Aortic Programme Snapshot
Day 2:
Wednesday 26th April
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Consensus Update
Session highlights:
● Podium First: Statin treatment after aortic repair saves lives, but dose doesn’t matter (Kevin Mani, Uppsala, Sweden)
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Day 1:
Tuesday 25th April
Aortic Techniques & Technologies Consensus Update
Session highlights:
● Edited Case: TAMBE Thoracoabdominal 4 vessel system (Gustavo Oderich, Houston, United States)
● Edited Case: Guo's aortic arch reconstruction (Wei Guo, Beijing, China)
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Aortic Techniques & Technologies
Consensus Update Continued
Session highlights:
● Edited Case: The use of laser fenestrations to aid in the endovascular treatment of chronic dissection TAAAs (Timothy Resch, Copenaghen, Denmark)
● Edited Case: Overcoming challenging anatomy with custom made Frozen Elephant Trunk (FET) device (Maximillian Pichlmaier, Munich, Germany)
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Consensus Update Continued
Session highlights:
● Edited Case: Branched endovascular aneurysm repair (BEVAR) (Giovanni Pratesi, Rome, Italy)
● Edited Case: Treatment of thoracic pathologies involving the Aortic Arch at level of the left subclavian artery with TEVAR (Marco Virgilio Usai, Muenster, Germany)
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Consensus Update Continued
Day 3:
Thursday 27th April
Thoracic Arch Consensus Update
Session highlights:
First results of endovascular treatment of type aortic dissection with a single side branch device (Joseph Bavaria, United States)
Thoracic Consensus Update
Session highlights:
Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, (RAAA) Consensus Update
Session highlights: Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm: how to decrease turn down rate and procedural mortality at the same time (Maarit Venermo, Helsinki, Finland)
Iliac Consensus Update
Session highlights: Predicting factors for graft occlusion and type III endoleaks after Iliac branched devices for hypogastric artery aneurysms (Afshin Assadian, Vienna, Austria)
Juxtarenal Aortic Consensus Update
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Juxtarenal Aortic Consensus Update Continued
Session highlights:
Impact of ETTAA and UKCOMPASS results with reference to NICE guidelines (Rao Vallabhaneni, Liverpool, United Kingdom)
● Podium First: Meta-analysis of comparative studies between self-and balloon-expandable bridging covered stents for BEVAR (Konstantinos Spanos, Larissa, Greece)
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Juxtarenal Aortic Consensus Update Continued
Session highlights:
● Podium First: 8-year results of a bridging stent for FEVAR/BEVAR (Eric Verhoeven, Nuremberg, Germany)
Radiation Consensus Update
Session highlights:
Edited Case: TAAA branch repair with electromagnetic guidance (Stéphan Haulon, Paris, France)
● Edited Case: Transcaval access for urgent EVAR in ‘no access cases’ (Tilo Kölbel, Hamburg, Germany)
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Thoraco-abdominal Consensus Update
Session highlights:
Thoraco-abdominal and juxtarenal elective and emergency aortic aneurysms in females with an endovascular branched device (Fiona Rohlffs, Hamburg, Germany)
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Conservative Option Consensus Update
Session highlights:
● CX Debate: More often than not, aortic intramural haematoma (IMH) can be managed conservatively (For: Michel Makaroun, Pittsburgh, United States, Against: Jean Panneton, Virginia, United States)
Thoracic Consensus Update Continued
Session highlight:
● Live Case: Thoraco-abdominal TAAA endovascular treatment
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