Tag: Peripheral arterial disease
New ‘biopsychosocial’ roadmap set out to address PAD treatment and mental...
A recent proposal has called for “whole-person, multidisciplinary interventions” after an interrogation of the interplay between lower extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and mental...
New VOYAGER PAD analysis confirms consistent benefit of low-dose rivaroxaban plus...
Data from a new prespecified analysis of the phase III VOYAGER PAD clinical trial show that low-dose rivaroxaban plus aspirin resulted in a 33%...
‘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...
More than a research project: The vascular trainee’s role in tackling...
One of my earliest clinical experiences with vascular disease was as a high school student shadowing at a busy urban hospital in Detroit. A...
The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories in January
January’s top 10 includes “Our forever plague,” a combined editorial by Malachi Sheahan III, MD, our medical editor, on fake news and science, and...
Learn by doing at February SVS PAD workshop
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) Workshop in February will feature four hours of hands-on surgical skills training, on 10...
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...
VIVA 2021: Consensus established for appropriate use of IVUS in peripheral...
A worldwide committee of 40 cross-specialty medical experts achieved what was hailed as the first-ever consensus for the appropriate use of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)...
Physicians draw attention to Medicare cuts as PAD Awareness Month kicks...
A coalition of physicians and other interested parties focused on peripheral arterial disease (PAD) has called on Congress and the Centers for Medicare and...
First patients enrolled in SUPERSURG study of Supera peripheral stent system
ID3 Medical Belgium has announced the first two enrollments in the SUPERSURG study to investigate the safety and efficacy of Abbotts’ Supera peripheral stent...
Clopidogrel exposure along with aspirin and rivaroxaban should be ‘minimized or...
“More bleeding with background clopidogrel, even if not severe by adjudication, may be associated with broad consequences, including discontinuation of therapies. In the absence...