Industry Updates

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Managing Varicose Veins: What’s New and What’s Next?

The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), American Venous Forum (AVF), and American Vein & Lymphatic Society (AVLS) have joined forces to update the clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for the management of varicose vei...Continue Reading


American Venous Forum Introduces Policy Navigator for Varicose Veins

by Allie Woodward The American Venous Forum is proud to launch Venous Policy Navigator, an exclusive criteria database supporting practices providing superficial venous procedures Put an End to Costly Denial of Claims an...Continue Reading


Sumner’s Hemodynamic Guide to Venous Diagnosis and Intervention

In this new book co-editors Drs. Jose Almeida, Ghassan Kassab, Fedor Lurie, and Seshadri Raju blend engineering, clinical medicine, and investigational diagnostics to elevate venous treatment Hemodynamics for Surgeons ed...Continue Reading


The Year's Best Venous Trials

SINCE I EMBARKED on learning more about venous disease over ten years ago, I’ve been impressed by how much we have yet to grasp. This fascinating field is subject to the same foibles that exist elsewhere. Groupthink...Continue Reading


THROMBOLEX Receives Enhanced Indication for Use from the FDA, related to restoration of blood flow during Catheter Directed Thrombolysis (CDT) treatment

NEWS PROVIDED BYTHROMBOLEXTM, INC.June 30, 2021 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has enhanced the Indications for Use for the BASHIR™ Endovascular Catheter and the BASHIR™ Plus Endovascular Catheter...Continue Reading


Lipedema and Lipolymphedema: New ICD-10-CM Codes Proposed to Enhance Diagnosis, Treatment, and Research

IN JUNE 2020, the Lipedema ICD-10-CM Committee, with support from the American Vein & Lymphatic Society (AVLS), submitted an application to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish new ICD-10-CM...Continue Reading


AVLS PRO Venous Registry: 2.0 Goes Live!

THE AMERICAN Vein & Lymphatic Society and Joe Jenkins, MD, FACS, RPVI, RPhS, RVT, DABVLM, CWSP, Chair of the PRO Registry Operations Committee are excited to announce the completion of the new PRO Venous Registry 2.0...Continue Reading


Venous Symposium Goes Virtual

FOR THE PAST 10 years the Venous Symposium (VS) has delivered the most practical education on the treatment of venous disease. Although the circumstances of COVID-19 forced VS to host a virtual conference, VS was committe...Continue Reading


First Patient Enrolled in the RESCUE Trial for Treatment of Acute Submassive Pulmonary Embolism

New Britain, PA. August 6, 2020 - THROMBOLEX™ Inc. has announced that it has enrolled the first patient in its pivotal RESCUE trial for the treatment of patients with acute submassive pulmonary embolism (PE) using...Continue Reading


SIR Reimagines Annual Conference Due to COVID-19

With their annual conference slated for March 2020, the leadership of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) had no government orders to guide them. Here’s a look at their extraordinary circumstances, how th...Continue Reading