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Innovation in vascular surgery: Balancing progress with patient safety
A debate at this year’s European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS 2024) annual meeting (Sept. 24–27) in Kraków, Poland, centered on innovation in vascular surgery, with experts considering whether it will “change everything.” While Matt Thompson, MBBS, chief executive officer…
CEA ‘remains useful and relevant’ in era of improving medical therapy
Findings from a retrospective analysis delivered at the recent European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) annual meeting (Sept. 24–27) in Kraków, Poland, provide evidence that—for symptomatic carotid artery stenosis patients—endarterectomy “remains a useful and relevant intervention in the era of…
Novel RCT framework set to improve design and reporting of endovascular infrainguinal lower-limb interventions for PAD
Pilot testing has shown that a new framework—dubbed Endo-STAR—can be used to describe and standardise endovascular interventions for peripheral arterial disease (PAD) within a randomised controlled trial (RCT) protocol and monitor adherence to the protocol over the course of a…
Carotid intervention linked to improved survival versus medical management in symptomatic patients
New study data suggest that the interventional treatment of symptomatic carotid artery disease may result in an improved rate of age-adjusted overall survival compared to medical management. However, the same study—presented at this year’s European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) annual meeting…