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Translating Guidelines into Practice:
Management of Patients with Varicose Veins of the Lower Extremities — Part II
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Dr. Joe Caprini's Video Library
Donning a Closed Toe Stocking | Dr. Joe Caprini
Donning a Stocky with a Slippy Gator | Dr. Joe Caprini
Proper Application and Removal of Therapeutic Stockings | Dr. Joe Caprini
Donning a Compression Stocking with Dr. Joe Caprini
How to Remove a Flat Knit Stocking | Dr. Joe Caprini
The Rationale and Use of Compression Stockings | Dr. Joe Caprini
Compression Stockings: Essential Facts | Dr. Joe Caprini and Dr. Fedor Lurie
ABLATION
- AVF Superficial Venous Summit – A Deep Dive Into Practice Patterns & Recent Advancements in Superficial Venous Treatment
- Combined Use of N-Butyl-Cyanoacrylate and Foam Sclerotherapy in Great Saphenous Vein Truncal Ablation: Preliminary Experience
Dr. Giovanni Alongi - Comparison of Unilateral vs Bilateral and Staged Bilateral vs Concurrent Bilateral Truncal Endovenous Ablation in the Vascular Quality Initiative
Dr. Craig Brown - Decision-making in Superficial Venous Disease Treatment
- EVF (European Venous Forum) Best Abstract #1 – Compression Following Endothermal Ablation – A Randomised Controlled Trial
Dr. Roshan Bootun - EVRA – You Have Heard, But This is the Long-Term and Cost-Effectiveness
Dr. Sarah Onida - Improvement of Neuropathy after Venous Ablation
Dr. Paul Collier - Long-Term Saphenous Vein Occlusion Rate Following Endovenous Ablation
Dr. Isabel Vasquez - Outcomes of a Single-Center Experience of Endothermal Heat-Induced Thrombosis After Endovenous Ablation In Superficial Venous Disease
Dr. Maria Loson, Jr. - Outcomes of Patients at Risk for Deep Vein Thrombosis Undergoing Endovenous Ablation on Systemic Anticoagulation
Dr. Jennifer Watson - Patient Preferences for Thermal Ablation vs. Non-thermal, Non-Tumescent Varicose Vein Treatments: A Choice-Based Conjoint (CBC) Analysis
Dr. Peter Pappas - Randomised Clinical Trial of Mechanochemical Ablation Versus Cyanoacrylate Adhesive for the Treatment of Varicose Veins (MOCCA)
Dr. Roshan Bootun, III - Retrograde Administration of Ultrasound-Guided Endovenous Microfoam Chemical Ablation vs Endovenous Laser Ablation for the Treatment of Superficial Venous Insufficiency
Dr. Steven Deak - RSMVF/UK VF Abstract – RCT Comparing Clarivein with EVLT
Dr. Abduraheem Mohamed - Value and Limitations of Post-Operative Duplex Checks after Endovenous Thermal Ablation (EVTA)
Dr. Pavel Kibrik - Varithena and My Practice
Dr. Paramjit “Romi” Chopra - Varithena Cases Studies
Dr. Satwah - Venous Leg Ulcers: A Clinical Challenge – Featuring New Data
Dr. Misaki Kiguchi & Dr. Leigh Ann O’Banion
ABLATION
- AVF Superficial Venous Summit – A Deep Dive Into Practice Patterns & Recent Advancements in Superficial Venous Treatment
- Combined Use of N-Butyl-Cyanoacrylate and Foam Sclerotherapy in Great Saphenous Vein Truncal Ablation: Preliminary Experience
Dr. Giovanni Alongi - Comparison of Unilateral vs Bilateral and Staged Bilateral vs Concurrent Bilateral Truncal Endovenous Ablation in the Vascular Quality Initiative
Dr. Craig Brown - Decision-making in Superficial Venous Disease Treatment
- EVF (European Venous Forum) Best Abstract #1 – Compression Following Endothermal Ablation – A Randomised Controlled Trial
Dr. Roshan Bootun - EVRA – You Have Heard, But This is the Long-Term and Cost-Effectiveness
Dr. Sarah Onida - Improvement of Neuropathy after Venous Ablation
Dr. Paul Collier - Long-Term Saphenous Vein Occlusion Rate Following Endovenous Ablation
Dr. Isabel Vasquez - Outcomes of a Single-Center Experience of Endothermal Heat-Induced Thrombosis After Endovenous Ablation In Superficial Venous Disease
Dr. Maria Loson, Jr. - Outcomes of Patients at Risk for Deep Vein Thrombosis Undergoing Endovenous Ablation on Systemic Anticoagulation
Dr. Jennifer Watson - Patient Preferences for Thermal Ablation vs. Non-thermal, Non-Tumescent Varicose Vein Treatments: A Choice-Based Conjoint (CBC) Analysis
Dr. Peter Pappas - Randomised Clinical Trial of Mechanochemical Ablation Versus Cyanoacrylate Adhesive for the Treatment of Varicose Veins (MOCCA)
Dr. Roshan Bootun, III - Retrograde Administration of Ultrasound-Guided Endovenous Microfoam Chemical Ablation vs Endovenous Laser Ablation for the Treatment of Superficial Venous Insufficiency
Dr. Steven Deak - RSMVF/UK VF Abstract – RCT Comparing Clarivein with EVLT
Dr. Abduraheem Mohamed - Value and Limitations of Post-Operative Duplex Checks after Endovenous Thermal Ablation (EVTA)
Dr. Pavel Kibrik - Varithena and My Practice
Dr. Paramjit “Romi” Chopra - Varithena Cases Studies
Dr. Satwah - Venous Leg Ulcers: A Clinical Challenge – Featuring New Data
Dr. Misaki Kiguchi & Dr. Leigh Ann O’Banion
ANTI-COAGULATION
- DOAC: Pick your Poison
Dr. Raghu Kolluri - Outcomes of Endovascular Venous Stenting in Patients on Direct Oral Anticoagulants and Antiplatelet Therapy: A Single Center Experience
Dr. Katherine Hays - Outcomes of Patients at Risk for Deep Vein Thrombosis Undergoing Endovenous Ablation on Systemic Anticoagulation
Dr. Jennifer Watson - VTE Prophylaxis Webinar
CEAP
- Rationale for CEAP Revision
Dr. Marc Passman - CEAP Revision Process – Methodology
Dr. Fedor Lurie - C Revision
Dr. Mark Meissner - E Revisions
Dr. Elna Masuda - A Revisions
Dr. Harold Welch - P Revisions
Dr. Ruth Bush - CEAP stages C0 – C1: What´s Happening Prior to Symptoms and Varices?
Dr. Chris Ragg
COMPRESSION
- Compression Stockings: What Do Patients Really Need?
Dr. John Blebea - EVF (European Venous Forum) Best Abstract #1 – Compression Following Endothermal Ablation – A Randomised Controlled Trial
Dr. Roshan Bootun - The Graduated Compression as an Adjunt to Pharmacoprophylaxis in Surgery (GAPS) Trial
Dr. Alun Davies (Presented by Dr. Sarah Onida)
DEEP VENOUS
- Advanced Pneumatic Compression: Continued Improvement in Quality of Life Beyond Initial Early Benefits of Decreased Limb Girth
Dr. Glenn Jacobowitz - Approaching the Venous Patient: Data-Driven Decision-Making in Deep Venous Disease
Erin Murphy, MD, Kathleen Ozsvath, MD, Patrick Muck, MD - Clinical Practice Trends of Inferior Vena Cava Filter Utilization at a Single Tertiary Care Center Over an 18 Year Period
Dr. John Axley - Clinicians’ Opinion on the ATTRACT Trial – Results of an International Survey
Dr. Aleksandra Staniszewska - Comparison of Two Clinical Scales to Assess the Post-Thrombotic Syndrome: Secondary Analysis of a Multicenter Randomized Trial of Pharmacomechanical Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis for Deep Vein Thrombosis
Dr. Angela Lee - Deep to Superficial: Real World Applications with BD’s Venous Solutions
- Deep Venous Stenting Principles in Patients with Concurrent Superficial Disease. What is Addressed First, and How I Approach it
Dr. Mark Garcia - EVF @ AVF #1: From Open to Clean Vein Theory in CDT for Iliofemoral DVT
Dr. Niels Baekgaard - EVF @ AVF #2: Progress in Understanding the Pathophysiology of C0s En An Pn
Dr. Andrew Nicolaides - Examination of the Etiology of Re-intervention Following Deep Venous Stenting for Acute Iliofemoral Deep Venous Thrombosis
Dr. Anna Pouncey - Incidental Findings Discovered During Lower Extremity Venous Duplex Studies Michael Dalsing
Dr. Andrew Gonzalez - Management of Inferior Vena Cava Thrombosis with FlowTriever and ClotTriever Systems without Pharmacomechanical Thrombolysis
Dr. Noor Shah - Mass Spectrometry Analysis Demonstrates A Differential Metabolic Signature Dependant On Chronic Venous Disease Stage
Dr. Sarah Onida - Outcomes of Endovascular Venous Stenting in Patients on Direct Oral Anticoagulants and Antiplatelet Therapy: A Single Center Experience
Dr. Katherine Hays - Popliteal Vein Compression, Obesity and Chronic Venous Insufficiency (CVI)
Dr. Andre Van Rij - Quality of Life Outcomes for Patients Undergoing Deep Venous Disease: A Tertiary Centre Experience Using the VEINES-Qol/SymDr. Rachel Morris
- The Future of IVUS Based Therapies for Venous Leg Ulcers
Dr. Paul Gagne - The Challenge of Multi-Level Disease
- The Importance of the C-Tract Trial and the Future of Venous Care
Dr. Kush Desai - Update on Penumbra’s Indigo Catheter for Pulmonary Emboli
Dr. Brian Kuhn - Update on the CLOUT Study (ClotTriever Registry)
Dr. David Dexter - Venous Guidelines Update
Dr. Mark Meissner - WHAT’S NEW IN THE DEEP VENOUS WORLD? Emergening Techonologies from A (aspiration) to V (vena cava)
- When and How to Handle Reintervention for Previously Treated Deep Venous Disease
Dr. Erin Murphy
DVT
- Examination of the Etiology of Re-intervention Following Deep Venous Stenting for Acute Iliofemoral Deep Venous Thrombosis
Dr. Anna Pouncey - First Use of a Novel PAI-1 Inhibitor (MDI-2268) in Animal Model of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Attempts of Combined Antithrombotic Therapy
Dr. Maxim Shaydakov - Natural History of Stasis-Induced Deep Vein Thrombosis in a Murine Model and Application in the Clinical Setting: A Histochemical Approach
Dr. Aviva Gordon - Outcomes of Patients at Risk for Deep Vein Thrombosis Undergoing Endovenous Ablation on Systemic Anticoagulation
Dr. Jennifer Watson - Pre-operative Evaluation of the Subclavian Vein with Venography and IVUS in Paget Schroetter Syndrome
Dr. Jesus Ulloa - Selectins as a New Treatment for DVT – from Bench to Bedside
Dr. Thomas Wakefield - Single Session Therapy for Symptomatic Proximal Upper Extremity Deep Venous Thrombosis
Dr. Tim Fuller - Treatment of Chronic DVT
Dr. Efthymios “Makis” Avgerinos
FILTERS
- Clinical Practice Trends of Inferior Vena Cava Filter Utilization at a Single Tertiary Care Center Over an 18 Year Period
Dr. John Axley - Contemporary Management of Chronic Indwelling IVC filters: A Single Institutional Experience
Dr. Tommy Ivanics - Inferior Vena Cava Filter Placement and Removal Trends in United States: 6-Year Review of Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Database
Dr. Teah Qvavadze - Outcomes of IVC Filter Placement in Patients with Perceived Contraindications to Anticoagulation
Dr. Kate Gates - Treatment Algorithms for Venous Disease
IMAGING
- Do You Need Axial Imaging? When and Why?
Dr. Ronald Winokur - Pre-operative Evaluation of the Subclavian Vein with Venography and IVUS in Paget Schroetter Syndrome
Dr. Jesus Ulloa - Protocol in Ultrasound Imaging of the Pelvic Veins
Dr. Nicos Labropoulos - Seeing is Believing: The Evolution of Venous Imaging
Dr. Joann Lohr - The Future of IVUS Based Therapies for Venous Leg Ulcers
Dr. Paul Gagne - Treatment Algorithms for Venous Disease
- United States Intravascular Ultrasound Practice Trends: A 5 year Review of the Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Database
Dr. Matthew Haffner - Value and Limitations of Post-Operative Duplex Checks after Endovenous Thermal Ablation (EVTA)
Dr. Pavel Kibrik - Value and Limitations of Post-Operative Duplexes for Iliac Vein Stenting
Dr. Anil Hingorani
JOBST GRANTS
- “The Future”
Dr. Andrea Obi - 2017 AVF-JOBST Winner Annual Report
Dr. Yogendra (Yogen) Kanthi - 2018 AVF-JOBST Research Award Report
Dr. Efthymos (Makis) Avgerinos - 2019 AVF-JOBST Research Award Report
Dr. Andrea Obi - Autoinflammation in VTE
Dr. Yogendra Kanthi - AVF-Jobst Grant 2016
Dr. Maxim Shaydakov
LYMPHEDEMA
PELVIC VENOUS DISORDERS
- Classification of Pelvic Venous Disorders
Dr. Mark Meissner - Clinical Cases in PeVD and Interactive Discussion
- Do You Need Axial Imaging? When and Why?
Dr. Ronald Winokur - Migraine: A Common and Unknown Symptom of Pelvic Congestion Snydrome
Dr. Manuel Menes - Mini-invasive Robotic Surgery for Nutcracker Syndrome
Dr. Philippe Nicolini - NIVL in the Setting of PCS: Should I Stent and When?
Dr. Kush Desai - Pelvic Venous Anatomy and Pathology
Dr. Neil Khilnani - Protocol in Ultrasound Imaging of the Pelvic Veins
Dr. Nicos Labropoulos - Role of Renal Vein Compression in PeVD
Dr. Peter Gloviczki - Treatment Algorithm and Technical Steps in Pelvic Reflux
Dr. Antonios Gasparis
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT
- Creating a Balance: from A (Arteries) to V (Veins)
Dr. Kathleen Ozsvath - How to Set up a Successful Outpatient Vein Practice
Dr. John Taggert - Practice Variations and How to Guard Against Potential Legal Implications
Dr. Ruth Bush - Shifting from Overutilization to Underutilization – Deeper Dive into Improving Wisely
Dr. Margaret Mann - They Say Money Can’t Buy Happiness – But You Need to Pay for Your Practice! Coding and Billing Tips (How to document and stay informed of changes in health policy)
Dr. Sheila Coogan - To Accredit or Not to Accredit my Vein Center
Dr. Ellen Dillavou
PULMONARY EMBOLISM
- Contemporary Management of Chronic Indwelling IVC filters: A Single Institutional Experience
Dr. Tommy Ivanics - Evolution and Usage of Catheter Directed Interventions For Acute Pulmonary Embolism
Dr. Adham Abou Ali - Inferior Vena Cava Filter Placement and Removal Trends in United States: 6-Year Review of Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Database
Dr. Teah Qvavadze - The Importance of Optimal Clot Burden Resolution When Treating VTE Disorders
Dr. Anthony J. Comerota - Treatment of Acute PE
Dr. Ronald Winakur - Update on Penumbra’s Indigo Catheter for Pulmonary Emboli
Dr. Brian Kuhn - Use of Advanced Therapies in Pulmonary Embolism: A Single Center Experience
Dr. Rafael Cires-Drouet - Venous Thromboembolism: The Changing Treatment Landscape
STENTING
- Appropriateness in Venous Stenting
- Contralateral Limb Improvement in Patients Undergoing Iliofemoral Venous Stenting
Dr. Arjun Jayaraj - Deep Venous Stenting in a NIVL Patient
Dr. Stephen A. Black - Deep Venous Stenting is the Only Therapy to Improve Healing of Venous Leg Ulcerations in Patients with Deep Vein Stenosis
Dr. Abhisekh Mohapatra - Examination of the Etiology of Re-intervention Following Deep Venous Stenting for Acute Iliofemoral Deep Venous Thrombosis
Dr. Anna Pouncey - NIVL in the Setting of PCS: Should I Stent and When?
Dr. Kush Desai - Outcomes of Endovascular Venous Stenting in Patients on Direct Oral Anticoagulants and Antiplatelet Therapy: A Single Center Experience
Dr. Katherine Hays - Proximal Common Iliac Vein Stenosis May Mask a More Distal Stenosis: A Phenomenon Unique to Veins
Dr. Windsor Ting - Real-World Clinical Strategies with the Venovo™ Venous Stent and Highlights from the VERNACULAR Study
Dr. Lowell Kabnick & Dr. Patrick Muck - Value and Limitations of Post-Operative Duplexes for Iliac Vein Stenting
Dr. Anil Hingorani - Vein Stent Sizing: Lots of Questions… Emerging Answers
- Venous Stenting Roundtable
- Venous Stenting with Venovo – One and Done?
- Zilver Vena; Durable Symptom Relief with a Conformable Venous Indicated Stent
Dr. Steve Elias & Dr. Robert Mendes
SUPERFICIAL VENOUS
- AVF Superficial Venous Summit – A Deep Dive Into Practice Patterns & Recent Advancements in Superficial Venous Treatment
- ACP Best Abstract: The Anterior Accessory Great Saphenous Vein Presents with Significant Morbidity and is Not a Red Headed Step Child
Dr. Marlin Schul - CEAP stages C0 – C1: What´s Happening Prior to Symptoms and Varices?
Dr. Chris Ragg - Decision-making in Superficial Venous Disease Treatment
- Deep to Superficial: Real World Applications with BD’s Venous Solutions
- Deep Venous Stenting Principles in Patients with Concurrent Superficial Disease. What is Addressed First, and How I Approach it
Dr. Mark Garcia - EVF President @ AVF Venous Ulcer: Surgery At Last
Dr. Dominik Heim - Reflux Duration Reference Data from the Vascular Lab
Dr. Joel Crawford - Reflux Volume Increases Caudally from Sapheno-Femoral Junction to the Distal Leg
Dr. Roman Tauraginski - The Challenge of Multi-Level Disease
- Varithena Cases Studies
Dr. Satwah - Ultrasound Anatomy of Dermal and Subdermal Venous Plexus
Dr. Alvaro Orrego
VARICOSE VEINS
- Patient Preferences for Thermal Ablation vs. Non-thermal, Non-Tumescent Varicose Vein Treatments: A Choice-Based Conjoint (CBC) Analysis
Dr. Peter Pappas - Randomised Clinical Trial of Mechanochemical Ablation Versus Cyanoacrylate Adhesive for the Treatment of Varicose Veins (MOCCA)
Dr. Roshan Bootun, III - Socioeconomic Status and Clinical Stage of Patients Presenting for Treatment of Varicose Veins
Dr. Ali Rteil - Trends of Surgery for Varicose Veins in the Elderly
Dr. Tanner Kim
VENOUS REFLUX
- 12-Month Results of a Clinical Feasibility Study for Endovenous Valve Formation (EVF) to Treat Deep Vein Reflux
Dr. Roman Varcoe - Are We Looking for Reflux in All The Wrong Places?
Dr. Seshadri Raju - Before Signs: Pathophysiological Mechanisms
Dr. Andrew Nicolaides - Before the Reflux
Dr. Joseph Raffetto - Infrared Thermography (IRT) Confirms Inflammatory Differences in Refluxing Versus Competent Lower Extremity Veins
Dr. Ulka Sachdev - Outcomes of IVC Filter Placement in Patients with Perceived Contraindications to Anticoagulation
Dr. Kate Gates - Prosthetic Valve for Post-Phlebitic Syndrome
Dr. Jorge Ulloa - The Concept of Axial Reflux: Definition and Potential Clinical Importance
Drs. Fedor Lurie and Robert Kistner - Unsolved: A Greater Than 50 Year Search for a Substitute Venous Valve
Dr. Michael Dalsing
VTE
- Animal Models of Venous Thrombosis
Dr. Jose Diaz - Are Statins the Next Major Advance in the Management of VTE?
Dr. Anthony Comerota - Autoinflammation in VTE
Dr. Yogendra Kanthi - Clinicians’ Opinion on the ATTRACT Trial – Results of an International Survey
Dr. Aleksandra Staniszewska - First Use of a Novel PAI-1 Inhibitor (MDI-2268) in Animal Model of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Attempts of Combined Antithrombotic Therapy
Dr. Maxim Shaydakov - Learning More About Mechanical Thrombectomy with Philips QuickClear
Dr. Stephen Algero - Lighting the Way for Optimal VTE Treatment – Late Breaking FLASH and CLOUT data and starting FLAME enrollment
Dr. Steven Abramowitz & Dr. Thomas Tu - Management of Inferior Vena Cava Thrombosis with FlowTriever and ClotTriever Systems without Pharmacomechanical Thrombolysis
Dr. Noor Shah - Natural History of Stasis-Induced Deep Vein Thrombosis in a Murine Model and Application in the Clinical Setting: A Histochemical Approach
Dr. Aviva Gordon - New Horizons in VTE – Clinical Evidence and Innovation
- Next Generation VTE Treatment with Enhanced Thrombus Resolution
- Overview of Literature for Treatment of Acute AVT
Dr. Suresh Vedantham - Selectins as a New Treatment for DVT – from Bench to Bedside
Dr. Thomas Wakefield - Single Session Therapy for Symptomatic Proximal Upper Extremity Deep Venous Thrombosis
Dr. Tim Fuller - The Future of IVUS Based Therapies for Venous Leg Ulcers
Dr. Paul Gagne - The Importance of Optimal Clot Burden Resolution When Treating VTE Disorders
Dr. Anthony J. Comerota - The Next Thrombosis Frontier: Preventing Breakthrough VTE
Dr. Peter Henke - Treatment Algorithms for Venous Disease
- Update on Penumbra’s Indigo Catheter for Pulmonary Emboli
Dr. Brian Kuhn - Update on the CLOUT Study (ClotTriever Registry)
Dr. David Dexter - VTE Prophylaxis Webinar
- Venous Thromboembolism: The Changing Treatment Landscape
WOUNDS & ULCERS
- Deep Venous Stenting is the Only Therapy to Improve Healing of Venous Leg Ulcerations in Patients with Deep Vein Stenosis
Dr. Abhisekh Mohapatra - EVF President @ AVF Venous Ulcer: Surgery At Last
Dr. Dominik Heim - Nutrition Evaluation in Ambulatory Patients with Chronic Wounds
Dr. Alexandra Clay - The Future of IVUS Based Therapies for Venous Leg Ulcers
Dr. Paul Gagne - Veins and Wounds Go Leg-in-Leg: How to Collaborate with a Wound Care Center
Dr. Steve Elias - Venous Leg Ulcers: A Clinical Challenge – Featuring New Data
Dr. Misaki Kiguchi & Dr. Leigh Ann O’Banion
OTHER
- Appropriate Care for the Right Indication – Sometimes Less is More: Knowing When to Offer a Procedure
Dr. Elna Masuda - Contract Negotiations: How to Land the Right Job, Do Not Be Scared to Ask
Dr. Nasim Hedayati - Developing and Improving Leadership Skills in Societal Culture
Dr. Robert McLafferty - Entering the Next Decade: What New Thoughts and Facts Should Guide us in Phlebology
Dr. Andrew Nicolaides - Follow-up on Professionalism and Ethics: Have We Moved the Needle Any Since I Was AVF President?
Dr. Marc Passman - Hybrid Treatment for Venous Popliteal Aneurysm
Dr. Miguel Amore - Overview of Lymphatic Surgery: How to Get Started with Supermicrosurgery
Dr. Wei F. Chen - The National Venous Registry and Quality Control SVS/AVF (and the accompanying Q&A after it)
Dr. Marc Passman - The Need for Specialized Training in Venous Disease
Dr. Mark Meissner - The Power of “Big Data” and Registry Collaboration
Dr. Marlin Schul - Top 5 Comments You Must Make to Your Hospital Administrator-What Works & What Doesn’t When Trying to Grow Your Practice
Dr. Jaff - What did We Learn from the First (Multi-Society) Venous Appropriate Use Project?
Dr. Elna Masuda - You Can Publish While You Practice: How to Incorporate Venous Research into your Clinical Work
Dr. Joseph Raffetto
