Clinic For Vascular And Endovascular Surgery University Clinical Centre Of Serbia

Clinic for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery/University Clinical Centre of Serbia/ Belgrade/Serbia is the largest and oldest Vascular Surgical Centre in Serbia. It continues the tradition of the Second Surgical Clinic founded in 1946. The main parts of the Clinic are Vascular Laboratory; Outpatients Clinic & Daycare Facility; three Clinical Departments; Intensive Care Unit; Invasive Radiology Suite & Endovascular Unit; Anesthesia Department; three operative theatres and Department for Transfusion Medicine. Total hospital capacity includes 52 beds. Clinic is open 24h/365 days per year. It covers the region of Belgrade and its surroundings but is also a referral centre for elective and urgent vascular patients from the whole of Serbia. There is a broad spectrum of vascular interventions being performed; the annual number is about vascular reconstructions including more than 500 CEAs; 70 CAS; 300 50 EVARs, 50 TEVARs, 80 20 THAAs, 250 infrainguinal reconstructions, 100 HD vascular accesses; 40 cases of vascular trauma, etc. There is also a significant number of patients treated for DVT, venous ulcers, chronic wounds of vascular etiology or vascular medication management; patients in the process of (vascular) rehabilitation, etc. It is the national referral centre for the treatment of acute and elective aortic pathology officially recognised by the Ministry of Health/Republic of Serbia. The Centre is a teaching hospital of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade. Due to the high-volume numbers of open vascular surgical procedures, the centre became a recognizable site for international education of young vascular specialists in open surgery. There are multiple ongoing research projects, but we would like to emphasize two HORIZON projects- TAXINOMISIS: VASCULAID - https://vascul-aid.eu/