Tag: amputation
Study details link between increased functional status and improved survival in...
Increasing functional status vascular patients fitted with a prosthesis after amputation was incrementally associated with improved survival, a retrospective analysis of a 10-year experience...
‘Get a Pulse on PAD’: Multi-society public awareness campaign launched
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), in partnership with three other medical societies operating in the vascular disease space that form the PAD Pulse...
Personalized postoperative anticoagulation needed to curb lower-limb amputations
“We’re going to see more and more amputations if we don’t figure out the right post procedure thromboprophylaxis regime ASAP,” Anahita Dua, MD, warned...
Ego, logistics, money: Overcoming barriers to a successful wound care program
Proper integration of primary care physicians (PCPs) in the multidisciplinary care of vascular wounds is going to play an increasingly important role as the...
SVS receives CMSS grant to advance diagnostic excellence
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has received a $100,000 grant from the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) to promote diagnostic excellence across...
The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories of May 2023
Last month, Vascular Specialist most piqued reader interest with a commentary from the editor-in-chief on why he supports the decision by the Southern Association for Vascular...
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...
SVS member named 2023 Presidential Leadership Scholar
Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) member Anahita Dua, MD, has been named a Presidential Leadership Scholar for 2023.
She is one of 60 scholars in...
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...
Results from PROMISE II pivotal trial published, reinforcing ‘ transformational value’...
Results from the PROMISE II pivotal trial investigating transcatheter arterialization of the deep veins using the LimFlow system in so-called no-option chronic limb-threatening ischemia...
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...
VESS 2023: pMAC score found to be ‘important predictor’ of CLTI...
Having observed a strong relationship between calcification and subsequent limb loss, a research team led by investigators from the University of California San Francisco...
‘Urgent action needed’ to improve implementation of guideline-directed medical therapy for...
Almost one-half of the patients receiving a peripheral vascular intervention (PVI) in the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) registry between...
BioGenCell begins recruitment for clinical trial of stem cell-based treatment for...
BioGenCell has announced that it is recruiting for an international clinical trial to assess the company's stem cell-based therapy for chronic limb-threatening ischemia patients...
Study: Combined antiplatelet, NOAC use linked to worse limb outcomes after...
A new analysis that found combined antiplatelet and novel oral anticoagulant (NOAC) therapy after suprainguinal bypass was associated with worse limb outcomes and equivalent...
Six-month data from SWING below-the-knee, first-in-human trial presented at AMP Europe
Six-month data from the Surmodics SWING first-in-human (FIH) study of the company’s Sundance sirolimus drug-coated balloon (DCB) were shared at the 2022 Amputation Prevention Symposium (AMP) held Oct....
Study is first to elucidate lower-limb amputation epidemiology in a Latin...
A study recently published in the World Journal of Surgery claims to be the first to provide comprehensive population-level data on the epidemiology of lower-extremity...
Limb salvage in focus: New VAM lectureship, born of a pioneering...
It all started around the late 1970s, early 1980s. Back then, recalls Frank J. Veith, MD, the notion of aggressively pursuing limb salvage in...
Black adults treated for common arterial disease are at greater risk...
About 6.5 million Americans over the age of 40 suffer from peripheral arterial disease (PAD). In the U.S., Black adults in their 50s are...
Non-optimal therapy for CLTI ‘more prominent in females’
A real-world claims data analysis of nearly 200,000 patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) showed that female patients were older, underwent vascular procedures less often, and...
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...
Diabetes: Impact of local medicolegal landscapes on costs
More litigious U.S. states did not see decreased amputation rates over those where the medicolegal environment was less adverse, according to an analysis of...
Hispanic adults with PAD access inpatient care most often via the...
Hispanic adults hospitalized for treatment of symptoms of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) were more likely to access this care by going to the emergency...
WIfI system helps predict revascularization benefit for diabetic patients with CLTI,...
A retrospective study supports the use of the Wound, ischemia, and foot infection (WIfI) classification system to predict the revascularization benefit for diabetic patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia...
VAM discussion on latest paclitaxel meta-analysis yields mix of caution, skepticism
A Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) sponsored session on paclitaxel safety drew a mix of skeptical and cautious responses to the latest meta-analysis from interventional...
Veterans with claudication who undergo revascularization ‘significantly more likely to have...
Patients within the Veterans Affairs Administration healthcare system who underwent an intervention for intermittent claudication (IC) were consistently at three-to-four times greater risk of...
Study of amputees finds referral for prosthetics to be an independent...
Prosthetic referral was an independent predictor of long-term survival among patients who had undergone lower-extremity amputation, new findings set to be published in the...
LimFlow system a ‘cost-effective and high-value alternative’ to traditional therapies
Percutaneous deep vein arterialization (pDVA) with the LimFlow system offers a cost-effective and high-value alternative to traditional therapies or amputation, according to a recent...
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...
SVS Foundation’s new initiative to address disparities in vascular health
Significant disparities in healthcare services in the United States result in unnecessary limb loss, stroke and death. Vascular health professionals are developing new programs...
‘Alea iacta est’: The case for endovascular methods in vascular trauma...
When Benjamin W. Starnes, MD, talks vascular trauma, he does so from a position of certain authority. As the recent Southern California Vascular Surgical...
Regional anesthesia alone is reasonable for lower extremity amputation in high-risk...
A recent study, published online in the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (EJVES), found that regional anesthesia alone is reasonable for major lower extremity...
Black patients in areas with lowest PAD rates disproportionally at higher...
It’s among the most topical areas of discussion in current U.S. cultural life: Black people face disparities in terms of healthcare outcomes. And the...
SVN virtual annual meeting keynote to focus on self-care
The Society for Vascular Nursing’s 38th Annual Conference is going virtual, from 6 to 10 p.m. Wednesday, July 15. In addition to a series...
Letter from Seattle: Amid COVID-19 pandemic, time to act is long...
SEATTLE—We live in unprecedented times. On Jan. 19, patient zero arrived in the United States at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport after returning from a visit...