German Interdisciplinary Society for Vascular Anomalies
Caring for patients with vascular anomalies implies much more than providing treatment; since we go a long way as a team to find the right therapy at the right time.
S. von der Heydt
The German Interdisciplinary Society for Vascular Anomalies e.V. (GISVA) – an interdisciplinary medical association of renowned experts in diagnosis, therapy and research of vascular malformations and vascular tumors.
Compendium Vascular Anomalies a free accessible internet knowledge platform
Physicians from over 10 different subspecialities, Case-Manager, patient support group members and other healthcare professionals work together to improve the access and exchange of knowledge in the field of Vascular Anomalies. The GISVA published Compendium Vascular Anomalies provides a unique, practically relevant, online-reference website. It is freely accessible and scientifically based. Created by renowned experts in the field. Structured, evidence-based consistent articles describe topics as classification, imaging and laboratory diagnoses, symptoms, and the broad field of up-to-date conservative and invasive therapy including surgery. The topics are supported and linked with clinical patient cases. Specialists are continuously updating the articles for new available scientific knowledge.
The European Conference on Embolotherapy (ET) of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) took place in Valencia this june. Prof. Dr. Dr. W. Wohlgemuth was speaker and achieves attention for GISVA.
Last weekend, the German Interdisciplinary Society for Vascular Anomalies (GISVA) met for its Annual General Meeting in Kassel. In addition to members and the honorary member, Werner Siebert, René Strobach, as representative of the German patient advocacy group Federal Association of Congenital Vascular Malformations (Bundesverband Angeborene Gefäßfehlbildungen e.V.) was also present.
