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The 27th international 
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For over 25 years, Critical Issues in Aortic Endografting has set the annual standard for the latest technologies and debates in aortic interventions worldwide. This year's programme continues that tradition. Amid unprecedented change and global uncertainty, Critical Issues will gather experts to discuss, debate, and showcase the newest and most significant trends

Following tradition, the meeting has moved locations once again, and we are proud to host it in Paris, France. 

The atmosphere will be as open and friendly as ever, fostering intense discussions and debates. We eagerly anticipate your contributions and challenging questions as we advance the field together.

Get ready for Critical Issues 2025! 
Stephan Haulon, Tara Mastracci 
Course directors

REGISTRATION

 

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Registration 
fees

Individual Registration fees (VAT 10% include)BEFORE 10/1AFTER 10/1
Physicians

450 €

550 €

Residents, fellows, nurses & technicians*

300 €

350 €

Sponsor industrialists

500 €

600 €

Non-sponsor industrialists

1000 €

1200 €

*As a Fellow, Resident, Graduate Student or Nurse, you benefit from reduced rates. A proof of status is required for fee application. It can be a copy of your work card, a letter from your Head of Department stamped and signed or a copy of your student card.

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Steering
Committee

  • Stephan Haulon
    Stephan Haulon

    France

  • tara mastracci
    Tara Mastracci

    England

  • NUNO DIAS
    NUNO DIAS

    Sweden

  • Athanasios  Katsargyris
    Athanasios Katsargyris

    Germany

  • Timothy Resch
    Timothy Resch

    Denmark

  • Eric Verhoeven
    Eric Verhoeven

    Germany

COURSE LOCAL ORGANIZERS 

Stephan Haulon, Paris, France
Tara Mastracci, London, United Kingdom
 

 

program

Programme 
Details

20
March
THURSDAY 20TH MARCH
 

ASCENDING & ARCH
Edited Live Case 

  • Stroke of Genius: Device and patient selection to minimize neurologic risks
  • Single, Double and now Triple Branch… Why I made the switch
  • Percutaneous Access to SATs: Do you believe the hype?
  • How I optimize target vessel patency in the arch: sometimes the branches don’t match the main body! 
  • Lessons learned from the EVERGREEN study: separating the forest from the trees
  • Retrograde flow is not a retrograde step: Data to support retrograde branches in the arch
  • When do I need a quadruple branch configuration in the arch? 
  • How young is too young for endo arch? Refining indications in an era of health care austerity.
  • Too Soon? When should TEVAR be performed after open repair of Type A dissection
  • How can we integrate a TAVR into an arch BEVAR delivery system? 
  • Backtable Bandit: Can we get away with PMEG in the arch?
 
Coffee Break
 

TEVAR & DISSECTIONS
Edited live case

  • The LSA matters, always find a method to perfuse it! 
  • Zone 2 management: a comparison between bypass, in-situ fen/PMEG and bTEVAR. 
  • High Fidelity Computational Modeling in TEVAR: can we predict the future?
  • Finally some longterm dissection outcomes: our 5 year experience.
  • Optimal designs to extend proximal seal in TEVAR:  LCCA and LSA Scallop and fenestrations. 
  • Subclavian Branch and FLO are the new best practice for chronic dissection
  • How does the heart and proximal aorta respond to TEVAR?
  • Failure of Electorsurgical Septotomy in dissection: When it works and what do do when it doesn’t
  • The gold standard is still shiny: open surgery tips and tricks for IMH and arch dissection
  • The uncomplicated dissection.  Is there ever a role for intervention and at what size? 
  • Make embolisation your friend: How to occlude a false lumen
 
Lunch
 

TAAA
Edited Live Case 

  • One-piece preloaded bifurcated fenestrated stengraft is the best design to reline a failed EVAR. 
  • The aortic toolbox: complementary role of open and EVAR for TAAA
  • Inner branches, a game changer? Lessons learned from the Extent trial. 
  • No fear of narrow lumens: I prefer standard Inner/outer branches
  • Endovascular treatment of 100 urgent TAAAs cases. What have we learned? 
  • Can we perform bridging stent deployment without sheath support in FBEVAR? 
  • Bringing style to TAAA repair: double cuffed inner branch indications and results
  • When should we design grafts with Semi Branches? 
  • Bridging stent selection in challenging renal vessels.
  • How my high-volume practice has evolved in recent years. 
 
Coffee Break
 

COMPLEX AAA
Edited Live Case

  • What's going on at ARC? Summary of recent findings
  • Mortality and aneurysm rupture during waiting time for customization of FBEVAR: do we need to change strategy? 
  • Whats on the horizon: preclinical testing of new bridging stents
  • Standardizing PMEG: Be your own Tailor! 
  • Current indications and results of PMEGs. 
  • EMBRACE the truth: Results from the EMBRACE registry. 
  • Analysis of 3D reconstruction of bridging stents in fEVAR. 
  • How I get out of trouble: take home messages from the Nuremberg experience with bridging stents complications. 
  • Predictors of failure to rescue after fenestrated-branched endovascular. 
  • How I select my bridging stents during FBEVAR and what we learned about Torsion in Toronto
  • What we know about antiplatelets and bridging stents.  
21
March
FRIDAY 21TH MARCH
 

In situ Fenestration

  • Our experience/ results with In situ fenestration
  • Frying Branches: Lessons learned from bench testing electrocaudery for insitu fenestrations
 

AAA and Iliacs
Edited Live Case 

  • The AI revolution in Aortic Surgery. 
  • Sac regression is the best marker of long- term durability 
  • He who lives longest, wins! 10-year survival after open and Endo AAA repair. 
  • How I manage challenging necks and results from a multicentric trial. 
  • IVUS guided Reconstruction of the aortic bifurcation. 
  • New polymer-based aneurysm sac management: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial. 
 
Coffee Break
 

AAA and Iliacs
Edited Live Case 

  • AI and digital twin technology to evaluate proximal seal in EVAR. 
  • Anaesthesia's not the only one with gas: Low dose CO2 protocol and X-Ray synchronization in EVAR/FEVAR. 
  • Will automatic AI Volume follow-up change our follow-up paradigm? 
  • Difficult iliac access can be managed through the femoral vein. 
  • The true utility of CTA for post EVAR monitoring:  Is this surveillance paradigm still valid in 2024? 
  • The battle of sticky platelets: What we know about antiplatelets and bridging stents
  • How I push the envelope with iliac branch devices.  
  • What I want you to tell me: perspective of a recently graduated aortic fellow on whats good and bad in aortic specialty training.  
 

CALL FOR GRANTS IS OPEN,
SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY!

We believe that every practitioner has a place in our Course. This is why we offer practitioners the opportunity to share their experience by gaining a grant* to Critical Issues 2025.

To attend, please, fill in our call for application and maybe benefit from this great opportunity!

If you are selected, you will receive a grant covering the registration fees and, in some cases, the fund may cover transportation and accommodation.

Apply here! 

 

If you are an Industry partner willing to put in place an Educational Grant please contact Nadia Ambrosanio : myinvite@europa-group.com

 

 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Steering committee of the congress would like to thank its partners for their continued support

Statut CVS MedTech : Compliant ✔️

DIAMOND PARTNERS

  • Cook
  • Terumo Aortic

GOLD Partners

  • Artivion
  • Bentley
  • WL.Gore
  • Lombard
  • Philips
  • SCHOCKWAVES

SILVER Partners

  • GETINGE
  • Shape

BRONZE PARTNERS

  • Metronic
  • Penumbra

If you are interested in becoming a Critical Issues partner please contact :


Marijana MOIROUX
mmoiroux@europa-group.com
Phone: + 33 (0)7 44 81 02 52
 

infos

Practical 
Information

Congress Venue  

Hyatt Regency Paris Étoile,
3 Pl. du Général Koenig,
75017 Paris

Official Language  

The congress official language is English.

Information & Registration Desk  

Thursday March 20: 07:00-18:30 
Friday March 21: 07:30-14:30

Exhibition Hours  

Thursday March 20: 07:30-18:30 
Friday March 21: 08:00-14:30

 

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