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Recent Articles
SVS Foundation Projects Aim to Improve Community Health
An SVS dream of increasing awareness of and preventing vascular disease is taking root across the country.
Three projects, funded by the first SVS Foundation Community Awareness and Prevention Project Grants, will:
From JVS, JVS-VL
Smoking: Surgeons debate performing lower-extremity bypass in patients who are active smokers.
Meet the New SVS President
An interview with Michel S. Makaroun
Q. You’ve been leading the way on the issue of a future workforce shortage. Will this be a major initiative of your presidency? What other issue(s) and challenges stand out for your attention?
JVS Publications to Debut 4th Research Journal
A new Journal of Vascular Surgery publication, “JVS: Vascular Science” is planned to launch in early 2019, Drs. Peter Gloviczki and Peter Lawrence announced at the Society for Vascular Surgery’s Vascular Annual Meeting.
JVS: Statin Therapy after AAA Repair
Statin therapy can boost survival rates in patients undergoing repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms, according to an article in the August issue of Journal of Vascular Surgery.
Saving the Community’s Health, One Project at a Time
A handful of SVS members will soon begin implementing projects to improve community health in three areas throughout the United States.
The national shortage of vascular surgeons
This year’s E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum addressed the current status of the vascular surgery workforce, its existing geographic distribution, the potential for a worsening shortage, and proposed solutions to ensure future vascular care delivery.
Members Asked to Complete New Survey on Burnout
Leaders of the SVS Wellness Task Force urge all SVS members to complete a new survey on physician burnout, this one aimed at physical debility.
SVS Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Dr. Gregorio Sicard, a ‘Surgeon’s Surgeon’
Back at the dawn of the endovascular revolution, many other surgical specialties were vying to dominate minimally invasive endovascular procedures. Vascular surgery, the standard bearer of open vascular surgery, could have gone the way of buggy whips.
AAA Patients Should Be Considered for Statin Therapy
STATIN THERAPY IS ASSOCIATED WITH HIGHER LONG-TERM BUT NOT PERIOPERATIVE SURVIVAL AFTER ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM REPAIR. August, 2018. Journal of Vascular Surgery.
New follow-up guidelines for imaging after vascular surgery announced by SVS
CHICAGO, Illinois, July 19, 2018 – New clinical practice guidelines on follow-up imaging after vascular arterial surgery are now available in both print and digital versions from the Society for Vascular Surgery.
Carotid stenting, filter debris and better patient selection
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS AND PREDICTORS OF EMBOLIC FILTER DEBRIS LOAD DURING CAROTID ARTERY STENTING IN ASYMPTOMATIC PATIENTS. Journal of Vascular Surgery, July 2018.
Dr. Ronald L. Dalman Elected Vice President of SVS
Dr. Ronald L. Dalman was elected vice president of the Society for Vascular Surgery at the organization’s annual meeting in Boston. With his new position, he joins the line of leadership to the presidency.
Recent Articles
SVS Foundation Projects Aim to Improve Community Health
An SVS dream of increasing awareness of and preventing vascular disease is taking root across the country.
Three projects, funded by the first SVS Foundation Community Awareness and Prevention Project Grants, will:
From JVS, JVS-VL
Smoking: Surgeons debate performing lower-extremity bypass in patients who are active smokers.
Meet the New SVS President
An interview with Michel S. Makaroun
Q. You’ve been leading the way on the issue of a future workforce shortage. Will this be a major initiative of your presidency? What other issue(s) and challenges stand out for your attention?
JVS Publications to Debut 4th Research Journal
A new Journal of Vascular Surgery publication, “JVS: Vascular Science” is planned to launch in early 2019, Drs. Peter Gloviczki and Peter Lawrence announced at the Society for Vascular Surgery’s Vascular Annual Meeting.
JVS: Statin Therapy after AAA Repair
Statin therapy can boost survival rates in patients undergoing repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms, according to an article in the August issue of Journal of Vascular Surgery.
Saving the Community’s Health, One Project at a Time
A handful of SVS members will soon begin implementing projects to improve community health in three areas throughout the United States.
The national shortage of vascular surgeons
This year’s E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum addressed the current status of the vascular surgery workforce, its existing geographic distribution, the potential for a worsening shortage, and proposed solutions to ensure future vascular care delivery.
Members Asked to Complete New Survey on Burnout
Leaders of the SVS Wellness Task Force urge all SVS members to complete a new survey on physician burnout, this one aimed at physical debility.
SVS Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Dr. Gregorio Sicard, a ‘Surgeon’s Surgeon’
Back at the dawn of the endovascular revolution, many other surgical specialties were vying to dominate minimally invasive endovascular procedures. Vascular surgery, the standard bearer of open vascular surgery, could have gone the way of buggy whips.
AAA Patients Should Be Considered for Statin Therapy
STATIN THERAPY IS ASSOCIATED WITH HIGHER LONG-TERM BUT NOT PERIOPERATIVE SURVIVAL AFTER ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM REPAIR. August, 2018. Journal of Vascular Surgery.
New follow-up guidelines for imaging after vascular surgery announced by SVS
CHICAGO, Illinois, July 19, 2018 – New clinical practice guidelines on follow-up imaging after vascular arterial surgery are now available in both print and digital versions from the Society for Vascular Surgery.
Carotid stenting, filter debris and better patient selection
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS AND PREDICTORS OF EMBOLIC FILTER DEBRIS LOAD DURING CAROTID ARTERY STENTING IN ASYMPTOMATIC PATIENTS. Journal of Vascular Surgery, July 2018.
Dr. Ronald L. Dalman Elected Vice President of SVS
Dr. Ronald L. Dalman was elected vice president of the Society for Vascular Surgery at the organization’s annual meeting in Boston. With his new position, he joins the line of leadership to the presidency.