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Vascular surgery history: Putting specialty on the map in a broader sense
The people, discoveries, innovations and events that brought the vascular surgery profession to where it is today formed the bedrock of the subject matter for this year’s John Homans Lecture—“Who put the vascular in vascular surgery?”—at the 2025 Vascular Annual…
Researchers examine safety of prophylactic spinal fluid drainage in open and endovascular TAA and TAAA patients
“Spinal fluid drainage be considered when the risk of spinal cord injury from the procedure is greater than the risk of severe complications from spinal fluid drainage.” This was one of the concluding findings of a study presented during the…
Novel MRI technique for CLTI poised to address ‘medieval problem in modern medicine’
“We want to change global standards. What we’re doing isn’t working. Patients are getting hurt and devices are failing—we want to be able to make sure devices we’re using today are safe, so that we can build new devices that…
Presenting a united front to address vascular surgery’s structural and financial challenges
Vascular surgeons must present a unified front in order to address structural and financial challenges facing the specialty, Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) President-Elect Keith Calligaro, MD, said in summing up this year’s E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum at…
Three honored in VAM 2025 Poster Competition
The final day of the 2025 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in New Orleans honored three winners in the championship round of the SVS Poster Competition. The audience voted to select the winners from more than 100 entries highlighting innovative research.…
Claim CME credits from 2025 vascular meetings
Attendees of the 2025 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) Annual Meeting, and Society of Vascular Nursing (SVN) Annual Conference are reminded to claim their continuing medical education (CME) credits by 10:59 p.m. Central Time on July 7.…
Award-winning basic science research targets ‘highly complex’ process of vascular calcification
“We were really excited to know that the SVS [Society for Vascular Surgery] is supporting our research,” Sujin Lee, MD, told Vascular Specialist on receiving the SVS Foundation James S.T. Yao Resident Research Award for a paper examining the role of…
Increased experience with off-the-shelf TAAA endograft sees reduction in complications but no effect on mortality
Michele Piazza, MD, informed attendees of the 2025 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) that increased experience with the E-nside (Artivion) off-the-shelf preloaded inner branch endograft for branched endovascular aneurysm repair (BEVAR) leads to a “significant” reduction in intraprocedural complications, but does not…
VAM 2025: Crawford Forum probes four reasonable strategies to empower vascular surgeons
“Go back home and get a vascular center or […] get a vascular department, or, you know, assess the compensation [survey] results and, at least start considering a union, if it’s something feasible.” That was the new Society for Vascular…
SVS announces election results for new leadership
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has elected Andres Schanzer, MD, as the incoming vice president and Malachi G. Sheahan III, MD, as the new secretary, revealed during Friday night’s Annual Business Meeting, as part of the 2025 Vascular Annual…