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  Vascular Surgery | 19th Annual Pennsylvania Hospital Vascular Symposium
Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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TENTATIVE PROGRAM

 

April 23, 2010 

08:00     Registration

 

08:30       Welcoming Remarks

           

Morning Session I 

Updates in Visceal Arterial Disease



Moderators: Kim J. Hodgson, MD & Michael S. Weingarten, MD
 

08:40   Spontaneous dissection of the SMA: It happens more than you think.

               Matthew J. Dougherty, MD


08:50    Renal arterty balloon angioplasty and stenting: My technique, and more importantly, when I do it.

           Kim J. Hodgson, MD


09:00    Management of visceral artery aneurysms - role of open vs. endovascular treatment.

           Kenneth Cherry, MD


09:10   Panel discussion, case presentations, and questions from the 
           audience

 

10:00   Coffee Break / Exhibits

  

 

Morning Session II

Updates in Abdominal and Thoracic Aortic Endografts

Moderators: Keith D. Calligaro, MD & Paul DiMuzio, MD

 

10:30    Injuries of the common femoral and external iliac arteries during EVAR/TEVAR.

           Robert Y. Rhee, MD


10:40    Coverage of the left subclavian artery during TEVAR - always, never, or sometimes?

           Bruce J. Brener, MD

 

10:50    Is medical management or TEVAR best for uncomplicated acute Type B aortic dissections? And if

           TEVAR, is short coverage of the primary tear or coverage of the entire descending thoracic aorta

           best?

           Richard P. Cambria, MD

 

11:00    Do vascular surgeons need to be afraid of Plavix when performing open vascular surgery (and

           issues with other anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents)?

           Ali Amin, MD


11:10   Panel discussion, case presentations, and questions from the 
           audience

 

12:00   Coffee Break / Exhibits 

Afternoon Session I

Updates on Peripheral Arterial Lesions

Moderators: Matthew J. Dougherty, MD & Joseph V. Lombardi, MD

 

13:00   Tricks for endovascular treatment of complex tibial lesions.

           Peter L. Faries, MD

 

13:10   Endovascular treatment of arterial trauma.

           Kim J. Hodgson, MD

 

13:20   Popliteal artery aneurysms: Should endografts be the treatment of choice?

           Ali Amin, MD

 

13:30   Iliac occlusive disease extending into the groin: Femoral endarterectomy and 

           concomitant iliac stenting is better than iliofemoral arterial bypass.   

           Eva M. Rzucidlo, MD


 

13:40   Panel discussion, case presentations, and questions from the 

           audience

 

14:30   Coffee Break / Exhibits

 

 

Afternoon Session II

Updates on Carotid Disease

 

Moderators: Edward Y. Woo, MD & Gabor Winkler, MD

 

15:00    How I do innominate and subclavian artery endovascular interventions: Technique and tricks.

Daniel J. McCormick, DO

 

15:10    How I do carotid stenting: Technique and tricks.

Robert Y. Rhee, MD

 

15:20    Should we wait six weeks after stroke before performing carotid endarterectomy or stenting?

            If not, when?

Bruce A. Perler, MD

 

15:40    Carotid artery stenting setbacks: Maybe it’s not as good as we thought.

            Bruce J. Brener, MD

 

15:50    Panel discussion, case presentations and questions from the audience.

 

16:30    Adjourn

 

 

Saturday, April 24, 2010

 

Morning Session I

My Worst Case - With a Bad Outcome

 

Moderators: Kim J. Hodgson, MD &  Mark B. Kahn, MD

 

08:30     Richard P. Cambria, MD

09:00     Bruce A. Perler, MD
09:30     Kim J. Hodgson, MD

 

10:00     Coffee Break / Exhibits

 

Morning Session II

Updates on AV Access, Venous Disease and Coding

 

Moderators: Keith D. Calligaro, MD & Joshua Eisenberg, MD

 

10:30    Management of complications of AV access: Steal vs. ischemic monomelic neuropathy.

            Larry Scher, MD

 

10:40    Tips for maximizing E&M coding: Ten minutes to save ten thousand.

            Sean P. Roddy, MD

 

10:50    Endovenous ablation without tumescent anesthesia: Early experience with a new modality.

            Alan Dietzek, MD

 

11:00    Modern treatment of DVT: ACCP guidelines.

Ali Amin, MD

 

11:10    Panel discussion, case presentations and questions

from the audience

 

12:00    Program Ends

    

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