Research consensus panel

Topic: Venous interventions

Date: October 2004

Outcome: Since the RCP, Dr. Vedantham published his findings in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.

Vedantham, Suresh, et al. 2005. Development of a Research Agenda for Endovenous Treatment of Lower-extremity Venous Reflux: Proceedings from a Multidisciplinary Consensus Panel, Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 16(12) 1575-1579.

Vedantham, Suresh, et al. 2005. Development of a Research Agenda for Endovascular Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism: Proceedings from a Multidisciplinary Consensus Panel, Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 16(12) 1567-1573.

In addition to his publications, Dr. Vedantham was awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Acute Venous Thrombosis: Thrombus Removal with Adjunctive Catheter-directed Thrombolysis (ATTRACT) trial was designed to evaluate the ability of catheter-directed thrombolysis to reduce the incidence and severity in patients with acute proximal deep vein thrombosis (DVT). ATTRACT received $10.2 million in funding, and has completed accrual of its originally planned cohort of 692 patients.

ATTRACT website

ATTRACT press release