Vascular News

Vascular News is reporting from the 2024 Vascular Societies' Annual Scientific Meeting (VSASM) in Brighton, UK. Follow the live blog here: https://lnkd.in/eaM75QpW

Rethink your strategy for calcified iliac arteries. Stefano Fazzini (Rome, Italy) shares a case which illustrates how the new Shockwave Medical L6 can help provide alternative solutions where anatomical mismatch may limit treatment options. This video is sponsored by Shockwave Medical. Watch the full case: https://lnkd.in/eQ9r3Men #SIZEmatters #goBIGinLargerVessels

Bentley recently announced that it has been granted TÜV certificates for two of its bridging stent products Read more: https://lnkd.in/eRZbuCV2

Is it time to rethink your strategy in calcified iliac arteries?   Mark P. (London UK) describes a case of a patient with severely calcified common iliac disease and chronic limb threating ischemia (#CLTI) where the use of the new @shockwavemedical L6 resulted in excellent luminal gain, mitigating the need for a stent and lead to complete wound healing. This video, sponsored by Shockwave Medical, is only available for our viewers in selected countries and geographies. Watch the full case: https://lnkd.in/e5er6Kif #SIZEmatters #goBIGinLargerVessels

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Firas Mussa (Houston, USA) urges specialists to put biases aside when it comes to treatment options for uncomplicated type B aortic dissection (TBAD). Read more: https://lnkd.in/ekZNrJ9r

Rethink your strategy in calcified iliac arteries Read about the new Shockwave L6 catheter in this latest educational supplement from Vascular News, featuring expert opinion and case reports from Michel Bosiers, MD (Bern, Switzerland), Mark P. (London, UK), Stefano Fazzini (Rome, Italy) and Ashish Patel (London, UK). Read the supplement here: https://lnkd.in/e_jK3bpC #SIZEmatters #ShockwaveL6 This supplement, which is sponsored by Shockwave Medical, is only available in selected countries and geographies.

You have a long complex SFA lesion, what do you do? DCB+/-bailout stent or go direct with Eluvia DES? Find out what the experts Prof. Dr. Giovanni Torsello and Prof. Gunnar Tepe think: https://lnkd.in/d3rVWZWJ Want to know more about Eluvia? https://lnkd.in/eD6YWYRT   #Vascular #Eluvia #BSCEMEA   Sponsored by Boston Scientific

INTERVIEW: Ramon L. Varcoe, MBBS, MS, FRACS, PhD, MMed (ClinEpi), vascular surgeon at Prince of Wales Hospital and full professor at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), speaks to Vascular News about his career so far. He also considers some of the biggest challenges currently facing vascular surgery, details his hobbies and interests outside of medicine, and reflects on how past experience in professional athletics has influenced his current work. Varcoe is also founder and course co-director of VERVE Symposium, the 2024 iteration of which is currently underway in Sydney, Australia. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ei4Y3ery

A debate at this year’s European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) annual meeting (24–27 September, Kraków, Poland) centred on innovation in vascular surgery, with experts considering whether it will ‘change everything’ in the field. While Matt Thompson, chief executive officer of Endologix LLC, underscored the inherently innovative nature of vascular surgery and the inevitability of technological advancement—he urged specialists to “safely adopt new technologies or become irrelevant”—vascular surgeon Jon Boyle (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK) championed a more cautious, patient safety-focused approach, highlighting past instances of innovation having caused harm. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e37wbwEt