• To identify and promote reporting standards that enable analysis of registry-based data across vascular quality registries
• To organise registry-based data collections and analyses through international collaboration networks to define outcomes in the invasive and best medical treatment of patients with carotid artery disease
• To improve the treatment standards of carotid patients
• To maintain and improve the international collaboration networks for quality improvement registries on carotid artery disease

Andreia Coelho – Portugal
Gert Jan de Borst – The Netherlands
Gabor Menyhei – Hungary
Paulo Eduardo Ocke Reis – Brasil
Riikka Tulamo – Finland
Maarit Venermo – Finland
Anamaria Vrancianu – Romania

Current projects:
• Reporting standards on carotid artery disease

Research:

Venermo M, et al. Sex Related Differences in Indication and Procedural Outcomes of Carotid interventions in VASCUNET. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2023 Epub ahead of print

Venermo M, et al. Editor’s Choice – Carotid Stenosis Treatment: Variation in International Practice Patterns. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2017;53:511-519.

Vikatmaa P, et al. Variation in clinical practice in carotid surgery in nine countries 2005-2010. Lessons from VASCUNET and recommendations for the future of national clinical audit. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2012;44:11-7.

Menyhei G, et al. Outcome following carotid endarterectomy: lessons learned from a large international vascular registry. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2011;41:735-40.

 

European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) 2023 Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Atherosclerotic Carotid and Vertebral Artery Disease.

Diagnosis, Treatment and Follow-up in Extracranial Carotid Stenosis [The 2020 German-Austrian guidelines]

European Stroke Organisation guideline on endarterectomy and stenting for carotid artery stenosis [The 2021 ESO guidelines]

Society for Vascular Surgery clinical practice guidelines for management of extracranial cerebrovascular disease [The 2022 SVS guidelines]