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BTAI Registry surpasses 1,400 patients enrolled

The ATF international BTAI registry has now enrolled 1,431 patients across 52 participating centers in North America, Europe, and Oceania.

The registry has grown from 529 enrolled patients across 28 sites in 2019 to 1,431 patients across 52 sites as of June 2026 — one of the largest prospective datasets on blunt thoracic aortic injury assembled to date. The scale of the cohort allows granular analysis of injury grades, treatment modalities, and long-term device durability that is not possible in smaller single-center series.

Society for Vascular Surgery releases focused update to the BTAI clinical practice guideline

The Society for Vascular Surgery has published “The Society for Vascular Surgery clinical practice guideline on the management of blunt thoracic aortic injury: Focused update” — the first update since 2011 — with 13 updated recommendations. ATF leadership authored the guideline.

Published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery, the focused update translates more than a decade of new evidence into contemporary practice recommendations. ATF Board Chairman Ali Azizzadeh, MD chaired the guideline writing group, and ATF President Joseph DuBose, MD is lead author. Key recommendations include definitive non-operative management for Grade 1 and 2 injuries (minimal aortic injury), and delayed TEVAR (>24 hours) for hemodynamically stable Grade 3 injuries, with urgent or emergent intervention where the injury is the cause of instability.

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Blunt thoracic aortic injury in the geriatric population

New registry findings on BTAI in older patients — a growing share of the injury burden as falls overtake motor vehicle collisions in an ageing population — published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

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