28th – 30th APRIL 2025

Steigenberger Airport Hotel Frankfurt

Program 2025

Mo. 28th

Tu. 29th

We. 30th

Monday, 28th April

11:00  |  Welcome & Registration

12:00 – 14:00 | Session 1: The “how I do it” must-attend Session
Moderators: E. Blessing, K. Donas, G. Taneva, A. Zanabili

Focus: Surgical and endovascular techniques for the treatment of PAD (video-based presentations)

SURGERY:

1. Surgical endarterectomy of the common femoral artery: Tips and tricks for successful preparation, operation and closure of the wound, from skin to the skin.
F. Dick, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2. Cruro-pedal bypass surgery: Vein vs prosthetic material.
B. Dorweiler, Cologne, Germany
3. Surgical Management of Foot Wounds. Ideal Time and Level of Minor Amputation: Guillotine vs Flap Closure
K. Balzer, Bonn, Germany

ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT:

4. Retrograde and antegrade BTK recanalization
A. Schwindt, Münster, Germany
5. Atherectomy and intravascular lithotripsy from the groin to the crural arteries
A. Zanabili, Oviedo, Spain
6. Endovascular thrombectomy of acute and subacute thrombotic arterial and vein occlusions
E. Beropoulis, Langen, Germany
7. Endovascular thrombectomy of acute deep vein occlusions from Vein Cava inferior to the poplitealcrural veins
H. Jalaie, Aachen, Germany

14:00 – 15:00  |  Coffee & Cake

VASCULAR OLYMPICS (dedicated to young vascular surgeons and specialists)

More information to follow.

15:00 – 17:00 | Session 2: The PAD Triathlon

16:00 – 17:00 | Session 3: Case-based Video PAD competition

16:00 – 17:30 | Dedicated industry-sponsored workshops, focus: Vein pathologies

15:30 – 19:00 | Workshop: Wunde und Gefäßmedizin in Kooperation mit “Initiative Chronische Wunden e.V. (ICW)”

(exclusively for colleagues who work in Germany)

15:30-16:00 | Warum benötigt der moderne Gefäßmediziner eine vertiefte Wundexpertise?
A. Psyllas, Ärztlicher Wundexperte ICW®, Fachgesellschaft “Initiative Chronische Wunden e.V. (ICW)”, Wesel, Germany

16:00-16:30 | Fokusthema: Organisation/ICW
„Qualität durch Zertifizierung?! – Ausbildung, Weiterbildung und Zentren in der Wundversorgung“
J.-D. Rembe, European Fellow for Wound Healing (EAFWH), Vorstand Fachgesellschaft “Initiative Chronische Wunden e.V. (ICW)”, Düsseldorf, Germany

16:30-16:45 | Fokusthema Gefäßmedizin
„Kompression oder keine Kompression und wenn ja, womit, das ist hier das Dilemma!”
A. Psyllas, Wesel, Germany

16:45-17:00 | Fokus Hauttransplantation
„Hautersatzverfahren und Hauttransplantation – wie kriegen wir es zu?!“
Sakis Liougkos, Rüsselsheim, Germany

17:00-17:15 | Fokus Materialkunde
„Einmal mit Allem – Sinn und Unsinn moderner Wundmaterialien“
J.-D. Rembe, Düsseldorf, Germany

17:15-17:30 | Pause/Diskussion

17:30 – 19:00 | Hands on Workshop:
– Materialkunde
– Kompression
– Debridement

Tuesday, 29th April

08:15 – 09:00 | The Breakfast symposium (industry-sponsored)

Moderators: C. Behrendt, E. Blessing, D. Gray, G. Korosoglou

09:00 – 12:00 | Session 4: State-of-the-art education

1. How is success defined in CTLI treatment? Arterial BTK patency to the foot versus limb salvage or wound healing?

      L. Patrone, Firenze, Italy

2. What is the goal of vessel preparation? Optimal scaffold implantation or “leave nothing behind”?

      G. Korosoglou, Weinheim, Germany

3. The big SFA-Complex TASC D Lesion debate: Surgery or endovascular first?

      F. Saucy, Morges, Switzerland

4. Pre-operative assessment of plaque type and morphology and its impact on decision making for endovascular treatment

      T. Donati, Rome, Italy

5. Peripheral IVUS in CTLI; just a hype or a useful tool to detect and manage complex lesions?

      J. Kalder, Gießen, Germany

6. How do we treat clots? When do you use embolectomy, when mechanical thrombectomy and when lysis or a combination?

      A. Zanabili, Oviedo, Spain

7. The latest in surgical techniques: New flap and bypass techniques with minimal scars.

      F. Dick, St. Gallen, Switzerland

8. The new S3 Guidelines for the treatment of PAD: Clinical impact and novelties.

      N. Malyar, Münster, Germany

9. Management of acute femoro-popliteal prosthetic bypass occlusion: Re-do surgery or endovascular treatment?

      C. A. Behrendt, Hamburg, Germany

12:00 – 12:30  |  Break

Moderators: M. Andrassy, C. Behrendt, G. Korosoglou, L. Patrone

12:30 – 13:00 | THE BIG PAD ENDO-DEBATE: Occlusive disease of the popliteal artery. Is there an endovascular consensus?

a) Vessel prep-assisted balloon angioplasty
b) Interwoven bare-metal stent placement
c) Use of flexible nitinol helical stents

13:00 – 14:00 | Session 5: Latest breaking data from clinical studies and trials (industry-sponsored)

14:00 – 15:00  |  Lunch Break

VASCULAR OLYMPICS (dedicated to young vascular surgeons and specialists)

15:00 – 17:30 | Meet the PAD Key Opinion Leader of your preference and plan your fellowship (for young interventional radiologists, angiologists and vascular surgeons)

15:00 – 17:30 | Advanced endovascular BTK competition (for young interventional radiologists, angiologists and vascular surgeons)

19:30 | Networking event

Wednesday, 30th APRIL
AORTIC DAY WITH FOCUS ON URGENT AORTIC PATHOLOGIES AND TREATMENT

08:15 – 09:00 | The Breakfast symposium (industry-sponsored)

Moderators of the aortic day: J. P. de Vries, T. Donati, B. Hausen, M. Reijnen

09:00 – 11:00 | Session 1: Aortic disections

The Pericles Donas Memorial lecture 2025

09:00 – 09:30
The sudden death and revealing autopsy of King George II in 1760: Historical perspective on Aortic Dissection
F. J. Criado, Baltimore

09:30 – 09:50
Medical and interventional treatment of type B aortic dissections
J. T. Lee, Stanford

09:50 – 10:00
Discussion

10:00 – 10:20
Open vs endovascular treatment of chronic dissections
D. Kotelis, Bern

10:20 – 10:30
Discussion

10:30 – 11:00
Case-based session: Aortic type B dissection with visceral malperfusion; Interaction with the audience
L. Kock, Hamburg

11:00 – 11:30  |  Break

11:30 – 11:50 | Session 2: Ruptured aortic aneurysms

11:30 – 11:40
Management of ruptured aortic aneurysms: The importance of a standardized approach and algorithm
M. Lachat, Zurich

11:40 – 11:50
Discussion

11:50 – 12:20 | Session 3: Thoraco-abdominal aneurysms

11:50 – 12:00
Outer branched endografts for the urgent treatment of thoraco-abdominal aneurysms are durable with long-term experience
G. Sufali, Bologna

12:00 – 12:10
Inner branched endografts increase the versatility and range of treatment
M. Piazza, Padova

12:10 – 12:20
Discussion

12:20 – 12:30 | Session 4: Radiation Protection

12:20 – 12:30
Reduction of Radiation Exposure Combining Fiber Optic RealShape Technology (FORS) and Intravascular
Ultrasound in complex aortic aneurysms
J. A. van Herwaarden, Utrecht

12:30 – 12:50 | Session 5: Snorkel/chimney technique

12:30 – 12:40
10 years after the Annals publication of the snorkel/chimney technique: Current status in urgent treatment of
juxtrarenal pathologies
J. T. Lee, Stanford

12:40 – 12:50
Discussion

12:50 – 13:20 | DEBATE: TREATMENT OF TYPE IA ENDOLEAKS AFTER EVAR

12:50 – 13:00
Open repair is my first choice: Indications, tips and tricks to minimize surgical trauma and exposure
H. El Beyrouti, Oldenburg

13:00 – 13:10
Endosutured Aneurysm Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms represents a valuable option: How I do it.
J. P. de Vries, Groningen

13:10 – 13:20
Discussion

13:20 – 14:15 | Lunch Break

14:30 – 16:30 | Dedicated aortic industry-sponsored workshops, focus radiation protection

14:30 – 16:30 | Session 6: Meet the Aortic Key Opinion Leader of your preference and plan your fellowship
(for young vascular surgeons)

VASCULAR OLYMPICS (dedicated to young vascular surgeons and specialists)

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