Tag: VEITHsymposium
Positive one-year data for new venous valve portends promising future in...
SAVVE trial principal investigators discuss results showing 98.4% VenoValve device patency, 85% clinically meaningful benefit and an 80% rate of ulcer size reduction at...
Venous VQI celebrates decade milestone
At the recent VEITHsymposium (Nov. 19–23) in New York City, Marc Passman, MD, reflected on the achievements of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS)...
In search of the ‘holy grail’: New analysis brings aneurysm rupture...
A rupture prediction-based algorithm is set to enhance patient selection for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair. This is according to Randy Moore, MD, a...
PMA application submitted for VenoValve device
enVVeno Medical today announced it has submitted an application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval to market the VenoValve—a surgical...
Frank J. Veith joins ViTAA Medical Solutions’ board of directors
ViTAA Medical Solutions has announced the appointment of Frank J Veith, MD, professor of surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of...
Randomized trial set to elucidate value of image fusion technology for...
An ongoing UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)-funded randomized controlled trial seeks to illuminate the value of an image fusion guidance...
Two-year SWING data ‘continue to show promise’ for sirolimus DCB in...
Two-year data from the SWING trial, a first-in-human study of the safety and performance of the Sundance sirolimus drug-coated balloon (DCB; Surmodics), have been...
Specialty representation at all levels of a healthcare organization is ‘increasingly...
A 14-year effort to achieve departmental status for vascular surgery at a large healthcare system in Southern California resulted in significant gains for the...
George Lavenson, Vietnam and Gulf War veteran, advocate for carotid disease...
George S. Lavenson Jr., lovingly referred to as “Doc” by his many friends, died Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023, on the beautiful island of Maui,...
Vascular community starts process of wrestling with findings from BEST-CLI
One of the earliest multispecialty public gatherings of the vascular community following the release of the first results from the BEST-CLI randomized controlled...
‘Impressive’ 12-month Flex vessel prep data presented at VEITHsymposium
VentureMed Group, a medical device innovator in access management for arteriovenous (AV) fistulas and grafts and vessel preparation for peripheral arterial disease (PAD), announced...
The 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories of November 2022
Among November's most read Vascular Specialist stories were updates from the BEST-CLI trial in the form of new data and funding; a guest...
Vascular Specialist–November 2022
In this issue:
First data from BEST-CLI are revealed at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions (p. 1 and 12–13)
The Society...
VEITHsymposium panel probes ‘value’ of artificial intelligence in vascular surgery
A session at the 2022 VEITHsymposium in New York City (Nov. 15–19) focused on new concepts, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) in vascular...
VEITHsymposium to include world federation session
The World Federation of Vascular Societies (WFVS) is set to hold a session in November during the VEITHsymposium in New York City. The 90-minute session...
SVS creates limb salvage-focused Frank J. Veith Lectureship
Next year’s Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) will include a new named lecture: the Frank J. Veith Lecture, named in honor of former Society for...
Powell: Studies linking EVAR and cancer risk continue to mount
Evidence continues to accumulate of a link between endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) and cancer, with even small amounts of radiation potentially converting epithelial cells...
Amplifi vein dilation system demonstrates ‘encouraging’ clinical results in hemodialysis access
Artio Medical announced that full results from its first-in-human clinical study of the Amplifi vein dilation system were presented at the 2021 VEITHSymposium (Nov....
VEITH 2021: Researchers present ex vivo demonstration of fluoroscopy-free complex AAA...
“I think this represents the beginning of the end of an era where we have to use lead to perform these procedures.” Those were...
VEITH 2021: Two-year follow-up data from EVAS2 IDE study delivered
The confirmatory EVAS2 clinical study to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of Endologix's Nellix endovascular aneurysm sealing system (EVAS) for the treatment of infrarenal...
Viz.ai reveals launch of new AI-powered modules for pulmonary embolism, aortic...
Viz.ai—a company focused on artificial intelligence (AI)-driven intelligent care coordination—today announced the U.S. commercial launch of its AI-powered modules for pulmonary embolism (PE) and...
SVS branding campaign wins communications award
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) branding campaign has received a “Profiles of Excellence Award” from the American Association of Medical Society Executives for...
SVS president presents point-by-point defense of Society position on paclitaxel controversy
NEW YORK—Kim Hodgson, MD, president of the Society for Vascular Surgery, delivered a robust defense of the SVS position on the drug-coated balloon (DCB)...
Vascular Specialist performs key role as conduit of discussion, says chief...
NEW YORK—Vascular Specialist has a critical role to play in dictating discussion of the key issues that impact surgeons in the field, the publication’s...