Tag: SAVS 2024
Track your wRVUs, because no one else does it better
If you were in the audience at the 2024 Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) annual meeting, you might have been taken aback by...
Study details link between increased functional status and improved survival in...
Increasing functional status in vascular patients fitted with a prosthesis after amputation was incrementally associated with improved survival, a retrospective analysis of a 10-year...
Florida IDE trial data support use of physician-modified F/BEVAR over open...
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As Dean Arnaoutakis, MD, describes it, failed endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs)...
Single-center analysis suggests improved longer-term outcomes with endarterectomy versus TCAR
A large, single-center analysis has found that, despite parity between the two procedures in terms of perioperative clinical outcomes, carotid endarterectomy (CEA) was associated...
The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories of February 2024
In February, the most read stories from Vascular Specialist include a study of metformin and its potential as the first-ever medical treatment that can...
As temporal trends in hemodialysis access creation emerge, notion of AV...
The 2024 Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) annual meeting (Jan. 24–27) hears three separate talks—two scientific papers and one from an invited guest...
More than half of medical students altered Match ranking order after...
Amid the build-up to residency Match Day 2024, the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS) has delivered data from a VISIT (Vascular...
Vascular Specialist–February 2024
In this issue:
SAVS outgoing President David L. Cull details his journey to the heart of diversity, equity and inclusion
More than half of...
SAVS 2024: A journey to the heart of DEI like no...
David L. Cull, MD, delivers a captivating presidential address, laying bare his own challenging journey as a vascular surgeon and the hidden lessons on...
Re-evaluating aortoiliac endarterectomy: Case series shows ‘acceptable durability’
The uncommonly performed aortoiliac endarterectomy—one of the open procedures on which the vascular surgical specialty was founded—provides acceptable durability in aortoiliac occlusive disease patients...
Southern Vascular elects first woman president-elect
The Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) elected Margaret (Megan) Tracci, MD, to become its first ever woman president for the 2025–26 cycle.
Tracci,...
Coding: Increasing complexity and lost RVUs—a drop in the ocean?
A vascular surgery team at Audie L. Murphy VA Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, uncovers “staggeringly low” numbers of correctly coded billing for...
U.S. Aortic Research Consortium maps out F/BEVAR preoperative risk factors for...
A series of preoperative risk factors—including currently smoking, chronic kidney disease (CKD), congestive heart failure (CHF), aneurysm size greater than 7cm, more advanced...
The utility of renal stenting in hemodialysis patients: One in five...
A fifth of patients among a chronic kidney disease (CKD) cohort on hemodialysis—a rare subset pulled from a large repository of national data—were able...
SAVS makes travel scholarship applications call for 2024 meeting
The Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) has put out a call for applications from medical students and general surgery residents for 20 travel...