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Advances in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery: Second Edition

A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Vascular Medicine".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 11 January 2026 | Viewed by 360

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Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Klinik Ottakring, Vienna, Austria
Interests: vascular and endovascular surgery; vascular access surgery; carotid surgery; aortic surgery; vascular education
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Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Klinik Ottakring, Vienna, Austria
Interests: vascular and endovascular surgery; aortic surgery; complex open and endovascular procedures; compression syndromes; carotid and vertebral artery surgery; vascular education; vascular access surgery
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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, entitled “Advances in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery: Second Edition”. For more details on our first edition, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/special_issues/10GX0CN4Q4.

Over the last two decades, endovascular treatment options for a myriad of vascular diseases have been increasingly improved and developed. Aortic surgery stands out as a prominent example where endovascular techniques have successfully complemented established open surgical procedures. Ultimately, the popularization of endovascular aortic repair, which itself has developed to a point where highly complex aortic pathologies can be treated using a large repertoire of off-the-shelf and custom-made devices, has undoubtedly contributed to improved patient care. Open and endovascular techniques and their development for peripheral arterial or carotid diseases have been equally important in the vascular surgeon‘s armament, and exciting new developments could spur relevant clinical advances in the treatment of patients requiring hemodialysis access. As patient care has evolved, so has the way we train vascular surgery residents, with exciting open and endovascular training simulators being developed and applied.

This Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine, entitled “Advances in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery: Second Edition”, provides an opportunity for authors and readers dedicated to improving vascular education and patient care to create and refer to a collection of papers on advances and new insights within our field. The Special Issue aims to highlight exciting developments that could improve how we diagnose and treat patients.

It is our pleasure to invite and welcome you to contribute your manuscripts on advances in vascular and endovascular surgery for peer review. We look forward to a completed collection of high-quality papers that will promote scientific communication of our knowledge with the goal of positively influencing the decision-making process and care for our patients.

Dr. Fadi Taher
Dr. Afshin Assadian
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • vascular surgery
  • endovascular surgery
  • aortic surgery
  • peripheral arterial disease
  • vascular imaging
  • EVAR
  • FEVAR
  • vascular access
  • vascular education
  • aneurysms

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Systematic Review
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the BeGraft Peripheral and BeGraft Peripheral PLUS Outcomes as Bridging Covered Stents in Fenestrated and Branched Endovascular Aortic Repair
by George Apostolidis, Petroula Nana, José I. Torrealba, Giuseppe Panuccio, Athanasios Katsargyris and Tilo Kölbel
J. Clin. Med. 2025, 14(15), 5221; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14155221 - 23 Jul 2025
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Background/Objective: Bridging stent optimal choice in fenestrated and branched endovascular aortic repair (f/bEVAR) is under investigation. This systematic review and meta-analysis studied the outcomes of the BeGraft peripheral and peripheral PLUS as bridging stents in f/bEVAR. Methods: The methodology was pre-registered [...] Read more.
Background/Objective: Bridging stent optimal choice in fenestrated and branched endovascular aortic repair (f/bEVAR) is under investigation. This systematic review and meta-analysis studied the outcomes of the BeGraft peripheral and peripheral PLUS as bridging stents in f/bEVAR. Methods: The methodology was pre-registered to the PROSPERO (CRD420251007695). Following the PRISMA guidelines and PICO model, the PubMed, Cochrane and Embase databases were searched for observational studies and randomized control trials, in English, from 2015 to 2025, reporting on f/bEVAR patients using the second-generation BeGraft peripheral or the BeGraft peripheral PLUS balloon expandable covered stent (BECS; Bentley InnoMed, Hechingen, Germany) for bridging. The ROBINS-I assessed the risk of bias and GRADE the quality of evidence. Target vessel technical success, occlusion/stenosis, endoleak Ic/IIIc, reintervention and instability during follow-up were primary outcomes, assessed using proportional meta-analysis. Results: Among 1266 studies, eight were included (1986 target vessels; 1791 bridged via BeGraft); all retrospective, except one. The ROBINS-I showed that seven were at serious risk of bias. According to GRADE, the quality of evidence was “very low” for primary outcomes. Target vessel technical success was 99% (95% CI 98–100%; I2 = 12%). The mean follow-up was 20.2 months. Target-vessel instability was 3% (95% CI 2–5%; I2 = 44%), occlusion/stenosis was 1% (95% CI 1–4%; I2 = 8%) and endoleak Ic/IIIc was 1% (95% CI 0–3%; I2 = 0%). The estimated target-vessel reintervention was 2% (95% CI 2–4%; I2 = 12%). Celiac trunk, superior mesenteric and renal artery instability were 1% (95% CI 0–16%; I2 = 0%;), 1% (95% CI 0–5%; I2 = 14%) and 4% (95% CI 2–7%; I2 = 40%), respectively. Conclusions: The BeGraft peripheral and peripheral PLUS BECS performed with high technical success and low instability when used for bridging in f/bEVAR. Cautious interpretation is required due to the very low quality of evidence. Full article
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