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Recommended Reading on Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Diseases

ESC Working Group on Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Diseases

Accelerated vascular ageing after COVID-19 infection: the CARTESIAN study

European Heart Journal
17 Aug 2025

Single vs. dual antiplatelet therapy in patients with severe peripheral arterial disease undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation: insights from the Hostile registry

European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy
15 Jul 2025

Family history of aortic dissection in fibrillin-1 pathogenic variant

European Heart Journal
21 May 2025

Antithrombotic treatment following revascularization for chronic limb-threatening ischaemia: a scientific statement of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Diseases and the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy

European Heart Journal
20 May 2025

Pregnancy, aortic events, and neonatal and maternal outcomes

European Heart Journal
12 Nov 2024

Effect of Behavior-Change Interventions on Daily Physical Activity in Patients with Intermittent Claudication: The OPTIMA Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
12 Sep 2024

Management of aortic disease in children with <em>FBN1</em>-related Marfan syndrome A joint statement from the paediatric subgroup of the European Reference Network of Vascular Diseases (VASCERN, Heritable Thoracic Aortic Disease working group) and the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC)

European Heart Journal
9 Sep 2024

Intravascular ultrasound-guided drug-coated balloon angioplasty for femoropopliteal artery disease: a clinical trial

European Heart Journal
5 Jul 2024

Lipid lowering for prevention of venous thromboembolism: a network meta-analysis

European Heart Journal
14 Jun 2024

The aortic paradox: a nationwide analysis of 523 994 individual echocardiograms exploring fatal aortic dissection

European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
29 May 2024

Lower extremity arterial disease vs. coronary artery disease: mortality differences after revascularization

European Heart Journal
2 May 2024

Exercise therapy for chronic symptomatic peripheral artery disease A clinical consensus document of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Diseases in collaboration with the European Society of Vascular Medicine and the European Society for Vascular Surgery

European Heart Journal
10 Mar 2024

Breathing danger: linking air pollution to cardiovascular disease and increased risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm

European Heart Journal
16 Feb 2024

The Vienna Prediction Model for identifying patients at low risk of recurrent venous thromboembolism: a prospective cohort study

European Heart Journal
28 Sep 2023

Winners do what they fear: exercise and peripheral arterial disease—an umbrella review

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
23 Aug 2023

Smooth muscle α-actin missense variant promotes atherosclerosis through modulation of intracellular cholesterol in smooth muscle cells

European Heart Journal
28 Jun 2023

Acute aortic dissection: evidence, uncertainties, and future therapies

European Heart Journal
20 Dec 2022

Effect of acetaminophen on blood pressure: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials<sup> </sup>

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
3 Jun 2022

Low ambient temperature and temperature drop between neighbouring days and acute aortic dissection: a case-crossover study

European Heart Journal
28 Nov 2021

Effect of evolocumab on acute arterial events across all vascular territories : results from the FOURIER trial

European Heart Journal
19 Sep 2021

Triglyceride-rich lipoproteins and their remnants: metabolic insights, role in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, and emerging therapeutic strategies—a consensus statement from the European Atherosclerosis Society

European Heart Journal
2 Sep 2021

Physical activity and fitness in the community: the Framingham Heart Study

European Heart Journal
26 Aug 2021

Low-dose rivaroxaban plus aspirin in older patients with peripheral artery disease undergoing acute limb revascularization: insights from the VOYAGER PAD trial

European Heart Journal
25 Aug 2021

The association of amputations and peripheral artery disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus receiving sodium-glucose cotransporter type-2 inhibitors: real-world study

European Heart Journal
19 Nov 2020

Novel antidiabetic drugs and risk of cardiovascular events in patients without baseline metformin use: a meta-analysis

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
30 Sep 2020

Risk factors and clinical outcomes in chronic coronary and peripheral artery disease: An analysis of the randomized, double-blind COMPASS trial

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
29 Aug 2020

Pregnancy-associated arterial dissections: a nationwide cohort study

European Heart Journal
30 Jul 2020

Genetic aetiology of blood pressure relates to aortic stiffness with bi-directional causality: evidence from heritability, blood pressure polymorphisms, and Mendelian randomization

European Heart Journal
1 May 2020

Impact of angiotensin receptor blockers on mortality after hospitalization for symptomatic lower extremity artery disease

European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy
1 May 2020

Genetic predisposition to smoking in relation to 14 cardiovascular diseases

European Heart Journal
16 Apr 2020

Inflamm-ageing: the role of inflammation in age-dependent cardiovascular disease

European Heart Journal
1 Feb 2020

Senescence-induced inflammation: an important player and key therapeutic target in atherosclerosis

European Heart Journal
3 Jan 2020

The year 2018 in cardiology: aorta and peripheral circulation

European Heart Journal
2 Jan 2019

Focus on echovascular imaging assessment of arterial disease: complement to the ESC guidelines (PARTIM 1) in collaboration with the Working Group on Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Diseases

European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
18 Sep 2018

The year 2017 in cardiology: aorta and peripheral circulation

European Heart Journal
2 Jan 2018