Long Term Evaluation Should Be an Integral Part of the Clinical Implementation of New Vascular Treatments - an ESVS Executive Committee Position Statement

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Vascular Surgery, Rigshospitalet, Denmark; Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ² Department for Vascular Medicine, University Heart and Vascular Centre, Hamburg, Germany.
• ³ Department of Vascular Surgery, Canton Hospital St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland; University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ⁴ Department of Vascular Surgery, Rigshospitalet, Denmark; Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation (CAMES), Rigshospitalet, Denmark.
• ⁵ Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.
• ⁶ Aortic Centre, Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, INSERM UMR_S 999, Université Paris Sud, Paris, France.
• ⁷ Department of Vascular Surgery, Dijklander Hospital, Hoorn, the Netherlands.
• ⁸ Department of Vascular Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• ⁹ Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
• ¹⁰ Department of Biomedical and Preclinical Sciences, University of Liège, Belgium. Electronic address: philippe.kolh@chuliege.be.