Open surgery, endovascular intervention and robotics: The coming ‘third revolution’ in vascular surgery

The 2025 Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) presidential address featured the hashtag phrase #OnlyUs, an allusion to the specialty’s “unique” differentiator. SAVS 2024–25 President Alan Lumsden, MD, returned to a familiar recent theme for his address to the 49th…
‘What if we could translate the most durable Dacron repair into a minimally invasive approach?’

Imagine a world in which the enduring Dacron graft, birthed by vascular pioneer Michael DeBakey, MD, some 70 years ago as an open repair for aortic aneurysms, could be performed minimally invasively with the sorts of gains associated with endovascular…
The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories of April 2023

In April 2023, Vascular Specialist readers were drawn to an interview dissecting the role robotics play, and can play in the future, in vascular surgery; a report of a new study that trialled the explantation of mature arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs)…

