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FRIDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2020
AORTIC EDUCATIONAL SESSION
09:00 – 11:30
Live Case Transmission 1
(University Hospital of Larissa)
Sponsored Session
Percutaneous EVAR in a patient with narrow aortic bifurcation
Surgical team:
M. Matsagkas
(Greece),
K. Spanos
(Greece),
K. Batzalexis
(Greece)
Anaesthetic team:
E. Arnaoutoglou
(Greece),
K. Stamoulis
(Greece),
D. Papaspyrou
(Greece)
&
Clinical cases in aortic pathologies
Moderators:
K. Moulakakis
(Greece),
C. Karkos
(Greece)
SEE DETAILED PROGRAM
(
5 cases
, 10 min each: 5 min presentation & 5 min discussion)
• AORTOILIAC ANEURYSM DISEASE IN A PATIENT WITH PELVIC KIDNEY. FAILED FENESTRATED TECHNIQUE OR A SUCCESSFUL HYBRID REPAIR?
Emmanouil Barmparessos
, Georgios Geropapas, Vasileios Katsikas, Petros Chatzigakis, Alexios Kalamaras, Mikes Doulaptsis, Georgios Kopadis
Vascular Surgery Department, General Hospital "G. Gennimatas", Athens, Greece
• ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT OF A BLUNT THORACIC AORTIC INJURY IN THE PRESENCE OF AN ABERRANT RIGHT SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY
Nikolaos Daskalakis
1
, Michael Kiparakis
2
, Nikolaos Kontopodis
1
, Ioannis Dimopoulos
1
, Vangelis Mpontinis
1
, Elias Kechagias
1
, Emmanouel Tavlas
1
, Christos V. Ioannou
1
1
Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece
2
Vascular Surgery Unit & Cardiac Surgery Unit
• ENDOGRAFT INFOLDING AFTER INFRARENAL ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR WITH PROPHYLACTIC ENDOSTAPLING CAUSING PERSISTENT TYPE IA ENDOLEAK TREATED WITH COIL EMBOLIZATION AND THE NOVEL IMPEDE VASCULAR PLUG
Triantafyllos Giannakopoulos
, Filippos Ntailianas, Pavlos Vakalopoulos,
Alexandros Kozadinos, Antonios Papageorgiou
Vascular Surgery Department, Athens Naval and Veterans Hospital, Athens, Greece
• OPEN REPAIR OF A DE NOVO PARARENAL ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM (AAA) IN A PATIENT TREATED WITH PREVIOUS ANEURYSMECTOMY FOR AN INFRARENAL AAA
Konstantinos Roditis
, Afroditi Antoniou, Paraskevi Tsiantoula, Nikolaos Bessias
Department of Vascular Surgery, Korgialeneio - Benakeio Hellenic Red Cross General Hospital, Athens, Greece
• SURGERY BECAME A NIGHTMARE DURING OPEN SURGICAL TREATMENT OF AORTOCAVAL FISTULA THAT OCCURRED AFTER LOMBER DISC HERNIA OPERATION- BUT HOW DID WE SAVE THE PATIENT?
Didem Melis Oztas
Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic, Bagcilar Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
11:30 – 15:30
Live Case Transmission 2
(University Hospital of Larissa)
Sponsored Session
EVAR with prophylactic use of endoanchors in a patient with conical aortic neck
Surgical team:
G. Kouvelos
(Greece),
K. Spanos
(Greece),
K. Batzalexis
(Greece),
A. Chaidoulis
(Greece)
Anaesthetic team:
E. Arnaoutoglou
(Greece),
K. Stamoulis
(Greece),
D. Papaspyrou
(Greece)
&
Seminar:
Pararenal aortic aneurysms: How to select the optimal technique for treatment?
Moderators:
M. Matsagkas
(Greece),
C. Klonaris
(Greece)
F-EVAR solution (10 min)
Athanasios Katsargyris
(Germany)
T-branch solution (10 min)
George Vourliotakis
(Greece)
Ch-EVAR solution (10 min)
Miltos Matsagkas
(Greece)
Open repair (10 min)
George Geroulakos
(Greece)
15:30 -17:00
Clinical cases in Peripheral Arterial Disease
S. Koutsias
(Greece),
K. Kalligianni
(Greece)
SEE DETAILED PROGRAM
(
5 cases
, 10 min each: 5 min presentation & 5 min discussion)
• ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT OF DISTAL RENAL ANEURYSM
Petroula Nana
1
, George Kouvelos
1
, Konstantinos Batzalexis
1
, Metaxia Mpareka
2
, Christos Rountas
3
, Eleni Arnaoutoglou
2
, Miltiadis Matsagkas
1
1
Department of Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
2
Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
3
Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
• ENDOVASCULAR INTERVENTION FOR EARLY OCCLUSION OF AUTOLOGOUS INFRAINGUINAL BYPASS
Roman Smolnitchi
, Viorel Istrati, Vasile Culiuc, Dumitru Casian
Vascular Surgery Clinic, Department of General Surgery nr.3, State University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Nicolae Testemitanu”, Institute of Emergency Medicine, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
• ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT OF ACUTE SMA DISSECTION
Konstantinos Batzalexis
1
, Petroula Nana
1
, Michalis Peroulis
2
, Stavros Avgos
2
, Nikolaos Roussas
1
, Christos Rountas
3
, Miltiadis Matsagkas
1
1
Department of Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
2
Vascular Surgery Unit-Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
3
Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
• THE UNUSUAL CASE OF TOTAL OCCLUSION OF THE THREE SPLANCHNIC ARTERIES AND INFRA-RENAL AORTA
Petroula Nana
1
, George Kouvelos
1
, Konstantinos Batzalexis
1
, Anastasios Maskanakis
1
, Metaxia Mpareka
2
, Eleni Arnaoutoglou
2
, Miltiadis Matsagkas
1
1
Department of Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
2
Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
• LATE REVASCULARIZATION DOES NOT PRECLUDE THE SUCCESSFUL RESTORATION OF RENAL FUNCTION AFTER ACUTE RENAL ARTERY OCCLUSION
Andreas M. Lazaris
, George Theocharopoulos, George Pappas, George Geroulakos
Vascular Surgery Department, Attikon Teaching Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
16:21 – 16:30
Industry Webinar
/ Case in session
SEE DETAILED PROGRAM
16:21 – 16:30
Gore Viabahn Endoprosthesis versus Bare Metal stent in the treatment of SFA
occlusion disease: clinical review a d personal experience
Speaker:
Pregandaran Moodley
(South Africa)
16:31 – 17:00
Invited Lecture:
Chronic Limb Threatening Ischaemia Guidelines: The pros and cons
Philippe Kolh
(Belgium)
VENOUS EDUCATIONAL SESSION
17:00 -18:00
Clinical cases in venous pathologies
Moderators:
A. Lazaris
(Greece),
N. Labropoulos
(USA)
SEE DETAILED PROGRAM
(
4 cases
, 10 min each: 5 min presentation & 5 min discussion)
• ACUTE SUPERIOR VENA CAVA SYNDROME TREATED WITH PHARMACOMECHANICAL THROMBOLYSIS AND KISSING STENTS
Efthymios Avgerinos
Division of Vascular Surgery, UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
• KLIPPEL-TRENAUNAY SYNDROME TREATMENT EXPERIENCE
Metin Onur Beyaz
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sultanbeyli State Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
• NON-OPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF THE VERREL STAGE III ASCENDING THROMBOPHLEBITIS
Florin Bzovii
Vascular Surgery Clinic, Department of General Surgery Nr.3, Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
• OPEN RETRIEVAL OF A GUIDEWIRE LOST DURING THE CATHETERIZATION OF THE SUBCLAVIAN VEIN
Dumitru Casian
, Florin Bzovii, Vasile Culiuc
Vascular Surgery Clinic, Department of General Surgery nr.3, Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
17:41 – 18:00
Invited Lecture:
COVID-19 and VTE: Pathophysiology and treatment.
Andrew Nicolaides
(Cyprus & UK)
18:00 – 18:15
Break
18:15 – 19:00
Challenges in Venous Diseases
Moderators:
G. Geroulakos
(Greece),
G. Pitoulias
(Greece)
18:16 – 18:25
Combined superficial and deep vein disease
Nicos Labropoulos
(USA)
18:26 – 18:35
Static foot vein disorders
Dimitrios Kontothanassis
(Italy)
18:36 – 18:45
Updates on thermal and non-thermal options for saphenous vein ablation
Antonios Gasparis
(USA)
18:46 – 19:00
Discussion
19:00 – 19:30
Industry Webinar
SEE DETAILED PROGRAM
19:00 – 19:30
Αnticoagulant treatment in patients from every day clinical practice:
1. PAD patients post revascularization
2. Patients with DVT associated with cancer
Chairman:
Athanasios Giannoukas
(Greece)
Speaker:
Miltiadis Matsagkas
(Greece)
SATURDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2020
AORTIC EDUCATIONAL SESSION
09:00 - 10:30
Clinical cases in aortic pathologies
Moderators:
C. Maltezos
(Greece),
A. Gougoulakis
(Greece)
SEE DETAILED PROGRAM
(
8 cases
, 10 min each: 5 min presentation & 5 min discussion)
• ENDOVASCULAR REPAIR ALONE IN AORTODUODENAL FISTULA MAY CONTROL BLEEDING BUT OPEN REPAIR WILL EVENTUALLY BE NEEDED. A CASE OF DOUBLE BRIDGING STENT SESSIONS UNTIL DEFINITIVE OPEN REPAIR.
Christos Chronis
, Nikolaos Daskalakis, Nikolaos Kontopodis, Ioannis Dimopoulos, Emmanouel Tavlas, Stella Lioudaki, Alexandros Kafetzakis, Christos V. Ioannou
Vascular Surgery Unit, Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece
• TEVAR TO THE FALSE LUMEN OF A CHRONIC TYPE B AORTIC DISSECTION WITH ANEURYSMAL DILATATION WHEN THERE ARE NO OTHER OPTIONS: A NOVEL TECHNIQUE
Samer Koussayer
Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Department, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• CONTAINED RUPTURE OF A TYPE III EXTENT THORACOABDOMINAL ANEURYSM 14 YEARS AFTER INFRARENAL OPEN REPAIR - ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT WITH COOK T-BRANCH COMBINED WITH ENDOLOGIX AFX2
Triantafyllos Giannakopoulos
, Filippos Ntailianas, Pavlos Vakalopoulos,
Alexandros Kozadinos, Antonios Papageorgiou
Vascular Surgery Department, Athens Naval and Veterans Hospital, Athens, Greece
• TOTAL ENDOVASCULAR REPAIR OF ACUTE TYPE B DISSECTION EXTENDING TO ILIAC ARTERIES
Konstantinos Spanos
, George Kouvelos, Petroula Nana, Konstantinos Batzalexis, Athanasios Giannoukas
Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Larissa, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
• OPEN REPAIR OF A TYPE IV THORACOABDOMINAL ANEURYSM
Alexandros Gougoulakis
Vascular Surgery Department, "Athens Medical Center", Athens, Greece
• A UNIQUE CASE OF HEART FAILURE IN AN ADULT DUE TO COARCTATION OF THE AORTA TREATED WITH ENDOVASCULAR STENT FOLLOWED BY DOUBLE HEART VALVE SURGERY
Dimitrios Avgerinos
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York Presbyterian - Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, U.S.A
• ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT OF COMPLEX AORTIC ANEURYSMS USING STENT GRAFTS WITH INNER BRANCHES
Vasilios Tzilalis
1
, Alexandra Terzoglou
1
,
Konstantinos Papoutsis
1
, Aristotelis Yfantis
1
, Ioannis Kantounakis
2
1
Vascular Surgery Department, 401 General Army Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece
2
Interventional Radiology Department, 401 General Army Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece
• MALDEPLOYMENT OF CONTRALATERAL LIMB IN EVAR. MY WORST NIGHTMARE: TIPS AND TRICKS TO AVOID OPEN CONVERSION
Samer Koussayer
Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Department, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
10:30 – 13:00
Live Case Transmission 3
(University Hospital of Larissa)
Sponsored Session
Percutaneous EVAR with CO2 angiography in a patient with single kidney and mild renal insufficiency
&
Seminar:
Challenges in TEVAR procedures
Surgical team:
A. Giannoukas
(Greece),
G. Kouvelos
(Greece),
C. Karathanos
(Greece),
P. Nana
(Greece)
Anaesthetic team:
E. Arnaoutoglou
(Greece),
M. Bareka
(Greece), K.
Kolonia
(Greece)
Moderators:
C. Liapis
(Greece),
K. Papazoglou
(Greece)
Stroke from Thoracic Endovascular Procedures (STEP) (10 min)
Samer Koussayer
(Saudi Arabia)
Arterial stiffness and its clinical consequences after TEVAR (10 min)
Konstantinos Moulakakis
(Greece)
Effective measures for Spinal cord protection (10 min)
Athanasios Katsargyris
(Germany)
Discussion
13:00 – 14:00
Seminar:
Post-EVAR follow-up and late conversion
Moderators:
G. Georgiadis
(Greece),
C. Ioannou
(Greece)
Recommendations in current guidelines (10 min)
George Kouvelos
(Greece)
How to make the post-EVAR follow up cost effective (10 min)
Athanasios Giannoukas
(Greece)
Late open conversion after EVAR (10 min)
Lazar Davidovic
(Serbia)
Discussion
CAROTID EDUCATIONAL SESSION
16:30 -18:00
Clinical cases in carotid pathologies
Moderators:
I. Kakisis
(Greece),
T. Tegos
(Greece)
SEE DETAILED PROGRAM
(
5 cases
, 10 min each: 5 min presentation & 5 min discussion)
• A CASE REPORT OF ISCHEMIC STROKE IN PATIENT WITH DIABETES AND HYPERTENSION
Fatjona Kamberi
, Yllka Stramarko, Jerina Jaho
University of Vlore "Ismail Qemali", Research Center of Public Health, Vlore, Albania
• A SAFE AND NEUROLOGICALLY RELIABLE SURGICAL WAY TO REVASCULARIZE THE BRAIN WHEN THE LEFT CAROTID ARTERY IS SEVERELY STENOTIC AND ALL THE OTHER ARCH VESSELS ARE OCCLUDED?
Orcun Unal
Cardiovascular Clinic, Yedikule Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
• DOES CAROTID ARTERY STENOSIS MASK GIANT CELL ARTERITIS?
Metin Onur Beyaz
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sultanbeyli State Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
• ONE STAGE ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT OF RIGHT INTERNAL CAROTID AND RIGHT SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY TIGHT STENOSES IN A FEMALE PATIENT
Petroula Nana
, George Kouvelos, Konstantinos Spanos, Athanasios Haidoulis, Konstantinos Batzalexis, Athanasios Giannoukas
Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Larissa, Faculty of Medicine, School Medicine of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
• NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF A YOUNG PATIENT WITH A VASCULAR STROKE FOLLOWING INTOXICATION
Kalliopi Megari
Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
17:31 – 18:00
Keynote Lecture:
Asymptomatic carotid stenosis: can we calculate the risk and how much can it be reduced by lipid lowering therapy?
Andrew Nicolaides
(Cyprus & UK)
18:00 – 19:00
Seminar:
Acute ischaemic stroke management
Moderators:
G. Ntaios
(Greece),
T. Tegos
(Greece)
18:01 – 18:10
Principles for the establishment of an effective acute stroke service
Panagiotis Papanagiotou
(Greece)
18:11 – 18:20
Methods for acute ischemic stroke treatment: how to decide what to do?
Petros Zampakis
(Greece)
18:21 – 18:30
Timing of carotid revascularization after acute stroke
Laura Capoccia
(Italy)
18:31 – 18:40
Timing of carotid revascularization after thrombolysis – thrombus retrieval
Ioannis Kakisis
(Greece)
18:41 – 19:00
Discussion
19:00 – 20:00
Industry Webinar
SEE DETAILED PROGRAM
19:00 – 20:00
Endovascular AVF Creation
Moderator:
Prof. Dimitrios Karnabatidis
19:00 - 19:20 Endo AVF technology
Speaker:
Dimitrios Tsetis (Greece)
19:20 – 19:40 Endo AVF case
Speaker:
Dimitrios Karnabatidis (Greece)
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19:40- 20:00 Discussion
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