Helen Jones
VS 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…
Read MoreManagement of large post-crossover inguinal lymphocele
Abstract A 73-year-old man with a history of peripheral arterial disease and previous bilateral common femoral artery reconstruction presented with left foot critical limb-threatening ischaemia and underwent right to left femoro-profunda crossover grafting. Postoperatively, he developed a left groin lymph leak that initially dried up but later re-presented as a very large lymphocele. Initial attempts…
Read MoreThe CRG for Vascular Services
The last decade has witnessed a number of changes in the delivery of vascular services nationwide. Vascular surgery attained speciality status in 2012, and is well recognised as an urgent and emergent speciality delivering time-dependent care for patients with aortic aneurysms, carotid surgery for stroke prevention and lower limb revascularisation for critical limb-threatening ischaemia. The…
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