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Study detects no difference in adverse outcomes from balloon dilatation strategy used during TCAR
Avoiding a strategy of post-stent balloon dilation during transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) may be unnecessary—a “contradistinction” to results shown in conventional transfemoral carotid artery stenting, new research has shown. Jones Thomas, MD, an integrated vascular surgery resident at University Hospitals…
VAM: Spotlight on Tuesday and Wednesday
It’s nearly opening day for the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) and our schedule is jammed with sessions of interest. Here are presentations to consider for Wednesday, as well as activities on Tuesday. (If tickets are required, they can be obtained…
VESS session: ‘Concerted effort’ made to feature science, discussion from widest possible swath of US
At its very essence, says Vascular & Endovascular Surgery Society (VESS) President Jason T. Lee, MD, vascular surgery is a “social sport.” The specialty is built on the backs of not just the “alpha point guard,” or the surgeon, but…
Corriere: Meetings about meetings and how not to have a bad one
The past year in which the concept of “the meeting” shifted almost entirely into the digital realm challenged everything from the constitution of the working day to the breadth of collective patience. Or, as Matthew Corriere, MD, at the helm…
Upper-extremity vascular injuries associated with ‘increased prevalence’ of nerve deficits
Vascular injuries of the upper extremity are associated with a lower rate of limb loss but have an increased prevalence of nerve deficits after trauma, a new analysis comparing vascular trauma of the extremities reveals. The investigators behind the study—delivered…
Vascular firefighters: New data highlight ‘essential hospital resource’
New data that analyze the preoperative and intraoperative assistance vascular surgeons provide to other surgical subspecialties underscores “the essential hospital resource” that vascular surgery represents. These findings by a team of researchers from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers…
Fempop atherectomy: Are high reimbursement amounts incentivizing inappropriate medical provider care?
Reimbursement-per-procedure for femoropopliteal atherectomy and stenting has increased at about the same rate for national providers as a whole and vascular surgeons specifically—at the same time as much higher rates were recorded for radiologists and general surgeons, an analysis of…
Vascular surgeons encouraged to consult talking points document on paclitaxel devices
Vascular surgeons are being encouraged to take consideration of a set of talking points about the risks and benefits of paclitaxel-equipped devices—which has been developed by a multispecialty panel of medical societies—in discussions with their patients. The document is the…
SVS ONLINE 2020 meeting returns in series of recordings
Time marches on. Time heals all wounds. If I could turn back time. All of these may be true—but in the case of the SVS ONLINE virtual meeting, people can turn back time, in a fashion. Registrants certainly can go…
Women are at a higher risk of iliac vein stent failure, VESS session hears
A recent study on iliac vein stenting showed lower long-term patency rates for women when compared to their male counterparts. The data were presented on June 24 at SVS ONLINE during the Vascular and Endovascular Surgical Society (VESS) session. Lead…