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The theme of the 42nd DGG Annual Conference, to be held from 23–26 September 2026 in Frankfurt am Main, is: “The Art of Healing, High Tech, Excellence – Shaping Vascular Surgery and Vascular Medicine. Now!”

We warmly invite you to the online press conference on Thursday, 17 September 2026, 11.00–12.00!

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The topics to be covered at the press conference are:

• Congress preview, congress highlights
• Continuing professional development
• Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
• Artificial intelligence and robotics
• Latest DGG position paper: Vascular medicine in older adults

Registration for the 42nd DGG Annual Conference at https://dgg-jahreskongress.de

Health risks in summer caused by strained blood vessels – what to look out for.
Monday, 8 June 2026, 1.00–2.00 pm.

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Press conference of the German Society for Vascular Surgery and Vascular Medicine (DGG) on the occasion of the 11th Tri-National Conference of the D-A-CH Societies for Vascular Surgery, Thursday, 16 October 2025.

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Here you will find our press releases from 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Older releases can be found in our archive.

You can download our press releases from the archive below:

• Hospital reform: Professional associations reach consensus – Vascular medicine services must reflect the reality of care provision (download)
• From avocado to pike-perch fillet – DGG recommends diet for healthy vessels (download)
• Treatment of intermittent claudication – vascular exercise: effective, but used far too rarely (download)
• Intermittent claudication and chronic wounds: Holistic approaches to the treatment of vascular diseases should be assessed on a case-by-case basis (download)
• Climate change hits people with vascular diseases particularly hard (download)
• Hospital reform in Germany – a balancing act between quality and coverage (download)
• World No Tobacco Day on 31 May 2023 – vascular experts advise quitting smoking, including with e-cigarettes (download)
• Centralisation brings advantages for patients – PAD: Higher case numbers – better treatment outcomes (download)
• Large study on intermittent claudication – bypass prevents more leg amputations than stents in people under 80 (download)
• Narrowing of the carotid artery – Open surgery under local anaesthesia is the safest procedure (download)
• Pregnancy – varicose veins often resolve on their own (download)
• Diabetic foot syndrome – what to do, what not to do? What to look out for in diagnosis and treatment (download)
• Misdiagnosis – Leg pain is not always a case for orthopaedic surgeons (download)
• PAVK: Conservative therapy is gaining importance – Rethinking the treatment of circulatory disorders in the legs (download)
• The treatment of chronic wounds requires evidence-based research (download)
• Studies show: E-cigarettes support smoking cessation (download)
• New guidelines on aortic dissection – when a ruptured blood vessel suddenly destroys lives (download)
• Hope for patients with diabetic foot syndrome – fish skin helps chronic wounds heal faster (download)
• More embolisms, higher mortality – How the pandemic affects vascular health (download)
• Abdominal aortic aneurysms in women – Experts advise high-risk patients to have an ultrasound scan from the age of 65 (download)
• Germany lags behind Europe in smoking cessation – vascular specialists criticise lack of commitment to health policy (download)
• Vascular diseases in demographic change – successfully treating older people with modern methods (download)
• Diabetic foot – amputations often avoidable (download)
• COVID-19 and vascular diseases – update on the 37th Annual Meeting 2021 in Mannheim (download)
• Vascular surgery during the pandemic – DGG recommends coronavirus vaccination before major surgery (download)
• Varicose veins – when leg veins need to be treated (download)
• Thrombosis tendency in COVID patients – don't neglect primary prevention during lockdown (download)
• Peripheral arterial disease – undersupply: every PAD patient should take a statin (download)
• Right to a second opinion in the event of impending foot amputation (20 April 2020) (download)
• Circulatory disorders in the legs (25 February 2020) (download)
• Modern treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms (download)
• Chronic wounds (17 October 2019) (download)
• Stopping bleeding (16 October 2019) (download)
• Intermittent claudication (14 October 2019) (Download)