Tag: Aortic

This advertorial, sponsored by Gore, is only available in selected countries and geographies. “This is a milestone for arch repair,” Dittmar Böckler (Heidelberg, Germany)...

Nectero Medical recently announced the closing of its US$96 million Series D financing round. Financing was led by Norwest Venture Partners, with large investments...

Debates will shed new light on controversies in the treatment of aortic disease at the 2024 Charing Cross (CX) Symposium, alongside practical sessions with...

The updated European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) 2024 clinical practice guidelines for the care of patients with aneurysms of the abdominal aorta and...

Medtronic recently announced that Simona Zannetti has been appointed as the general manager of its aortic business.  Zannetti previously spent 21 years at Medtronic. She...

Nectero Medical today announced initiation of a Phase II/III clinical trial (stAAAble) to investigate the safety and efficacy of the Nectero Endovascular Aneurysm Stabilisation...

An ongoing UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)-funded randomised controlled trial seeks to illuminate the value of an image fusion guidance...

This advertorial, sponsored by Gore, is only available in selected countries and geographies. In conversation with CX Vascular, Dennis Gable (The Heart Hospital Baylor...

Aquedeon Medical has announced its receipt of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigational device exemption (IDE) approval to conduct a staged pivotal clinical...

A specialist in complex open aortic surgery, Rachel Bell speaks to Vascular News about her career so far. Raised in Yorkshire, UK, she moved...

Endospan has announced the initial experience with its custom-made Nexus Duo aortic arch stent graft system. Theodosios Bisdas (Athens Medical Centre, Athens, Greece) presented...

Terumo Aortic announced in a press release the launch of the company’s global post-approval study (PAS) known as EXTEND for Thoraflex Hybrid, the only...

Statin treatment after aortic repair is associated with improved long-term survival, while dose does not matter. This was the key message from a first-to-podium...

This advertorial is sponsored by Philips. Two early adopters of Fiber Optic RealShape (FORS; Philips) share their expert opinions on the developing technology, highlighting its...

This session really reminds clinicians that the answer is not always an intervention in 100% of patients.

State-of-the-art open and endovascular techniques for the treatment of pararenal and juxtarenal aortic aneurysms were put under the microscope of the specialist aortic team...

There was consensus on day one of the CX Aortic Vienna 2022 Digital Edition (24–26 October) that aortic sac regression is a positive sign...

This advertorial is sponsored by Bentley. The range and complexity of vascular pathologies that interventionalists face necessitates a complete and comprehensive solution. Bentley, with its coronary,...

A new imaging device at University of Texas (UT) Southwestern (Dallas, USA) is making complex aortic repairs safer for patients and operating room staff...

This advertorial is sponsored by Bentley. Bridging stents have been used in fenestrated and branched endovascular aneurysm repair (F/BEVAR) for many years. However, their use...

Terumo Aortic has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval of the Thoraflex Hybrid frozen elephant trunk (FET) device...

Cydar Medical recently announced it has entered a strategic collaboration with Medtronic. Under the pilot arrangement, Cydar’s EV Maps software will be introduced to...

Shanghai MicroPort Endovascular MedTech (Endovastec) recently announced that it has received registration approval from Japan Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) for the Hyperflex...

Charing Cross (CX) chair Roger Greenhalgh welcomes the vascular community to this year's symposium, due to be held 26–28 April in London, UK, and...

The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and the Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) Society have released a consensus statement intended to help address perioperative...

Research indicates that plasma desmosine has the potential to act as a biomarker of acute aortic syndrome and could, in the future, be used...

Terumo Aortic has announced the launch and first commercial case of the Aortic Balloon in the USA. The device assists physicians in the expansion...

A team led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, USA, recently used deep learning to uncover insights into the genetic basis...

Viz.ai has announced the US commercial launch of its AI-powered modules for pulmonary embolism and aortic disease. Debuting at VEITHsymposium 2021 (16–20 November, Orlando, USA), the...

Medical management of type B aortic intramural haematomas is associated with low early mortality but a 19% risk of aortic-related intervention—primarily for proximal descending...

This advertorial is sponsored by Bentley. Based on his high-volume experience of branched repairs, Said Abisi, consultant vascular and endovascular surgeon at Guy’s and St...

This advertorial, sponsored by CryoLife, is only available in selected countries and geographies. “The E-nside device is a valuable addition to our current...

In patients with aortic dissection, a retrospective, population-based cohort study suggests that aortic branch involvement is responsible for “a significant long-term morbidity, without any...

This advertorial is sponsored by Bentley. Treatment of penetrating aortic ulcers (PAUs) has been swayed by recent advances in endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR). Anecdotally, the...

The third-generation Anaconda endograft (Terumo Aortic) provides “high technical success” and “satisfactory” five-year aneurysm exclusion and clinical success rates, a French multicentre prospective observational study (EPI-ANA-01) has found. The investigators note that longer-term...

For the CX 2020 LIVE Aortic Podium 1st Session, 489 participants from 62 countries tuned in to hear a series of experts examine technological...

Preliminary experience with left subclavian artery (LSA) branched devices indicates low morbidity and stroke rates with high patency rates. This was the conclusion of...

At this year’s Controversies and Updates in Vascular Surgery annual meeting (CACVS; 23–25 January, Paris, France), Dittmar Böckler (University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany) made...

Terumo Corporation today announced that it has decided to acquire Aortica Corporation, a US-based company dedicated to advancing the science of personalised vascular therapy.  Aortica...

𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙤 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙀𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮. Giovanni Torsello (Münster, Germany) and Mauro Gargiulo (Bologna, Italy) discuss the “very high” morbidity and...

 Ross Milner (Chicago, USA) spoke to Vascular News at the VEITHsymposium about the importance of long-term data for aortic endografts and the GREAT (Global...

 Stéphan Haulon, member of the CX Aortic Executive Board looks ahead to CX 2019 and raises some of the key questions that will be...

 Tilo Kölbel (Hamburg, Germany, and co-director of Aortic Live) tells Vascular News about the recently installed fusion imaging system from Cydar Medical, which connects...

Stéphan Haulon (Université Paris Sud, France) tells Vascular News at Aortic Live 2018 in Essen, Germany, about a niche group of patients, i.e., those that have had...

 “The best treatment for a 60-year-old man with an infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm that is above the threshold for intervention is arguably surgery based...

 Ronald L Dalman (Stanford, USA), vice president of the Society for Vascular Surgery, discusses how aligning an individual surgeon’s goals with those of the...

 Chronic exposure to low dose radiation, such as that experienced by operators who routinely perform endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), has biological effects that can...

 “The instructions for use (IFU) are not a clinical guideline, so trainees should really think about what the main considerations are when they are...