Special Issue "Vascular Surgery: Technology Innovation and Patients Management"

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine “Vascular Surgery: Technology Innovation and Patients Management” will present the reader with new diagnostic and therapeutic achievements in vascular pathologies.

Over recent decades, vascular surgery has undergone a substantial number of changes from traditional surgery to the endovascular revolution. Endovascular device modifications in materials and structure have led to massive improvements in the treatment of vascular pathologies. The effort in developing new surgical and endovascular devices has led to changes in many different fields.

New approaches in carotid artery stenting (CAS) such as dual-layered stents or new embolic prevention systems could define a paradigm change in the management of such disease.

The development of aortic endografts for endovascular procedures is focusing on the conformability, inner branches, off-the-shelf solutions and lower profile endoskeleton, emerging as a potential breakthrough in endovascular abdominal, thoracic and thoraco-abdominal repair (EVAR, TEVAR, F/B-EVAR), even in complex anatomies.

Remarkable advancements have been made in the endovascular treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD) and chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), where “vessel preparation” with new atherectomy devices, intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) and new antirestenotic therapy is becoming increasingly popular.

Moreover, recent advancements in radiation protection and new types of imaging or different medical approaches are improving our standards of care, without forgetting how open techniques still represent the most suitable solutions in some cases.

In this context of technological evolutions and rapid changes, new studies are mandatory to assess whether these innovations could lead to major improvements in the current state of the art.

We encourage the authors to submit original research articles, reviews, communications or technical notes. Works that could represent a key change in vascular pathology diagnosis and treatment will receive our highest priority.

Dr. Stefano Fazzini
Guest Editor

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• CAS
• EVAR
• TEVAR
• bridging stents
• aortic endograft
• PAD
• CLTI
• IVL
• atherectomy
• vessel preparation