European Society for Vascular Surgery

Welcome to the final episode of the Q&A series of the 2024 ESVS clinical practice guidelines on the Management of Abdominal Aorto-Iliac Artery Aneurysms. In this series of podcasts, we are highlighting the new, complex and most controversial recommendations in these guideline. On today’s episode we will talk about the postoperative management of AAA patients.

Welcome to part 2 of the Q&A series of the 2024 ESVS clinical practice guidelines on the Management of Abdominal Aorto-Iliac Artery Aneurysms. In this podcast, we will highlight the new, complex and most controversial recommendations in this guideline. On today’s episode we will dive deeper into the peroperative management of AAA patients.

Here is the first of a 3 part Q&A serie on the 2024 ESVS clinical practice guidelines on the Management of Abdominal Aorto-Iliac Artery Aneurysms. In this podcast, we will highlight the new, complex and most controversial recommendations in this guideline. Today for the first episode of this 3-part series, we will specifically talk about the preoperative process. The rest of the guideline will be covered in the next two episodes. We are proud to welcome 4 of the 17 members of the guideline writing committee as our guests in all three episodes; Prof. dr. Isabelle Van Herzeele, Prof. Dr. Anders Wanhainen, Dr. Frederico Bastos Gonçalves and Dr. Carlota Fernandez Prendes.

This week, we release the last of three podcasts recorded live during the Translational Spring Meeting in June in Stockholm. Dr. Rachael Forsythe gives us an invaluable insider's look into the emerging science of biomarkers in Aortic imaging. Where do they come from, how did we find them and what are they for? All of this and more in this weeks episode.

Here-below the referenced sources in the episode.

Enjoy!

Links:

UK vascular charities:

Circulation Foundation: www.circulationfoundation.org.uk

British Heart Foundation: www.bhf.org.uk

Relevant papers:

The SoFIA3 Study:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2017.11.053

The MA3RS Study: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.028433

18F NaF following EVAR: DOI.org https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2023-322514

Dr Marc Bailey / Dr Michael Bell (Leeds) pre-clinical 18F NaF imaging: DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1750913

Other links:

UK Metformin Aneurysm Trial: https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-and-improving-research/application-summaries/research-summaries/uk-mat/#:~:text=The%20Metformin%20Aneurysm%20Trial%20(MAT,repair%20and%20AAA%20mortality%20(due

Profiles:

Dr Rachael Forsythe, Edinburgh: @ROForsythe https://surgery.ed.ac.uk/staff/profiles/rachael-forsythe

Professor David Newby, Edinburgh: https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/david-newby

Hello there; in this week’s episode, as promised, we are coming back with a second podcast recorded during the Translational Meeting in Stockholm. Together with Dr. Regent Lee we will talk about improving aneurysm growth prediction using different biomarkers. Enjoy the listen, and stay tuned!

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 different ways it can assist us in predicting risk models for patients with CLTI. Enjoy!

• Arteria L’avenir de vos artères (Nice, France): https://arter-ia.com/en/

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 in Open Access https://esvs.org/guidelines/

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 Access https://esvs.org/guidelines/