News Release

SVU Publishes December 2004 Issue of the Journal for Vascular Ultrasound

LANHAM, MD, December 29, 2004 – The Society for Vascular Ultrasound (SVU) has published the fourth quarter December 2004 issue of The Journal for Vascular Ultrasound (JVU), its quarterly peer-reviewed journal.

This December JVU issue features the David Philips Memorial Lecture presented by Sergio Salles-Cunha, PhD, RVT, FSVU, at the SVU 27 th Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA, June 5, 2004. The winner of the SVU Pioneer Award presents the David Philips Memorial Lecture each year. Established in 1992, the Pioneer Award is the highest scientific award of SVU and is an acknowledgment of an individual's contribution to the scientific field of noninvasive vascular diagnostics. The Pioneer Award is dedicated to the memory of David Phillips, who contributed to the scientific field of vascular diagnostics with the development of duplex ultrasound and color flow Doppler technology.

This year’s Pioneer Award recipient and presenter of the David Philips Memorial Lecture was Sergio Salles-Cunha. Dr. Salles-Cunha discussed “Small Contributions: Stepping Stones in Search of Knowledge” that focused on the teamwork of many small contributions that influenced his life in search of a better understanding of the vascular system in health and disease.

Other topics in the JVU December issue include:

2 Scientific Articles:

• The Prevalence of Aorto-iliac Disease by Duplex Ultrasound in Patients with Suspected Lower Extremity Arterial Disease by Joseph Hughes et al.
• Pan-Diastolic Flow Reversal in the Subclavian Artery: An Indicator of Aortic Insufficiency by Beverly Oglesby and Kathryn Sorrell

3 Case Reports:

• Femoral Artery Stenosis in a Marathon Runner by Kathleen Greene and Robert Lowe
• Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome: A Case Report by Y.M. Butcher and P.J. Walker
• Duplex Waveform Analysis of the Subclavian Artery in a Case with Internal Mammary Steal Syndrome by Victor Ginzburg et al.

For more information on the Journal for Vascular Ultrasound go to www.svunet.org/JVU/index.htm or call 1-800-788-8346. Individual copies of JVU are available for purchase for $25 for SVU members, $40 for non-members. Reprints of all of the articles in this December issue of JVU are available by contacting Delia Barrett at 800-352-2210 ext 8175 or via email at dbarrett@tsp.sheridan.com.

Contacts: Frankie Hamme at fhamme@svunet.org or Steve Haracznak at steveh@svunet.org; Tel. 301-459-7550