08:15 - 08:45 Industry Symposium/ Kosovel Hall

Unravelling the Mysteries of Peripheral Arterial Disease in Diabetes
Chairs: Miodrag Janić (Slovenia), Mariano Palena (Italy)  5x12 min

• Specifics of PAD and optimal non-invasive diagnostics in patients with diabetes 
  Jovana Nikolajević (Slovenia)
• Novel antidiabetic therapy beyond glucose control: is there added value in patients with PAD?
  Manfredi Rizzo (Italy)
• When do endovascular procedures outperform surgery in PAD patients with diabetes? 
  Mariano Palena (Italy)
• Rescuing the un-rescuable: the finesse of vascular surgery in PAD patients with diabetes 
  Mladen Gasparini (Slovenia) 
• Diabetic foot: multidisciplinary treatment
  Claudia Riera Hernandez (Spain)

• Intermittent Claudication: an overview
  Nicos Angelides (Cyprus)
• Management of dyslipidemia in patients with PAD
  Kosmas Paraskevas (Greece)
• General principles of prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with PAD
  Salvatore Novo (Italy)
• Do patients with PAD need a different target level of blood pressure than those with other cardiovascular diseases? 
  Pavel Poredoš (Slovenia)
• Antithrombotic treatment of PAD - is aspirin still a basic antiplatelet option?
  Arkadiusz Jawien (Poland)

Management of Carotid Atherosclerosis
Chairs: Kosmas Paraskevas (Greece), Arkadiusz Jawien (Poland)  4x15 min

• Treatment of dyslipidemia in patients with carotid atherosclerosis
  Dimitri Philippe Mikhailidis (United Kingdom) - Online
• Vulnerable carotid plaque - how to identify it using ultrasound
  Andrew Nicolaides (Cyprus) 
  
• Asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis: revascularization or best medical therapy? 
  Kosmas Paraskevas (Greece) 
• How to treat symptomatic carotid stenosis? 
  Tadeja Kolar (Slovenia)

Chronic Venous Insufficiency
Chairs: Matija Kozak (Slovenia), Marzia Lugli (Italy)  4x15 min

• Surgery for chronic venous leg ulcers
  Andrej Šikovec (Slovenia)
  
• Mixed leg ulcers
  Agata Stanek (Poland) - Online
  
• Recanalization of chronic venous occlusions
  Marzia Lugli (Italy)
• Tubulcus device compression therapy vs. vacuum- assisted closure therapy in venous leg ulcer healing – a comparative analysis
  Matei Sergiu-Ciprian (Romania)
  

12:00 - 12:40 Plenary Lecture/ Kosovel Hall

Chair: Tjaša Vižintin Cuderman (Slovenia)
Venous Thromboembolism in Pregnancy
Matija Kozak (Slovenia)

New Trends in Management of  Peripheral Arterial Disease
Chairs: Aleš Blinc (Slovenia), Mislav Vrsalović (Croatia)  4x15 min

• The role of biomarkers in PAD 
  Mislav Vrsalović (Croatia)
• Subtherapeutic low-dose combination of statins and sartans for the treatment of impaired arterial wall function
  Mišo Šabovič (Slovenia)
  
• Endocrine disorders and PAD
  Gerit-Holger  Schernthaner (Austria) - Online
• Gene therapy for PAD
  Aleš Blinc (Slovenia)

New Trends in Management of Venous Thromboembolism
Chairs: Mirjam Gubenšek (Slovenia), Zsolt Pecsvarady (Hungary)  4x15 min

• Importance of early peripheral vascular US scanning for the treatment strategy of pulmonary embolism
  Zsolt Pecsvarady (Hungary)
• Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
  Polona Mlakar (Slovenia) 
  
• New perspectives on prevention of post-thrombotic syndrome
  Paolo Prandoni (Italy) - Online
  
• Highlights and controversies in the 2024 international guidelines on VTE 
  Andrew Nicolaides (Cyprus)
  

Challenges in Management of Patients with Chronic Limb-threatening Ischemia
Chairs: Vinko Boc (Slovenia), Oliver Schlager (Austria)  6x15 min

• Which clinical staging system is most useful in patients with CLTI? 
  Adriana Visona (Italy)
• Cardiovascular risk of patients with CLTI 
  Mariella Catalano (Italy) - Online
  
• Frailty assessment in patients with CLTI
  Liew Aaron (Ireland)
  
• Revascularization of CLTI – endo or surgical? 
  Oliver Schlager (Austria)
• BAD and SAD-MAC: a new scenario and new strategies for patients with CLTI 
  Andrea Casini (Italy)
• Care of a patient with CLTI undergoing vascular interventions
  Rok Luciano Perme (Slovenia)

• PAD: Understanding epidemiology and diagnosis
  Oliver Schlager (Austria)
  
• Optimizing medical treatments for PAD
  Lucia Mazzolai (Switzerland)
  
• Optimizing interventional treatment of PAD 
  Vinko Boc (Slovenia)
  
• Optimizing treatment of carotid disease 
  Juraj Madarič (Slovakia)

Joint Symposium CEVF-SIMV
Superficial Venous Thrombosis
Chairs: Pier Luigi Antignani (Italy), Mateja Kaja Ježovnik (USA)   4x15 min

• From varicose veins to venous thromboembolic disease
  Mateja Kaja Ježovnik (USA)
  
• Superficial venous thrombosis in atypical locations
  Ana Spirkoska Mangaroska (Slovenia)
  
• Superficial venous thrombosis of a healthy vein
  Luca Costanzo (Italy) - Online
  
• How to treat superficial venous thrombosis of varicose veins?
  Marco Mangiafico (Italy) - Online