Vascular Specialist Online

30/01/2025

The Society for Vascular Surgery Young Surgeon Section (YSS) will close applications for its inaugural visiting professorship tomorrow.

The Society for Vascular Surgery’s (SVS) Young Surgeon Section (YSS) will close applications for its inaugural visiting professorship on Jan. 31.

28/01/2025

In the latest Vascular Specialist Online, Dr Anand Prasad shares how he uses to help patients. See how was used to treat a 75yo female patient presenting with right toe swelling & ulceration: https://vascularspecialistonline.com/incorporation-of-shockwave-e8-peripheral-ivl-into-the-treatment-of-patients-with-chronic-limb-threatening-ischemia/

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28/01/2025

Megan Tracci is the new Southern Association for Vascular Surgery president.

Margaret (Megan) Tracci, MD, has become the first-ever woman president of the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS).

27/11/2024

Our latest issue zeros in on the pioneering community outreach work from The Eastern Vascular Society and American Venous Forum. Erika Leith Mitchell and colleagues tackle wRVUs in our guest editorial, while reporting from the New England Society for Vascular Surgery and analysis on Society for Vascular Surgery branding efforts from William Shutze also feature.

In this issue: Service: Giving back—The Eastern Vascular Society (EVS) and American Venous Forum (AVF) pioneer vascular days of service in the community Novel measure suggests 20% of elective carotid revascularizations fail to achieve a textbook outcome Guest editorial: Track your wRVUs, because n...

10/06/2024

Medical editor Malachi Sheahan III explores the potential impact of a proposed American Board of Cardiovascular Medicine on peripheral vascular treatment: https://vascularspecialistonline.com/house-of-cards/

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Malachie Sheahan III, MD, discusses a proposal for the formation of an American Board of Cardiovascular Medicine and what it means for peripheral vascular disease treatment.

27/05/2024

Check out this month's print issue in flipbook form:

Check out the May 2024 issue of Vascular Specialist, which includes coverage of the results from the BASIL-3 trial.

28/02/2024

Check out this month's issue of Vascular Specialist!

SAVS outgoing President David L. Cull details his journey to the heart of diversity, equity and inclusion.

09/02/2024

Society for Vascular Surgery joins with SCAI - The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Interventional Radiology and Association of Black Cardiologists, as they together launch "Get a Pulse on PAD" public awareness campaign: https://vascularspecialistonline.com/get-a-pulse-on-pad/

The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), in partnership with three other medical societies operating in the vascular disease space that form the PAD Pulse Alliance, is taking part in a peripheral arterial disease (PAD) public awareness campaign called “Get a Pulse on PAD.”

06/02/2024

A new study, conducted by Venita Chandra (Stanford University), Michael Lichtenberg and Stefan Stahlhoff, that compares the extent of early infrapopliteal re­coil after serration and plain balloon angioplasty has found the former produces “substantially less” arterial recoil in the treatment of these lesions and has demonstrat­ed “technical feasibility” in measuring early recoil using standard angiography

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A study comparing the extent of early infrapopliteal re­coil after serration and plain balloon angioplasty has found the former produces “substantially less” arterial recoil in the treatment of these lesions and has demonstrat­ed “technical feasibility” in measuring early recoil using stan...

30/01/2024

: Megan Tracci of the University of Virginia will become the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery's first women president in 2025: https://vascularspecialistonline.com/southern-vascular-elects-first-woman-president-elect/

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The Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) elected Margaret (Megan) Tracci, MD, to become its first ever woman president for the 2025–26 cycle.

24/01/2024

Our January 2024 issue is available now! Includes UT Southwestern Medical Center, Society for Vascular Surgery, European Society for Vascular Surgery, Harvard Medical School and UAB - The University of Alabama at Birmingham among others.

Coding: Increasing complexity and lost RVUs—a drop in the ocean?

15/01/2024

Greg Modrall and colleagues from UT Southwestern Medical Center are set to deliver new data showing the utility of renal stenting in hemodialysis patients at the 2024 Southern Association for Vascular Surgery meeting next week: https://vascularspecialistonline.com/the-utility-of-renal-stenting-in-hemodialysis-patients-one-in-five-found-to-come-off-dialysis-after-being-stented/

A fifth of patients among a CKD cohort on hemodialysis were able to come off the treatment following renal artery stenting, a team of researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas has found.

27/12/2023

Anahita Dua warned that, without the right post procedure thromboprophylaxis regime, we will see more and more amputations during a lecture at the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland’s annual scientific meeting

“We’re going to see more and more amputations if we don’t figure out the right post procedure thromboprophylaxis regime ASAP,” Anahita Dua, MD, warned during a lecture on innovative approaches to preventing amputation at the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland’s (VSGBI) annual sc...