The Congress has been accredited with 18 Continuing Medical Education (CME) Credits by the Panhellenic Medical Association
Thursday, May 19, 2022
| 15:00-17:00 | CASE PRESENTATIONS IN PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE |
Moderators: Dimitrios Tsetis (Heraklion, Greece)  , Christos Karkos (Thessaloniki, Greece) |
| 15:00-15:10 | Pre-recorded case: Endovascular recanalization of long total iliac artery occlusion Georgios Kouvelos (Larissa, Greece) |
| 15:10-15:20 | Perfusion imaging techniques in patients with PAD in everyday clinical practice Nikolaos Galanakis (Heraklion, Greece)  |
| 15:20-15:30 | The use of IVUS-guided re-entry devices for challenging lower extremity arterial revascularization procedures Louis Leon (Tucson, Arizona, USA) |
| 15:30-17:00 | Case presentations (10 cases, 9 min each: 5’ presentation & 4’ discussion) |
A hybrid intervention to repair popliteal artery rupture following total knee replacement
Vangelis Alexiou, Nikolaos Mpekas, Areti Vassiliou, Dimitrios Chatzis
Vascular Surgery Unit, Ioannina University Hospital, Ioannina, Greece
The need of emerging technologies for the remote management of diabetic foot
Aikaterini Angeli1, Nikolaos Doulamis2, Anastasios Doulamis2, Eftychios Protopapadakis2, Guenther Silbernagel3, Adriane Napp3, Siri Luthman4, Murali Jayapala4, Ioannis Lazarou5, Andreas Lazaris1, Richelle Hoveling 6
1 Department of Vascular Surgery, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
2 National Technical University of Athens - NTUA, Athens, Greece
3 Charite - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
4 Interuniversitair Micro Electronica Centrum (Imec),
5 Exus Software
6 Quest Photonic Devices BV
Neurostimulation treatment in end stage peripheral vascular disease with no revascularization option achieving limb salvage and improvement in disabling claudication
Abul Quddus
Vascular Surgery, Manchester Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom
Renal artery embolism treated successfully with penumbra’s indigo aspiration system
Athanasios Katsargyris, Natasha Hasemaki, Antonia Skotsimara, Ilias Avgerinos, Michail Tsotsios, Christos Klonaris
2nd Department of Vascular Surgery, Laiko Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Saphenous vein graft aneurysm 29 years after femoropopliteal bypass surgery
Ionel Droc1, Cosmin Buzila2, Elena Dragomir3
1Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Army's Center for Cardio-vascular Diseases, Bucharest, Romania
2 Cardio-vascular Surgery, Central Military Hospital "Dr. Carol Davilla", Bucharest, Romania
3 Institute of Celular and Biological Pathology, Bucharest, Romania
Left lower limb redo revascularisation after iliac stent occlusion and CFA post-endarterectomy occlusion in a hostile groin
Athanasios Haidoulis1, Katerina Drakou1, Christos Karathanos1, Nikolaos Rousas1, George Volakakis1, Katerina Bouzia2, Athanasios Giannoukas1
1 Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
2 Department of Anesthesiology, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
Visceral arteries stenosis angioplasty - our department results
Konstantinos Maltezos, Sotirios Giannakakis, Anna Pachi, Apostolos Chaveles, Anastasios Papapetrou, Georgios Kastrisios, Chrysostomos Maltezos
Vascular Surgery Clinic, K.A.T. General Hospital, Athens, Greece
Spinal cord ischaemia following external iliac artery stenting
Anthony Pio Dimech1, Kieran Chircop2, Sinisa Pejkic1
1 Vascular Unit, Department of Surgery, Mater Dei Hospital, Malta
2 Radiology Department, Mater Dei Hospital, Malta
Iatrogenic traumatism of the carotid artery secondary to jugular carheterism
Lydia Barkat
Vascular Surgery Unit, Hospital of Timimoun, Algeria
Use of a closure device for the management of inadvertent placement of a central venous line catheter in the carotid artery
Ioakeim Giagtzidis, Andrea Sotiriou, Christine Papadimitriou, Ioakeim Papoutsis, Nikolaos Asaloumidis, Maria Mitka, Christos Karkos, Konstantinos Papazoglou
5th Surgical Department, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippocratio General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
17:00-18:00 |
MAC @ LIVE SESSION |
| 17:00-17:08 | Aortic graft infection - the current role of PET-CT in decision making? Ilaria Puttini (Munich, Germany) |
| 17:09-17:17 | Treatment of infectious aortic disease with bovine pericardial tube grafts Maximilian Kreibich (Freiburg, Germany) |
| 17:18-17:26 | The femoral vein as a replacement for infected aorto-iliac grafts Wolf Eilenberg (Vienna, Austria) |
| 17:27-17:35 | Is partial resection of an infected aortic graft an option? Christos Liapis (Athens, Greece) |
| 17:36-17:44 | The most important recommendations from the ESVS on aortic graft infection Holger Diener (Hamburg, Germany) |
| 17:45-18:00 | Discussion |
| 18:00-18:15 | SATELLITE LECTURE |
| 18:15-18:30 | Break |
18:30-19:30 |
VS @ LIVE SESSION Pelvic Congestion Syndrome: from diagnosis to treatment |
| Moderators: Efthymios Avgerinos (Athens, Greece), Nicos Labropoulos (New York, USA) |
| 18:30-18:37 | Disease patterns and patient selection Antonios Gasparis (New York, USA) |
| 18:38-18:45 | Imaging for pelvic Nicos Labropoulos (New York, USA) |
| 18:46-18:53 | The role of embolization Antonio Basile (Catania, Italy) |
| 18:54-19:01 | Combined pelvic reflux and obstruction Kush Desai (Chicago, USA) |
| 19:02-19:09 | Treatment of symptomatic renal vein obstruction Stephen Black (London, UK) |
| 19:10-19:30 | Discussion |
| 19:30-20:00 | SATELLITE SESSION |
| 20:00-20.30 | OPENING CEREMONY |
| 20.30 |
WELCOME RECEPTION (Hotel Larissa Imperial) |
Friday, May 20, 2022
| 09:00-12:00 |
Standard EVAR with a polymer based endograft Surgical team: A. Giannoukas (Greece), K. Spanos (Greece), G. Kouvelos (Greece), A. Haidoulis (Greece), K. Dakis-Tzimkas (Greece) Anaesthetic team: E. Arnaoutoglou (Greece), M. Ntalouka (Greece), I. Vatsiou (Greece) Surgical nursing staff: S. Mylonidi (Greece), I. Patsiatzis (Greece) Anaesthetic nurse: S. Milona (Greece) |
| Moderators: Ioannis Tsolakis (Patras, Greece), Christos Ioannou (Heraklion, Greece), Elias Brountzos (Athens, Greece) |
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Preoperative risk stratification of type 2 endoleak after EVAR: is it possible? (6 min) Factors associated with type 2 endoleak elimination in the first year after EVAR (6 min) Perfusion imaging in discrimination of high-risk type 2 endoleaks (6 min) Can sac embolization during EVAR decrease the risk of type 2 endoleak? (6 min) Intervention or watchful observation for type 2 endoleak? (6 min) Transcaval Embolization: When and how (6 min) Case in a box Laparoscopic ligation of IMA for the treatment of type 2 endoleak (6 min) Failure to treat type 2 endoleak should always raise the suspicion of occult endoleak type 1 and 3 (6 min) When to stop further interventions and to decide open surgical ligation? (6 min) |
| 12:00-12:30 | SATELLITE LECTURE |
| 12:30-13:00 | SATELLITE SESSION |
| 13:00-14:00 | Break |
| 14:00-15:00 | CASE PRESENTATIONS IN VENOUS DISEASE |
| Moderators: Nicos Labropoulos (New York, USA), Athanasios Giannoukas (Larissa, Greece) |
| 14:00-14:10 | Renal Vein Thrombosis with Acute Renal Ischemia in Young Athlete; Diagnosis and Treatment Martin Malina (London, UK) |
| 14:10-14:20 | Complex Klippel Trenaunay cases approach Louay Altarazi (Damascus, Syria) |
| 14:20-14:30 | Giant Aneurysm of the Inferior Mesenteric Vein with Iatrogenic AV-fistula; Etiology and Treatment Martin Malina (London, UK) |
| 14:30-14:40 | Ureteral veins instead of gonadal veins causing Pelvic Congestion Syndrome Louay Altarazi (Damascus, Syria) |
| 14:40-14:50 | Endovascular treatment of a giant iliac venous aneurysm due to chronic arterio-venous fistula. Georgios Voalakakis1, Athanasios Haidoulis1, Konstantinos Spanos1, Nikolaos Rousas1, Maria Ntalouka2, Eleni Arnaoutoglou2, Miltiadis Matsagkas1 1 Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 2 Department of Anesthesiology, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece |
| 14:50-15:00 | Hip joint venous congestion pain Louay Altarazi (Damascus, Syria) |
| 15:00-16:00 | THE CASE I WOULD NEVER WANT TO HAVE IT AGAIN |
| Moderators: Alexandros Gougoulakis (Athens, Greece), Kyriakos Ktenidis (Thessaloniki, Greece) |
Acute renal failure after open surgical repair of a suprarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm due to compromise of renal arteries patency
Nikolaos Kontopodis1, Ifigeneia Tzartzalou1, Stella Lioudaki1, Nikolaos Daskalakis1, Christos Chronis1, George Tzouliadakis1, Alexandra Papaioannou2, Christos Ioannou1
1 Vascular Surgery Department, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
2 Anesthesiology Department, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Recurrent Aorto-Enteric Fistula After EVAR: When Nightmare Never Ends
Samer Koussayer
Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Division, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyad, Saudi Arabia
Critical Limb-Threatening Ischemia, Abdominal Wall Necrosis And Sepsis Caused By Infected Aorto-Bifemoral And Femoro-Femoral Crossover Grafts: A Vascular Surgeon’s Nightmare
Konstantinos Roditis1, Afroditi Antoniou1, Vasileios Papaioannou1, Sofia Tzamtzidou1, Paraskevi Tsiantoula1, Theofanis Papas1, Aikaterini Tsiftsi2, Panagiotis Georgakis2, Nikolaos Besias1
1 Department of Vascular Surgery, Korgialenio-Benakeio Hellenic Red Cross General Hospital, Athens, Greece
2 Department of Anaesthesiology, Korgialenio-Benakeio Hellenic Red Cross General Hospital, Athens, Greece
Infected EVAR & TEVAR After Endovascular Repair of Impending Rupture TAAA
Samer Koussayer
Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Division, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyad, Saudi Arabia
Fractured catheter in Femoro-Iliac vein with parts immigrated to pulmonary arteries
Louay Altarazi (Damascus, Syria)
Trying to rescue a failed EVAR, AAA rupture. When everything went wrong
Konstantinos Spanos1, George Kouvelos1, Petroula Nana1, Katerina Bouzia2, Athanasios Haidoulis1, Miltiadis Matsagkas1
1 Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
2 Department of Anesthesiology, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
| 16:00-16:30 | SATELLITE SESSION |
| 16:30-18:00 | CLINICAL CASE PRESENTATIONS IN AORTIC PATHOLOGIES |
| Moderators: Nikolaos Tsilimparis (Munich, Germany) , Konstantinos Papazoglou (Thessaloniki, Greece) |
Hybrid repair of kommerell’s diverticulum and dysphagia lusoria
Antonia Skotsimara, Natasha Hasemaki, Ilias Avgerinos, Athanasios Katsargyris, Christos Bakogiannis, Christos Klonaris
2nd Department of Vascular Surgery, Laiko Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Abdominal aneurysm aorto-caval perforating rupture
Evgeniy Ivanov1, Elena Goranova2, Bogomila Cheshmedzhieva3
1 Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Plovdiv "St. George", Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2 Consultant Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Alexandrovska, Sofia, Bulgaria
3 Vascular Surgery Clinic, University Hospital of Plovdiv "St. George", Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Concomitant treatment of several splachnic artery pathologies during open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
Nikolaos Kontopodis1, Ifigeneia Tzartzalou1, Emmanouil Tavlas1, Alexandros Liamis1, Alexandros Kafetzakis1, Michalis Kantzas1, Alexandra Papaioannou2, Christos Ioannou1
1 Vascular Surgery Department, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
2 Anesthesiology Department, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Endovascular management of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm in a covid-19 patient with a horseshoe kidney
Afroditi Maria Mitka, Nikolaos Asaloumidis, Christina Papadimiriou, Andrea Soteriou, Christos Karkos, Konstantinos Papazoglou
5th Surgical Department, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippocratio General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
Endovascular treatment of an infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm in a patient with a liver transplant perfused from the aneurysm sac
Nikolaos Asaloumidis, Ioakeim Papoutsis, Andrea Sotiriou, Christina Papadimitriou, Ioakeim Giagtzidis, Maria Mitka, Christos Karkos, Konstantinos Papazoglou
5th Surgical Department, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippocratio General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
Endovascular Treatment of Ruptured AAA with Aorto-Caval Fistula
Rolf Dammrau, Egan Kalmykov, Mihaela Sandu
Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Helios University Hospital, Wuppertal, Germany
Endovascular repair of a thoraco-abdominal aneurysm in a female patient with severely calcified iliacs
Georgios Kouvelos1, Konstantinos Spanos1, Athanasios Chaidoulis1, George Volakakis1, Konstantinos Dakis-Tzimkas1, Dimitra Papaspyrou2, Metaxia Bareka2, Athanasios Giannoukas1
1 Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
2 Department of Anesthesiology, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
Open aortic zone 2 debranching and endovascular repair of a complicated Intramural hematoma of the descending thoracic aorta in a young patient with Marfan syndrome
Vangelis Alexiou1, Areti Vassiliou1, Nikolaos Mpekas1, Dimitrios Chatzis1, Athanasios Athanasoulas2
1 Vascular Surgery, Ioannina University Hospital, Ioannina, Greece
2 Vascular Surgery, 424 General Military Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
The use of Endoanchors during Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair in a hostile neck case
Theodoros Kratimenos1, Dimitrios Tomais1, Panagiotis Petaloudis2, Zinovia Bolari2, Georgia Yfanti2, Ioannis Kalogeropoulos2
1Interventional Radiology Department, Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece
2 Radiology Department, Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece
18:00-19:00 |
ESVS @ LIVE SESSION Moderators: Athanasios Giannoukas (Greece), Miltos Matsagkas (Greece) |
| 18:00-18:10 | EVAR-treatment of aneurysm disease with the last generation endografts Mauro Gargiulo (Bologne, Italy) |
| 18:11-18:21 | Association Between Hospital Volume and Failure to Rescue After Open or Endovascular Repair of Intact Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in the VASCUNET and International Consortium of Vascular Registries Maarit Venermo (Helsinki, Finland) |
| 18:22-18:32 | Late complications after F/BEVAR and how to correct them Athanasios Katsargyris (Athens, Greece) |
| 18:33-18:43 | Prediction of complications after EVAR using computational fluid dynamics Ioannis Kakisis (Athens, Greece) |
| 18:43-19:00 | Discussion |
| 19:00-20:00 | SATELLITE SESSION |
Saturday, May 21, 2022
| 09:00-12:00 |
Custom made branched endograft to rescue a failed EVAR causing type I endoleak, 10 years after initial implantation Surgical team: M. Matsagkas (Greece), G. Kouvelos (Greece), K. Spanos (Greece), N. Rousas (Greece), G. Volakakis (Greece) Anaesthetic team: E. Arnaoutoglou (Greece), D. Papaspirou (Greece), C. Rarras (Greece) Surgical nursing staff: S. Mylonidi (Greece), I. Patsiatzis (Greece) Anaesthetic nurse: S. Milona (Greece) &EDUCATIONAL SESSION II: A to Z in the Management of thoracic aortic dissections |
| Moderators: Athanasios Athanasiou (Larissa, Greece), Ioannis Kokotsakis (Athens, Greece), Christos Klonaris (Athens, Greece) |
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Acute Type A aortic dissection following previous TEVAR for correction of type B Aortic dissection (7 min) Update on total endovascular aortic arch replacement (7 min) False lumen thrombus in type B dissection and its prognostic impact (7 min) Endovascular methods to promote false lumen thrombosis in type B dissections (7 min) Stroke prevention in thoracic endovascular procedures (7 min) Spinal cord ischaemia risk after BEVAR and TEVAR and methods for its prevention (7 min) |
| 12:00-12:30 | SATELLITE SESSION |
| 12:30-13:00 | SATELLITE LECTURE |
| 13:00-14:00 | Break |
| 14:00-15:00 | CLINICAL CASE PRESENTATIONS IN AORTIC PATHOLOGIES |
| Moderators: Tilo Kolbel (Hamburg, Germany), Georgios Georgiadis (Alexandroupolis, Greece) |
Total Endovascular Repair of the Aortic Arch Aneurysm with a double branched thoracic stent graft
Theodoros Kratimenos1, Dimitrios Tomais1, Constantine Antonopoulos2, Vasilios Patris3, Dionysios Markoutsas4, Panagiotis Petaloudis4, Michalis Argiriou3
1Interventional Radiology, Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece
2 Vascular Surgery, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece
3 Cardiac Surgery, Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece
4 Radiology, Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece
Coral reef aorta
Salvatore Alberto Turiano, Giuseppe Battaglia
Vascular Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Policlinico S. Marco Catania, Italy
Endovascular repair for a failed EVAR using branched technology
Konstantinos Spanos1, George Kouvelos1, Petroula Nana1, Konstantinos Batzalexis1, Metaxia Bareka2, Eleni Arnaoutoglou2, Miltiadis Matsagkas1
1 Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
2 Department of Anesthesiology, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
Maintaining and restoring perfusion in an ischaemic limb with type a aortic dissection: challenge for a vascular surgeon
Abul Quddus
Vascular Surgery, Manchester Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom
Fenestration and stenting in Aortic type B3 dissection with intestinal ischemia
Louay Altarazi (Damascus, Syria)
Endovascular management of a thoracoabdominal aneurysm: technical considerations and lessons learned
Nikolaos Asaloumidis, Ioakeim Papoutsis, Andrea Sotiriou, Ioakeim Giagtzidis, Maria Mitka, Christina Papadimitriou, Christos Karkos, Konstantinos Papazoglou
5th Surgical Department, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippocratio General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
| 15:00-16:00 | VENOUS CASE PRESENTATIONS |
| Moderators: George Geroulakos (Athens, Greece), Kush Desai (Chicago, USA), Stephen Black (London, UK) |
| 15:00-15:10 | Complications encountered in VVs thermal ablation Christos Karathanos (Larissa, Greece) |
| 15:10-15:20 | Chronic iliofemoral obstruction Houman Jalaie (Maastricht, The Netherlands) |
| 15:20-15:30 | SSV reflux in a patient with skin damage Dimitris Kontothanassis (Ferrara, Italy) |
| 15:30-15:40 | Thrombosis and thoracic inlet disease Andreas Lazaris (Athens, Greece) |
| 15:40-15:50 | Saphenous reflux and post-thrombotic disease Tomasz Urbanek (Katowice, Poland) |
| 15:50-16:00 | Recurrent iliofemoral thrombosis Efthymios Avgerinos (Athens, Greece) |
| 16:00-17:00 | STROKE MANAGEMENT UPDATE and CAROTID CASE PRESENTATIONS |
| Moderators: Ioannis Kakisis (Athens, Greece), Achilleas Chatziioannou (Athens, Greece) |
| 16:00-16:10 | Are Mobile stroke units of any value? Panagiotis Papanagiotou (Athens, Greece) |
| 16:10-16:20 | Primary suction thrombectomy vs. stent retriever thrombectomy: pros and cons Ioannis Ioannidis (Larissa, Greece) |
| 16:20-16:30 | How soon can we perform carotid intervention after thrombolysis for ischaemic stroke? Stavros Kakkos (Patras, Greece) |
| 16:30-16:40 | Long - term outcomes after stroke: can we improve them? Thomas Tegos (Thessaloniki, Greece) |
| 16:40-17:00 | Discussion |
17:00-18:00 |
CX @ LIVESESSION HURTING LEG Moderators: Roger Greenhalgh (London, UK), Robert Hinchliffe (Bristol, UK) |
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Pre-recorded session Voting:
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| 18:00-19:00 | VASCULAR ACCESS EDUCATIONAL SESSION Minimally invasive A-V Fistula creation: Tips and Tricks |
| Moderators: Miltos Lazaridis (Alexandroupolis, Greece), Dimitrios Karnabatidis (Patras, Greece) |
| 18:00-18:10 | Endo-AV fistula creation with the Ellipsys platform Alexandros Mallios (Paris, France) |
| 18:11-18:20 | Endo-AV fistula creation with the WavelinQ platform Panagiotis Kitrou (Patras, Greece) |
| 18:21-18:30 | Should endo-AV fistula creation become the first-choice access procedure? David Shemesh (Jerusalem, Israel) |
| 18:31-18:40 | Early stick grafts: when and for whom? Selcuk Baktiroglu (Istanbul, Turkey) |
| 18:41-19:00 | Discussion |
19:00-19:45 |
IMAC @ LIVE SESSION Moderators: Ioannis Tsolakis (Patras, Greece), Eleni Arnaoutoglou (Larissa, Greece), Mohamed Hosny (Cairo, Egypt) , Sherif Omar (Cairo, Egypt) |
| 19:00-19:10 | Lliac branched device, hardly learned lessons Sherif Essam (Cairo, Egypt) |
| 19:11-19:21 | T-branch Ahmed Gamal (Cairo, Egypt) |
| 19:22-19:32 | Surgical Modified Fenestrated Khaled Shawky (Cairo, Egypt) |
| 19:33-19:45 | Discussion |
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