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Changing the game in knee osteoarthritis: A vascular approach
Chinmaya Shelgikar, MD, discusses the benefits of vascular surgeons performing geniculate artery embolization. Geniculate artery embolization (GAE) is an intra-arterial, catheter-based procedure used to treat chronic knee pain that is caused by osteoarthritis (OA). It targets the distal branches of the…
Cross-specialty approach to embolization ‘provides the best care for patients’
Shang Loh, MD, is chief of vascular surgery and endovascular therapy at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia and professor of clinical surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. Ahead of the Embolization for Vascular Surgeons: Techniques, Tips and Tricks lunch…
VAM 2023: Learn at lunchtime
The Society for Vascular Surgery has added four lunchtime learning sessions to the VAM opening day. Topics are both clinical and non-clinical, ranging from planning for retirement, embolization tips and tricks, new deep vein thrombosis treatments and a session on…
French study: Third-gen Anaconda endograft indicates satisfactory five-year exclusion
The third-generation Anaconda endograft from Terumo Aortic provides “high technical success” as well as “satisfactory” five-year aneurysm exclusion and clinical success rates, a French multicenter prospective observational study has found. The investigators note that longer-term results with new generation endografts are “essential” due to a…