Vedantham-led team honored for clinical research


Suresh Vedantham, MD, professor of radiology at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and a team of clinical trial investigators have been recognized with a 2018 Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award from the Clinical Research Forum.

Vedantham, also a professor of surgery, led the Acute Venous Thrombosis: Thrombus Removal with Adjunctive Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis (ATTRACT) study, a large, multicenter randomized control trial that aimed to determine whether routinely removing blood clots from the legs with drugs and specialized devices can prevent serious and painful long-term complications. The answer, it turned out, was no.

Read more on the School of Medicine site.

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