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