Dear friends and colleagues,
I hope you are all doing well and are getting back to the new kind of Normal!
It might still be some time until we are able to get back to what we have been used to, but at least it seems feasible now.
The COVID pandemia has shown us how vulnerable we are, as human beings, as doctors, as healthcare providers and in all other areas. Although we might have thought that we are able to solve everything this is not always the case, for sure not instantly, but in a common effort it might be possible.
COVID -19 might be thought of an infectious disorder that causes respiratory problems, anyway within the course of the COVID pandemia, the relevant topic of inflammatory vasculitis as a consequence of COVID infection has come to our attention.
Reports not only about thromboembolic disorders in the venous and pulmonary space, but also in the arterial field have come to our attention and should made us acknowledge how important our area of interest is.
Especially critical limb ischemia with all the worsening of the disease especially in very smitten countries like Italy was and is a topic in the current scientific publications.
As a matter of distraction of this pandemia and also as a very positive sign that things are going on, this yeas ACC has been a great virtual meeting with a presentation of Voyager PAD, in which a lot of our WG members took part.
I wish you and all your families the best, stay safe and healthy and I really hope that we are all able to meet soon, hopefully in person once again
Marianne Brodmann
Our mission: To reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease.