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Significant life and limb gains for claudicants who stop smoking before lower-extremity bypass
Long-term overall survival (OS) and amputation-free survival (AFS) are outcomes that rebound in claudicants who quit smoking prior to elective surgery—and they mirror those of never smokers. But patients who don’t kick the habit have significantly worse outcomes, lighting up…
SCVS 2023: DAPT shows higher survival rate in patients with low WIfI scores, study indicates
A retrospective cohort study presented at the 2023 Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS) Annual Symposium in Miami (March 25–29) has found lower-extremity bypass patients who received dual antiplatelet therapy or anticoagulation (DAPT/AC) postoperatively had a higher 30-day survival rate.…
SCVS 2023: Endovascular-first or -only approach to all CLTI patients ‘is not evidence-based care’
Michael S. Conte, MD, one of the foremost experts in the field of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), took attendees of the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS) in Miami on a journey through the decades…
Open surgical bypass to distal targets at the ankle is ‘viable’ infrapopliteal CLTI treatment
The Vascular and Endovascular Surgical Society (VESS) Paper Session at the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in Boston on Wednesday, June 15, will see Othman M. Abdul-Malak, MD, from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, deliver results from “Midterm…