These articles have been hand picked by our editors from all our publications and news sources, these articles offer insights and perspectives on the latest trends and best practices within the vascular community, and we hope that they will be of interest to you.
Hanaa Dakour-Aridi Dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) has demonstrated improved clinical outcomes, including reduced in-hospital stroke and mortality risks, compared to other medication regimens in carotid…
(from left) Edgar Lerma, Loay Salman The Saturday morning session of the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN) 19th Annual Scientific Meeting (17–19…
(from left) Michael Robson and Narayan Karunanithy Michael Robson and Narayan Karunanithy (King’s College London, London, UK) write to explore the range of options in…
Researchers found that a minimally invasive procedure combined with epidural steroid injection treatment led to superior pain reduction and disability improvement over one year in…
Levansri Makalanda Alongside his colleagues at the Barts Health NHS Trust, Levansri Makalanda (London, UK) was responsible for setting up the second ever 24/7 mechanical…
Senior author Ramon L Varcoe A recent study comparing outcomes of endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) patients has reported no statistically significant differences in mortality or…
A recent addition to Europe’s flow diversion market—the Derivo 2 embolisation device (DED2; Acandis)—has demonstrated promise in a small-scale, multicentre study, providing a safe and…
Autogenous fistulas offer advantages to haemodialysis patients, long-term survival and low rates of complication among them. But failed or slow maturation as well as the…
Jorinde van Laanen at EVC 2023 Recruitment proved to be a major challenge for the STEVECO (Stent versus conservative treatment in patients with deep venous…
Amanda Baker In the latter stages of 2022, the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) released a position statement advocating pregnancy and parental leave policies in…
Scientia Vascular has announced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance of the Aristotle Colossus macrowire. The company claims that this device is…
Divaka Perera Assessing myocardial viability does not aid the selection of patients who will benefit—or not—from percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for the treatment of severe…
Sophie Wang (L), Patric Liang Distal embolic protection using a filter has been associated with improved transfemoral carotid artery stenting (tfCAS) outcomes in terms of…
The Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN) has released its first global analysis of access to mechanical thrombectomy for the treatment of large vessel…
Speaking to Venous News at VEITHsymposium 2022 (15–19 November, New York, USA) Armando Mansilha (Porto, Portugal) answers the “challenging question” of how to best approach…
Saravanan Balamuthusamy (PPG Healthcare, Fort Worth, USA) writes to assess recent evidence on the contribution that can be made to vascular access for dialysis by…
Speaking to CX Live, Eric Secemsky (Boston, USA) delves into the emerging use of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) in the peripheral procedural phases—outlining contemporary studies providing…
The European Union’s Council of Ministers has today adopted a resolution to extend the deadline for the certification of medical devices under the Medical Devices…
Chung-Hao Lee A team from the University of Oklahoma (Norman, USA) has embarked on a five-year research project with the intention of designing a device…
Tareq Kass-Hout Physicians in the USA have published details of—to their knowledge—the “first reported use” of the Indigo aspiration system (Penumbra) to treat cerebral venous…
Researchers have detailed a new preclinical model for non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), which they hope will aid in the development of future strategies for…
Jafar GolzarianCopyright: 2019 Solares Photography Inc. The keynote lecture on day one of the Pan Arab Interventional Radiology Society annual meeting (PAIRS; 11–14 February, Dubai,…
Mario Gaudino Women have been found to have significantly higher risk of operative mortality and postoperative complications after isolated coronary artery bypass (CABG) when compared…
David Dexter presents at AVF 2023 Interim one-year outcomes from the multicentre, prospective, single-arm CLOUT registry investigating use of the ClotTriever thrombectomy system in all-comer…
February’s top 10 includes the announcement that Abbott is to acquire Cardiovascular Systems, results of the PRESERVE study on the safety and effectiveness of inferior…
Jorge Ulloa Researchers in Colombia behind the first-in-human study of a novel bioprosthetic venous valve designed to treat chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) reported three-year results…
Mina Makary The Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) published a paper in January 2023 examining the potential barrier that the name of the…
A report has been issued on methods for improving organ provision by the Organ Utilisation Group (OUG), a UK Department of Health-established body dedicated to…
David L Gillespie Few adverse events are connected to the use of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters to help prevent deep vein blood clots from…
Tao Wang The initial findings from a recent randomised controlled trial (RCT) do not support the addition of extracranial to intracranial (EC-IC) bypass surgery to…
Kim G Smolderen and Carlos Mena-Hurtado Almost one-half of the patients receiving a peripheral vascular intervention (PVI) in the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Vascular…
Zhongrong Miao presenting at ISC 2023 A randomised trial has found mechanical thrombectomy procedures performed within 24 hours of symptom onset to be more effective…
Felix Mahfoud The publication of a consensus statement from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Council on Hypertension and the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular…
IN.PACT AV DCB The second day of the 2023 meeting of the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN) played host to a packed…
Lukas Meyer Mechanical thrombectomy appears to be a safe and technically feasible treatment option for ischaemic strokes caused by primary isolated anterior cerebral artery (ACA)…
Rana Tarek M Khafagy Rana Tarek M Khafagy is a consultant interventional radiologist based at Ain Shams University Hospital (Cairo, Egypt). In her capacity as…
The American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN)’s 2023 meeting has seen its second day start with style, as Tze-Woei Tan (Keck School of…
Perfuze has secured its first product clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the company’s Millipede 088 access catheter. The first US…
Renal denervation represents another treatment option in patients with uncontrolled resistant hypertension and may be used in selected patients deemed intolerant to antihypertensive drugs. These…
As transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) moves beyond its 20-year milestone, two pioneers of the treatment—Alain Cribier (Rouen, France) and Michael Reardon (Houston, USA)—reflect on…
As transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) moves beyond its 20-year milestone, two pioneers of the treatment—Alain Cribier (Rouen, France) and Michael Reardon (Houston, USA)—reflect on…
“More than in any other medical discipline,” says Vascular Access Society of Britain and Ireland (VASBI) president Robert Jones, “interventional radiology (IR) is where medicine…
Stock Image NuVasive and Globus Medical have revealed that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock transaction. Under the terms…
Prominent venous disease experts discuss venous stenting, appropriate care, and the pursuit of refined data and better education in a space where part of the…
Amrou Sarraj presenting at ISC 2023 An international clinical study has found that patients experiencing a ‘large’ stroke—characterised by a greater infarct-core volume on imaging—had…
Eva Mistry presenting at ISC 2023 The administration of medications to lower systolic blood pressure in acute ischaemic stroke patients who have undergone a successful…
Preset device Phenox, a Wallaby Medical company, has announced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance of its Preset thrombectomy device for the…
Hans-Henning Eckstein The transferability to real-world clinical practice of contemporary randomized controlled trials (RCTs) investigating carotid artery stenosis interventions “varies considerably,” according to a recent…
Marc Ribó presenting at ISC 2023 ApTOLL, a neuroprotectant medication intended to shield the brain from tissue damage, has been linked to reduced death and…
Abbott and Cardiovascular Systems (CSI) have announced a definitive agreement for Abbott to acquire CSI. Under terms of the agreement, CSI stockholders will receive $20…
A retrospective cohort study has found the likelihood of receiving percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) at low-volume hospitals has increased across all ethnicities, insurance and income…
At the 2022 Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland (VSGBI) annual scientific meeting (23–25 November, Brighton, UK), Srinivasa Rao Vallabhaneni (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK) delivered…
In the opening month of 2023, Cardiovascular News’ most read stories include sex disparities in clinical outcomes following transcatheter tricuspid valve intervention; news of enrolment…
Gaultier Marnat Intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) prior to a mechanical thrombectomy procedure could result in better functional outcomes than thrombectomy alone in stroke patients with M2…
Karim Abd El Tawab In the past two decades, there has been a shift in varicose vein management from conventional surgical treatments to outpatient interventional…
The UK National Vascular Registry (NVR) recently published its 2022 annual report—the 10th since the registry was launched in 2013—highlighting important outcome data for vascular…
Hans-Henning Eckstein The external validity—in other words, the transferability to real-world clinical practice—of contemporary randomised controlled trials (RCTs) investigating carotid artery stenosis interventions “varies considerably”,…
Aaron Mauck A number of speakers took to the stage at the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapies (ISET; 16–19 January 2023, Miami Beach, USA) to…
Jeremy Heit (L), Gautam Adusumilli A meta-analysis of recent basilar artery occlusion trials—including ATTENTION and BAOCHE—has further indicated the potential benefits held by endovascular therapy…
Angela Laffan presenting at SIO 2023 During the Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO) 2023 annual scientific meeting in Washington DC, USA, a panel of speakers…
From cutting-edge aortic interventions to consensus on revascularisation strategies in the peripheral arteries, the 2023 edition of the Charing Cross (CX) Symposium comes at a…
Dianne van Dam-Nolen A systematic review and meta-analysis have demonstrated “convincing evidence” that sex differences exist in carotid atherosclerosis, with all types of plaque features—including…
Infinity Neuro announced today that its Inspira aspiration catheters have received CE-mark approval and are now commercially available in Europe. This is the first offering from…
CELLO II balloon guide catheter The CELLO II balloon guide catheter (Fuji Systems Corporation) has received 510(k) premarket approval from the US Food and Drug…
Aaron J. Buckland Lateral single position surgery (LSPS) and circumferential fusions have similar outcomes at two-years postoperatively, while reducing perioperative complications, improving perioperative efficiency and…
A study conducted by Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor, USA) researchers suggests that hospitals without the highest stroke care designation may be missing strokes that occur…
J Hunter Mehaffey A study of more than 100,000 patients with multivessel coronary artery disease has found that those treated with coronary artery bypass grafting…
Vasc-Alert, a pioneer in vascular access surveillance, has announced the publication of a study in the Journal of Vascular Access (JVA) validating its Vasc-Alert surveillance…
Deborah J Brouwer-Maier is the vascular access marketing manager for Transonic (Ithaca, USA) and a haemodialysis nurse of almost 40 years. Exploring how her experience…
Senior author Dominic Howard A newly published meta-analysis of individual patient data has found that older patients with symptomatic carotid disease are likely to benefit…
Stock Image Unilateral pedicle screw fixation (UPSF) is just as effective as bilateral pedicle screw fixation (BPSF) in transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) and may…
Boris Guiu Both the Andreas Gruentzig Lecture at this year’s Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe meeting (CIRSE; 10–14 September, Barcelona, Spain) and a…
The UK’s national abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening programme is fast approaching its 10th anniversary—a milestone that Akhtar Nasim (Sheffield Vascular Institute, Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)…
The fourth annual Hamburg Dialysis Access Symposium (23–24 September, Hamburg, Germany) was recently organised and moderated by Robert Shahverdyan (Asklepios Clinic Barmbek, Hamburg, Germany), who…
Nellix EVAS system In a newly released “focused update” to their 2019 recommendations, the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) guidelines…
The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published draft guidance recommending that the risk threshold at which statins should be offered…
Athanasios Saratzis Athanasios Saratzis (University of Leicester, Leicester, UK) speaks to Vascular News about the EVOCC trial, which he hopes will dispel patient and physician…
Eight minutes of Mozart have been found to reduce the pain of cannulation for haemodialysis patients, though not their level of anxiety, in a recent…
Ultrasound is a powerful tool for assessing haemodialysis (HD) access for maturity, but may also be used to guide HD access cannulations and has the…
Closer ties between cardiologists, cardiac surgeons and vascular surgeons will be a hallmark of the future treatment of diseases of the aorta, a leading figure…
Pravesh Gadjradj There is high quality evidence showing that there is no difference in terms of functionality after decompression alone compared to decompression with fusion…
Lydus Medical is pleased to announce that the Vesseal has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance. The Vesseal is a microvascular anastomosis…
Paula Novelli Paula Novelli, who is associate professor of interventional radiology (IR) at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (Pittsburgh, USA) put her own spin…
Michael Fehlings (Toronto, Canada) talks to Spinal News International at DWG-Kongress (7–9 December 2022; Berlin, Germany) about the “dramatic shift” over the past 25 years in the…
AVS has announced that it raised US$20 million in Series B financing, which the company says will accelerate clinical trial timelines for its device for…
Cardiovascular Systems (CSI) announced that Innova Vascular (Innova) has submitted a 510(k) premarket notification to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its thrombectomy…
IceCure Medical, developer of the minimally-invasive ProSense System for cryoablation, which destroys tumours by freezing, today announced interim results from the ICESECRET study for the…
Imperative Care announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalised 510(k) clearance of its Zoom RDL radial access system—the company’s latest…
Aisha Shaikh Aisha Shaikh (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, USA) has staked out a claim that, though hypotension was “associated” with arteriovenous access…
Thomas Maldonado Koya Medical recently announced the appointment of Thomas Maldonado (New York University Medical Center, New York, USA) as chief medical officer and a member…
Lara Barghout ReCor Medical and its parent company Otsuka Medical Devices have announced the appointment of Lara Barghout as president and chief executive officer of…
Linda Harris Linda Harris, MD, is a prolific attendee on the national and regional vascular meeting circuit, a noteworthy academic vascular surgeon with trainees and…
Abbott has announced US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its Eterna spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system—which the company describes as the world’s smallest…
Michael Conte addresses a packed BEST-CLI session that took place at the 2022 VEITHsymposium in New York City One of the earliest multispecialty public gatherings…
A meta-analysis is first to report the pooled risk of post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) after isolated distal deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Researchers revealed a one in…
VIETHsymposium (15–19 November, New York City, USA) has played host to a “mini-symposium” on the risk of steal syndrome and distal ischaemia posed by vascular…
Kim Styrvoky Lung nodule biopsies performed with new robotic bronchoscopy technology may be safer and more effective than those done by traditional methods, a study…
Massimo Caputo Researchers have developed ‘stem cell plasters’ which it is hoped will revolutionise the way surgeons treat children living with congenital heart disease and…
Despite his initial intention to become a transplant surgeon, Markus Steinbauer (Krankenhaus Barmherzige Brüder, Regensburg, Germany) recalls how the rise of endovascular techniques, and the…
L to R: Geoffrey Colby, Wi Jin Kim, Milan Samarage A transmural approach for accessing the perivascular tissues of the cervical carotid artery has been…
Medical students and general surgery residents have the chance to change their lives. Perhaps they are still seeking some direction for their medical careers. Perhaps they’re…
Raphaël Coscas (Paris, France) talks to Renal Interventions about the first results of the ABISS trial, comparing drug-coated balloon (DCB) with plain-balloon angioplasty for arteriovenous…
Haemodialysis has traditionally been conducted with dialysate of a temperature of 36.5°C, but the use of a personalised, lower-temperature dialysate is experiencing “rising popularity” with…
Sarah Power Permanent intracranial stenting offers a feasible, safe ‘bailout’ option following a failed mechanical thrombectomy procedure. This was the concluding message delivered recently by…
Marcelo Molina In patients undergoing primary posterior spinal decompression and fusion up to three levels for degenerative lumbar disorders, the use of postoperative drains is…
Daniel Bertges The IN.PACT Admiral drug-coated balloon (DCB) shows promising results in treating femoropopliteal in-stent restenosis (ISR) in a Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Vascular…
Dmed’s NephroFlow device is as effective for ultrasound dilution (UD) for vascular access (VA) as existing devices such as the Transonic VA flow measurement technology,…
CorPath Corindus has been rebranded to Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics and will sit as a dedicated business within the Advanced Therapies area of Siemens Healthineers,…
Deborah Brouwer-Maier A range of issues in cannulation in arteriovenous fistulas (AVF) have been laid out by Deborah Brouwer-Maier (Transonic Systems, Ithaca, USA) at VEITHsymposium…
John Kaufman Cook Medical announces John A Kaufman (Cook Medical, Bloomington, USA) will be joining as its chief medical officer, effective July 2023. With Kaufman’s…
Stella Kyriakides Europe’s health commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, has announced that proposals to extend the transition period for the implementation of the European Union’s (EU) Medical…
Delcath Systems announced the publication of a retrospective analysis of patients who underwent a percutaneous hepatic perfusion procedure (PHP) with Chemosat for the treatment of…
Dori Schatell (Medical Education Institute, Madison, USA) spoke at the VEITH Symposium (15–19 November, New York City, USA) on the uses of plastic cannulas in…
Data have been presented for the first time at the Paris Vascular Insights (PVI) conference (23–25 November, Paris, France) from the ABISS trial, which compared…
Ali Kordzadeh A prospective study has demonstrated the potential feasibility, applicability and accuracy held by artificial intelligence (AI) in the detection of carotid artery disease…
Robert Stern LuSeed Vascular has announced that Robert Stern, an experienced medical device executive and investor, has been nominated as the vice chairman of the…
Kath Halliday presenting at BSIR 2022 Royal College of Radiology (RCR) president Kath Halliday (Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, UK) gave a presentation to the British…
Rob Sayers presenting at the VSGBI annual scientific meeting 2022 The President’s Symposium at the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland (VSGBI) annual scientific…
Anne Broekema Posterior cervical foraminotomy is non-inferior to anterior cervical discectomy with fusion for patients with cervical radiculopathy in relation to procedural success rate and…
The Swiss Federal Assembly has voted in favour of accepting medical devices with US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) marketing authorisation in Switzerland. A motion…
Xiaoyu Yang In patients with cervical radiculopathy, the type and extent of disc herniation measured on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) prior to surgery correlated neither…
During a late-breaking clinical trials session at the 2022 Vascular Interventional Advances (VIVA) conference (31 October–3 November, Las Vegas, USA), Mehdi Shishehbor (University Hospitals Harrington…
Thomas Maldonado (New York University Medical Center, New York, USA) speaks to Vascular News at the 2022 Vascular Interventional Advances (VIVA) conference (31 October–3 November,…
“If it were easy, this session would not be here.” These are the words of Jens Ricke (University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany), who drew attention…
Brian Fiani Brian Fiani, a neurosurgeon at Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (New York, USA), examines some of the main benefits and also limitations associated with…
The National Health Service (NHS) and Globus Medical have partnered to provide state-of-the-art robotic navigation technology for spinal surgery to NHS hospitals across the UK.…
Contego Medical has announced that enrolment of the PERFORMANCE II clinical trial has been completed. PERFORMANCE II is intended to evaluate the safety and effectiveness…
Percutaneous endovascular arteriovenous fistula (pAVF) procedures carry a lower risk of steal syndrome and wound infection than surgical arteriovenous fistula creation (sAVF), a new study…
Premia Spine’s TOPS system Premia Spine recently announced the publication of one-year outcomes from the TOPS facet replacement system’s clinical trial which found that lumbar…
L-R: Alik Farber, Matthew Menard, and Kenneth Rosenfield The first results from the BEST-CLI randomised controlled trial (RCT) of 1,830 patients show that surgical bypass…
Suresh Mathavakkannan (L), David Kingsmore A debate regarding the optimal place for vascular access creation and management to take place—specialised units or high-volume centres—saw Suresh…
Hanaa Dakour Aridi takes to the MVSS 2022 podium Researchers led by a vascular team in Indianapolis found that carotid endarterectomy (CEA) remains the most-used…
Hanaa Dakour Aridi takes to the MVSS 2022 podium Researchers led by a vascular team in Indianapolis found that carotid endarterectomy (CEA) remains the most-used…
Christopher Kwolek at VIVA 2022 Christopher Kwolek (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA) presented five-year results from the LEOPARD randomised controlled trial…
Ehrin Armstrong at VIVA 2022 The final 1,373-patient cohort analysis from the Disrupt PAD III observational study (OS) demonstrates consistent intravascular lithotripsy (IVL; Shockwave Medical)…
Daniel Clair presents six-month LimFlow data Six-month results from the PROMISE II trial of the LimFlow deep vein arterialisation system (LimFlow) showed an overall amputation-free…
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) have jointly published new guidelines on the diagnosis and management of aortic disease. The…
Sozaburo Hara and Sasha Gulati (photo by Ole Ekker) Among patients with chronic radicular pain after lumbar spine surgery, spinal cord burst stimulation, compared with…
Kenneth Rosenfield presents the new data at VIVA 2022 In the TRANSCEND clinical trial, the SurVeil drug-coated balloon (DCB; Surmodics) demonstrated “excellent efficacy and safety”…
Mehdi Shishehbor presents the new data at VIVA 2022 A patient-level, propensity-adjusted comparison of three-year results from a quartet of prospective, multicentre trials support the…
Michael Lichtenberg at VIVA 2022 At the 2022 Vascular Interventional Advances (VIVA) meeting (31 October–3 November, Las Vegas, USA), Michael Lichtenberg (Arnsberg Clinic, Arnsberg, Germany)…
Vascular device company iVascular has announced the expansion of its therapeutic areas with the launch of a new neurovascular pipeline, having gained CE-mark approval for…
John Filtes at The VEINS 2022 A retrospective review, presented as a late-breaking clinical trial at The VEINS (Venous Endovascular Interventional Strategies) 2022 (30–31 October,…
Pedro Valente Aguiar Degenerative cervical spine patients who are aware of their preoperative scores demonstrate better patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) than those who do not,…
Illustration: Andy Watt/NB Illustration “The spine is an area where interventional radiologists play a crucial role in both diagnosis and therapeutic management of a…
Mohamad Syafeeq Faeez Md Noh Following the publication of a case report in Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, researchers from Malaysia have indicated that the…
Jonathan de Siqueira A list of 10 key research priorities intended to help standardise vascular access research were delivered to attendees at this year’s Vascular…
Vesalio has announced EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR) certification of its product lines—achieving this “significantly ahead” of its May 2023 deadline, according to a company…
Tilman Reiff Five-year outcomes of a multicentre, randomised controlled trial (RCT) indicate that carotid endarterectomy (CEA) or carotid artery stenting (CAS) are not superior to…
Joseph S Coselli (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA) speaks to Vascular News about his career to date. Despite initially planning to follow in his…
Jolanda Kluin Clinical trials in cardiothoracic surgery must ensure that sufficient numbers of women are enrolled to adequately reflect differences between the sexes, attendees of…
Jens Fiehler Achieving clot retrieval with the fewest possible number of passes is critical in mechanical thrombectomy, and may even hold greater importance than how…
Sanjit Jolly Results from a multicentre randomised trial comparing ultrasound with fluoroscopic guidance versus fluoroscopic guidance alone during vascular femoral access for patients undergoing cardiac…
Ajay Kirtane Findings from the RADIANCE II randomised pivotal trial, presented at the 2022 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting (TCT, 16–19 September, Boston, USA), “confirm that…
(l-r) Mariell Jessup, Clyde Yancy, Ian Meredith and Jane Leopold The 2022 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT, 16–19 September, Boston, USA) opened with a day of…
TAVI A budget impact analysis comparing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) with surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) has concluded that the incremental annual cost of…
Vascade Haemonetics Corporation has received CE mark certification for its Vascade vascular closure and Vascade MVP venous vascular closure systems. The CE marking will allow…
CorPath GRX system Corindus, a Siemens Healthineers company, announced today the recent presentation of results from a “first-of-its-kind” study demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of…
Silk Road Medical has announced enrolment of the first patient in ROADSTER 3, which the company claims is the the first prospective, multicentre, single-arm study…
Giuseppe Gargiulo Transradial access for percutaneous coronary procedures is associated with lower rates of all-cause mortality and major bleeding at 30 days when compared to…
Geoffrey Strange Late-breaking research presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) annual congress (26–29 September, Barcelona, Spain) has demonstrated the use of an artificial…
Valentin Fuster pictured at ESC 2022 in Barcelona Use of a ‘polypill’ after myocardial infarction (MI)—an all-in-one pill containing an antiplatelet, lipid lowering medication, and…
Thomas MacDonald delivers TIME results at ESC 2022 The timing of dosing of antihypertensive medication—whether it is taken in the morning or in the evening—does…
Shahram Majidi presenting at SNIS 2022 Following the first endovascular implantation of Synchron’s Stentrode brain-computer interface (BCI) device in the USA, physicians have highlighted the…
Anna K Krawisz In a study recently published in Circulation, researchers found that Black adults underwent significantly more endovascular peripheral vascular interventions (PVI), were treated for more…
CX Aortic Vienna returns in October for its third edition (24–26 October, Digital), bringing together world-leading specialists from the cardiac and vascular fields to discuss…
Ramona Gupta Ramona Gupta (Northwestern University, Chicago, USA) addresses the issue of recurrent varicose veins, highlighting in particular the “multiple tools” now at physicians’ disposal…
Royal Philips today announced an important milestone in the evolving standard of care for treating patients with peripheral vascular disease: the establishment of the first-ever…
Christopher White (Credit: Ochsner Health) Research from Ochsner Health (New Orleans, USA) published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) is likely to…
Projected rates of cardiovascular risk factors and disease will increase significantly in the USA by 2060, a study published in the Journal of the American…
A new report released by the UK Stroke Association warns that, if thrombectomy rates remain at 2020/21 levels, a total of 47,112 stroke patients in…
Yana Etkin Intraoperative ultrasonographic venous mapping is a useful tool to evaluate vessel suitability for arteriovenous fistula (AVF) creation, Yana Etkin (Zucker School of Medicine…
Danny Dvir Preventing coronary obstruction after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) becomes increasingly important as the procedure moves into a lower-risk patient population. According to…
At the recent EndoVascular Access meeting (EVA; 24–25 June, Patras, Greece), and UK Kidney Week (UKKW; 7–9 June, Birmingham, UK), renal healthcare professionals had the…
Alexander Zimmermann (University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland) tells Vascular News about his career to date, beginning with a rotation in vascular surgery that opened up…
Alan Rozanski Patients identified by nuclear stress testing as having severe stress-induced myocardial ischaemia are likely to benefit from early coronary revascularisation through either coronary…
Colleen Flanagan The results of an analysis of nearly 2,000 carotid endarterectomies (CEAs) “challenge the notion” that patients benefit significantly from the current postoperative surveillance…
The risk of having a future stroke caused by asymptomatic carotid stenosis is “so low” that most patients with this condition could potentially be treated…
A study has revealed the “global collateral damage” caused by the disruption to cardiac services caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Writing in the European Heart…
TAVI Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was found to be non-inferior to surgery for all-cause mortality at one year among patients aged 70 years or…
Tom Carrell at CX 2022 At the 2022 Charing Cross (CX) International Symposium (26–28 April, London, UK), Tom Carrell (Cydar Medical, Barrington, UK) delivered a…
“As vascular surgeons, we never stop learning,” Palma Shaw tells Vascular News. This is one of the key attractions of the specialty for Shaw, who…
Bert van Meurs Bert van Meurs, the chief business leader for Image Guided Therapy with Royal Philips, speaks to Venous News following the company’s acquisition…
Mary Norine Walsh Women remain underrepresented in leading cardiovascular clinical trials, corresponding with underrepresentation and a lack of gender diversity among presenters at scientific meetings,…
Consultation by a heart team led to an observed benefit in objective patient outcomes, a prospective analysis of patients treated at a single centre in…
The use of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guidance for implantation of drug-eluting stents in long lesions improved long-term cardiac survival compared with angiography-guided implantation. This is…
J Dawn Abbott The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) has announced the release of an expert consensus statement on sex-specific considerations in myocardial…
Jean Panneton A review evaluating the results of thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) following acute type B aortic dissection suggests most patients with acute type…
New clinical practice guidelines have been published today, and are intended to act as “guard rails” to determine the treatment options and best practices for…
“Go for it!” Michael Jenkins urges anyone looking to start a career in medicine, highlighting that the COVID-19 pandemic has put into sharp focus its…
European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidance for the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease during the COVID-19 pandemic has been published in the European Heart…
Andy Watts/NB Illustration “I would say that the future is incredibly bright for cardiovascular surgeons,” Joseph E Bavaria tells Vascular News. The 52nd president of…
alisonlang.com “There is no doubt in my mind that working together rather than competing against each other will not only be in our best interests…
Phillip Popovich (Credit: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center) The widely prescribed pain-relief drug gabapentin can prevent harmful structural changes in the injured spinal…
Joseph Hill The editors-in-chief of major cardiovascular journals—of both US and European societies—have come together to “sound the alarm” about the dangers of medical misinformation…
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