E-grāmata: Mastering Endovascular Techniques: Tips and Tricks in Endovascular Surgery

Section I.- Biological effects of ionizing radiation.- Principles and
guidelines for radiation protection.- Section II Introduction in
Endovascular Techniques.- The Angiographic Suite.- Basic tools and
terminology for endovascular interventions.- Principles, sites and techniques
of vascular access.- Techniques and devices for vessel closure.- Contrast
media, nephropathy and prophyaxis .- Balloons and percutaneous transluminal
balloon angioplasty.- Stents and percutaneous transluminal stent
angioplasty.- Recanalization techniques.- Deep venous arteriliazation
technique.- Embolic materials and embolization techniques.- Section III -
Peripheral Occlusive Disease.- Interventions for aortoiliac disease.-
Interventions for femoropopliteal disease.- Interventions for Tibial
Disease.- Interventions for pedal disease.- Atherectomy and calcium modifying
devices.- Novel endovascular technologies in femoropopliteal disease.-
Complications and management in peripheral interventions.- Antiplatelets and
anticoagulation in peripheral interventions.- Follow up and surveillance
after peripheral interventions.- Endovascular management of acute limb
ischemia.- Section IV Cerebrovascular Disease.- Angioplasty and stenting of
the arch branches.- Carotid artery stenting Studies, indications and
pre-interventional workup.- Technique and complications of transfemoral
stenting.- Introduction to transcarotid artery revascularization.-
Intracranial stenting.- Endovascular management of acute ischemic stroke.-
Arch vessels dissection.- Embolizing cerebral aneurysms and arteriovenous
malformations.- Section V Splachnic Arteries.- Angioplasty and stenting of
the mesenteric arteries.- Angioplasty and stenting of the renal arteries.-
Endovascular management of splachnic aneurysms.- Section VI Peripheral
Aneurysms.- Current thresholds for treating aneurysms.- Endovascular
management of popliteal aneurysms.- Peripheral Pseudoaneurysms.- Section VI
Vascular Access.- Creating  a percutaneous arteriovenous fistula: Evidence
and techniques.- Hybrid grafts in vascular access.- Access and lines.-
Endovascular techniques to manage vascular access failure.- Section VII
Coronary disease.- Introduction to coronary angioplasty.- Transcatheter
aortic valve implantation.- Transcatheter mitral valve repair.- Atrial septal
defect Left atrial appendage.- Section VIII Aortic Aneurysm.-
Endovascular management of abdominal aortic aneurysms EVAR studies.-
Patient selection for EVAR .- Preprocedural planning and measurements for
EVAR.- Interpretation of aortic MDCT images.- Introduction to endografts for
infrarenal AAAs.- The role of Aortouniliac endografts .- Suprarenal vs
Infrarenal fixation.- Hostile proximal neck- Angulated, short or conical.-
Difficult vascular access.- Hemodynamic principles of endografts.-
Fenestrated endografts.- Branched endografts.- Iliac bifurcations grafts.-
Endovascular approach to the hypogastric artery.- Optimizing imaging and
radiation exposure during complex EVAR.- Rescue of proximal failure of
endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair with standard and fenestrated
grafts.- In situ fenestration in aortic endografts.- Chimneys and
Periscopes.- Thoracic aortic aneurysm repair.-Endovascular management of
aortic arch disease.- TEVAR Complications.- Endovascular management of
ascending aortic disease.- Endovascular management of thoracic aortic
trauma.- Endovascular management of ruptured aortic aneurysms.- Endovascular
management of acute aortic dissection.- Endograft occlusion.- Endoleak Type
I.- Type II endoleaks.- Endoleak Types III, IV, V.- Endograft infections.-
Section IX Venous.- Endovenous ablation of truncal veins.- Foam
Sclerotherapy.- Introduction to Venous Stents and principles of stenting .-
IVUS guided venous recanalization.- Endovascular management of chronic venous
lesions.- Endovascular management of acute iliofemoral thrombosis.-
Principles and techniques for the management of pelvic congestion.-
Endovascular management of subclavian vein thrombosis.- Endovascular
management of acute pulmonary embolism.- Management of Venous dysplasias.-
Section X Miscellaneous.- Biostatistics 1.- Biostatistics 2.- Medicolegal
aspects of novel interventional techniques.

George Geroulakos is Professor and Chair of Vascular Surgery at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Head of the University Department of Surgery at the Attikon Hospital in Athens and Visiting Professor at the Imperial College in London since 2015. Previously he was Reader in Vascular Surgery at the Imperial College and President of Angiology at the Royal Society of Medicine in London. He has edited 3 books and authored more than 230 papers on vascular surgery. He has served in the Council of the European Society of Vascular Surgery and the board of examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.Efthymios Avgerinos is Professor of Surgery and has been a faculty of the University of Pittsburgh since 2011. He is certified by the European Board of Vascular Surgery (FEBVS) Dr. Avgerinos has authored or co-authored more than 200 peer reviewed publications and chapters on vascular surgery and his work has been widely cited and recognized with international awards. Hehas served on the Executive Councils of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS), European Union of Medical Specialties (UEMS), and International Society for Vascular Surgery (ISVS). He is currently serving in the Education, Clinical Research, and Guideline Committees of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and the Eastern Vascular Society (EVS). He has been recently appointed Visiting Professor of Vascular Surgery of the University of Athens, Greece.

Jean Pierre Bequemin, Pr JP Becquemin,Former Head of the Unit of Vascular Surgery and Cardio Vascular Department Henri Mondor Hospital,University Paris East France. Founding Member of the Vascular Institute of Paris East  Champigny France





Alberto Froio is Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Dr. Froio is Director of the Master of Science (MSc) in Endovascular Techniques (MET), University of Milano-Bicocca, since 2012 and Director of the one-year post-graduate course Carotidultrasound, University of Milano-Bicocca. He is Director of the Vascular Surgery Residency Program at University of Milano-Bicocca, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza. He is Visiting Professor of Vascular Surgery at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Dr Froio contributed to membership of Editorial Boards and reviewer activity for several Journals.





Gregory Makris is a consultant in endovascular and interventional radiology at Guys and St Thomas Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, London UK. He completed his specialty training in Clinical Imaging as an NIHR Academic Clinical fellow in Cambridge University hospitals and his subspecialty training in vascular and interventional radiology at Oxford University Hospitals. Before his clinical specialty training he was awarded a PhD in Vascular surgery from Imperial college of London for his work on vascular imaging and carotid disease. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Radiology and active member of the nationaland interventional radiology community having held positions as chairman of the trainee committees in the British Society of Interventional Radiology as well as in the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE. He is the main author of more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, member of the CVIR endovascular journal editorial board as and peer reviewer for a number of international journals.