Tag: VIVA

ILLUMENATE four-year pooled analysis has “brought increased clarity” to the paclitaxel...

 Sean Lyden (Cleveland, USA), current VIVA Board president, speaks to Vascular News about his two years at the helm, which began with the “controversy on...

New data reconfirm long-term safety profile of the Philips Stellarex low-dose...

Royal Philips recently announced the four-year results from the ILLUMENATE European randomised controlled trial (EU RCT). The Stellarex drug-coated balloon (DCB) cohort demonstrated similar...
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Intact Vascular announces positive one-year data from TOBA II BTK clinical...

Intact Vascular announced the positive one-year results from its Tack optimised balloon angioplasty (TOBA) II BTK clinical trial during the 2020 Vascular Interventional Advances (VIVA)...

VIVA Physicians publishes analysis evaluating mortality and paclitaxel-coated devices

An individual patient-level data (IPD) analysis of the safety of paclitaxel-containing devices (PTXD), conducted by VIVA Physicians, identified an absolute 4.6% increased mortality risk...
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Virtual VIVA roundtable addresses COVID-19 pandemic

VIVA Physicians recently hosted a virtual roundtable to address COVID-19. Tony Das (Connected Cardiovascular Care Associates, Dallas and BSW Heart Hospital, Plano, USA), one...

Vascular Leaders Forum discussions seek consensus on paclitaxel

The Vascular Leaders Forum (VLF, 1–2 March, Washington DC, USA), hosted by the non-profit organisation VIVA Physicians, is a special consortium which was called...

Percutaneously created arteriovenous fistulae need far fewer post-creation interventions than those...

NEAT (Novel endovascular access trial) data presented at the Vascular Interventional Advances (VIVA) 2016 meeting (18–22 September, Las Vegas, USA) suggest that endovascular arteriovenous...