NEWS

13 October 2011

BSET Fellowship Applications for 2012/2013

Open from 15 October 2011 and are to be submitted by midnight on
30 November 2011.

3 February 2011

Call for submission of data to the Globalstar registry online submission

There are many patients in whom standard stent-grafts are not applicable for aneurysm repair due to anatomical constraints. A number of advanced endograft technologies have been developed to extend the use of EVAR in circumstances of unfavourable anatomy, e.g. fenestrated EVAR. The feasibility of such techniques has been established and a number of centres have begun to accumulate clinical experience. But as in the early days of EVAR, enthusiasm and optimism for these techniques has not been matched by evidence, which is essential before the techniques can be advocated for day-to-day clinical practice. However, there are a number of hurdles to developing such evidence.

The biggest hurdle arises from the fact that fEVAR and similar advanced techniques can be applied to a relatively small number of patients in each of the centres using them and it takes a long time to establish a substantial cohort even in the busiest of the centres. Therefore a collaborative project is ideal to develop a database of advanced techniques, that is large enough to allow conclusions to be drawn in a shorter span of time. It is the aim of GLOBAL collaborators on Advanced Stent-graft Techniques for Aneurysm Repair (GLOBALSTAR) project to serve this role.

http://clinengnhs.liv.ac.uk:8080/Gstar2/index.php

3 February 2011

CONGRATULATIONS ....

.. to the three trainees who have been awarded a Fellowship for 2011/2012

Robert Davies will carry out his Fellowship at Leicester Royal Infirmary

Michael Delbridge will carry out his Fellowship at Manchester Royal Infirmary

Ian Nordon will carry out his Fellowship at St George's London