Christoph Nienaber and Michael Dake spoke to CX Daily News to flag up the controversies, debates and talks that have got them excited about this year’s CX Symposium.
CX Daily News met two key speakers on the opening day. Bosiers told us, "Frank [Veith] wasn’t cheating!" and Machan said,"I’m embarrassed not to have won my debate!"
Cerebral emboli are a potentially preventable or treatable cause of common dementias, according to Charles McCollum of the University of Manchester, UK.
Delegates at the Best of ilegx@CX, discuss the pressing need for a process of quick referral to a specialist so that ulcerated legs can be treated quickly.
The CX Office-Based Vein Practice Course yesterday was a sell-out for the second year running. This year, the course was expanded to allow more participants to attend and included new sessions on venoactive drugs and on the mechanism of thermoablation.
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.
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.
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.
