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Wound healing in space: Vascular surgeons produce wide-ranging review
How a group of vascular surgeons is working to plug gaps in knowledge and inspire colleagues to recognize the specialty’s essential role in future space travel. It’s not so much a case of where-no-vascular-surgeon-has-gone-before as making sure aspects of the…
VenaCore device offers long-awaited interventional solution for challenging venous occlusions
This advertorial is sponsored by Inari Medical. Despite the recent growth in mechanical thrombectomy devices for acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT), interventional options for wall adherent venous obstruction are extremely limited. Residual venous obstruction after medical or interventional therapy for…
Novel AI-assisted DVT diagnostic pathway aims to ‘democratize’ point-of-care ultrasound
A new deep vein thrombosis (DVT) diagnostic pathway incorporating non-expert artificial intelligence (AI)-guided compression ultrasound could reduce workload and costs for healthcare systems while providing a quicker diagnosis and improving patient care. Efthymios (Makis) Avgerinos, MD, of Athens, Greece, shared…
First-in-human study of SonoThrombectomy system completed
SonoVascular has announced the successful initiation of its first-in-human study (FIH) of the company’s SonoThrombectomy system, an ultrasound-facilitated, thrombolytic-enhanced platform that utilizes multiple mechanisms of action to treat patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE). The catheter-based system combines microbubble-mediated cavitation with…
Inari Medical updates ClotTriever XL IFU amid FDA recall notice
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Class I recall—the most serious type—for Inari Medical‘s ClotTriever XL, 30mm device due to reports of patient injury, and death from device entrapment and pulmonary emboli (PE). The device remains on…
First-in-human study of Pounce thrombectomy system in acute iliofemoral DVT demonstrates 12-month PTS rate of 18%
Twelve-month outcomes from the Pounce venous thrombectomy system (Vetex Medical) first-in-human study evaluating its use in the treatment of acute iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis (DVT) recently published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders (JVS-VL) demonstrated an…
Tackling DVT head on: Single-session, wall-to-wall thrombus removal with the ClotTriever BOLD
This advertorial is sponsored by Inari Medical. Several years ago, when Nicolas Mouawad, MD, division chief of vascular surgery at McLaren Health in Bay City, Michigan, was confronted with an emergency case of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in which the…
U.S. study highlights racial and ethnic disparities in the placement of ‘overused’ IVC filters
A nationwide U.S. study, recently published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders (JVS-VL), showed that Black patients had the highest inferior vena cava (IVC) filter placement rate per 100,000 persons compared with white and Latino patients…
Mechanical thrombectomy demonstrates superior outcomes to anticoagulation in DVT patients, analysis of RCT and registry data shows
Mechanical thrombectomy using the ClotTriever device (Inari Medical) for iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis (DVT) was found to be “associated with significantly” lower Villalta scores and a lower incidence of post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) out to 12 months compared with treatment using anticoagulation,…
Large administrative databases enter crosshairs as comparative analysis shows percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy as superior to CDT for acute PE
The pitfalls of large administrative databases came to the fore during the presentation of a propensity-match scoring analysis demonstrating that percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy (MT) was superior to catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) in patients diagnosed with acute pulmonary embolism (PE). Junji Taukagoshi,…