European Society for Vascular Surgery

This week, we release first of three podcasts recorded live during the Translational Spring Meeting in June in Stockholm. Vaiva Dabravolskaite had a please talking with two extraordinary physicians and scientists: Prof. Katherine McGinigle and Dr. Juliette Raffort-Lareyre. Together we will introduce concepts of machine learning, artificial intelligence and etc and will dive in deeper into differen...

In this week's podcast, Prof. Martin Björck joins us to tell us all we should know about Abdominal Compartment Syndrome, a life-threatening condition characterised by increased pressure in the abdomen, leading to compromised blood flow to vital organs. Read the Virtual Vascular chapter "Abdominal Compartment Syndrome" written by Prof. Björck on the ESVS Library.

This last part of the Q&A series on the ESVS 2024 PAD Guidelines, we will be discussing with the guidelines writing committee chair, Dr. Joakim Nordanstig, about invasive interventions for claudication. The ESVS 2024 Guidelines on the Management of Asymptomatic Lower Limb Peripheral Arterial Disease and Intermittent Claudication is available in Open Access https://esvs.org/guidelines/

This second part of the Q&A series on the ESVS 2024 PAD Guidelines, we will be asking the guidelines writing committee chair, Dr. Joakim Nordanstig, about the treatment recommendations for claudication, the role of supervised exercise therapy, and more! The ESVS 2024 Guidelines on the Management of Asymptomatic Lower Limb Peripheral Arterial Disease and Intermittent Claudication is available i...

This first part of the Q&A series on the ESVS 2024 PAD Guidelines will focus on asymptomatic patients in screening for PAD. The guidelines writing committee chair, Dr. Joakim Nordanstig, shares the process and challenges of creating the guidelines. We also zoom in on some of the recommendations in screening approaches and the reasoning behind them. The ESVS Guidelines is available in Open Acce...

In today's podcast Laurence Bertrand and Suzanne Stokmans dissect the study of Frank Hoexum et al. that was recently published in the EJVES on the Treatment of Paget-Schroetter-Syndrome, a dangerous condition affecting young patients with acute, effort induced thrombosis of the subclavian vein due to a preexisting state of venous thoracic outlet syndrome. More than 30 years of evidence is compiled...

The ESVS is launching it’s first aortic fellowship! In this 2-year program starting in September 2024 surgical trainees or vascular surgeons will have access to face-to-face and online workshops covering the full range of aortic surgery, topped by a two-week placement in a high-volume aortic centre. There is a beginner and an advanced module. ESVS members can apply for a Fellowship grant to cover...

In this episode Abena A and Leana Dogbe ( @leanadogbe ) partner with Vaiva Dabravolskaite ( vaivadabravolskaite@gmail.com ) from ESVS to host an episode discussing social deprivation in vascular surgery. Dr. Tara Mastracci and Dr. Olamide Alabi join us to offer insights into how social deprivation drives disparities in outcomes and steps on how we can shift practice paradigms to better address our...

The authors of the Virtual Vascular chapter on "Aortic graft infection and mycotic (infected) aortic aneurysms", Anders Wanhainen, Hamid Gavali, and Ivika Heinola, join us on this week's podcast to talk about mycotic aneurysms. Virtual Vascular is an online living textbook, with chapters on various topics in vascular surgery, written by experts around the globe. It is accessible via the ESVS Libra...

In this podcast we talk with Dr. David Lewis, head of the ESVS Academy’s Professional Development and Academic pathway, about the importance of non-technical skills for surgeons, aspects of vascular surgical training that are often overlooked on training programs, what workshops this pathway includes, and who they are addressed to, among other details. You will definitely find it interesting and u...

This is the third and last podcast of the Q&A series on the ESVS 2023 Clinical Practice Guidelines on Antithrombotic Therapy for Vascular Diseases. In this last edition, we talk with Prof. Chris Twine and Stavros Kakkos about some recommendations and their underlying evidence regarding antithrombotic treatment in venous thromboembolic disease and vascular access for haemodialysis. It has been a pl...

Here comes the second podcast of the Q&A series on the ESVS 2023 Clinical Practice Guidelines on Antithrombotic Therapy for Vascular Diseases. This time we address, with Prof. Chris Twine, evidence and recommendations for antithrombotic treatment in lower limb ischemic disease. A must!

Here is the first of a series of Q&A podcasts on ESVS clinical practice guidelines. We start with the ESVS 2023 Clinical Practice Guidelines on Antithrombotic Therapy for Vascular Diseases, and, in this first release, Prof. Chris Twine clarifies the evidence underlying some recommendations on antithrombotic therapy in carotid artery disease. Key for our everyday clinical practice, don't miss i...

Welcome to the Transatlantic Series, a co-production of Audible Bleeding (a publication of the SVS) and the ESVS podcast. In today’s episode, we explore the intersocietal guidelines on peripheral arterial disease in patients with diabetes and foot ulcers authored by the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot, the European Society for Vascular Surgery, and the Society for Vascular Su...

The 2024 ESVS Translational Spring Meeting will take place in Stockholm on the 3rd and 4th of June. The head of the organizing committee, Prof. Ulf Hedin, and one of the local vascular residents, Moritz Lindquist Liljeqvist, talk to us about the importance of translational science, the program highlights, the spirit of the meeting and much more. Don't miss it! https://esvs.org/events/tra...

This week, we are completing the podcast series on FEBVS exam preparations, just in time for our listeners who are taking the exam in a month. Together with Prof. Mauro Gargiulo, we will walk you through the Overall Vivas, once again, with clinical scenarios from previous exams. Enjoy, and good luck to all the future fellows!     Shownotes: Take a look at those ESVS podcasts to assist yo...

In this week's podcast, we are covering FEBVS exam preparation part 3, to be more specific, the most demanding part for most – academic paper appraisal. Together with Prof. M. Gargiulo, we will illustrate how to appraise a paper using an article from previous exams.   Shownotes: Official UEMS page for more information: https://uemsvascular.com/wpsite/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/FEBVS_Academic-...

In this week’s podcast together with Prof. M. Gargiulo, we will cover the FEBVS exam prep part 2. We will go through clinical cases, illustrating them with real cases from previous FEBVS exams. Below, you will find some helpful links for more information. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or suggestions. Links: Link to the official page: https://uemsvascular.com/febvs-examination/ F...

This week together with prof. A.Mansilha we will talk about the FEBVS exam. This is the first of four-podcast series on the preparation for FEBVS exam. In this podcast we will cover the general concerns regarding the exam and it’s structure. In the following podcast we will walk future fellows through the exam, illustrating it with real cases from the previous exams. Feel free to reach out if you...

The podcast team wishes you all a Happy New Year! In this first episode of 2024, we are talking with Dr. Julien Possoz and Dr. Charles Swaelens, both vascular surgeons from the Grand Hôpital de Charleroi in Belgium about their experience in robot-assisted aortic surgery, mainly for aortic occlusive disease. They have performed about 100 procedures in the past years and tell us all about their expe...

In today’s episode, we talk with Prof. Bijan Modarai, the chair of the writing committee of the 2023 Clinical Practice Guidelines on Radiation Safety. This is the last podcast episode that was recorded during the Annual Meeting in Belfast.

During #ESVS2023, we held a session on Digital Education is Here to Stay where we discussed the creation of the ESVS's Virtual Vascular textbook and where it's heading. Currently, Virtual Vascular chapters are released regularly online, on the ESVS Library, but we also discuss the future of digital education. This interview with Jonothan Earnshaw and Sabine Wipper was recorded live during the sess...

This is the third and last podcast of our BEST CLI Trial Q&A series, which we recorded live during the 2023 ESVS Annual Meeting in Belfast with PIs Alik Farber and Matt Menard. In this podcast we focus on outcome variables and the different endpoints chosen in the BEST CLI and BASIL 2 trials, and on the next steps to prioritize in CLTI research. Unmissable.

Here is the second podcast of our BEST CLI Trial Q&A series, which we recorded live during the 2023 ESVS Annual Meeting in Belfast with PIs Alik Farber and Matt Menard. In this podcast, we dig deeper into the technical failure rate of endovascular treatment and anatomical disease patterns within the trial and how they impact the interpretation of the results and our everyday clinical practice....

During the 2023 ESVS Annual Meeting in Belfast we sat down with PIs of the BEST CLI trial, Drs. Alik Farber and Matt Menard, to dig deeper into the interpretation of the results of this landmark trial. That conversation has become a series of 3 Q&A podcasts, of which this is the first. Find out in what patients the trial results are applicable and so we should look out for in our everyday clin...