SFMV 2024

The highly topical theme of the 23^rd national congress of the French Society of Vascular Medicine (SFMV, Société Française de Médecine Vasculaire) is “Vascular medicine and environmental health”, dealing with the impact of the environment on vascular health. Join MESI there from 25 to 27 September 2024 in Dijon, France! 

Vascular specialists receive a lot of patients from primary care as well as from fellow specialists like podiatrists. This results in numerous referrals for a Doppler exam without any previous arterial examination and consequently in a big workload. How can this be changed? 

Guidelines like the Scientific Statement of the American Heart Association on PAD urge that screening for conditions like Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) should take place more widely in risk groups. In this, the environment also plays an important role on PAD development – such as air pollution and exposure to certain metals such as lead and cadmium.  

The MESI mTABLET enables easy, 1-minute measuring of the Ankle-Brachial Index and/or Toe-Brachial Index at primary care level as well as at specialists like podiatrists. An advanced arterial age assessment with the Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) app can also be performed. All these measurements provide an informed insight into the patient’s arterial health status and the level of urgency, and provides the vascular specialist with useful data before performing a Doppler exam.