Jornadas Angiológicas de Córdoba (1975): inicio de la hegemonía de la cirugía vascular sobre la angiología tradicional en la Sociedad Española de Angiología Cirugía Vascular

In 1955, a group of physicians with an interest in the treatment of vascular diseases, led by the surgeon Fernando Martorell from Barcelona, decided to meet annually to exchange their experiences in the treatment of patients suffering from vascular conditions. They called these meetings the Jornadas Angiológicas Españolas, or Spanish Angiology Conferences. In June 1959, a scientific society called the Sociedad Española de Angiología (Spanish Society of Angiology) was set up, with Doctors Fernando Martorell, José María Zaldúa, Francisco Gutiérrez Vallejo and Alberto Martorell as its founding members. The first governing board of the society was chaired by Doctor Fernando Martorell. In 1975, the Angiology Conference was held in Cordoba and the governing board decided to introduce a change in direction, in which the more surgical sector replaced the more conventional angiological one. This fact marked the beginning of a new, more surgically-oriented, direction of the society that was more in line with the evolution of the treatment of vascular diseases in the rest of the world and in accordance with the generational change of its members. [ANGIOLOGÍA 2009; 61:167-79]