Articles & Press Releases

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.

A handful of SVS members will soon begin implementing projects to improve community health in three areas throughout the United States.

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.

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.

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.

STATIN THERAPY IS ASSOCIATED WITH HIGHER LONG-TERM BUT NOT PERIOPERATIVE SURVIVAL AFTER ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM REPAIR. August, 2018. Journal of Vascular Surgery.

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.

ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF ENDOVENOUS GREAT SAPHENOUS ABLATION IN A PUBLIC HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, June 2018, Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders

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 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.

Dr. Kim J. Hodgson, chair of the division of vascular surgery at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Ill., was elected president-elect of the Society for Vascular Surgery for 2018-19 at the organization’s Vascular Annual Meeting in June. He will be slated for president next year.

Dr. R. Clement Darling III was elected chair of the Society for Vascular Surgery Foundation at the 2018 Vascular Annual Meeting in June.

CHICAGO, Ill., July 1, 2018 – Vascular surgeon Dr. Michel S. Makaroun was elected president of the Society for Vascular Surgery at its annual meeting in June. He will serve in this role for one year. Dr.

CHICAGO, Ill., July 1, 2018 – New leaders were elected at the June annual business meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery in Boston. They are:

CHICAGO, Illinois, June 27, 2018 – The Society for Vascular Surgery has named Dr. Gregorio Sicard, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the Lifetime Achievement Award Winner for 2018. The award is the highest honor bestowed by the society each year.

The Society for Vascular Surgery now has a clinical practice guideline devoted solely to imaging following vascular surgery interventions. 

Between billing, coding, keeping electronic medical records up to date and … oh yes, … actual surgery, vascular surgeons increasingly report feeling overwhelmed and burned out.

From JVS-VL: Public Funding of EVA Reduces Costs

Publicly funded endovenous ablation has reduced the rates of high ligation and stripping, which in turn has reduced costs to the Canadian health system by approximately $42,000 a year.

The SVS is seeking volunteers who will represent a diversity of practice types and settings, career stages and perspectives.

With the advent of endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) over the past several decades, along with more recent technical advances that now allow for more complex aneurysms to be treated with branched-fenestrated devices, it is not surprising that the rate of open AAA repair is declining. The important question now is, has this decline become so drastic that open AAA can no longer serve as a relevant marker for hospital quality, or program discrimination for trainees?

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Notice to SVS Members from the Executive Board:  

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Physician burnout, fiscal challenges, lifelong learning and additional courses on hemodialysis: those all will be featured in this year’s Vascular Annual Meeting.

BY MALACHI SHEAHAN III, MD DEPUTY MEDICAL EDITOR, VASCULAR SPECIALIST