Program 2025
Mo. 28th
Tu. 29th
We. 30th
Monday, 28th April
11:00 | Welcome & Registration
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
- 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
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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