This CX Programme is subject to change.
Abdominal Aortic Challenges - Wednesday, 17th April
Venue: Upper Main Auditorium
Time: 08:00 - 18:00
Aortic Podium 1st session
Chairing: | Dittmar Böckler, President DGG, Heidelberg, Germany |
Moderator: | Michel Makaroun, President SVS, Pittsburgh, United States |
Abdominal Aortic
08:00 - 08:07
Podium 1st: ACT-guided heparinisation during non-cardiac arterial interventions: First results of the ACTION trial
Speaker: | Arno Wiersema, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
08:07 - 08:14
Podium 1st: Potential EVAS cardiovascular mortality benefit through active sac management when compared to EVAR
Speaker: | Marc Schermerhorn, Boston, United States |
08:14 - 08:21
Podium 1st: Exercise for abdominal aortic aneurysm patients: Early results from the AAA Get Fit Trial
Speaker: | Charles McCollum, Manchester, United Kingdom |
08:21 - 08:31
Audience participation and discussion
08:31 - 08:38
Podium 1st: Early results and implication of internal iliac preservation on quality of life
Speaker: | Fabio Verzini, Turin, Italy |
08:38 - 08:45
Podium 1st: EVAR plus endoanchors in the treatment of short proximal necks is a viable option: Two-year clinical results
Speaker: | Frank Arko, Charlotte, United States |
08:45 - 08:55
Audience participation, discussion and polling
08:55 - 09:02
Podium 1st: FRONTIER IV data with a large bore closure device
Speaker: | Daniela Branzan, Leipzig, Germany |
09:02 - 09:09
Podium 1st: New developments in fusion imaging - artificial intelligence that deforms anatomy to maintain accuracy
Speaker: | Bijan Modarai, London, United Kingdom |
09:09 - 09:16
Podium 1st: The impact of polymer sealing on neck-related adverse events: Five-year results from ENCORE
Speaker: | Hence J M Verhagen, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
09:16 - 09:26
Audience participation, discussion and polling
Thoracic Aortic
Chairing: | Tilo Kölbel, Hamburg, Germany |
Moderator: | Frank Vermassen, Ghent, Belgium |
09:26 - 09:33
Podium 1st: Thirty-day clinical results of global cohort with new thoracic aortic endograft
Speaker: | Fabio Verzini, Turin, Italy |
09:33 - 09:40
Podium 1st: Use of inner branches in complex aneurysms - early results of the Iberian Study
Speaker: | Jorge Fernández Noya, Santiago Compostela, Spain |
09:40 - 09:47
Podium 1st: T-branch registry: Results of an off-the-shelf endograft for thoracoabdominal aneurysms
Speaker: | Martin Austermann, Münster, Germany |
09:47 - 10:00
Audience participation and discussion
Coffee and visit to hands-on workshops
Time: 10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Symposium: Expanding aortic treatment indications
Chairing: | Robert Rhee, New York, United States |
10:03 - 10:09
The importance of precise placement, optimal seal and conformability in treating challenging thoracic aortic cases
Speaker: | Dittmar Böckler, President DGG, Heidelberg, Germany |
10:09 - 10:15
An innovative solution to expand on-label aortic treatment
Speaker: | Salma El Batti, Paris, France |
10:15 - 10:21
A treatment algorithm for EVAR: Anatomical considerations, disease state and proper device selection
Speaker: | Michel Reijnen, Arnhem, Netherlands |
10:21 - 10:28
Audience participation and discussion
Edited case
Chairing: | Robert Rhee, New York, United States |
10:30 - 11:00
Edited case: Expanding EVAR indications with a next-generation AAA endograft conforming to 90-degree neck angulations and seal in short 10mm necks
Speaker: | Jorge Fernández Noya, Santiago Compostela, Spain |
Durability of endovascular aneurysm repair and the NICE guidelines
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Chairing: | Roger Greenhalgh, London, United Kingdom |
Moderators: | Tilo Kölbel, Hamburg, Germany |
Maarit Venermo, Helsinki, Finland |
Live case with virtual reality from Paris: Low-profile abdominal aortic stent graft (30min)
Operator: | Stephan Haulon, Le Plessis Robinson, France |
NICE aortic guidelines - the latest (5min)
Speaker: | Andrew Bradbury, Birmingham, United Kingdom |
EVAR - a standard of care (5min)
Speaker: | Tara Mastracci, London, United Kingdom |
NICE AAA draft guidelines: a viewpoint from Wales (5min)
Speaker: | Louis Fligelstone, Swansea, United Kingdom |
Sac reduction as primary indicator of success after EVAR (5min)
Speaker: | Vincent Riambau, Barcelona, Spain |
Audience participation, discussion and polling (10min)
Estimation of Long-Term Aortic Risk (LEAR) Model to improve EVAR surveillance (5min)
Speaker: | Peter Holt, London, United Kingdom |
EVAR durability and endoleaks in 2019 the US perspective (5min)
Speaker: | Ronald Dalman, Vice-President SVS, Stanford, United States |
Indications for reinterventions after EVAR (5min)
Speaker: | Lars Lönn, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Audience participation, discussion and polling (10min)
Optimising surveillance and reintervention strategy following elective EVAR (25min)
Faculty: | Fiona Rohlffs, Hamburg, Germany |
Maarit Venermo, Helsinki, Finland | |
Lois Kim, Cambridge, United Kingdom | |
David Epstein, Granada, Spain | |
Roger Greenhalgh, London, United Kingdom |
Audience participation, discussion and polling (10min)
Lunch and visit to hands-on workshops
Time: 12:30 - 13:30
Lunch Symposium: Over 15 years of experience with a reliable, proven, trusted balloon-expandable covered stent
Chairing: | Jean-Paul de Vries, Groningen, Netherlands |
12:32 - 12:40
Reliable performance and proven long-term results of a balloon-expandable covered stent
Speaker: | Eric Verhoeven, Nuremberg, Germany |
12:40 - 12:48
How does the leading balloon-expandable covered stent make a difference?
Speaker: | Tilo Kölbel, Hamburg, Germany |
12:48 - 12:56
Audience participation and discussion
Global recruitment into the Vascular Specialty
Chairing: | Trevor Cleveland, President BSIR, Sheffield, United Kingdom |
Moderator: | Ronald Dalman, Vice-President SVS, Stanford, United States |
13:30 - 13:35
The sooner the better - How can medical students be attracted to (vascular) surgery
Speaker: | Hans-Henning Eckstein, Munich, Germany |
13:35 - 13:40
Recruitment into the venous specialty in Wales
Speaker: | Louis Fligelstone, Swansea, United Kingdom |
13:40 - 13:45
Audience participation and discussion
13:45 - 13:50
The European perspective
Speaker: | Henrik Sillesen, President ESVS, Copenhagen, Denmark |
13:50 - 13:55
The US perspective
Speaker: | Michel Makaroun, President SVS, Pittsburgh, United States |
13:55 - 14:00
Audience participation and discussion
14:00 - 14:05
The Latin American perspective
Speaker: | Alberto Muñoz, President WFVS, Bogotá, Colombia |
14:05 - 14:10
The EBVS perspective
Speaker: | Armando Mansilha, President EBVS, Porto, Portugal |
14:10 - 14:15
The UK perspective
Speaker: | Sophie Renton, Secretary General VSGBI, London, United Kingdom |
14:15 - 14:20
Audience participation, discussion and polling
Volume and outcomes
Chairing: | Janet Powell, London, United Kingdom |
Moderator: | Eric Verhoeven, Nuremberg, Germany |
14:20 - 14:27
Impact of the patient risk on the volume-outcome effect for AAA surgery
Speaker: | Matthias Trenner, Munich, Germany |
14:27 - 14:34
Volume outcome in AAA repair
Speaker: | Marc Schermerhorn, Boston, United States |
14:34 - 14:41
Systematic review of volume-outcome relationship in open and endo AAA repair
Speaker: | Dittmar Böckler, President DGG, Heidelberg, Germany |
14:41 - 14:48
Regionalisation of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm is safe and cost-effective
Speaker: | Clement Darling III, Albany, United States |
14:48 - 15:00
Audience participation, discussion and polling
Challenging aortic issues
Chairing: | Frans Moll, CX Advisory Board, Utrecht, Netherlands |
Moderator: | Ronald Dalman, Vice-President SVS, Stanford, United States |
15:00 - 15:07
Innovation in 3D navigation using light instead of fluoroscopy: First-in-human trial and case review
Speaker: | Joost van Herwaarden, Utrecht, Netherlands |
15:07 - 15:14
Risk prediction model of in-hospital mortality following elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
Speaker: | Thomas Schmitz-Rixen, Immediate Past President DGG, Frankfurt, Germany |
15:14 - 15:21
Late secondary rupture after EVAR: 10 years' experience
Speaker: | Vincenzo Brizzi, Bordeaux, France |
15:21 - 15:30
Audience participation, discussion and polling
Tea and visit to hands-on workshops
Time: 15:30 - 16:00
Tea Symposium: From infrarenal AAA to complex TAAA repair: Endovascular outcomes and future hybrid innvations
Chairing: | David Murray, Altrincham, United Kingdom |
15:32 - 15:40
Early results from a registry of endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm
Speaker: | David Murray, Altrincham, United Kingdom |
15:40 - 15:48
Fenestrated endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm
Speaker: | Randy Moore, Calgary, Canada |
15:48 - 15:56
Future innovations to address complex TAAA repair
Speaker: | Sebastian Debus, Hamburg, Germany |
Challenging aortic issues (continued)
Chairing: | Tara Mastracci, London, United Kingdom |
Moderator: | Tilo Kölbel, Hamburg, Germany |
16:05 - 16:10
CX Debate: Hostile necks should be treated with standard EVAR devices
For the motion
16:05 - 16:10
Hence J M Verhagen, President elect Dutch Vascular Society, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
Against the motion
16:05 - 16:10
Giovanni Torsello, Münster, Germany |
16:10 - 16:15
Audience participation, discussion and polling
16:15 - 16:22
On-label treatment of short and angulated necks with a new conformable EVAR device
Speaker: | Robert Rhee, New York, United States |
16:22 - 16:29
Gender disparities in the outcome of aortic repair
Speaker: | Janet Powell, London, United Kingdom |
16:29 - 16:36
Impact of female gender in the outcomes of severe aortoiliac obstructive disease
Speaker: | Michele Antonello, Padua, Italy |
16:36 - 16:43
Patients with familial abdominal aortic aneurysm have more complications and a higher 30-day mortality after EVAR
Speaker: | Hence J M Verhagen, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
16:43 - 16:50
The changing face of aortic disease - the implications of an ageing population
Speaker: | Dominic Howard, Oxford, United Kingdom |
16:50 - 17:05
Audience participation and discussion
17:05 - 17:15
CX Debate: The vast majority of failed EVARs can be treated endovascularly
For the motion
17:05 - 17:10
Jean-Pierre Becquemin, Champigny-sur-Marne, France |
Against the motion
17:10 - 17:15
Michel Makaroun, President SVS, Pittsburgh, United States |
17:15 - 17:20
Audience participation, discussion and polling
17:20 - 17:27
Embolisation of renal artery aneurysms
Speaker: | Joo-Young Chun, London, United Kingdom |
17:27 - 17:34
Management of visceral artery aneurysms
Speaker: | Lindsay Machan, Vancouver, Canada |
17:34 - 17:41
Sac embolisation during EVAR - results from a prospective randomised study
Speaker: | Dominique Fabre, Le Plessis Robinson, France |
17:41 - 17:48
Endoleak diagnosis and clinical outcomes of embolisation with a liquid embolic agent
Speaker: | Frank Arko, Charlotte, United States |
17:48 - 18:00
Audience participation and discussion