Tag: Western Vascular Society
WVS 2023: President emphasizes importance of ‘tolerance’ in vascular specialty
Outgoing Western Vascular Society (WVS) President Wei Zhou, MD, used her presidential address to put out a call for the vascular specialty to embrace...
Preventing spinal cord ischemia: Novel techniques for direct segmental artery revascularization...
A vascular surgery team from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles demonstrated the feasibility of multidisciplinary direct revascularization of segmental arteries...
WVS 2023: Western Vascular Society presidency passes from Zhou to Fujitani
Roy M. Fujitani, MD, president of the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Medical Center medical staff, took over as Western Vascular Society (WVS) president...
WVS 2022: New evidence of radiation reduction benefit emerges
Surgical augmented intelligence in the form of 3D mapping during complex aortic procedures can decrease radiation exposure, fluoroscopy time and contrast use when combined...
Regional vascular presidents measure state of specialty
Vincent Rowe, MD, and Raghu Motaganahalli, MD, delivered Presidential Addresses at the Western Vascular Society (WVS) and the Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society (MVSS) that...
Vascular Specialist–October 2022
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Regional vascular society presidents measure state of specialty (p. 1 and 4)
Study: Combined antiplatelet, NOAC use linked to worse limb...
WVS 2022: Study probes who benefits from EVAR among patients with...
Patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) represent a high-risk group who may not benefit from elective endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) for abdominal aortic...
The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories in February
February's top 10 includes a highlight from the 2022 Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society (VESS) winter annual meeting and an interview with Melissa Kirkwood,...
Radiation protection: Lightweight shield designed to reduce dose during complex endovascular...
It all started with a “we should do research together; this is fascinating.” The result—the production of a prototype eyewear that decreases radiation to...
CLI at a crossroads: Which direction now?
Vascular surgery once again finds itself at a crossroads, Michael Belkin, MD, chief of the division of vascular and endovascular surgery at Brigham and...
Wei Zhou: Prepared for change—and a more diverse, vocal generation of...
There was something of a different pulse to some of the matters around this year’s Western Vascular Society (WVS) annual meeting, recalls Wei Zhou,...
Vascular Specialist–December 2021
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*This issue went to press before Congress moved to address cuts to Medicare due to kick in Jan. 1, 2022.
"Countdown to...
Rise in cardiovascular disease, vascular surgeon burnout presents a public health...
Cases of cardiovascular disease are rising across the U.S., with large disparities seen in ethnic groups and poorer geographical areas. In combination with increased...
Open repair: In good hands?
The twin issues of center volumes for open AAA repair as well as training implications came under the spotlight at two recent regional vascular...
Vascular Specialist–November 2021
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"In good hands?" The twin issues of center volumes for open AAA repair as well as training implications came under the...
Trainee wellness: ‘No one really prepared me for the failures’
Communication and an awareness of how often vascular surgery fails emerged as key talking points during a Vascular Surgery Interest Group (VSIG) Lunch Symposium...
WVS 2021: Western Vascular Society names new president-elect
University of Southern California (USC) vascular chief Vincent Rowe, MD, took over as the new president of the Western Vascular Society (WVS)—with University of...
WVS 2021: Community surgeons report improved rAAA survival after adoption of...
Overall survival improved from 71% to 80% after a group of community practice surgeons started using an endovascular-first approach to ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm...
‘Significant’ value of adding podiatrists to limb salvage alliance
A multidisciplinary limb salvage alliance found that operating room (OR) and clinic volumes as well as work relative value units (wRVUs) all increased significantly...
Family history risk of AAA ‘increases incrementally’ based on degree of...
There is an incremental increase in the risk of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) among those with a family history of the disorder based...
Preoperative risk score tool for rAAA 30-day mortality is accurate, new...
An entirely preoperative risk-scoring tool for the prediction of 30-day mortality after a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (rAAA) was found to be accurate after...