Tag: PVI 2021

Face to face workshops “crucial” to teaching trainee physicians at congresses

 Isabelle Van Herzeele (Ghent, Belgium) and Adrien Hertault (Valenciennes, France) speak about the importance of face to face training sessions for trainee physicians and...

AI tipped to be a “gamechanger” in aortic procedures

 Artificial intelligence (AI) will transform the accuracy of patient selection and endograft selection for aortic procedures. Its use will shore up computed tomography (CT)...
Peter Schneider bypass

Surgeons must stay skilled in femorotibial/pedal bypass surgery, PVI audience hears

At Paris Vascular Insights (PVI) 2021 (21–23 October, Paris, France), Peter Schneider (University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA) emphasised the need for...
FemoSeal

Head-to-head trial shows superiority of FemoSeal over ProGlide for peripheral interventions

Results of the randomised, prospective, multicentre STEP trial show that the FemoSeal vascular closure system (Terumo) is superior to the Perclose ProGlide suture-mediated closure...