Tag: WVS 2025

‘What I talk about when I talk about value’

Outgoing Western Vascular Society (WVS) President Ahmed Abou-Zamzam Jr., MD, provided a possible prescription for value in vascular surgery that goes beyond the monetary...

Care for intermittent claudication considered ‘inappropriate’ found to be common, putting...

In a multi-institutional cohort of patients with intermittent claudication (IC), care deemed inappropriate, or where the risk outweighs the benefit, by the SVS appropriate...

Chronic venous insufficiency: Appeal over ‘not-approvable’ VenoValve fails

enVVeno Medical has announced that it received an “unfavorable” decision from the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in response to its supervisory appeal of...

TAMBE and TBE: Evolving experiences and piecing together channels of inquiry

New findings chronicling progress with both the Gore Excluder thoracoabdominal branch endoprosthesis (TAMBE)— approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last year—and Gore...

WVS 2025: David Rigberg takes over as president of Western Vascular...

David Rigberg, MD, clinical professor of surgery, at the UCLA Gonda School of Medicine in Los Angeles, has taken over as president of the...