Twitter Conference: Charing Cross Vascular Symposium #cx2017 Day One

Since my paper is being presented and I am unable to be there, I will be 'attending' the Charing Cross Vascular Symposium through the wonderful medium of twitter. Following the hashtag #CX2017  I hope to catch as much as possible here on my blog.

#timelapse at the very busy #CX2017 @CXSymposium pic.twitter.com/Ob8w7NfqbN

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The first day was all about peripheral artery disease and the audience were asked some interesting questions regarding the their views on PAD, here are the results:

Dr Hauton alongside Dr Mastracci with her wonderful video in my last post addressed concerns on radition exposure, pointing out that 1 DSA image is roughly equal to 500 fluoro images:

 Mr Weinberg posted the following, pointing out that PAD patients receive better outcomes when combining exercise with revascularisation (linkhere):

Lucky man Dittmar Bockler loves his DynaCT:

What about smoking cessation in vascular patients, try try again:

 Dr Anders Wanhainen on the need for a disease specific solution for type B dissection.

Currently watching closely the twitter-web today, following todays focus on Abdominal aortic aneurysms... watch this space. 

Thanks to @PereAltes @Angiologist @CXsymposium @CookEVAR @ozvascdoc