{"title":"Editor's Choice – International Validation of the Vascular Registry of Switzerland, Swissvasc: A VASCUNET Report","authors":"Martin Altreuther , Matthew J. Grima","doi":"10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.10.016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.10.016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Data validity and completeness are essential for registry data, and a meaningful interpretation of differences between countries can only be made if the data are robust within each of the countries. Therefore, the VASCUNET collaboration has performed validation of several vascular registries and so far published the validation results of national vascular registries of Sweden, Denmark, and Malta. The findings of the validation of the Swissvasc Registry, the vascular registry of Switzerland, are presented here.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Five of 34 hospitals participating in Swissvasc were visited by two international validators. Independent evaluation of the procedures of carotid endarterectomy, infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair, and bypass surgery for lower extremity arterial disease (LEAD) was performed. Local administrative data and Swissvasc Registry data were compared for external validation, as well as registry data of 15 randomly picked cases within each group with data from individual patient records for internal validation.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Hospital administrative data identified 265 carotid, 399 AAA, and 399 LEAD procedures, whereas Swissvasc identified 265 carotid, 398 AAA, and 395 LEAD procedures. Four LEAD procedures were found in hospital administrative data but not in Swissvasc. External validity was 100% for carotid, 99.8% for AAA, and 99% for LEAD. In internal validation, 5.2% of the variable data were missing in Swissvasc, and 2.4% were different from data in patient records, resulting in external validity of 92.8% for carotid, 94.4% for AAA, and 90.1% for LEAD.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The VASCUNET template was used for international validation of registry data and demonstrated that Swissvasc is a reliable system of quality data collection for the participating vascular centres, with excellent external validity and good internal validity. Quality of the Swissvasc registry data was clearly superior to local administrative data.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55160,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery","volume":"69 3","pages":"Pages 350-356"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142481375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carbon Dioxide in Endovascular Aortic Repair: All or Nothing?","authors":"Martin Teraa, Joost A. van Herwaarden","doi":"10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.11.350","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.11.350","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55160,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery","volume":"69 3","pages":"Pages 403-404"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142755855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Natural History of True Renal Artery Aneurysms Over a Decade","authors":"Julien Al Shakarchi , Santhosh Vijay","doi":"10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.11.353","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.11.353","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55160,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery","volume":"69 3","pages":"Pages 498-499"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142755857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair for Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injury: A Reliable Treatment Option But Not Without Long Term Complications","authors":"Alexander Gombert","doi":"10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.12.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.12.020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55160,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery","volume":"69 3","pages":"Page 391"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142866508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fitness Assessment Tools are Better Simple than Perfect","authors":"José Oliveira-Pinto , Nelson Oliveira","doi":"10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.10.028","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.10.028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55160,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery","volume":"69 3","pages":"Pages 440-441"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142481372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metabolic Aspects in Vascular Practice","authors":"Jan H. Lindeman, Dick Wågsäter, Jaak Kals","doi":"10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.10.033","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.10.033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55160,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery","volume":"69 3","pages":"Pages 347-349"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142513331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Athanasios Katsargyris , Natasha Hasemaki , Melad Abu Jiries , Chris Klonaris , Eric L.G. Verhoeven , Pablo Marques de Marino
{"title":"Midterm Outcomes of the BeGraft and BeGraft Plus Bridging Covered Stents for Fenestrated and Branched Endovascular Aneurysm Repair","authors":"Athanasios Katsargyris , Natasha Hasemaki , Melad Abu Jiries , Chris Klonaris , Eric L.G. Verhoeven , Pablo Marques de Marino","doi":"10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.10.046","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.10.046","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The aim of this study was to report outcomes of the BeGraft and BeGraft Plus as bridging covered stents in fenestrated and branched endovascular aneurysm repair (FB-EVAR).</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Patients treated and followed in two institutions receiving at least one BeGraft or BeGraft Plus as bridging covered stent between January 2018 and July 2023 were included.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>A total of 765 target vessels (TVs) in 281 patients were aimed to be bridged with the BeGraft or BeGraft Plus. Target vessel technical success was 99.5% (761/765). Estimated TV patency at one and two years was 98.5 ± 0.5% and 96.7 ± 0.9%, respectively, with no difference between fenestrations and branches. Estimated freedom from TV related endoleak at one and two years was 98.5 ± 0.5% and 97.9 ± 0.6%, respectively. Estimated freedom from endoleak at two years was lower for TVs targeted with branches compared with TVs targeted with fenestrations (94.2 ± 1.9% <em>vs.</em> 99.7 ± 0.3%, respectively; <em>p</em> < .001). Estimated freedom from TV related re-intervention at one and two years was 97.7 ± 0.6% and 97.1 ± 0.7%, respectively. Estimated freedom from TV related re-intervention at two years was lower for TVs targeted with branches compared with TVs targeted with fenestrations (93.1 ± 2.0% <em>vs.</em> 99.0 ± 0.5%, respectively; <em>p</em> < .001). Estimated freedom from TV instability at one and two years was 96.8 ± 0.7% and 94.5 ± 1.1%, respectively. Estimated freedom from TV instability at two years was 96.0 ± 1.3% for fenestrations and 91.2 ± 2.2% for branches (<em>p</em> = .003).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The BeGraft and BeGraft Plus covered stents showed good midterm outcomes as bridging covered stents in FΒ-EVAR. Branches showed higher instability rates compared with fenestrations. Branches showed similar patency rates to fenestrations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55160,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery","volume":"69 3","pages":"Pages 444-451"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142632949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Workers in Clinical Management Pathways for Outcome Improvement of Patients with Chronic Limb Threatening Ischaemia","authors":"Siyuan Yang, Xiaoyu Ji","doi":"10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.10.050","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.10.050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55160,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery","volume":"69 3","pages":"Page 500"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142796596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pre-operative Evaluation in Vascular Surgery: Are We Covering All Our Bases?","authors":"Ksenija Jovanovic , Igor Koncar","doi":"10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.10.038","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejvs.2024.10.038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55160,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery","volume":"69 3","pages":"Pages 442-443"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142568637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}