Making the complex simple: crossing techniques for vessel occlusions

Coordinator(s)

• RB

  Robert Beasley, FSIR, FSCAI (he/him/his)

  Medical Director of Research and Vascular Specialist
  Palm Vascular Centers

  Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
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  Maria Antonella Ruffino, MD EBIR FCIRSE (she/her/hers)

  Head of the Service of Interventional Radiology Department
  EOC Lugano, Switzerland

  Disclosure(s): Bentley Innomed: Speaking and Teaching (Ongoing); Cordis: Speaking and Teaching (Ongoing); Medtronic Inc: Speaking and Teaching (Ongoing); Shockwave: Speaking and Teaching (Ongoing)

The focus of the session is to give an overview on actual different strategies to deal with complex cases of peripheral vessels occlusions.

Presentations:

• 1:00 PM – 1:20 PM

  How I deal with venous occlusion
  

  Speaker: Nicholas Petruzzi, MD – Vascular institute at AMI
• 1:20 PM – 1:40 PM

  How I deal with aorto-iliac occlusions
  

  Speaker: Bulent Arslan, MD FSIR – Rush University Medical Center
• 1:40 PM – 2:00 PM

  How I deal with femoro-popliteal arteries occlusions
  

  Speaker: John Fritz Angle, MD – University of Virginia Health System
• 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM

  How I deal with below-the-knee occlusions
  

  Speaker: Robert E. Beasley, FSIR, FSCAI (he/him/his) – Palm Vascular Centers
• 2:20 PM – 2:30 PM

  Case-Based Discussion