Showing papers in "European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery in 2018"

TL;DR: Management of Atherosclerotic Carotid and Vertebral Disease: 2017 Clinical Practice Guidelines of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) is published.

TL;DR: The goal of these Guidelines is to summarise and evaluate all the currently available evidence to assist physicians in selecting the best management strategies for all patients needing VA or for pathologies derived from a VA.

TL;DR: These Guidelines emphasise the importance of the multidisciplinary “Vascular Team” in holistic management of patients with PAD, including comprehensive cardiovascular preventive measures and integrated cardiac risk management of PAD patients.

TL;DR: This international audit showed large geographical differences in major amputation rates, by a factor of almost six, and an overall declining time trend during the 4 year observation, and warrant further research on how to improve limb salvage in different demographic settings.

TL;DR: There is little evidence supporting the efficacy of secondary intervention for type II endoleak treatment following endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR), which leads to difficulty in assessing its merits.

TL;DR: The mortality risks are more than doubled in symptomatic PAD patients compared with referenceSubjects with different peripheral arterial disease stages are still at high risk of CV death, and increase by severity of PAD stage.

TL;DR: The diagnostic performance of WBC scintigraphy combined with SPECT/CT is suggested to be the greatest in diagnosing VGI, however, it is a time consuming technique and not always available.

TL;DR: The aim of the present study was to determine the most commonly used antithrombotic regimens and facilitate global consensus and found consensus existed amongst respondents regarding anticoagulant therapy following venous stenting.

TL;DR: Thrombotic events occur infrequently following GSV EVTA, and given the large numbers of procedures worldwide and the potential for serious consequences, further research is needed on the burden of these complications and their management.

TL;DR: Reorganisation of acute vascular surgical services may improve outcomes of RAAA repair, and peri-operative mortality is lower in centres with a primary EVAR approach or with high case volume.

TL;DR: Frailty, assessed by functional status, can predict short-term mortality in elderly patients after vascular surgery; while central muscle mass may help determine long-term survival in abdominal aortic repair.

TL;DR: Revealing the vesicle composition and phenotype in normal and pathological vascular conditions will be essential for the development of new therapeutic strategies, in order to prevent and treat vascular calcification.

TL;DR: No differences were observed in occlusion rates between the three modalities, but NBCA appeared superior with respect to peri-procedural pain, return to work and decreased VCSS.

TL;DR: Low overall transient and permanent SCI rates are achieved during endovascular thoracic and thoraco-abdominal aortic repair and the use of selective spinal fluid drainage in high risk patients seems justified.

TL;DR: The Vici Venous Stent is associated with a good secondary patency rate and durable and substantial symptomatic resolution in patients with chronic post-thrombotic occlusions, regardless of whether stents extended beneath the inguinal ligament.

TL;DR: The results confirmed a reduced superficial SSI rate after vascular surgical groin incision using ciNPT compared with standard wound dressings in patients who underwent vascular surgery for peripheral artery disease.

TL;DR: A modified Delphi study allowed 25 international vascular registry experts to achieve a consensus recommendation for a minimum core data set and an optimum data set for peripheral arterial revascularisation registries.

TL;DR: Open surgical conversion following EVAR results in significant morbidity and mortality and more data are required to elucidate the impact of increasing liberalisation of EVAR outside of IFU.

TL;DR: This meta-analysis has shown a lower risk of restenosis with open surgical intervention than with endovascular intervention, and the risk of stroke in open surgery is higher when the supra-aortic branches are involved rather than the renal arteries.

TL;DR: Early data suggest that visceral inner branches might represent a feasible third option to address selected target vessels in F/BEVAR and seem to be a better configuration than stent grafts with inner branches alone.

TL;DR: Intervention for autologous arteriovenous fistula non-maturation is worthwhile and results in an increased number of functional fistulae and the outcome of surgical revision is better than endovascular and might be preferable in certain patient populations.

TL;DR: In situ antegrade LfEVAR is feasible and a safe alternative option for high risk inoperable patients or for those not eligible for custom made device endografting, particularly in emergency cases.

TL;DR: Failure of aneurysm sealing following treatment with Nellix has been more common than anticipated and can cause aortic rupture, and post-operative surveillance of NellIX stent grafts is crucial to identify features of failure.

TL;DR: Using combined RCT and OS data, eCEA was superior to cCEA regarding peri-operative outcomes (stroke, death, death/stroke) and late restenosis, but was similar to patched CEA in both early and late outcomes.

TL;DR: The Strengths and Limitations of Claims Based Research in Countries With Fee for Service Reimbursement are studied and claims based research in countries with fee for service reimbursement is studied.

TL;DR: To obtain immediate and durable thoraco-abdominal aortic remodelling in acute type B dissections, the STABILISE technique is safe and reproducible while not compromising the patency of collateral branches.

TL;DR: The impact of renal artery (RA) anatomy on the renal outcome of fenestrated-branched endografts (FB-EVAR) for thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysms (TAAA) was evaluated and type C RA orientation was a protective factor for intra-operative RA loss.

TL;DR: Investigation of compliance and complications of compression stockings in patients with chronic venous disease and post-thrombotic syndrome found good compliance with compression is reported in around two thirds of patients, with inferior compliance in those given higher degrees of compression.

TL;DR: CFD modelling suggests that MALAN improves discrimination of expected displacement forces in proximal landing zones for TEVAR, which might influence clinical outcomes, however, the clinical relevance remains to be validated in a dedicated post-operative outcome analysis of patients treated byTEVAR of the arch.