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PROGRAMME

08:00 - 08:45:00: Registration & Breakfast

 

SESSION ONE

 

Moderators:

Prof. Hany Zayed, Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Prof. Mo Hamady, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Mr. Said Abisi, Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

 

08:45 – 08:50: Welcome

08:50 – 08:58: Covered vs Uncovered Stenting of Aorto-Iliac Occlusive Disease: Long-Term Outcomes from the European COBRA Registry

Mr Arsalan Wafi, Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

 

08:58 – 09:06: Management of Coral-Reef Aorto-Iliac Disease: Is There a Role for Endovascular Therapy?

Dr Konstantinos Stavroulakis, Klinikum Hochsauerland, Arnsberg

 

09:06 – 09:14: Aorto-iliac IVL's emerging role in renal transplantation: from securing inflow to preparing the implantation site

Mr Rashid Akhtar, The Royal London & St Barts Hospitals, Barts Health NHS Trust and The London Clinic

 

09:14 – 09:19: Industry talk – Shockwave

Details TBC

 

09:19 – 09:35: Q&A

 

TASC C & D Aorto-Iliac Disease – Debate:

09:35 – 09:43: Why CERAB Is My First Choice

Prof Michel Reijnen, Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem

 

09:43 – 09:51: Why Surgery Should Be the First Choice

Mr Sanjay Patel, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

 

09:51 – 09:59: Haemodynamic Impact of Stenting Across the Femoral Bifurcation

Mr Adam Geale, King's College, London

09:59 – 10:07: Real-World Outcomes from the SAVE-CFA European Registry

Dr Bahaa Nasr, Hospital Center Regional University Morvan De Brest, France

 

10:07 – 10:25: Q&A

 

10:25 – 10:55: Morning Networking & Refreshment Break

 

 

SESSION TWO

 

Moderators:

Dr. Tarun Sabharwal, Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Prof. Miltiadis Krokidis, Areteion University Hospital

Mr. Morad Sallam, Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

 

10:55 – 11:00: Industry Talk – Abbott

Details TBC

 

11:00 – 11:08:  Drug Elution in the Femoropopliteal Segment: Paclitaxel Remains the First Choice

Prof Yann Gouëffic, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph Paris, France

 

11:08 – 11:16: Drug Elution in the Femoropopliteal Segment: Limus-Based Technology Should Be First Choice

Dr Sabine Steiner, University Hospital Leipzig

 

11:16 – 11:24: Drug Elution in the Femoropopliteal Segment: No Clinical or Cost Benefit

Mr Matt Popplewell, The Royal Wolverhampton Trust / University of Birmingham

 

11:24 – 11:32: Dynamic Risk of Death with Paclitaxel coated devices

Dr Konstantinos Katsanos, Patras University Hospital, Rion

 

11:32 – 11:45: Q&A

 

11:45 – 11:55: Industry Talk – Boston Scientific

Details TBC

 

11:55 – 12:03: What is vessel preparation? And why?

Prof Giovanni Torsello, St. Franziskus Hospital, Munster, Germany

 

12:03 – 12:11: Vessel preparation tools: Choosing the right device for the right lesion

Prof Stavros Spilliopoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

 

12:11 – 12:19: Emerging and promising Vessel Preparation Technologies

Dr Marianne Brodmann, Med Uni, Graz

 

12:19 – 12:27: PAD Research Update: Ongoing and new RCTs

Prof. Athanasios Saratzis, NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre

 

12:27 – 12:35: The hidden population in vascular research

Prof. Isabelle Van Herzeele, Ghent University Hospital

 

12:35 – 12:45: Driving change: delivering reform through collaboration

Mr Roger Greer, HealthTech/MedTech & Digital Health

 

12:45 – 13:05: Q&A

 

13:05 – 14:05: Lunch & Networking

 

 

SESSION THREE

 

Moderators:

Miss. Kaji Sritharan, York & Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr. Panos Gkoutzios, Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Mr. Patrick Chong, Surrey Heart, Stroke and Vascular Centre

 

14:05 – 14:20: LIVE CASE TRANSMISSION

 

14:20 – 14:25: Industry Talk – Gore

Details TBC

 

14:25 – 14:33:  Treating Popliteal Artery Aneurysms: Results from the European PARADE Registry

Prof Nicola Troisi, University of Pisa

 

14:33 – 14:41: New Tools to Manage Tibial Calcification

Prof Andrej Schmidt, University of Leipzig

 

14:41 – 14:49: Retrograde tibio-pedal access: Beginner's Manual

Dr Lorenzo Patrone, San Giovanni di Dio Hospital Florence, Italy

 

14:49 – 14:57: Below-the-Ankle Interventions: Not for the Faint-Hearted

Dr Sapna Puppala, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

 

14:57 – 15:05: Anti-Thrombotictherapy following lower limb revascularisation: Do we need some CLARITY here?

Mr Chris Twine, North Bristol NHS Trust

 

15:05 – 15:13: BEST in management of Peripheral AVM

Dr Tarun Sabharwal, Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

 

15:13 – 15:30 – Q&A

 

15:30 – 15:45: LIVE CASE TRANSMISSION

 

15:45 – 15:53: Drug Delivery Below the Knee: Why Have We Failed and What Comes Next?

Dr Katherine Lewis, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

 

15:53 – 16:01: Imaging of CLTI: From Anatomy to Perfusion

Dr Conrad von Stempel, UCLH and Royal Free Hospitals

 

16:01 – 16:09: Local Antibiotic Delivery in CLTI: Effective Strategy or Hype?

Dr Prash Vas, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

 

16:09 – 16:17: Mid-Term Outcomes of Percutaneous Deep Venous Arterialisation

Mr Ahmed Morshed, Locum Vascular & Endovascular Surgery Consultant, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals

 

16:17 – 16:25: Predicting Outcomes After pDVA Using a Novel Classification System

Dr Narayanan Thulasidasan, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

 

16:25 – 16:30: Industry Talk – Bentley

Details TBC

 

16:30 – 16:45: Q&A

 

16:45 – 17:15: Afternoon Refreshments & Networking Break

 

 

SESSION FOUR: Nightmare Cases - Complications, Bailouts, and Lessons Learned

 

Moderators:

Dr. Tarun Sabharwal, Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Mr Prakash Saha, Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Dr. Anthanasios Diamantopoulos, Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

 

17:15 – 17:23: My Nightmare Case

Prof Andrej Schmidt, University of Leipzig

 

17:23 – 17:31: My Nightmare Case

Dr Hossam Saro, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

 

17:31 – 17:39: My Nightmare Case

Mr Junjie Ng, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

 

17:39 – 17:47: My Nightmare Case

Dr Amrin Israrahmed, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

 

17:47 – 17:55: My Nightmare Case

Dr Bahaa Nasr, Hospital Center Regional University Morvan De Brest, France

 

17:55 – 18:03: My Nightmare Case

Dr Kerbi Guevara-Noriega, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

 

18:03 – 18:20: Q&A

18:20 – 18:30: Closing comments

18:30 – 20:00: The STARS Reception. Drinks, bowl food & networking

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