7:45 am
Registration

8:30 am
Opening remarks
Nabil CHAKFE, Strasbourg, France

SESSION 1 — DID YOU SAY STENT?

Chairmen: Francesco MIGLIAVACCA, Milan, Italy — Sebastien DEGLISE, Lausanne, Switzerland — Jos c van den BERG, Lugano, Switzerland

8:45 am
New technologies and trends in the last 2 years: A critical appraisal
Jörg TESSAREK, Lingen, Germany

8:50 am
Differences of behavior between laser cut and mesh stent modelling
Lorenza PETRINI, Milan, Italy

9:00 am
Updates on stent durability
Alan PELTON, Los Angeles, USA

9:10 am
Silk fibroin graft
Silvia FARE, Milan, Italy

9:20 am
State of the art on drug coated tents healing in peripheral arteries
Aloke FINN, Gathesburg, USA

9:30 am
Enabling new geometries and faster iteration in designing braided medical devices
Florent BUDILLON, Pforzheim, Germany

9:40 am
Criterias to choose the best stent for treating different presentations of superficial femoral artery lesions
Maxime LEBAZ DUBOSQ, Paris, France

9:50 am
Take home message
Jos c van den BERG, Lugano, Switzerland

9:55 am
DISCUSSION

SESSION 2 — INSIDE THE STENTS

Chairmen: Alexey KAMENSKIY, Omaha, USA — Sandro LEPIDI, Trieste, Italy — Ulf HEDIN, Stockholm, Sweden

10:15 am
Hemodynamic impact prediction of stents overlapping
Monika COLOMBO, Milan, Italy

10:25 am
Overview on treatment options for in stent restenosis
Sébastien DEGLISE, Lausanne, Switzerland

10:35 am
Is edge restenosis fully similar to in-stent restenosis?
Raphael COSCAS, Paris, France

10:45 am
From imaging to SFA plaque characteristics
Salomé KUNTZ, Strasbourg, France

10:55 am
How far can we go to in silico predict in stent restenosis?
Anna CORTI, Milan, Italy

11:05 am
Evaluating the intrinsic thrombogenicity of clinically-used stents.
Pierre MANGIN, Strasbourg, France

11:15 am
Take home message
Sandro LEPIDI, Trieste, Italy

11:20 am
DISCUSSION

11:40 am
YOUNG RESEARCHER PRIZE

12:10 pm
LUNCH

SESSION 3 — THE POTENTIAL OF IMAGING

Chairmen: Jonathan BOYLE, Oxford, UK — Gert DE BORST, Utrecht, The Netherlands — Murray SHAMES, Tampa, USA

1:15 pm
Are IVUS worthwhile in the superficial artery management ?
Jean BISMUTH, Houston, USA

1:25 pm
The use of OCT for femoro-popliteal procedure planning
Michel REIJNEN, Twente, The Netherlands

1:35 pm
Functional imaging for peripheral arteries
Mohammed CHOWDHURY, Cambridge, UK

1:45 pm
Functional imaging to predict and detect complications after EVAR
Natzi SAKALIHASAN, Liège, Belgium

1:55 pm
An overview of virtual reality and augmented reality in vascular surgery
Jonathan MORRIS, Rochester, USA

2:05 pm
Take home message
Jonathan BOYLE, Oxford, UK

2:10 pm
DISCUSSION

SESSION 4 — BIOCOMPATIBILITY & CALCIFICATION ISSUES

Chairmen: Philippe KOLH, Liège, Belgium — Ulf HEDIN, Stockholm, Sweden — Gianandrea PASQUINELLI, Bologna, Italy

2:30 pm
Calcifications on vascular grafts
Anne LEJAY, Strasbourg, France

2:40 pm
The specificities of the common femoral artery anatomy, calcification and treatment
Bahaa NASR, Brest, France

2:50 pm
Intravascular lithotripsy
Jos c van den BERG, Lugano, Switzerland

3:00 pm
A comprehensive literature review on all atherectomy systems
Glen SCHWAERTZBERG, New Orleans, USA

3:10 pm
Inflammation and microcalcifications
David MAGNE, Lyon, France

3:20 pm
Strategies for enhancing the biocompatibility and tissue integration
Tohid DIDAR, Hamilton, Canada

3:30 pm
Take home message
Philippe KOLH, Liège, Belgium

3:40 pm
DISCUSSION

4:00 pm
COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 5 — VESSEL STRUCTURE

Chairmen: Alan DARDIK, Yale, USA — Francesco MIGLIAVACCA, Milan, Italy — Santi TRIMARCHI, Milan, Italy

4:30 pm
Mechanical and structural changes in thoracic aorta with age
Alexey KAMENSKIY, Omaha, USA

4:40 pm
Biomechanical properties of the thoracoabdominal aorta
Niamh HYNES, Galway, Ireland

4:50 pm
State of the art on tissue engineered veins
Cristina LOPEZ ESPADA, Granada, pain

5:00 pm
Multimodal structural analysis of the human aorta from valve to bifurcation
Liam MUSTO, London, UK

5:10 pm
MicroRNA profiles of human peripheral arteries and abdominal aorta
Gianandrea PASQUINELLI, Bologna, Italy

5:20 pm
Superficial femoral and popliteal arteries properties
Alexey KAMENSKIY, Omaha, USA

5:30 pm
Take home message
Alan DARDIK, Yale, USA

5:35 pm
DISCUSSION

5:50 pm
CLOSING REMARKS

8:00 pm
CONGRESS DINNER

8:00 am
Registration

8:25 am
Opening remarks
Nabil CHAKFE, Strasbourg, France

SESSION 6 — STENTGRAFT: LONG TERM BEHAVIOR

Chairmen: Alan PELTON, Los Angeles, USA — Nabil CHAKFE, Strasbourg, France — Mauro GARGIULO, Bologna, Italy

8:30 am
New technologies and trends in the latest 2 years on thoracic aorta
Jason T. LEE, Stanford, USA

8:40 am
New technologies and trends in the latest 2 years on abdominal aorta
Murray SHAMES, Tampa, USA

8:50 am
Does sac remodeling after EVAR only related to pressure?
Sandro LEPIDI, Trieste, Italy

9:00 am
Fatigue behavior of covered stents
Giovanni TORSELLO, Münster, Germany

9:10 am
Modeling aneurysm evolution
Christian GASSER, Stockholm, Sweden

9:20 am
May pre-operative arterial stiffness predict sac behavior after EVAR ?
Alan DARDIK, Yale, USA

9:30 am
Take home message
Alan PELTON, Los Angeles, USA

9:35 am
DISCUSSION

9:50 am
COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 7 — STENTGRAFT: INTERACTION ISSUES

Chairmen: Jean BISMUTH, Houston, USA — Jason T. LEE, Stanford, USA — Christian GASSER, Stockholm, Sweden

10:15 am
Credibility of TEVAR simulations
Francesco MIGLIAVACCA, Milan, Italy

10:25 am
Simulated TEVAR behavior
Santi TRIMARCHI, Milan, Italy

10:35 am
What is suitable aortic neck in open surgery?
Mauro GARGIULO, Bologna, Italy

10:45 am
How could artificial intelligence modify practice in aortic surgery ?
Fabien LAREYRE, Nice, France

10:55 am
A new braided graft concept
Valentine GESCHE, Munich, Germany

11:05 am
Take home message
Jean BISMUTH, Houston, USA

11:10 am
DISCUSSION

SESSION 8 — THE POTENTIAL OF TISSUE ENGINEERING

Chairmen: Frédéric HEIM, Mulhouse, France — Cristina LOPEZ ESPADA, Granada, Spain — Ulf HEDIN, Stockholm, Sweden

11:25 am
3D bioprinting of human tissues: possibilities and limitation
Michael GELINSKY, Dresden, Germany

11:35 am
Latest strategies on scaffold manufacturing
Petra MELA, Munich, Germany

11:45 am
Engineering interventional polymeric biomaterials: Enabling vascular repair and regeneration of the endothelium
Paul SANTERRE, Toronto, Canada

11:55 am
Scaffolds and interactions: latest strategies and interaction issues
Stefan JOCKENHOEVEL, Aachen, Germany

12:05 pm
Growth of an off-the-shelf conduit in lambs, a GLP study
Robert TRANQUILLO, Minnesota, USA

12:15 pm
Take home message
Frédéric HEIM, Mulhouse, France

12:20 pm
DISCUSSION

SESSION 9 — INNOVATION ROUND TABLE

Chairmen: Nabil CHAKFE, Strasbourg, France — Gert DE BORST, Utrecht, The Netherlands — Frédéric HEIM, Mulhouse, France — Wolfgang MEICHELBOECK, Germany

12:35 pm
The main role of surgeons in innovation
Frans MOLL, Utrecht, The Netherlands

12:43 pm
The main role of researchers in innovation
Robert TRANQUILLO, Minnesota, USA

12:51 pm
The potential of articifial intelligence for patient centered innovations
Regula Von ALLMEN, Saint Galen, Switzerland

1:00 pm
The New Medical Device Regulation: Impact On New Product Development
Sophie TABUTIN, Nice, France

1:08 pm
How to be cautious with innovation. An example: endovascular sealing concept
Jonathan BOYLE, Oxford, UK

1:16 pm
The role of regional clusters to help in innovation
Nicolas PELLERIN, Nextmed, Carolines DREYER, Biovalley France, Strasbourg, France

1:25 pm
The potential of computational in the vascular field from FDA perspective
Finn DONALDSON, Baltimore, USA

1:35 pm
DISCUSSION

2:00 pm
END OF CONGRESS

8:30 am
Welcome + Introduction
Frédéric HEIM, Mulhouse, France

8:40 am
Advances in the Use of Nitinol for Medical Devices
Alan PELTON, Los Angeles, USA

SESSION 1

9:00 am
Investigating Coating Transfer in Drug-Coated Balloon Angioplasty through a Coupled in Vitro and in Silico Analysis
Efstathios STRATAKOS, Milan, Italy

9:05 am
18F-Fluorodeoxgylcuose Uptake in Uninfected Abdominal Aortic Endografts on Positron Emission Tomography: Pilot Study
Arielle BELLISSARD, Strasbourg, France

9:10 am
Radiological, angiographic and histopathological definition of “Medial Artery Calcification” as an etiopathogenetic factor of foot vessel occlusion in patients affected by critical limb ischemia
Elisa CABRINI, Parma, Italy

9:15 am
A Computational Model to Deepen the Knowledge of anti-Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease Vein Graft Bypass Failure
Stefano CASARIN, Houston, USA

9:20 am
Patient-specific computational fluid dynamics simulation before & after surgery in stenotic carotid arteries
Valentina CESERANI, Pavia, Italy

9:25 am
Lumped-parameter hemodynamic model to assess coronary flow at different effort conditions in AAOCA
Valentina CESERANI, Pavia, Italy

9:30 am
Evaluation of the effect of Fosfomycin incorporated grafts to prevent vascular grafts infections
Inês CRUZ, Porto, Portugal

9:35 am
Artificial Intelligence for a better vascular surgery education
Antoine KLEIN, Paris, France

9:40 am
Carbon footprint of endovascular aortic repair
Jean SENEMAUD, Paris, France

9:45 am
Extracellular Matrix Production by a Co-culture of Primary Human Cells on Nanofibrous Polyurethane Scaffolds –Towards Engineering a Small-Diameter Arterial Graft
Katya D’COSTA, Toronto, Canada

9:50 am
Wall shear stress topological skeleton variability predicts plaque growth in human coronary arteries
Giuseppe DE NISCO, Turin, Italy

9:55 am
Validation of an ex vivo flow model including magnetic resonance imaging to study the effects of endovascular treatments on the arterial wall
Raul DEVIA RODRIGUEZ, Groningen, The Netherlands

10:00 am
Hybrid Fibrous Materials for Medical Applications: Towards Limited Foreign Body Reaction
Maleke ZIDI, Mulhouse, France

10:05 am
Mid-term results of open surgical conversion for infected aortic endografts in a multicenter experience
Anna FORNASARI, Parma, Italy

10:10 am
A novel device to assess the characteristics of a vessel wall for stent implantation purpose
Zied GHARIANI, Thionville, France

10:15 am
QUESTIONS

10:30 am
COFFEE BREAK

11:00 am
Latest strategies on scaffold manufacturing
Stefan JOCKENHOEVEL, Aachen, Germany

SESSION 2

11:20 am
Spinal drain related complications after aortic stentgrafts using a prophylactic automated volume-directed drainage protocol
Gisli JONSSON, Uppsala, Sweden

11:25 am
Porous in vitro Model with a Wrinkle Topography to Mimic Tunica Media of a Blood Vessel
Klaudia JURCZAK, Groningen, The Netherlands

11:30 am
Glycoprotein VI: an interesting target to prevent early stent thrombosis
Axelle KERN, Strasbourg, France

11:35 am
Peak Wall Rupture Index is Associated with Time-to-Rupture in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Independently of Size and Sex
Antti SIIKA, Stockholm, Sweden

11:40 am
Use of Omniflow® II biosynthetic graft for the treatment of vascular graft and endograft infections
David LIEKSER, Groningen, The Netherlands

11:45 am
Endothelial-mimetic surface modification enhances the biocompatibility of stents used in endovascular arterial repair
Jean SENEMAUD,  Paris, France

11:50 am
Multifunctional Scaffolds by Melt Electrowriting Metal-Organic Framework / Polycaprolactone Composites for Tissue Engineering Applications
Salma MANSI, Garching, Germany

11:55 am
Microporous Scaffolds for in situ Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering via Melt Electrowriting
Killian MUELLER, Garching, Germany

12:00 pm
Comparative evaluation of two paclitaxel-coated stents in an experimental setting
Alexandre POUHIN, Dijon, France

12:05 pm
Automatic detection of visceral arterial aneurysms on Computed Tomography Angiography using artificial intelligence-based segmentation of the vascular system
Juliette RAFFORT, Nice, France

12:10 pm
Stent grafts from polymeric material: a novel design to improve the implant durability
Abdul Rahman ASSAD, Mulhouse, France

12:15 pm
How can the Finite Element Analysis help in patient-specific TEVAR procedural planning?
Anna RAMELLA, Milan, Italy

12:20 pm
Stratifying patients at risk for type Ia endoleak by means of conventional preoperative CT measurements and statistical shape modelling
Daniëlle van VELDHUIZEN, Groningen, The Netherlands

12:25 pm
The long-term outcomes of venous, bovine pericardial, and polyester patches for carotid endarterectomy are comparable
David LIEKSER, Groningen, The Netherlands

12:30 pm
QUESTIONS

12:50 pm
Technology meets nature: biohybrid cardiovascular grafts for in situ tissue engineering
Alicia FERNANDEZ COLINO, Aachen, Germany

1:10 pm
LUNCH

2:10 pm
3D Bioprinting of complex tissue models
Michael GELINSKY, Dresden, Germany

SESSION 3

2:30 pm
Optimizing CO2 Injection Technique for Renal Artery Detection in Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
Cristina ROCCHI, Bologna, Italy

2:35 pm
Autonomous endovascular guidewire navigation: a physics-based method to reduce patient’s radiation intake
Valentina SCARPONI, Strasbourg, France

2:40 pm
FRESH method to biofabricate blood-like vessel for vascular tissue regeneration
Franca SCOCOZZA, Pavia, Italy

2:45 pm
Combined carbon dioxide automated angiography and fusion imaging for zero iodinated contrast fenestrated endografting
Marcello LODATO, Bologna, Italy

2:50 pm
A Cost-Effective Integrated Computer Model to Effectively Study Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy
Elisa SERAFINI, Houston, USA

2:55 pm
Perivascular fat attenuation of carotid arteries assessed with CTA in preoperative patients: comparison between symptomatic and symptomatic patients
Rania SHAHBAZ, Paris, France

3:00 pm
Transplant of autologous monocytes: a new step in treating ischemic lesions
Eleonora ACQUISTI, Bologna, Italy

3:05 pm
Mechanisms of Failure of the Nellix Device: Explant Analysis
Léna CHRIST, Strasbourg, France

3:10 pm
Remodeling of abdominal aortic aneurysm sac following endovascular aortic repair: association with clinical, surgical and genetic factors
Mario D’ORIA, Trieste, Italy (online)

3:15 pm
QUESTIONS

3:35 pm
COFFEE BREAK

4:05 pm
Precise determination of endograft apposition in the aortic neck can predict early and late failures
Jean-Paul DE VRIES, Groningen, The Netherlands

4:25 pm
ROUND TABLE

5:25 pm
Conclusion and announcement of the 3 winners
Frédéric HEIM, Mulhouse, France

7:15 am
Registration + Welcome

7:30 am
Lectures

8:15 am
Coffee and change of outfits

8:45 am
Practical sessions of simulation, suture and sizing

12:30 pm
LUNCH

2:10 pm
Practical sessions of simulation, suture and sizing

5:50 pm
End of first day

6:00 pm
CHEESE & WINE BY GEPROMED

7:45 am
Welcome coffee and change of outfits

8:15 am
Practical sessions of simulation, suture and sizing

12:00 am
End of the vascular bootcamp

1:00 pm
LUNCH AT PALAIS DE LA MUSIQUE ET DES CONGRES

1:30 pm
Reception at Palais de la Musique et des Congrès

2:00 pm
Welcome
— Presentation of Gepromed and its history
Annik BORCOS, Director of Gepromed, Strasbourg

2:10 pm
Healthcare Facility Certifications
— Review of the visits carried out in 2021-2022 and feedback on the experience of a certified establishment (focus on interventional sectors)
Christian CAODURO, Visiting expert coordinator, HAS

3:00 pm
The implant: some reminders
— Regulations, traceability and materials vigilance
Sandra WISNIEWSKI, Vigilance local correspondent pharmacist
— Clinical research
Maxime BEUTELSTETTER, Pharmacist, Clinical Project Manager
— Explant analysis at Gepromed
Nicole NEUMANN, Doctor in medical robotics

3:45 pm
Radio protection: recent developments and impact on interventional sectors
Luc MERTZ, Radiophysicist, University of Strasbourg

4:00 pm
COFFEE BREAK + VISIT OF THE STANDS

4:30 pm
Impact of COVID and QWL
— Focus on health care staff but not only...
Sylvie TAESCH, Psychotherapist in brief therapy, Strasbourg

4:45 pm
Presentation of Stan Institute: communication and teamwork
Jean-Pierre HENRY, President of Stan Institute

5:10 pm
Exclusive acts and transitional measures
— Review of the situation and developments (10 min)
— Implementation challenges? (10 min)
Marie FROESCH, in charge of the Operating Theatre Nursing courses
Nathalie BONFILL, Operating Theatre Nursing school trainer, Colmar
— Risks related to the installations (20 min)
Relyens team
— Discussion with the audience (10 min)

6:00 pm
END OF THE DAY

8:00 pm
CONGRESS DINNER

8:00 am
Reception at Palais de la Musique et des Congrès

8:30 am
Practical workshops led and supervised by Stan Institute and Relyens
— Workshop 1: Regulatory aspects and responsibility of the
caregiver
— Workshop 2: Communication and teamwork
— Workshop 3: Scenario checklist - patient safety - case 1
— Workshop 4: Checklist scenario - patient safety - case 2
— Workshop 5: Checklist scenario - patient safety - case 3

10:00 am
BREAK + VISIT OF THE STANDS

10:30 am
Practical workshops led and supervised by Stan Institute and Relyens
— Workshop 1: Regulatory aspects and responsibility of the
caregiver
— Workshop 2: Communication and teamwork
— Workshop 3: Scenario checklist - patient safety - case 1
— Workshop 4: Checklist scenario - patient safety - case 2
— Workshop 5: Checklist scenario - patient safety - case 3

12:00 pm
END OF NURSE DAY