Helen Jones
New onset arteriovenous malformations in adults: a case series of caution
Abstract Introduction: New onset arteriovenous malformation (AVM) in adulthood requires a high index of clinical suspicion. The misdiagnosis of vascular soft tissue lesions as AVMs is relatively common, resulting in delays to definitive diagnosis and management. We present four recent ‘AVM referrals’ which were neoplastic and propose some clinical considerations to facilitate development of…
The utility of machine learning in the management of patients with peripheral arterial disease
Introduction Machine learning (ML) is moving decisively from concept to clinic-adjacent evaluation in vascular medicine. Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) has become a major focus for machine learning because it is clinically heterogeneous and carries a high health and economic burden, making it well suited to data driven approaches for earlier detection and personalised risk assessment.…
Rouleaux Club Winning Essay 2025
STUDENT CATEGORY How can we achieve more timely revascularisation in patients with Chronic Limb Threatening Ischaemia (CLTI)? Ryan Bloxsom, University of Oxford Revascularisation is time-critical in Chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI), with delayed revascularisation associated with excess amputation and mortality.1,2 From symptom onset, there are multiple, sequential delays to revascularisation, with delayed presentation, referral, Vascular review,…
VASGBI Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, London, 15-16th September, oral presentation top abstracts
Authors of the top scoring abstracts submitted were given the opportunity to give an oral presentation of their work during our free paper session. The papers by Dr Ian Young and Dr Michael Nesbitt were joint first prize winners. An audit of the impact of a joint surgical and anaesthetic pre-op assessment clinic for…
VS ASM 2024 prize winning Abstracts
The Vascular Societies’ Annual Scientific Meeting 2024, in conjunction with the VSGBI, BACPAR, SVN and CSVS, took place at DoubleTree by Hilton, Brighton, on the 27th-29th November 2024. Here are the 2024 prize winning abstracts. VS – Sol Cohen Founders Prize The Natural History of Splenic Artery Aneurysms: A Decade’s Experience of Surveillance and…
