Faculty
Organized by:
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
Agnelli Giancarlo - Italy
Working Group on
Peripheral Circulation
European Society of
Cardiology
Allegra Claudio - Italy
Andreozzi Giuseppe Maria - Italy
Balbarini Alberto - Italy
Italian
Federation
of
Cardiology
Berchiolli Raffaella - Italy
Biamino Giancarlo - Germany
Brevetti Gregorio - Italy
Castellani Sergio - Italy
Ciccone Marco - Italy
Coccheri Sergio - Italy
Cosentino Francesco - Italy
De Carlo Marco - Italy
Di Stefano Rossella - Italy
Fattori Rossella - Italy
Ferrari Mauro - Italy
Gallino Augusto Franco - Switzerland
Kownator Serge - France
Lekakis John - Greece
PROGRAMME DIRECTORS
ALBERTO BALBARINI (IT)
JOHN LEKAKIS (GR)
SECRETERIAT
SONIA SANSEVERINO, ELEONORA ANDREOTTI
TEL/FAX
+39 050 996 896
Mariotti Rita - Italy
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Marzilli Mario - Italy
FLAVIO BUTTITTA (IT)
Mattioli Anna Vittoria - Italy
MARCO DE CARLO (IT)
Melillo Elio - Italy
ROSSELLA DI STEFANO (IT)
Minzioni Gaetano - Italy
Mussi Alfredo - Italy
Novo Salvatore - Italy
Friday — May 9th 2008
Saturday — May 10th 2008
San Ranieri Hotel
Pisa, Italy
DANILO GIANNINI (IT)
ELIO MELILLO (IT)
MARCO NUTI (IT)
Palombo Carlo - Italy
VENUE
Petronio Anna Sonia - Italy
Hotel San Ranieri Via Filippo Mazzei
56124 Pisa
Pilger Ernst - Austria
ADVANCES IN THE
DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
OF PERIPHERAL ARTERY
AND VENOUS DISEASE
Poredos Pavel - Slovenja
Tel. +39 050 971 951
Pratesi Carlo - Italy
SECRETERIAT
Reimers Bernhard - Italy
Rossi Marco - Italy
Schulte Karl Ludwig - Germany
Spreafico Giorgio - Italy
Meridiana Events & Education SRL
Vignali Claudio - Italy
Via G. Volpe Trav Via C. Griffi
Loc. Ospedaletto 56014 Pisa, Italy
Tel +39 050 9711721 Fax +39 050 974148
www.meridianaevents.it
Vlachopoulos Charalambos - Greece
Zimlichman Reuven - Israel
PRELIMINARY
PROGRAMME
Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Artery and Venous Disease
Friday — May 9th
Friday — May 9th
08.30-09.00
Opening Ceremony
Session III
Welcome address by Authorities
Peripheral Arterial Disease
Session I
Chairpersons: G. Andreozzi , G. Brevetti
How to Detect Pre-clinical Atherosclerosis
Chairpersons: K-L Sculte, R. Zimlichman
14.00-14.20
Advances in Interventional Treatment
G. Biamino
09.00-09.15
Evaluation of Endothelial Dysfunction
14.20-14.40
F. Cosentino
09.15-09.30
Carotid Intima-Media Thickness
14.40-15.00
09.30-09.45
Arterial Stiffness
C. Vlachopoulos
09.45-10.00
Multidetector Computed Coronary
Tomography
S. Novo
10.00-10.15
Ankle-Brachial Pressure Index
J. Lekakis
10.15-10.30
Blood flow velocity profile and wall
shear rate
C. Palombo
10.30-1050
Discussion
10.50-11.20
Coffee Break
Aortic Aneurisms
Chairpersons: A. Mussi, E. Pilger
11.40-12.00
12.20-12.40
A.S. Petronio
Discussion
New Advances in the Treatment of Carotid Disease
Chairpersons: S. Castellani, S. Kownator
15.40-16.00
Emerging techniques for the
evaluation of carotid artery disease
10.10-10.20
Discussion
10.20-10.50
Coffee Break
Session II
Venous Disease
10.50-11.10
A. Gallino
16.00-16.20
Endarterectomy
16.20-16.40
R. Fattori
17.20-17.40
Discussion
Dissecting Aneurisms
17.40-18.00
Coffe Break
18.00-19.00
Meeting of the Nucleus of the
Working Group on Peripheral
Circulation of the ESC
Endovascular Treatment of Thoracic
Aortic Aneurisms
11.10-11.30
Stenting
M. De Carlo
B. Reimers
Medical Therapy of Carotid Artery
Disease
M. Ciccone
G. Minzioni
Lunch
09.50-10.10
Chairpersons: C. Allegra, S. Coccheri
17.00-17.20
13.00-14.00
09.30-09.50
Session IV
Abdominal Aortic Aneurisms
Discussion
Regional Behaviour of Endothelial
Dysfunction in Metabolic Syndrome
E. Melillo
Stent or Surgery?
12.40-13.00
09.00-09.30
Medical Therapy
16.40-17.00
M. Ferrari
Chairpersons: A. Balbarini, J. Lekakis
The Role of Surgery
C. Pratesi
Session II
11.20-11.40
15.20-15.40
Heart and Peripheral Arterial Disease
M. Marzilli
Endothelial Dysfunction in Heart
Failure
R. Mariotti
When and How to Revascularize the
Polydistrictual Patient
R. Berchiolli
15.00-15.20
Session I
Sub-Intimal Interventional Therapy
C. Vignali
P. Poredoš
Saturday — May 10th
New Advances in the Treatment of
Venous Ulcers
G. Spreafico
Treatment of Deep Venous
Thrombosis
G. Agnelli
11.30-11.50
New ultrasound technologies in
the diagnosis of venous diseases
M. Rossi
11.50-12.10
New Technologies for the Treatment
of varicose veins
R. Di Stefano
Discussion
12.10-12.20