Abstracts session to feature up-and-coming vascular surgeons

Making up part of the chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI) and hurting leg programme today will be a special ‘best of abstracts’ session dedicated to showcasing the vascular world’s ‘rising stars’—early-career and trainee vascular surgeons. There will be an opportunity following each presentation for the audience to ask questions and participate in stimulating discussion.

ANCHOR SOPHIE RENTON (LONDON, United Kingdom) and moderator Jonathan Boyle (Cambridge, United Kingdom) oversee the session, and Boyle spoke to CX Daily News ahead of the presentations on what it means to be a vascular surgery ‘rising star’, and what they are looking forward to in tomorrow’s session, taking place 10:30–12:00 in Kensington 2. For Boyle, “it is vital that young researchers get an opportunity to present their work at prestigious international meetings such as [CX] to support their academic development”. The moderator added that the delegates benefit too—from learning about cutting-edge and innovative vascular research topics. Asked what he was most looking forward to about the session, Boyle said it was the “innovative research into peripheral arterial disease [PAD]”.

Zhi Xuan Low from Singapore will be first to step up to the podium, presenting ‘Outcomes of maggot debridement therapy as adjunctive wound care for peripheral arterial wounds: Observations from a single-centre, multi-ethnic population’.

Second to speak on her abstract will be Alice

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Camagni (Forli-Cesena, Italy), who has evaluated the impact of retrograde revascularisation techniques in endovascular treatment of infrapopliteal lesions in diabetic patients with CLTI. On a similar topic will be Elisa Piccolo’s (Abano Terme, Italy) presentation of the clinical and technically successful results of endovascular revascularisation for diabetic patients with CLTI and high-grade medial arterial calcification. Some of the further abstracts featuring in the session will shed light on ‘Predicting functional outcomes after major lower limb amputation’, on which Arsalan Wafi (London, United Kingdom) will present, as well as operator-performed peripheral nerve blocks for pain management during endovascular interventions, and whether female gender is associated with longer hospital stays postinfrainguinal bypass for PAD.

The conclusion of the ‘best abstracts’ session will bring the Hurting Leg Competition for trainees and medical students, organised in collaboration with the Rouleaux Club (the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland’s trainee association). Renton will chair alongside Rouleaux Club president Leanna Erete (Middlesbrough, United Kingdom). The audience will be able to vote for whichever of the five infographic and two infomercial entries they deem to best meet the brief of educating members of the public on CLTI and the need to present early to their general practitioner (GP) or family doctor. Among the messages of the shortlisted entries are “listen to your legs” and “arterial disease can

All times are London time BST (British Summer Time), which is GMT+1. The organisers reserve the right to alter timings if necessary.