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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 the presentation from UT Health San Antonio and the San Antonio VA Medical Center, presented by…
Study details link between increased functional status and improved survival in prosthesis-fitted amputees
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 experience at a Dallas-based practice showed. The team at Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital-Plano…
Florida IDE trial data support use of physician-modified F/BEVAR over open conversion to treat failed EVAR
This advertorial is sponsored by Tampa General Hospital. As Dean Arnaoutakis, MD, describes it, failed endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) because of poor proximal fixation of the implanted endograft is a small but increasing problem.…
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 with a reduced rate of late stroke/death compared to transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR). Writing in the…
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 manage aneurysm disease; the SVS Sub-Section on Outpatient and Office Vascular Care (SOOVC) release the highly anticipated…
As temporal trends in hemodialysis access creation emerge, notion of AV fistula superiority comes under scrutiny
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 lecturer—that separately and from different angles checked the pulse of the arteriovenous fistula (AVF)-first era. Sandwiched…
More than half of medical students altered Match ranking order after post-virtual interview site visits, APDVS survey finds
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 In-Person for Students in the Match Trial) pilot study that took place last year showing some…
SAVS 2024: A journey to the heart of DEI like no other
David L. Cull, MD, delivers a captivating presidential address, laying bare his own challenging journey as a vascular surgeon and the hidden lessons on diversity, equity and inclusion his life story may hold. Like nearly everyone else assembled, when Alan…
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 with smaller native vessels, especially among females, a 25-patient case series review performed at Louisiana State…
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, a professor of surgery at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, will serve as SAVS president-elect…