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Heart and vascular centers: 'It’s a financial thing, that's the whole reason for their existence'

1 week ago | vascularspecialistonline.com | Urmila Kerslake

“The reason to avoid a heart and vascular paradigm is [that] there really is no paradigm. There’s no set standard for how these things should function. There’s certainly no evidence that they benefit patient care,” says Malachi Sheahan III, MD, newly elected Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) secretary. He continues: “And really what they’re set up as is a trap.
VAM 2025: Crawford Forum probes four reasonable strategies to empower vascular surgeons

1 week ago | vascularspecialistonline.com | Urmila Kerslake

“Go back home and get a vascular center or […] get a vascular department, or, you know, assess the compensation [survey] results and, at least start considering a union, if it’s something feasible.” That was the new Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) President Keith Calligaro’s distillation of the burning issues and strategies to empower vascular surgeons at the 2025 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in New Orleans (June 4–7). Are heart and vascular centers beneficial to vascular surgeons?
Two-year data show continued clinical improvement with VenoValve

3 weeks ago | vascularspecialistonline.com | Jocelyn Hudson

Implantation Oof the VenoValve (enVVeno Medical) continues to promote stabilization of symptoms in patients with deep venous reflux at two-year follow-up. This is the headline finding of data shared yesterday during Plenary Session 6 at VAM 2025.
The people and devices that put ‘the vascular in vascular’

3 weeks ago | vascularspecialistonline.com | Bryan Kay

The people, discoveries, innovations and events that brought the vascular surgery profession to where it is today will form the subject matter for this year’s John Homans Lecture—“Who put the vascular in vascular surgery?”—at VAM 2025. Jerry Goldstone, MD, an adjunct professor at Stanford University College of Medicine, will pore over some of the most important developments in the field since the founding of the SVS in 1946, which set the stage for the modern vascular surgical specialty.
International Chapter highlights pressing need to document PAD and CLTI prevalence in South Asia

3 weeks ago | vascularspecialistonline.com | Bryan Kay

There is an urgent need for epidemiological studies to map out the prevalence of chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI)—and peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in general—in South Asia, attendees of the International Chapter Education Session at VAM 2025 heard yesterday morning.
Learn from other fields to enhance your practice, vascular surgeon innovators told

3 weeks ago | vascularspecialistonline.com | Will Date

“A lot of solutions to your problems exist in somebody else’s operating room, or somebody else’s cath lab, but you never actually go there.” These were the words of Alan B.
SVS president will stake ‘reclaiming center’ in VAM 2025 address

3 weeks ago | vascularspecialistonline.com | Urmila Kerslake

One of the singular highlights of VAM 2025—the presidential introduction and address—will take place this morning from 11 a.m.–12 p.m. on Morial CC’s First Floor (Great Hall A), with SVS President Matthew Eagleton, MD, centering his focus on the Society’s anchor in a community commitment to patients and a spirit of shared purpose. The SVS seeks to lead, unite and rebuild vascular surgery’s future, he will tell the VAM audience.
Transatlantic multicenter experience highlights effectiveness of total endovascular aortic repair with F/BEVAR but 5% risk of major stroke

3 weeks ago | vascularspecialistonline.com | Jocelyn Hudson

Staged total endovascular aortic repair (TEAR) utilizing arch branched and thoracoabdominal fenestrated and branched endografts is effective, but identified predictors of morbidity and mortality—including stroke—highlight the importance of individualized risk assessment to optimize outcomes. These are some of the key findings of a study presented during yesterday’s Plenary Session 3.
Impact report finds no major change in balance between CAS and CEA following Medicare expansion

3 weeks ago | vascularspecialistonline.com | Eva Malpass

An evaluation of trends in the utilization of carotid artery stenting (CAS) versus carotid endarterectomy (CEA) has found there to be “no major change” to tip the balance following the 2023 US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expansion of CAS coverage to include standard-risk patients with symptomatic ≥50% and asymptomatic ≥70% carotid artery stenosis. Courtenay M.
Transcatheter arterialization of the deep veins: Comparative analysis probes whether emerging modality is worth pursuing

3 weeks ago | vascularspecialistonline.com | Bryan Kay

“We’re living in a new world order” when it comes to “no-option” chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) patients, says Anahita Dua, MD. In recent years, into this arena has stepped transcatheter arterialization of the deep veins (TADV), raising hopes of reducing amputation rates amid a rise in diabetes and other disease affecting microvascular dissemination.