Expanding Endovascular Therapy in Trauma

A condensed, granular and yet comprehensive discussion on a small retrospective series on mostly non-iatrogenic trauma of the subclavian and axillary arteries treated mostly by stenting. Professor Veller’s viewpoint is well-placed to bridge the transition from the conflict -related aetiologies to the endovascular and surgical morbidity that inevitably follows the expansion of aortic surgery and intervention. His learned comments on the value of endovascular repair (partial versus complete upper limb ischaemia) and his rationalised scepticism on long-term antithrombotic modulation rend this short invited editorial a ‘must’ for cardiovascular surgeons and interventionalists. The topic merits further publications. Conflict trauma has offered valuable experience that formatted modern vascular surgery in the beginning of the previous century, and now we reach a reversal of that/.