Vein Specialist

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AVF Advocacy Update: Coding Wins, RUC Surveys, and Payment Reform

Jun 24, 2025
AVF's Healthcare Policy Committee chair Harry Ma, MD reports on the society's new seat in the AMA House of Delegates, coverag...
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Pelvic Congestion, Ovarian Vein Thrombosis, and Treatment Sequencing

Jun 16, 2025
This issue tackles three underrecognized areas of pelvic venous disease. A retrospective institutional review finds pelvic co...
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Pelvic Venous Disease: Nutcracker Syndrome and SVP Classification

Jun 16, 2025
This clinical-review issue focuses on pelvic and abdominal venous disease. Kathleen Ozsvath, MD surveys Nutcracker Syndrome,...
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EMBOLIZE Trial Launch and AVF's New President Sets 2026 Vision

Jun 16, 2025
This issue highlights the EMBOLIZE trial, a multicenter randomized study testing ovarian and pelvic vein embolization against...
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Wound Care Advocacy Wins and Healing Honduras Vein Mission Update

Apr 8, 2025
This issue reports Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders advocacy wins, including a predictable national reimbursement rate for...
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New AVF President Raffetto and Lymphedema Garment Coverage Update

Apr 8, 2025
This issue introduces incoming AVF President Joseph Raffetto, MD, sharing his family background, AVF history, and vision for...
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Day of Service, PIT/APP Courses, and Global Voices from VENOUS2025

Apr 8, 2025
This issue captures the community and education side of VENOUS2025: an AVF Day of Service in Atlanta, held with NFL alumni an...
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VENOUS2025 Wrap-Up: Strandness Lecture and Award Winners Announced

Apr 7, 2025
This meeting recap issue covers VENOUS2025 in Atlanta, where Joann Lohr, MD delivered the Strandness Lecture on AVF's foundin...
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Algeria Congress, Venous Ulcer Care, and VTE Risk in Lymphedema

Jan 31, 2025
This issue looks outward and inward: the Algerian College of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery invites AVF collaboration at i...
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A Revolution in Phlebology: Genomics, Ablation, and Health Equity

Jan 31, 2025
This issue surveys sweeping change across phlebology, from genomic and proteomic research into varicose vein biology to advan...
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Vein Innovation Spotlight: Thermography, CAVT, Compression Advances

Jan 30, 2025
This innovation-themed issue features new venous technologies presented by industry partners and clinicians. Cardiologist Ari...
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VENOUS2025 Preview: Case Competition, Strandness Lecture, Awards

Jan 29, 2025
This January/February 2025 Vein Specialist issue opens with editor Steve Elias's tribute to the late Edgar Guzman and introdu...
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How AVF Membership Helps Launch Vascular Surgery Careers

Dec 20, 2024
This issue makes the case that venous expertise and AVF membership can accelerate a young vascular specialist's career. One a...
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AVF Launches DEFIANCE Trial, Advances Policy and Training

Dec 20, 2024
This issue announces AVF's partnership with Inari Medical on DEFIANCE, a multinational randomized trial comparing mechanical...
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VENOUS2025 Preview: Meeting Highlights and Mentorship Focus

Dec 19, 2024
This issue previews VENOUS2025, AVF's annual meeting set for February 16-19 in Atlanta, highlighting a new Case Competition f...
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Member Spotlight: A Resident's Path Into Vascular Surgery

Dec 19, 2024
This issue features a Member Spotlight interview with Mennatalla Hegazi, MD, a general surgery resident at UC Irvine spending...
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Emerging Technologies and Surgery Advance Venous Ulcer Care

Oct 8, 2024
This wound-care issue surveys emerging technologies for chronic venous wounds, including negative pressure therapy with insti...
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Arterial Testing and Wound Care Policy Advocacy Update

Oct 8, 2024
This issue highlights why arterial testing matters before treating venous leg wounds, noting that up to 30% of patients with...
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Member Spotlight: A Career of Global Phlebology Leadership

Oct 8, 2024
This issue features a Member Spotlight on Dr Alvaro Orrego Diaz, a Chilean vascular surgeon whose decades-long career spans l...
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Meticulous, Multi-Modal Care Plans for Venous Leg Ulcers

Oct 8, 2024
This wound-care-focused issue of Vein Specialist opens with a vascular surgeon's reflection on how wound care has moved from...
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AVF Names Forbes CEO, Spotlights Exchange Member Benefit

Jul 30, 2024
This issue announces that AVF's Executive Committee has re-titled John Forbes, its Executive Director of 5 years, as Chief Ex...
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Comparing Iliofemoral Thrombectomy Devices and AVF Advocacy Wins

Jul 29, 2024
This issue compares four mechanical thrombectomy devices, EKOS, Indigo Lightning Bolt, Inari ClotTriever/RevCore, and JETi, u...
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Pulmonary Embolism Journal Club and Global AVF Outreach

Jul 29, 2024
This issue recaps AVF's Venous Journal Club webinar reviewing pulmonary embolism treatment evidence, including a real-world c...
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Venoactive Drugs and Ablation Choices for Venous Disease

Jul 26, 2024
This issue reviews evidence on medical and procedural treatment of chronic venous disease. It summarizes AVF guideline recomm...

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