1. EUROPE
M E E T S
N O R T H
AMERICA
Chairmen: Franco Grego and Giovanni Deriu
Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences
Section of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery - University of Padua, Italy
State of the art and future perspectives in vascular
and endovascular surgery
VIPVascularIntern
CONGRESS
ationalPadova
Padua, Italy
June 26th
- 27th
- 28th
, 2014
Vascular and Endovascular
Surgery Padova
Azienda Ospedaliera
Universitaria di Padova
Università degli Studi
di Padova
Comune di Padova

2. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM – update 2 April 2014
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11.10
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16.00
16.40
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19.00
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Session A
Oral Communications
Session B
ABDOMINAL AORTA I
L. Davidovich: Is open repair still the gold standard in the
treatment of RAAA?
A. Ippoliti: Current indication to open surgery for AAA
V. Riambau: AAA repair is justified in patients with
Chronic Renal Insufficiency: Which is better? EVAR or
open repair?
C.J. Buckley: Use of helical EndoStaples in EVAR
J. Carpenter: Nellix EVAR trails: status of the trials and
devices
F. Farneti: Single Center Experience with new Treovance
Abdominal Stent Graft
G. Pratesi: Dedicated devices “all in one” on iliac branch
technology: clinical experience
G. Nano: Anaconda aortic endograft: what kind of post-
implantation syndrome?
A. Stella: Update on Anaconda registry
News from the Industry
SEROM
M. Gargiulo (tba), J. Hargreaves (tba)
Coffee Break
Session C
ABDOMINAL AORTA II
A. Jawien: Is screening of AAA still useful?
A. Von Ristow: EVAR without contrast: Duplex and
fluoroscopy guided stent-graft implant
F. Moll: Role of MRI in type II endoleaks
M. Matsagkas: Several options in preserving the internal
iliac artery during EVAR for aortoiliac AAA
N. Mosquera: New possibilities to treat and prevent Type
II endoleak
C. Rabbia: Prevention and treatment of type II endoleak
P. Frigatti: Chimney and sandwich techniques for
secondary procedures after infrarenal aortic repair
E. Ducasse: Open Chimney for juxta renal aneurysm
G. Torsello: Chimney endografting for pararenal aortic
pathologies using transfemoral access and the lift
technique
Lunch
Session D
THORACIC AND
THORACOABDOMINAL AORTA
J. Coselli: The History of Thoracoabdominal Aortic
Aneurysm Repair: Perils, Possibilities, and Perspectives
C. Dzsinich: Surgical treatment of thoracic and thoraco-
abdominal aortic coarctations
G. Fraedrich: Left subclavian artery revascularization
prior to TEVAR is generally not necessary
C. Nienaber: Endovascular approaches for the ascending
aorta: now or never?
R. Dalman: Snorkel versus fenestrated endografts;
indications, outcomes and advantages of either approach
R. Chiesa: Hybrid aortic arch repair:experience of 180 cases
P. Cao: Two staged Thoracoabdominal Branched
procedures: lights and shadows
N. Mangialardi: the impact of the radial fit on the
treatment of aortic pathologies
R. Hinchliffe: First in human experience with Valiant
Mona LSA thoracic device
News from the Industry
MEDTRONIC
J. Graves: Medtronic’s Future Innovations for Expanding
Aortic Endovascular Therapy?
Coffee Break
Session E
CATASTROPHIC EVENTS
J. Black: Carotid aneurysm in post-partum VEDS patient
L. Davidovich: Compelled surgery of thoracic aorta
aneurysm through right thoracotomy
M. Taurino: Aorto-iliac endograft infection and duodenal
fistula in patient with previous urogynaecological surgery
G. Melissano: Retrograde dissection after TEVAR
S. Pirrelli: Chest-tube insertion into the left pulmonary
artery
Opening Ceremony
Session F
Oral Communications
Session G
THORACIC AND
TORACOABDOMINAL DISSECTIONS I
LECTURE G. Deriu: Nosography and natural history
of treated and untreated descending thoracic aorta
dissections
J.C. Parodi: New concepts in aortic dissections
J. Black: Lessons learned (or not) in Marfans Syndrome
and Aortic Disease
S. Trimarchi: Predictors of aortic growth after Type B
dissection
T. Kuratani: The new treatment strategy using TEVAR for
acute and chronic type B aortic dissections
J. Rodriguez Lopez: Measure of Success after
Endovascular Repair of Type B Thoracic Aortic Dissections
News from the Industry
COOK
E. Cieri: Endovascular options in complex aortic disease
Coffee Break
Session H
THORACIC AND
TORACOABDOMINAL DISSECTIONS II
F. Criado: Disease-specific endografts and strategies will
be necessary to optimize TEVAR for treatment of aortic
dissections
J. Lombardi: Complicated Type B aortic dissection
Thu. 26 June
Fri. 27 June

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17.10
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treated with a composite device: Long term Data on the
STABLE trial
C. Shu: Adjunctive technique to facilitate endovascular
repair of aortic dissection of the arch and its branches:
hybrid repairs and chimney
M. Ferreira: Branched devices to Chronic Type
Dissections
Session I
MULTILAYER
N. Frid: (tba)
D. Palombo: Italian experience with multilayer stent in
complex aortic disease
R. Aun: Peripheral and thoraco-abdominal management
with multilayer
S. Sultan: Early mid-term results of the first 103 cases
of multilayer flow modulator: independent global MFM
registry
C. Vaislic: Two Years follow-up
Lunch
Session L
INFECTIONS
S. Bonvini: regrafting for abdominal aortic graft infections
R. Chiesa: Management of aortoesophageal and
aortobronchial fistulae
M. Ferrari: (tba)
B. Gossetti: (tba)
Session M
CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA /
STEM CELLS
J. Ricotta: Orbital Atherectomy for calcified lesions in
CLI- Results of Clarity Trial
G. Poletto: Novel Hibrid tecnhnique in the femoro-
popliteal revascularization
C. Setacci: “Time is tissue”: a new systematic approach
to diabetic foot infections: is it really new or just newly
recognized?
M. Cairols: Stem cell therapy for critical limb ischemia
with no real possibilities for revascularisation
J. Blebea: Treatment of Advanced Limb Ischemia Using
Angiogenic Cell Therapy
M. Iafrati: Cellular/Bone marrow therapy for critical limb
ischemia
News from the Industry
ETHICON
Coffee Break
Session N
CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA
J. Fernandes e F.: Popliteal and peripheral aneurysms-
from open to endovascular. Always? When not?
D. Schneider: Techniques for crossing the difficult SFA
occlusion
Y. Goueffic: SFA in-stent restenosis: hopes from new
therapies
V. Dorrucci: The Italian Propaten multicenter long term
results in the treatment of critical limb ischaemia
E. Galeazzi: Critical limb ischemia: is surgical approach
in disappearance in the endovascular era
F. Benedetto: Popliteal pedal bypass versus extreme
endovascular terapy for CLI
F. Zaraca: Lower extremity traumatic injury at level II
trauma center
Gala Dinner (Villa Trissino-Marzotto)
Session O
Oral Communications
Session P
UNUSUAL ASPECTS IN VASCULAR
AND ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY
C. Liapis: Patient and Surgeon Radiation protection
during EVAR and TEVAR
V. Treska: Osteoprotegerin in the ethiopatogenesis of
abdominal aortic aneurysm
M. Veller: Vascular Trauma
K. Felice De Sales: Visceral artery aneurysms: changing
the standard to endovascular repair and addressing
technical challenges
S. Bonardelli: Aneurysms secondary to obstructive
lesions of the Coeliac Trunk: indications and surgical
techniques from 30 consecutive cases
I. Koncar: Wall strength of AAA – does it influence on
rupture event?
Y. Hsiang: Vascular surgery in Canada, a Surgeon
perspective
F. Spinelli: Endovascular treatment of occlusions of
superior vena cava
A. Giannoukas: Hybrid procedures in lower limb
revascularization
Session Q
CAROTID BODY TUMORS (round table)
G. Opocher: Update on genetics of paragangliomas
U. Verga: From genetic to clinical practice: an overview
on a North Italian multicentric Paraganglioma database
A. Munoz: Current treatment of carotid body tumor: a
frequent vascular condition in high altitudes
P. Karspzak: (tba)
Coffee Break
Session R
CAROTID DISEASES
F. Verlato: Asymptomatic carotid disease and intracranial
stenosis
A. Prego: Carotid disease and atrial fibrillation: a very
controversial and exiting issue,especially in asymptomatic
patients
F. Verzini: Carotid Artery Stenting with tapered vs
cylindrical stents: does it matter?
D. Radak: Simultaneous carotid stenosis and cerebral
aneurysm prospective data basis long-term results:
carotid endarterectomy and treatment of cerebral
aneurysm-what to do
C. Pratesi: Carotid Surgery in asymptomatic patients
A. Pereira: Timing of carotid endoarterectomy after acute
stroke
F. Speziale: Urgent and emergent carotid endarterectomy
for severe stroke and instable neurologic deficit
C. Darling: Carotid intervention in the acute stroke:
lessons learned first?
Sat. 28 June

4. Organizing Secretariat and CME Provider
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Topics of the congress
Vascular diseases, technical aspects, state of the art and future perspectives of vascular,
endovascular and hybrid procedures. Carotid and and supra-aortic trunks – Descending
thoracic aorta aneurysms – Type B dissections – Thoraco-abdominal aneurysms – Aortic arch
and hybrid procedures – Abdominal aorta aneurysms – Visceral and renal artery diseases
– Peripheral aneurysms – Peripheral obstructive arterial disease – Diabetic foot – Critical
limb ischemia – Ruptured aortic aneurysms – Vascular traumatisms – Acute limb ischemia
– Complications in vascular and endovascular surgery and their management – Infections –
Imaging in vascular disease – Neo angiogenesis – Gene therapy – Access surgery – Follow
up.
Abstract submission deadline: 5 May 2014
The best abstract presentation will be awarded a prize.
Congress venue: Centro San Gaetano – Via Altinate 71, Padova (Italy)
Scientific Secretariat
Mirko Menegolo, MD, PhD
Michele Antonello, MD, PhD
Luca Milan, MD
Dept. of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences
Section of Vascular Surgery, Padua University, Italy
e-mail info@vipcongress2014.org
www.vipcongress2014.org
Dearest Colleagues,
two years after the first VIP Congress, in which the preferred guests were Latin American
surgeons, in 2014 the second edition will see North American surgeons at the center of the
scientific scene.
The program will focus on the treatment of arterial diseases: technical aspects and future
perspectives in vascular and endovascular surgery will be discussed by an outstanding
international faculty.
The congress will be held in the historical center of Padua, whose University, one of the
oldest in the world, has been honoured through the centuries by illustrious scientists as
Copernico, Galileo, Vesalius, Harvey and Morgagni. Well-known for its beauty, as is testified
by the frescos in the Scrovegni Chapel, Giotto’s masterpiece, and with good connections to
Venice and Verona, Padua is one of the nicest cities in Northern Italy.
We invite you to participate in this unique event and hope you will enjoy your stay!
Franco Grego and Giovanni Deriu
VIP 2014 Chairmen