LINC 2016 programme

Introduction by the moderator and overview of complex SFA disease: calcium, long lesions, reintervention

Dierk Scheinert

Treatment strategies for long lesions > 20 cm

Donald Jacobs

SUPERSUB: Results of subintimal SUPERA cohort in CLI patients

Luis Mariano Palena

Treatment strategies for reintervention (catastrophic failure)

Jihad Mustapha

Which DVT patients are candidates for revascularization?

Stephen Black

Catheter-directed thrombolysis followed by stenting of residual venous stenosis for acute iliofemoral DVT

Rolf Engelberger

The interventional position

Horst Sievert

Despite current level 1 evidence, the outlook for an upsurge in CAS is bright and getting brighter

Frank Veith

Insights from the German carotid registry

Martin Storck

Status update CREST II

William Gray

Proximal protection – finally the gold standard for cerebral protection during CAS?

Giancarlo Biamino

Micromesh technology for carotid stents

Stefan Müller-Hülsbeck

A comparison of OCT and IVUS evaluation of carotid arteries before and after stent implantation

Bernhard Reimers

Transradial carotid stenting: How to do it

Piero Montorsi

IN.PACT SFA trial – 2 year outcomes

Peter Schneider

Drug-coated balloons: Also the primary solution for long lesions? Contra:

Michael Dake

Can mechanical debulking replace surgery and lysis in acute and subacute occlusions of the lower limb?

Miroslav Bulvas

Chronic occlusions and stenoses – Can mechanical debulking reduce the stent length as well as the number of implanted stents?

Miroslav Bulvas

Recanalization of venous occlusions with Aspirex®S mechanical thrombectomy – The effective one-session treatment, which largely replaces the need of thrombolysis!

Thomas Heller

BTA intervention: Overview and video live

Tatsuya Nakama

SFA-POP intervention: Overview and video live

Kazushi Urasawa

Aorto-iliac & femoral intervention: Japanese evidences

Osamu Iida

Surgical bypass or Zilver PTX – 12-month preliminary data

Marc Bosiers

Leave the right thing behind - patterns of restenosis

Gary Ansel

Venous stent-related complications

Cees Wittens

Technical aspects of venous interventions for chronic DVT

Rick de Graaf

Flash presentation: New generation SX stents (SMART Flex)

Peter Goverde

Endovascular treatment of renal artery aneurysm with vascular plug - V. Cvetic

Successful recanalization of recurrent transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt occlusions with Aspirex mechanical thrombectomy - S. Alammari

IVC filter removal - a difficult complication and its solution - D. Vishwanath

Extended cath-lab nightmare - Spontaneous dissection of bilateral common iliac artery stenting with development of Critical limb ischemia - S. Siddappa

Venovo, the next generation venous stent

Rick de Graaf

Ruby Coil: The impact of volume advantage in challenging visceral arterial aneurysms

Lorenzo Paolo Moramarco

NOACs across indications

Ulrich Hoffmann

Periprocedural management – a short guide on intervention

Sebastian Debus

Incidence and treatment of PE-generated right heart strain in DVT patients

Ralf Kolvenbach

EKOS®: Standard of practice for small hospitals

Hans Biemans

Huge popliteal artery pseudoaneurysm induced after genovarum correction treatment (a new method repair) - M. Purbehi

Retrograde popliteal puncture for superficial femoral artery recanalization: mid term result - A. Kerzmann

Complications in deployment of SUPERA stent for treatment of long SFA occlusions - R. Salman (EBIR)

Challenging case of complicated aneurysmal persistent sciatic artery - E. Elashaal

Potential risk of rupture of repeated angioplasty in patient with in-stent restenosis after subintimal angioplasty for heavily calcified SFA lesion - P.-K. Min

The endovascular solutions of bypass graft failure; revisiting the native artery using two accesses - B. Ghoneim

Deep dive: IN.PACT SFA 2 year outcomes

Peter Schneider

MR and CT venography for imaging venous obstruction

Hendrik von Tengg-Kobligk

The role of surgery in the management of deep vein obstructions

Cees Wittens

Flash presentation: Concepts for atherectomy in femoropopliteal arteries: When to use which system?

William Gray

Popliteal artery aneurysms

Michele Antonello

In-stent restenosis

Jeffrey Y. Wang

Vascular disease location, severity, and progression in diabetic patients

Katja Mühlberg

Vascular screening in diabetic patients: How aggressive should we be and when to intervene?

Roberto Ferraresi

SFA lesions in diabetic patients - what is different and how to approach

Sebastian Sixt

The latest treatment approach and current developments in SFA

Dierk Scheinert

A new classification on the diabetic ischemic foot promotes a modern approach to treatment

Eric Ducasse

The pedal arch in diabetc patients - N. Troisi

Use of ARROW GPSCath in a diabetic patient population with impaired renal function

Marco Manzi

Vascular complications in BTK intervention

Dimitrios Karnabatidis

Covered endovascular reconstruction of aortic bifurcation: a haemodynamically proven technique for treating extensive aortoiliac occlusive disease

Peter Goverde

Efficacy of endovascular treatment of peripheral arterial disease of the superficial femoral artery using Zilver Flex and Zilver PTX stent-grafts, an observational cohort study - T. Sigterman

Mid-term results after drug eluting stenting of superficial femoral artery in critical limb ischemia patients. An italian multicentre registry

Giuseppe Galzerano

Early results for the chocolate touch drug-coated PTA balloon catheter for the treatment of femoropopliteal lesions

Andrew Holden

Six month results of the global BIOLUX P-III all-comers registry using DCB in infra-inguinal artery disease

Gunnar Tepe

A comparative study on endovascular treatment of acute and subacute critical limb ischemia (CLI): mechanical thrombectomy vs. lysis vs. thrombectomy and lysis - M. Kronlage

First-line treatment strategies in patients with critical limb ischemia: One year outcomes from the CRITISCH registry

Theodosios Bisdas

The NANOCROSS study: final 12 month results

Marc Bosiers

12 months results of the PREVENT study: investigating the Everolimus-eluting stent in BTK lesions in CLI patients

Marc Bosiers

Calcification of BTK arteries: The scope of the problem and attempts to solve it

Jihad Mustapha

Future concepts for drug delivery

Michael Jaff

Tack optimized balloon angioplasty below the knee (TOBA-BTK) 6 months results: A new method for treating CLI patients with post-PTA dissections

Marianne Brodmann

Italian registry, first results on 100 patients

Alberto Cremonesi

Nitinol micromesh technology for carotid artery treatment

Max Amor

Can we improve the outcomes of stent alone? Findings from the BIOFLEX PEACE Study

Michael Lichtenberg

DCB in SFA and BTK: results from the BIOLUX P-III All-comers registry

Gunnar Tepe

How does device sizing impact outcome in trauma patients?

Hence Verhagen

Sizing and landing zones in IMH patients

Dittmar Böckler

PCI+OPCAB+CEA simultaneously for a ischemic heart disease with severe carotid stenosis

Zhidong Ye

2 image-guided approach to treatment of patients with May Thurner Syndrome

Brian DeRubertis

Treatment of submassive pulmonary embolism at a tertiary center using low-dose, single Bolus catheter-directed thrombolysis

John Phillips

Percutaneous treatment of bilateral sub-acute iliofemoral venous occlusion in a patient with atresia of the inferior vena cava

Salman Arain

Difficulty to avoid embolization for vertebral artery and cartid artery simultaneously during right subclavian artery stenting: A case report - H. Araki

Two stage endovascular treatment of multiple supra aortic lesions for Takayasu Arteritis - V. Kipiani

Rupture and embolization of aberrant subclavian after spine surgery - J. Gomez

Carotid artery stenting with the use of proximal neuroprotection device and mesh–covered stent implantation for the treatment of severe, bilateral carotid artery stenosis - P. Paluszek

The endovascular therapy of the nutcracker syndrome - S. Seifert

Endovascular repair of carotid-subclavian arterio-arterial aneurysmal fistula; case report - B. Ghoneim

Subclavian artery stenosis post radiotherapy - A. A. Rahim

High risk TIPS procedure - N. Eckhardt

Ovarian vene bleeding mimicing arterial bleeding after retroperitoneal biopsy - F. Imani

Calcified in-stent restenosis in a venous stent - J.-O. Schmidt

Eyndromendovascular management of Mid AO S - H. Soliman

Patterns of vessel calcification and clinical relevance

Michael Jaff

Remove it! – Update on atherectomy techniques for calcified lesions

Lawrence Garcia

Disrupt it! – The Shockwave lithotrypsie concept

Thomas Zeller

Recorded case: Shockwave lithotrypsie

Marianne Brodmann

Flash presentation: Latest guidelines on carotid revascularization: What are the recommendations for CAS

Marco Roffi

Flash presentation: New concepts for filter protection during CAS

Alberto Cremonesi

The Japanese art of CTO treatment

Hiroyoshi Yokoi

How to optimize outcomes of CLI procedures: What does the future hold?

Ramon Varcoe

How I would have treated this case

Hiroyoshi Yokoi

Hello again – re-intervention strategies for sub-optimal results of current technologies

Nicolas Shammas

Eluvia – designing a revolutionary drug eluting stent for SFA intervention

Jaydeep Kokate

The PROTAGORAS study: Combined use of Endurant AAA device and balloon-expandable chimney grafts

Giovanni Torsello

EVAS in juxta-renal and supra-renal aneurysms

Matt Thompson

Chimney EVAR vs. fenestrated EVAR for juxtarenal aneurysms

Eric Ducasse

The toolbox for embolization therapy: Liquid embolics, coils, plugs, particles

Marc Sapoval

Embolization therapy for non-traumatic bleeding

Peter Huppert

Uterine embolization: techniques and outcome

Stephan Zangos

Embolization in erectyle dysfunction due to venous leakage

René Aschenbach

The impact of calcified plaque revealed by Angioscope in PAD lesions

Daisuke Kamoi

Proposal of a new criteria of SFA calcification with multi-modality evaluation – a prospective multi center analysis

Masahiko Fujihara

Calcium removal and plaque modification with rotational atherectomy in the era of DEB and contemporary stenting for femoro-popliteal disease

Tom Shimshak

Vessel preparation with scoring balloons prior to DCB or stenting

Erwin Blessing

Ultrasound guided access in CLI: 700 patients from Prime Registry

Larry Diaz-Sandoval

Wire tracking methods in BTK CTO lesion without distal channel

Sang Ho Park

TEVAR with total debranching in huge behcet left subclavian aneurysm (staged procedure) - A. Abdulbaky

Stented graft for endovascular treatment of traumatic high flow AV fistula: observations, and useful tips - M. Mabrouk

Resuscitative balloon occlusion of the aorta: a complex case in prioritization - J. Siddiqui

Aortic rupture following an EVAR secondary to graft erosion - I. Banzic

Challenging retrograde embolization to treat expanding internal iliac aneurysm after surgical repair - A. Ferreira

Visceral revascularization by snorkel technique traversing false lumen to true lumen during TEVAT for Type aortic dissection - M. Haggag

Late Type IIIb endoleak with an endurant endograft: coil embolisation - Y. Onal

Endovascular challenge – ruptured descending thoracic aortic aneurysm with hostile anatomy - J. Sousa Ferreira

Clinical case of endovascular treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm - A. Karpenko

Intervention for DVT and PE – a revolution in the making

Michael Jaff

Current evidence for deep venous interventions

Iris Baumgartner

Techniques for thrombus removal in acute DVT

Michael Lichtenberg

Thrombus removal in acute pulmonary embolism – when and how?

Kenneth Rosenfield

Endovenous interventions for varicose vein disease – current status

Raghu Kolluri

Introducing Altura: the new innovative ultra-low profile aortic stent graft

Dierk Scheinert

Early experience and clinical data with the Altura AAA stent graft. Announcing the new Altura registry ‘Altitude’

Albrecht H. Krämer

Embolization in emergency setting – how to treat

Gianpaolo Carrafiello

GW technologies

Jos van den Berg

Illustrative case 1 SFA

Erwin Blessing

How to set-up randomized trials: superiority vs. non-inferiority designs

William Gray

The relevance and limitations of angiographic endpoints

Ulrich Beschorner

Vessel calcification: Any consensus on reporting standards?

Fabrizio Fanelli

Electronic data capture: Is there an easy way for physician initiated research?

Marc Bosiers

Pre-clinical comparison of drug coated balloons - R. Virmani

Real world comparison of IN.PACT vs. Lutonix DCB in complex lesions

Sabine Steiner

iVascular coating technology on Luminor: the latest generation DEB

Vicente Riambau

DEB versus POBA for postdilatation of SFA stenting – the Freeway trial

Johannes Lammer

Angiographic dissection pattern post balloon angioplasty in superficial femoral artery lesions – a retrospective multi center analysis

Masahiko Fujihara

IN.PACT SFA health economic study: DCB cost-effectiveness analysis at 2 years follow-up

David Cohen

15-year EVAR 1 follow-up – benchmark for newer technologies

Roger Greenhalgh

The INCRAFT Innovation study – a 4 year update

Giovanni Pratesi

How a next generation device enables the effective treatment of challenging aortic anatomy?

Andrea Stella

Gender-specific risks for EVAR: Can the outcome be improved for female patients?

Martin Storck

Are national population-based AAA screening programmes too challenging for public health systems?

Vicente Riambau

State of the art treatment options for primary liver malignancies and metastatic disease

Peter Huppert

DISCOVER trial: A RCT comparing bare-metal balloon expandable stents and covered balloon-expandable stents in advanced PAOD of the common iliac artery - J. A. Bekken

A unique study device using a distinctive trial design: The Tack optimized balloon angioplasty study using the Tack Endovascular System (TOBA II)

William Gray

The LIMBO trial: a RCT investigating adventitial dexamethasone infusion to prevent restenosis in BTK arteries utilizing a novel angiographic endpoint

Ulrich Beschorner

VOYAGER trial: RCT investigating the efficacy and safety of rivaroxaban to reduce the risk of major thrombotic vascular events in patients with symptomatic PAOD undergoing revascularization – the concept of an event driven trial

Rupert Bauersachs

EVAS and AAA treatmanet - R. Gattuso

EVAR out-side ifu. single centre egyptian experience - M. Haggag

Imaging after endovascular sealing using the Nellix sac enchoring device - T. ter Mors

Validation of pre-procedural aortic aneurysm volume calculations to estimate procedural fill volume of endobags in endovascular aortic sealing - J. Boersen

TEVAR for acute complicated Type B aortic dissection, midterm follow up - M. Haggag

Radiological evaluation of ADULT aortic coarctation and its Impact on the chosen modality of treatment - M. Haggag

Aortic curvature as a predictor of intraoperative Type IA endoleak - R. Schuurmann

Aneurysmal sac volume and diameter evolution in the post-operative EVAR patient - J. Sousa Ferreira

Safety and feasibility of single suture-mediated closure system in patients undergoing TAVI with 14-F expandable sheath - A. Cioppa

Endovascular treatment of Behcet’s peripheral aneurysm: A prospective comparative study to open repair - M. Soliman

Clinical predictors of post-EVAR mortality - J. Oliveira-Pinto

Clinical case of endovascular treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm - P. Ignatenko

Prognostic value of pre-procedural computed tomography angiography in patients undergoing endovascular therapy for iliac artery diseases - Y.-G. Ko

Flash presentation: My first practical experience with INCRAFT

Ralf Kolvenbach

Case reviews:

Erwin Blessing, Brian DeRubertis, Yann Gouëffic, Steven Kum, Andrej Schmidt, Ramon Varcoe

The EPAD-Study: RCT comparing endoxaban and aspirin to clopidogrel and aspirin in SFA and proximal popliteal interventions

Frans Moll

Starting with deep venous treatment

Carsten Arnoldussen

The clinical utility of parallel grafts, snorkels and chimneys to solve challenging situations

Armando Lobato

Clinical and technical advantages of parallel grafts in treatment of failed EVAR and Type I endoleaks

Giovanni Torsello

Stent design and technical aspects

Jörg Teßarek

Actual information on BeGraft

Sebastian Büchert

A study of downstream events of the two leading DCBs on the market - R. Virmani

LUTONIX® DCB in BTK – Update on the BTK clinical program & single center experience

Sabine Steiner

LUTONIX® DCB in AV access – a single center experience

Kate Steiner

Results of CO2 imaging with new CO2 injector

Ulf Teichgräber

Reduction of contrast medium by fusion imaging

Guiseppe Panuccio

Strategy and technical tips: Endovascular management of TASC D aortoiliac lesions

Gary Ansel

Lower extremity ischemia due to aortic dissection and other unusual causes

Kenneth Rosenfield

The GORE® EXCLUDER® Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis: Feasibility and utility to preserve internal iliac arteries

Andrew Winterbottom

A new off-the-shelf branched Gore endograft for TAAA: early clinical experience

Pierre Galvagni Silveira

Localized intravascular coagulopathy in venous malformations

Iris Baumgartner

Combined malformation - Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome

Raul Mattassi

The Houdart CNS AVM classification, the Do peripheral AVM classification, and the Yakes AVM classification and its therapeutic implications

Wayne Yakes

Case presentations – AVM 1: Intraosseous AVM

Wayne Yakes

AVM: old things that need to be remembered

Emmanuel Houdart

Treatment of congenital vascular malformations in children

Walter Wohlgemuth

A new mini-invasive carotid endarterectomy by Semieversion – B. Migliara

Incidence and prognosis of plaque protrusion during carotid artery stenting – K. Takayama

Long-term outcomes of endovascular treatment for subclavian artery disease in chronic hemodialysis patients – Y. Shintani

The efficacy and safety of endovascular mechanical fragmentation with thrombolytic therapy in patients with acute massive pulmonary embolism – A. Karpenko

Update on the VIRTUS trial: Early experience of VICI VENOUS STENT in patients with chronic nonmalignant obstruction of the iliofemoral venous segment

Stephen Black

Comparison of the efficacy, safety, the primary and secondary technical success of the endovenous non-thermal, tumescensless mechanochemical ablation of varicous veins with the subjective outcome using different score-systems – C. Teichert

Cerebral embolic protection in thoracic aortic stentgrafting - G. Grover

Utility of DEBs in the treatment of restenosis after deep venous arterialisation - D. Lim

Twelve-month outcomes of stenting versus standard balloon angioplasty for the below-the-knee arterial disease patients underwent percutaneous transluminal angioplasty

Seung-Woon Rha

Percutaneous ballon angioplasty of infrapopliteal lesions for critical limb ischemia. One center experience - M. Garnica Ureña

Cutting- & DCB-balloon in fem-pop-lesions - M. Baumhäkel

A vascular network‘s experience of the novel GORE® TIGRIS® stent in the Treatment of atherosclerotic popliteal arterial disease - D. Banfield

One year outcomes for Paclitaxel-eluting stent Implantation for complex SFA lesions - A. Roy

The AURORAA registry: 4 year results using interwoven nitinol stents for extensive distal femoropopliteal occlusive disease

Peter Goverde

OCT guided CTO crossing to minimize stenting during SFA recanalization: Ocelot case series review - R. Dhawan

Angioplasty for patients with failing infrainguinal bypasses graft, Jeddah heart institute experience for graft salvage - A. ElMarakby

Announcement of the Vascular Career Advancement Award Recipients: R. Kolluri, Th. Bisdas

Giancarlo Biamino, Peter Schneider

Will mesh covered stents help reduce the risk of stroke?

Peter Schneider

Carotid revascularization 20 years from now

Kenneth Rosenfield

Protect the neck

Lieven Maene

Patency matters

David Minion

Averting a BTK amputation – revascularization of a distal SFA popliteal tibial occlusion using antegrade/retrograde posterior tibial approach and placement of drug eluting stents across the knee joint

Robert Beasley

The case of CLI treated for ipsilateral iliac CTO, SFA and BTK lesion using switch back technique in single strategy

Shogo Morisaki

A case of endovascular therapy of infrapopliteal arterial disease using GP IIb/IIIa inhibitor and thrombolysis in a patient with acute limb ischemia

Chang Hoon Lee

SFA lesions – is atherectomy superior?

Sanjay Desai

External piercing technique in heavily calcified BTK lesion in a diabetic foot patient

Seung-Woon Rha

PEVAR in a patient with a horseshoe kidney using a stent-graft (the OVATION prime) - A. Frantsevich

Endovascular repair of a pararenal aortic aneurysm using ChEVAS as a last chance - K. E. Moncayo León

Thoracic endovascular aortic repair for a pseudoaneurysm in a Patient with small caliber stretchable iliac with stenosis - A. Olcay

Management of complicated acute infra-renal abdominal aorta dissection - S. Sultan

Endovascular hybrid stent-graft repair of spontaneous aorto-caval fistula with hostile anatomy of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm - M. Liu

Chimney-EVAS as a strategy for the treatment of a Type I endoleak - B. Fiorucci

A complex case of aortic dissection: a hybrid approach - E. Yano

Nellix plug for false lumen occlusion in chronic dissections - C. Forssell

Challenging case of retrograde transcollateral embolization of a giant internal iliac artery aneurysm after aneurysm repair of the abdominal aorta - N. Eckardt

Unusual complication of complete endovascular reconstruction of aortic bifurcation - D. Vishwanath

Endovascular treatment of bilateral isolated internal iliac aneurysms - T. Mourão

Bioabsorbable scaffold stents for the endovascular treatment of infrapopliteal lesions in critical limb ischemia

Mohammad Ansari