CEVF Symposium
Peripheral Arterial Disease - Indicator of Polyvascular Disease
Chairs: Pier Luigi Antignani (Italy), Pavel Poredoš (Slovenia)   6x15 min

• Relationship between PAD and cerebrovascular disease
  Salvatore Novo (Italy)
• PAD and risk for coronary artery disease
  Rodica Avram (Romania)
• Estimation of risk for cardiovascular events in patients with polyvascular disease
  Borut Jug (Slovenia)
• Diagnostic assesment to patients with polyvascular disease
  Pier Luigi Antignani (Italy)
• Conservative treatment of patients with polyvascular disease
  Barbara Krevel (Slovenia)
• Treatment of patients with polyvascular disease: Surgical options
  Arkadiusz Jawien (Poland)

Young IUA Symposium
IUA Position Statements
Chairs: Rok Luciano Perme (Slovenia), Michal Juszynski (Poland)  4x15 min

• IUA position statement on no-option CLTI
  Michal Juszynski (Poland)
• Vaccines Directed Against Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin/Kexin Type 9 (PCSK9)
  Andrej Juretič (Slovenia)
• IUA position statement on perioperative drug and hemostasis management in vascular surgery
  Joao Rocha Neves (Portugal)
• IUA consensus document on vascular compression syndromes 
  Mario D’Oria (Italy)

• The link between macro- and microcirculation and its deterioration 
  Mateja Kaja Ježovnik (USA)
• Involvement of microcirculation in the development of CLTI 
  Pavel Poredoš (Slovenia)
• Diagnostic procedures for detecting microangiopathy 
  Patrick Carpentier (France)
• Management of diabetic microangiopathy 
  Pier Luigi Antignani (Italy)

17:00 - 18:00 Presidential Lectures/  Kosovel Hall

Chair: Aleš Blinc (Slovenia)  3x20 min

• How noninvasive investigations have modified our therapeutical approach
  Pier Luigi Antignani, President of the CEVF and Past President of the IUA
• Interrelationship between arterial atherosclerosis and venous disease
  Pavel Poredoš, IUA Vice President of the Multinational Chapter
• Carotid atherosclerosis is predictive of coronary atherosclerosis and events
  Salvatore Novo, Past President of the IUA and CEVF

18:00 - 19:00 Parallel Session/  Kosovel Hall

Anticoagulant Therapy and Venous Thromboembolism
Chairs: Gregor Tratar (Slovenia), Maria Cristina Vedovati (Italy)  3x20 min

• Treatment of upper extremity DVT with DOACs
  Maria Cristina Vedovati (Italy)
• Extended treatment of venous thromboembolism
  Paolo Prandoni (Italy) - Online
•  Cancer-associated thromboembolism and thrombocytopenia
  Gregor Tratar (Slovenia)

18:00 - 19:00 Parallel Session E1,2 Hall

VAS Symposium
Buerger’s Disease Pathophysiology: From Hypotheses to Evidence Synthesis
Chairs: Pavel Poredoš (Slovenia), Bahar Fazeli (Iran)   5x12 min

• Is Buerger’s Disease a variant of atherosclerosis? 
  Takehisa Iwai (Japan) - Online
• Is Buerger’s Disease a rickettsial infection?
  Pier Luigi Antignani (Italy)
• Smoking and Buerger’s Disease
  Andrzej Szuba (Poland) - Online
• Inflammation and immune  dysregulation in Buerger’s Disease  
  Bahar Fazeli (Iran)
• International Delphi consensus on diagnostic criteria for Buerger’s disease 
  Aaron Liew (Ireland)

19:00 - 19:20 Congress Opening  

19:30 -  22:00 Welcome Reception