GUIDELINES
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PUBLISHED GUIDELINES
Access the ESVS Guidelines via the EJVES website or download the PDF.
Abdominal Aorto-iliac Artery Aneurysms
Acute Limb Ischaemia
Antithrombotic
Position Paper: Aortic Arch
Atherosclerotic Carotid and Vertebral Artery Disease
Chronic Venous Disease of Lower Limbs (CVD)
Chronic Threatening Ischemia (CLTI)
Descending Thoracic Aorta Diseases
Diseases of Mesenteric Arteries and Veins
Peripheral Arterial Diseases
Radiation Safety
Vascular Access
Vascular Graft and Endograft Infection
Venous Thrombosis
Vascular Trauma
🎥 New Animation: Managing Vascular Trauma – Watch Now!
2025 ESVS Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Vascular Trauma
🎥 ESVS Vascular Trauma Animation
ESVS 2025 ANNUAL MEETING
IN ISTANBUL
Upcoming Guidelines Sessions
Don’t miss these sessions, which include updates to the upcoming ESVS Guidelines.
• Vascular Access
→ with Flavia Gentile Johansson, Eleanor Atkins, Ulf Hedin, Joana Ferreira, Matteo Tozzi, Gaspar Mestres, and Maarten Snoeijs
• The new 2025 guidelines on the descending thoracic aorta. Round table discussion on most controversial subjects.
→ with Ian Loftus, Hence Verhagen, Anders Wanhainen, Matthew Eagleton, Tara Mastracci, Carlota Fernandez Prendes, Athanasios Katsargyris, Barend Mees, and Kevin Mani
ESVS GUIDELINES SESSIONS
At the 38th Annual Meeting in Kraków
Watch the sessions on the following Guidelines on the ESVS Library, the digital hub of our educational resources (podcast, digital textbook, Annual Meeting sessions, etc.)
• European Society of Vascular Surgery 2025 Guidelines on the Management of Diseases of the Mesenteric and Renal Arteries and Veins
→ with Elena Iborra, Mark Koelmay, Asha Malan, Bob Geelkerken, Jussi Kärkkäinen, Nicola Leone, and Anders Gottsäter
• European Society for Vascular Surgery 2025 Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Vascular Trauma
→ with Carl Wahlgren, Pirkka Vikatmaa, Maria Antonella Ruffino, Vincent Jongkind, and Oleksandr Sokolov, and more.
• Transatlantic Session Comparing ESVS and SVS Guidelines
→ with Ian Loftus, Anders Wanhainen, and Jonathan Boyle
UPCOMING ESVS GUIDELINES
2024
• Vascular Trauma
2025
• Vascular Malformations
TRANSLATION OF GUIDELINES
ESVS owns the copyright of the guidelines. Elsevier, as the licenced publisher, can grant a copyright permission on behalf of the ESVS for the purposes of translation of the guidelines to another language. The guidelines can be offered to a national society for translation into a national language without charge.
→ If interested, please contact the members of the Guidelines Steering Committee or the ESVS office.