Educational Objectives
Objectives
Aortic Arterial
- Current evidence for EVAR and TVAR
- Reduction of paraplegia
- New/Novel devices for both arch pathologies and supra-renal pathologies
- Management of Aortic dissections, including evidence and timing of intervention
- Inflammatory/congenital aortic pathologies and their management
Objectives
Peripheral Arterial
- Current EVSS and SVS guidelines
- Aorto-iliac pathologies and management (open and interventional)
- The common femoral and PFA, its pathologies and contreversies regarding management
- The Superficial femoral arterial disease management
- Below knee arterial disease and management, including current controversies and tips and tricks
- Peripheral arterial aneurysms (concentrate on mesenteric vessels and popliteal artery)
- Popliteal entrapement syndrome, diagnosis and management
- Role of artherectomy devices (if any), in peripheral vascular disease
- Latest in the medical management of peripheral arterial disease
Objectives
Superficial Venous
- Discussion on the new European Vascular society guidelines
- Topics to cover thermal, glue, surgery, including comparisons
- Novel therapies (ulltrasound ablation)
- The role of perforator incompetence and its management, current evidence and contreversies
- Management of venous ulcers inclunding medical
- Good Duplex assessment of superficial veins, how to do it
Objectives
Deep Veins Venous
- Patient selection and evidence and contreversies surrounding intervention for acute deep venous thrombosis
- Comparisons between lysis, pharmaco-mechanical lysis and medical treatment
- The role of IVUS
- Novel devices, venous stents and selection of stents and sizing for deep venous intervention
- May- Thurner syndrome, diagnosis and management
Objectives
Hot Topics I
- Timing of dialysis access creation and guidelines surrounding when and what type of access
- Pre-fistula creation radiological assessment and site selection
- Access survellence and ways to improve primary and secondary patency
- Management of blocked AV access (interventional and surgical)
- Novel and rare forms of dialysis access including hero procedure etc. Endo AVF, its role, patient selection, teniques and devices
Objectives
Hot Topics II
- Classification and diagnostics in vascular malformations
- Management of low flow vascular malformations
- Management of arterio-venous malformations
- Primary adult lymphedema-diagnostics and management
- Post-surgical lymphedema and its management
- Mutti-disciplinary management of the diabetic foot
