In this issue:
SEPTEMBER 2022 Volume 18 Number 09
2G uest editorial No time like the present: The moral imperative for advocacy in vascular surgery
10 C orner Stitch Audible Bleeding cuts down to the vascular core
4A MA Society reaches membership target and retains seat in AMA House of Delegates
21 Western Vascular Study probes which chronic kidney disease patients benefit from endovascular AAA repair
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RESEARCHERS STUDY ROLE OF FRAILTY IN POST-DISCHARGE MORTALITY
MIDWESTERN VASCULAR
Aortobifemoral grafting in the endovascular era: An exploration of the open procedure and its merits among ‘good-risk’ patients today
By Beth Bales and Jocelyn Hudson
SOCIETY FOR VASCULAR Surgery (SVS) members have developed new methods and tools to assess patient frailty and possible surgical outcomes more simply before patients undergo vascular surgical procedures. Larry Kraiss, MD, Shipra Arya, MD, SM, and Julie Hales, MS, RN, discussed these methods and tools and their use during a session entitled “Tracking Frailty in the VQI” as part of the 2022 Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) annual meeting. Kraiss, who is a professor of Surgery at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, noted that he and his team have created a frailty assessment tool that maps variables already
By Bryan Kay
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SVS CHARTS ITS COURSE AHEAD FOR DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION
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ortobifemoral grafting for aortoiliac occlusive disease (AIOD) probably remains “very safe” in the era of endovascular repair, according to the senior author behind a new paper exploring optimal approaches to the often burdensome condition. The research team, led by Jonathan Bath, MD, an associate professor of surgery and the vascular surgery fellowship program director at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, carried out a comparative analysis of outcomes of endovascular repair and aortobifemoral bypass for AIOD over a five-year period (2016–2021) at their institution, exploring adult patients with Trans-At
Endovascular repair
Aortobifemoral bypass
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Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) President Michael Dalsing, MD, has added two more liaisons—Vincent Rowe, MD, and Palma Shaw, MD—to the SVS Executive Board in a bid to “increase the diversity of perspective,” (writes Beth Bales). They will serve for the remainder of the fiscal year and join Linda Harris, MD, the recently re-elected
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