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Lead vascular surgeon on first use of Fiber Optic RealShape in US hails advance
Vascular surgeons at the University of Massachusetts became the first in the United States to carry out procedures using the breakthrough imaging technology Fiber Optic RealShape (FORS) last month, reporting a 75% decrease in fluoroscopy use after one of their…
Journal supplement outlines updated clinical practice guidelines, reporting standards
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is starting 2021 with updated clinical practice guidelines and reporting standards for three vascular conditions. Guidelines on chronic mesenteric ischemia have been developed to provide the best possible evidence for the diagnosis and treatment…
F-BEVAR performed on women shows ‘lower’ level of technical success
Fenestrated-branched endovascular aneurysm repair (F-BEVAR) for thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (TAAAs) carried out on women “demonstrate metrics of increased complexity and have a lower level of technical success, particularly among patients with higher extent aneurysms,” a research team in Seattle found.…
‘No evidence’ to suggest spinal cord injury is decreased by prophylactic drainage during EVAR procedures
MIAMI—Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage is a key component in the treatment of spinal cord injury but the evidence that prophylactic drainage decreases such injury during endovascular repair (EVAR) is “at best weak,” Gustavo S. Oderich, MD, told the Critical Issues…