Journal of Vascular Societies Great Britain and Ireland JVSGBI

Vascular Journal for high quality original research, reviews, case reports and news to support the vascular community

Helen Jones

Patient-reported quality of life factors in vascular surgical wounds healing by secondary intention (SWHSI): a qualitative patient and public involvement (PPI) exploration

March 27, 2023

Introduction Over 10 million surgical interventions are performed in the National Health Service (NHS) every year.1 Most surgical wounds are closed by primary intention and the edges of the wound are held together with sutures, staples or glue. In cases of wound infection, contamination, dehiscence or where wound edges cannot be approximated, surgical wounds may […]

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Transfusion requirements in elective open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: a network review of practice

March 23, 2023

Background During a recent NHS blood transfusion (NHSBT) Amber Alert1 for a shortage of Group O red cells available for transfusion, a recommendation to review higher risk surgeries which may require transfusion was implemented. Vascular surgery, and particularly open abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair, is often cited as being a particularly high-risk group (>15% transfusion […]

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Outcome of covered stents for severe aorto-iliac occlusive disease (AIOD) in patients with chronic limb-threatening ischaemia

March 14, 2023

Introduction The most recent iteration of the Inter-Society Consensus Document for the Management of Peripheral Arterial Disease from 2015 (Trans-Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus; TASC II) has suggested that all types of aorto-iliac occlusive disease (AIOD) may be treated using either an endovascular or open approach, provided the clinical team has sufficient expertise in the given modality, […]

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VS ASM 2022 Prize/Highest Scoring Abstracts

February 28, 2023

The Vascular Societies’ Annual Scientific Meeting 2022, in conjunction with the VSGBI, BACPAR, SVN and SVT, took place at the Hilton Brighton Metropole, on the 23rd-25th November 2022. Here are the 2023 prize/highest scoring abstracts.   VS – Sol Cohen Prize VO46 – The Limb-related Complications of Injecting Drug Use and the Collateral Consequences for […]

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Editor’s foreword

February 28, 2023

Welcome to this latest bumper edition of the Journal of Vascular Societies Great Britain and Ireland (JVSGBI). It contains 11 brilliant articles and two excellent supplements! The first article is an editorial outlining the extensive but perhaps underappreciated work undertaken by the excellent vascular CRG. This is followed by three original research articles addressing CLTI […]

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