On the final day of CX32, there was excitement and discussion at the Renal Session. The recent randomised trials which found that renal artery stenting showed no benefits over medical therapy, STAR and ASTRAL, came in for considerable criticism from some speakers.

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The new generation of devices and the indications by pathology were the subjects of the morning session in the main auditorium. One of the discussions was centred on whether the interests of physicians and manufacturers differ when developing thoracic devices.

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The fifth international St George’s Vascular Access course, under the auspices of the Vascular Access Society, was held at Charing Cross for the very first time. The course yesterday focussed on the current debate on how best to rescue vascular access; is it by open, or endovascular means?

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The Charing Cross Office Based Veins Course 2010 is now in its third year and is now the biggest skills course of its kind in Europe. Ever-popular, this year’s course was packed with delegates eager to find out about the latest skills needed to treat varicose veins in an office environment. Nearly 200 people were trained in one day on 31 skills stations.

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Key new messages from the long-term follow-up of the EVAR (United Kingdom Endovascular Aneurysm Repair) 1 and 2 trials were delivered yesterday. EVAR 1 showed that at 10 years, compared with open repair, EVAR has a lower operative mortality, but at six years the advantage of abdominal aortic aneurysm-related mortality is lost. Open repair does relatively better in the late stages because of a small number of EVAR ruptures. For patients physically too frail for open repair, the unique EVAR 2

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The CX Innovation Showcase is a day-long event that brings together the many new concepts, improvements, technologies and devices that are presently at a very early stage of development.

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Bolton Medical has announced a major milestone for Relay and Relay NBS thoracic stent grafts by achieving 2,000 patients treated worldwide.

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Atraumatic device achieves a completely bloodless surgical field without fear of damaging fragile or calcified blood vessels.

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Ralf Kolvenbach, Augusta Hospital and Catholic Clinics in Duesseldorf, Germany, is the first vascular surgeon to have repaired a thoracic aortic aneurysm with the new Cook Medical’s TX2 Pro-Form.

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The Aorfix abdominal aortic aneurysm stent graft was designed to address an unmet need for a device that was flexible and conformable to a patient’s anatomy, with the ability to adapt to changing morphology over time.

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Medtronic will present the new Endurant abdominal aortic aneurysm stent graft system, designed to give endovascular specialists the ease of use and confidence to achieve superior performance in both straightforward and challenging anatomies.

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Abbott announces the initiation a clinical trial of the Absolute Pro peripheral self-expanding stent system in patients with iliac artery disease

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Invatec announce CE-certification for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty balloon catheter, the IN.PACT Falcon

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