Show notes: Live from the ESVS Annual Meeting held in Belfast in September 2023. This time at the Podcast Corner we have the current ESVS president prof. P.Kolh and President-elect prof. I. Loftus. You’ll be hearing about the ongoing and future projects in ESVS. Don’t miss out!

For the past decade, there has been a significant increase in endovascular procedures. Therefore, certain actions have been taken to raise awareness and promote radiation safety. In today’s podcast, our guests are Dr. Jörg Teßarek and Professor Tilo Kölbel. We are going to talk about FORS and IVUS imaging modalities that may facilitate daily practice in vascular medicine by increasing the quality of vascular imaging while significantly reducing radiation exposure in both patients and physicians. Philips sponsored this podcast.

We are so glad to invite you all not only to join our Podcast Corner during the ESVS Annual Meeting in Belfast shortly, but to get some inside information on one of the highly attended Academy Workshops – ‘How to write and review scientific paper?’. Moreover, this podcast was extra special for me – I got to record it with an inventor and mentor of ESVS Podcast - Dr. Melina Vega De Ceniga. Enjoy the listen and come say hi to our podcast booth.

Modern-day evidence-based medicine mandates a strong understanding of current local and international guidelines. We surgeons often rely heavily on these reports, but what to do when they differ? To explore this topic, Audible Bleeding (a publication of the SVS) and the ESVS podcast have partnered to create the Transatlantic Series. In this inaugural episode, we compare and contrast the SVS carotid artery disease guidelines published in 2022 with the recently updated ESVS guidelines published in 2023.Representing the American perspective, we are excited to speak with Dr. Ali AbuRahma. Dr. AbuRahma is the former president of the Society of Vascular Surgery, the Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at the Charleston Area Medical Centre at West Virginia University, and the corresponding author of the latest SVS guidelines on extracranial cerebrovascular disease.Representing the European perspective, we are delighted to speak with Dr. Barbara Rantner. Dr. Rantner is the co-chair of the 2023 European Society of Vascular Surgery Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Atherosclerotic Carotid and Vertebral Artery Disease and a leading physician at the Ludwig-Maximillian University Hospital in Munich, Germany.

Follow-up after EVAR is a topic of discussion worldwide.

In this episode, Laurence Bertrand and Suzanne Stokmans summarise an Editor's Choice article from the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (EJVES) on this topic: Meta-Analysis of Compliance with Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Surveillance: The EVAR Surveillance Paradox by Antoniou and colleagues.

This systematic review compared survival in EVAR surveillance-compliant patients with non-compliant patients. Non-compliance was defined as failure to attend at least one post-EVAR follow-up.

The findings in this article question the value of intense surveillance in all patients post-EVAR. We are curious about your opinion on EVAR surveillance, so please feel free to let us know via email or by commenting!

Shownotes:

Antoniou et al; Meta-Analysis of Compliance with Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Surveillance: The EVAR Surveillance Paradox. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg (2023) 65, 244e254 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejvs.2022.10.033