Tag: vascular
US FDA approves Endologix’s Detour system for treating complex PAD
Endologix has announced in a press release that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for the Detour system to treat...
Merit Medical expands SwiftNinja steerable microcatheter offering
Merit Medical has announced the expansion of itsSwiftNinja steerable microcatheter product line. New sizes include a low-profile 2.4Fr distal diameter option in 125-cm and...
Non-optimal therapy for CLTI “more prominent in females”
A real-world claims data analysis of nearly 200,000 patients with chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI) showed that female patients were older, underwent vascular procedures less...
Data from new VOYAGER PAD analyses reinforce benefit of Xarelto plus...
The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson recently announced data from new analyses from the Phase 3 VOYAGER PAD clinical trial reinforcing the...
NICE abdominal aortic aneurysm guideline takes an “unprecedented” turn
Ian Loftus (London, UK), president of the Vascular Society for Great Britain and Ireland, tells BLearning about the most recent developments in the UK’s...
Wearables could transform monitoring and outcome assessment for vascular interventions
Health technology solutions—such as mobile apps and wearables—can play a huge role in activity tracking and assessing the outcomes of peripheral vascular interventions, says...
New Global Vascular Guidelines for CLTI patients now open for stakeholder...
The draft Global Vascular Guidelines on chronic limb threatening ischaemia (CLTI) have just been posted for open public comment until 3 December 2018. Michael...
Be an early adopter of AI to harness its benefits
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already better than humans at reading specific radiographic findings. It will impact phycisians’ jobs, but because it can currently only...
Open vs. endovascular aneurysm repair in the 60-year-old man against the...
“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...
The “epidemic” of surgeon burnout and a glimpse into the future...
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...
A patient’s health is “the most important” determinant of outcome after...
Andrew Klein (a consultant anaesthetist from Royal Papworth hospital in Cambridge, UK) tells Vascular News that research in cardiac surgery has shown that while the surgeon...
