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The 27th international
experts symposium
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
Registration
fees
Individual Registration fees (VAT 10% include) | BEFORE 10/1 | AFTER 10/1 |
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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.
Come join our annual Social Reception, on March 20th at 19:30 at the Mayo Restaurant (Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile).
(fees 80€ vat included)
Steering
Committee
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Stephan Haulon France
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Tara Mastracci England
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NUNO DIAS Sweden
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Athanasios Katsargyris Germany
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Timothy Resch Denmark
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Eric Verhoeven Germany
COURSE LOCAL ORGANIZERS
Stephan Haulon, Paris, France
Tara Mastracci, London, United Kingdom
program
Programme
Details
ASCENDING
Moderators: Rachel Clough (London, UNITED KINGDOM), Timothy Resch (Copenhagen, DENMARK)
- Stroke of Genius: device and patient selection to minimize neurologic risks | Mario Lescan (Freiburg, GERMANY)
- Single, Double and now Triple Branch… Why I made the switch | Theodosios Bisdas (Maroussi, GREECE)
- Percutaneous access to SATs: do you believe the hype? | Luca Bertoglio (Brescia, ITALY)
- How young is too young for endo arch? Refining indications in an era of health care austerity
- How I optimize target vessel patency in the arch: sometimes the branches don’t match the main body! | Tilo Kölbel (Hamburg, GERMANY)
- Retrograde flow is not a retrograde step: data to support retrograde branches in the arch | Stéphan Haulon (Paris, France)
- When do I need a quadruple branch configuration in the arch? | Vladimir Makaloski (Bern, SWITZERLAND)
- Edited Live Case: total endovascular arch repair with a novel triple branch device with ARTIVION | Said Abisi (London , UNITED KINGDOM)
- Too Soon? When should TEVAR be performed after open repair of Type A dissection | Marine Gaudry (Marseille, FRANCE)
- Backtable Bandit: can we get away with PMEG in the arch? | Bernardo Mendes (Rochester, UNITED STATES)
- Edited Live Case: Cratos, a new generation unibody branched TEVAR device with LOMBARD ENDOVASTEC
- Lessons learned from the EVERGREEN study: separating the forest from the trees | Ludovic Canaud (Montpellier, FRANCE)
- My minimal invasive approach technique for arch BEVAR
- Discussion
TEVAR
Moderators: Nuno Dias (Malmö, SWEDEN), Bernardo Mendes (Rochester, UNITED STATES), Kak Khee Yeung (Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS)
- The LSA matters, always find a method to perfuse it! | Martin Funovics (Wien, AUSTRIA)
- Zone 2 management: a comparison between bypass, in-situ fen/PMEG and TEVAR | Giovanni Pratesi (Genoa, ITALY)
- High Fidelity Computational Modeling in TEVAR: can we predict the future? | Santi Trimarchi (Milan, ITALY)
- Finally some long term dissection outcomes: our 5-year experience
- Optimal designs to extend proximal seal in TEVAR: LCCA and LSA Scallop and fenestrations | Giovanni Tinelli (Roma, ITALY)
- Edited live case: Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis with WL GORE
- Subclavian Branch and FLO are the new best practice for chronic dissection | Bijan Modarai (London, UNITED KINGDOM)
- Failure of Electorsurgical Septotomy in dissection: when it works and what to do when it doesn’t | Carlos Timaran (Dallas, UNITED STATES)
- The uncomplicated dissection. Is there ever a role for intervention and at what size? | Barend Mees (Maastricht, NETHERLANDS)
- Make embolisation your friend: how to occlude a false lumen | Thomas Le Houérou (Paris, FRANCE)
- Edited live case: LSA single branch graft: one of many Cook options to preserve the LSA with COOK MEDICAL | Luca Bertoglio (Brescia, ITALY)
- Choice of the proximal landing zone (PLZ) in TEVAR for acute/subacute Type B aortic dissection
- Discussion
TAAA
Moderators: Eric Verhoeven (Nuremberg, GERMANY), Sara Zettervall (Seattle, UNITED STATES)
- Three Years Later: insights from Next-Gen FEVAR | Kak Khee Yeung (Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS)
- The aortic toolbox: complementary role of open and EVAR for TAAA
- Edited Live Case: LumiGuide powered by FORS clinical experience and technology advancements with PHILIPS
- Inner branches, a game changer? Lessons learned from the Extent trial | Said Abisi (London, UNITED KINGDOM)
- No fear of narrow lumens: I prefer standard Inner/outer branches | Fiona Rohlffs (Regensburg, GERMANY)
- Endovascular treatment of 100 urgent TAAAs cases. What have we learned? | Mauro Gargiulo (Bologna, ITALY)
- Can we perform bridging stent deployment without sheath support in FBEVAR? | Wolf Eilenberg (Vienna, AUSTRIA)
- Bringing style to TAAA repair: double cuffed inner branch indications and results | Nuno Dias (Malmö, SWEDEN)
- When should we design grafts with Semi Branches?
- Bridging stent selection in challenging renal vessels | Enrico Gallitto (Bologna, ITALY)
- How my high-volume practice has evolved in recent years | Tomasz Jakimowicz (Warsaw, POLAND)
- Discussion
COMPLEX AAA
- Current indications and results of PMEGs
- Edited Live Case: Where the Physician Becomes the Tailor with TREO™ FIT - TERUMO AORTIC
- Analysis of 3D reconstruction of bridging stents in FEVAR | Jean-Paul De Vries (Groningen, NETHERLANDS)
- EMBRACE the truth: results from the EMBRACE registry | Luca Bertoglio (Brescia, ITALY)
- How I get out of trouble: take home messages from the Nuremberg experience with bridging stents complications | Eric Verhoeven (Nuremberg, GERMANY)
- Edited Live Case: Early experience with a new dedicated bridging stent in FEVAR with BENTLEY | Stéphan Haulon (Paris, FRANCE)
- What's going on at ARC? Summary of recent findings | Mark Farber (Chapel Hill, UNITED STATES)
- Mortality and aneurysm rupture during waiting time for customization of FBEVAR: do we need to change strategy? | Katsargyris Athanasios (Nuremberg, GERMANY)
- EADC is flying! The FBEVAR post market registry first update
- Predictors of failure to rescue after fenestrated-branched endovascular
- The battle of sticky platelets: what we know about antiplatelets and bridging stents | Nana Petroula (Hamburg, GERMANY)
- How I select my bridging stents during FBEVAR and what we learned about Torsion in Toronto
- Discussion
Cool Stuff
- Our experience/ results with In situ fenestration
- Frying Branches: lessons learned from bench testing electrocaudery for in situ fenestrations | Kevin Mani (Uppsala, SWEDEN)
- The AI revolution in Aortic Surgery | Kak Khee Yeung (Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS)
- IVUS guided reconstruction of the aortic bifurcation | Michel Antonello (Padova, ITALY)
- How does the heart and proximal aorta respond to TEVAR? | Alexandra Hauguel (Le Plessis Robinson, FRANCE)
- Aortic endografting in patients with CTD: is it an option? | Anders Wanhainen (Uppsala, SWEDEN)
- Preoperative cardiac workup, what can we expect from MRI and CT scan? | Arshid Azarine (Paris, FRANCE)
- Fusion, CBCT, EM guidance: cool stuff but what's the impact on radiation?
- The true utility of CTA for post EVAR monitoring: is this surveillance paradigm still valid in 2024? | Robert Rhee (New York, UNITED STATES)
- Will automatic AI Volume follow-up change our follow-up paradigm?
- Tips & tricks to manage gluteal artery pseudoaneurysms
- Patch repair of aortic dissections: initial clinical experience
- Discussion
Foyer
AAA and Iliacs
Moderators: Salma El Batti (Paris, FRANCE), Mark Farber (Chapel Hill, UNITED STATES)
- I have designed a web platform for endovascular aortic surgeons | Dominique Fabre (Plessis-Robinson, FRANCE)
- How I manage challenging necks and results from a multicentric trial | Paolo Frigatti (Udine, ITALY)
- Bifurcated FEVAR, the best method to fix failed EVAR? | Carlos Timaran (Dallas, UNITED STATES)
- Edited Live Case : Combating hostile iliac access with SHOCKWAVE IVL
- Difficult iliac access can be managed through the femoral vein
- Sac regression is the best marker of long- term durability | Sara Zettervall (Seattle, UNITED STATES)
- New polymer-based aneurysm sac management: results from a Randomized Controlled Trial | Marc Schermerhorn (Boston, MA, UNITED STATES)
- He who lives longest, wins! 10-year survival after open and Endo AAA repair | Blandine Maurel (Nantes, FRANCE)
- Anaesthesia's not the only one with gas: low dose CO2 protocol and X-Ray synchronization in EVAR/FEVAR | Emiliano Chisci (Florence, ITALY)
- How I push the envelope with iliac branch devices | Antoine Millon (Lyon, FRANCE)
- What I want you to tell me: perspective of a recently graduated aortic fellow on what’s good and bad in aortic specialty training | Vaiva Dabravolskaite (Bern, SWITZERLAND)
- Discussion
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.
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
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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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