,…
University of Pittsburgh awards $100,000 grant to SVS member for AI-based healthcare project
Last October, the University Pittsburgh’s Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute hosted its 10th Pitt Innovation Challenge (PinCh), providing a total of $550,000 in prizes, with the top-three winners each receiving a $100,000 grand prize. PinCh 2023 announced that SVS member…
U.S. Aortic Research Consortium maps out F/BEVAR preoperative risk factors for one-year mortality in complex AAAs, TAAAs
A series of preoperative risk factors—including currently smoking, chronic kidney disease (CKD), congestive heart failure (CHF), aneurysm size greater than 7cm, more advanced age (75 or over), Crawford extent I–III thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (TAAAs), known chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),…
Randomized trial set to elucidate value of image fusion technology for aortic repair
An ongoing UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)-funded randomized controlled trial seeks to illuminate the value of an image fusion guidance technology for endovascular aortic repair. In a presentation on the trial at this year’s VEITHsymposium…
EVS 2023: New data chart underrepresentation of women at the head of national clinical trials
The underrepresentation of women vascular surgeons in national clinical trial leadership formed the central theme of data coming out of a new study that probed all clinical trials in five main areas of vascular disease between 1997 and 2003. Delivered…