Vascular Specialist Online

12/07/2025

Jerry Goldstone, who delivered this year's John Homans Lecture at the Society for Vascular Surgery's , talks vascular surgery history and its importance to the context in which the specialty exists today: https://vascularspecialistonline.com/vascular-surgery-history-putting-specialty-on-the-map-in-a-broader-sense/

Stanford University, Western Vascular Society

The people, discoveries, innovations and events that brought the vascular surgery profession to where it is today formed the bedrock of the subject matter for this year’s John Homans Lecture—“Who put the vascular in vascular surgery?”—at VAM 2025.

11/07/2025

“Go back home and get a vascular center or […] get a vascular department, or, you know, assess the compensation [survey] results and, at least start considering a union, if it’s something feasible.” That was the new Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) President Keith Calligaro’s distillation of the burning issues and strategies to empower vascular surgeons.

“Go back home and get a vascular center or […] get a vascular department, or, you know, assess the compensation [survey] results and, at least start considering a union, if it's something feasible.” That was the new Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) President Keith Calligaro’s distillation ...

11/07/2025

Implantation Oof the VenoValve (enVVeno Medical) continues to promote stabilization of symptoms in patients with deep venous reflux at two-year follow-up. This is the headline finding of data set shared yesterday during Plenary Session 6 at VAM 2025.

27/05/2025

Our medical editor, Mal Sheahan, weighs in on the topic of heart and vascular centers.

Malachi Sheahan III, MD, produces notes on a quixotic quest to find meaning in one of medicine’s most meaningless endeavors.

27/05/2025

Our May issue is packed with news and views from around the vascular surgery world. Society for Vascular Surgery, Future Vascular Surgeons, Western Vascular Society, American Venous Forum.

In this issue: Wound healing in space: How a group of vascular surgeons is working to plug gaps in knowledge and inspire colleagues to recognize the specialty’s essential role in future space travel Bylaw referendum: SVS Executive Board proposes changes to Senior membership to meet modern demograp...

29/04/2025

The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) will hold a virtual Highway to Health informational session exclusively for members on Wednesday, April 30, at 7 p.m. Central time:

The SVS will hold a virtual Highway to Health informational session exclusively for members on Wednesday, April 30, at 8 p.m.

18/04/2025

Following in the footsteps of some of the pioneers of cardiovascular surgery, Gustavo Oderich, MD, recently stepped into position as the Michael E. DeBakey distinguished chair in surgery at Baylor College of Medicine:

Following in the footsteps of some of the pioneers of cardiovascular surgery, Gustavo Oderich, MD, recently stepped into position as the Michael E. DeBakey distinguished chair in surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

18/04/2025

Novel phenotypic AAA classification may help better stratify aneurysm risk:

Inspection of aortic lumen, wall and thrombus volume changes throughout the cardiac cycle enables novel classification of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) into four types “representing the complex wall-lumen-thrombus interaction,” a new study delivered during the 2025 Critical Issues America (C...

17/03/2025

Daniel Clair discusses the latest findings around the LimFlow technology and transcatheter arterialization of the deep veins (TADV).

These remain early days for transcatheter arterialization of the deep veins in the setting of patients with severe CLTI, but the learning-curve process promises that “we are going to continue to see slow but not insignificant improvement in results” with the technique.

17/03/2025

Alan Lumsden recently delivered his latest pitch for robotics in vascular surgery during his presidential address. He will make the case again on April 25: https://vascularspecialistonline.com/open-surgery-endovascular-intervention-and-robotics-the-coming-third-revolution-in-vascular-surgery/

03/03/2025

Positive one-year data for new venous valve portends promising future in chronic venous insufficiency treatment.

03/03/2025

Bhagwan Satiani discusses large mergers and acquisitions (M&A), which have continued at a torrid pace in the U.S. healthcare system:

Large mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have continued at a torrid pace. Robert Pearl calls it a “conglomerate of monopolies” pointing out that “the 40 largest health systems own 2,073 hospitals, roughly one-third of all emergency and acute-care facilities in the United States.”