Helen Jones
Transfusion requirements in elective open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: a network review of practice
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…
Read MoreOutcome of covered stents for severe aorto-iliac occlusive disease (AIOD) in patients with chronic limb-threatening ischaemia
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,…
Read MoreVS ASM 2022 Prize/Highest Scoring Abstracts
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…
Read MoreEditor’s foreword
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…
Read MoreA contemporary review of the diagnosis and management of vascular Ehlers–Danlos syndrome
Introduction Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (EDS) is a recognised connective tissue disorder that affects collagen and extracellular matrix function. EDS is a cluster of 13 inherited conditions/types (19 different causal genes) which vary in incidence, clinical presentation and natural history.1 The most common of these is that of hypermobile EDS which has an incidence of approximately 1:10,000…
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