Interactive Case Study of the Month

Each month SVM presents a new case study or vascular image. View this dynamic new feature of the SVM Web site. Updated: Jul. 1, 2008

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SVM Urges Vote in Favor of "Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act"
Cigarette smokers are 2 to 4 times more likely to develop coronary heart disease than nonsmokers, and 2 to 3 times more likely to die from it. The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved legislation (H.R. 1108) strongly supported by the SVM and other vascular organizations that would grant FDA authority over tobacco products. The bill must now be approved by the full House. Read the letter from SVM to the House of Representatives...

SVM Endorses ACC's COCATS, Task Force 11 Report, Vascular Medicine and Peripheral Catheter-Based Intervention
Technological advances in imaging techniques and catheter-based interventions have brought management of vascular diseases firmly into the sphere of the cardiovascular specialist.
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