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ALI can occur with or without atherosclerotic disease, portends worse prognosis in COVID-19 patients, VESS session told
Acute limb ischemia (ALI) can occur with or without atherosclerotic disease and portends a worse prognosis in patients with COVID-19. This risk persists after COVID-19 infection due to a lingering co-inflammatory state, and D-dimer may be a useful screening test…
Collaborators not cases: Engaging patients with aortic dissections as partners in patient-centered outcomes research
To date, research in aortic dissection has focused on management and outcomes focused on technical results, and survival. Little is known about what is important to patients living with or at risk for aortic dissection. The Aortic Dissection Collaborative was…
WFVS seeks to help shape future of global vascular training through technology and collaboration
The World Federation of Vascular Societies (WFVS) recently entered a new era of governance with the aim of better disseminating science and best practices for vascular surgeons operating in every corner of the globe. Palma Shaw, MD, WFVS secretary-general, spoke…
Strength in numbers: Global VASCC COVID-19 project helps identify framework to tackle delayed cases
When Robert Cuff, MD, and Max Wohlauer, MD, first launched the Vascular Surgery COVID-19 Collaborative (VASCC) back in the spring of 2020, the pandemic was still in its first wave, and the goal of a new vascular surgery registry to…
Vascular surgery COVID-19 registry participants probe state of practice amid winter surge
The question of the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on vascular practice continues to occupy members of the specialty. Contributors to a global vascular surgery registry collecting data on its impact on scheduled operations and virus-related thrombotic complications detailed a series of…
SPECIAL REPORT: Across the world—early impact of COVID-19 on vascular surgeons
COVID-19 has changed our world and surgical practices as vascular surgeons. We have been faced with unforeseen challenges, and the professional impact has been global. Elective procedures, the staple of our practice, have been indefinitely canceled and delayed. Clinics have…
Dispatches: COVID-19 and getting to grips with a new vascular order
At first there was chaos. Then came adaptation and recognition of what was coming down the pipe—followed by assimilation into a new kind of order. Now that much of the U.S. healthcare community is coming to terms with the effects…
Registry launches pair of studies on vascular complications related to COVID-19
The new Vascular Surgery COVID-19 Collaborative (VASCC) is ready to start collecting data on two projects. The first study to emerge from the international registry, entitled “Impact of COVID-19 on scheduled vascular operations,” covers five major areas of vascular practice…
New COVID-19-focused vascular registry gains IRB approval
A new vascular surgery registry launched to leverage key data gathered in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic—and aimed at helping prepare for the fallout from future outbreaks—has acquired Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval. With members spread across 30 different…