Lower Extremity Arterial RevascularizatioN (LEARN)
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September 27-30, 2012 |
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Program
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* Program is subject to change
Target Audience
This four-day course on September 27-30, 2012-designed with lectures, panel discussions, teaching files, case scenarios and hands-on interaction with models-is intended for physicians with training and experience in the fundamentals of vascular medicine, endovascular therapy and clinical management of peripheral arterial disease and aortic aneurysms who seek to upgrade their knowledge and skill base. This course is designed to be useful for even the most well-trained specialists, including interventional radiologists, vascular medicine physicians, vascular surgeons and interventional cardiologists. This course will also be useful for interventional radiology fellows-in-training who desire to increase their knowledge concerning the fundamentals of peripheral arterial disease, aortic aneurysms and endovascular therapy.
Course Description
It is estimated that over eight million Americans have peripheral arterial disease and the incidence is expected to rise over the next ten years due to the increasing age of the population and dramatic increases in the incidence of diabetes and obesity. Each year in the United States, there are over one hundred thousand lower extremity amputations performed for critical limb ischemia, the most severe form of peripheral arterial disease. Many of these are performed on patients who have never seen a physician with specialty training in vascular disease.
According to CMS, in the past ten years the number of endovascular procedures performed for peripheral arterial disease in the United States has increased dramatically, including a 170% increase in femoral angioplasty, a 325% increase in infra-popliteal angioplasty, and a 4400% increase in infra-inguinal atherectomy.
The clinical recommendations from inter-specialty consensus documents have contributed to this increase in minimally invasive therapy with both the American Heart Association and TASC guidelines recommending endovascular therapy as first line treatment for a larger percentage of symptomatic patients than ever before.
The LEARN (Lower Extremity Arterial RevascularizatioN) course is designed to offer comprehensive didactic instruction in the latest clinical trial data related to the medical and endovascular treatment of peripheral arterial disease. The course is uniquely organized to allow for small group workshop learning, sharing clinical guidelines and technical details for patient care by a group of expert faculty.
Endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms has become the first line therapy since being first described twenty years ago. With improvements in the devices and increased operator experience, the technology has become available to a broader spectrum of the population with improved immediate and midterm results. There has been recent interest in the development of low profile systems which may allow for percutaneous introduction of these devices. The AAA program at LEARN will focus on the latest trial data available for endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Percutaneous techniques for AAA repair will be highlighted as well as the minimally invasive management of complication of EVAR.
Educational Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the attendee should be able to:
- Discuss the medical management of the patient with peripheral arterial disease
- Perform a basic clinical vascular examination, including the use of noninvasive vascular testing, cross-sectional imaging and catheter-based diagnostic tools
- Analyze imaging modalities used in peripheral vascular disease
- Review the clinical data available on aortoiliac, superficial femoral artery and below-the-knee interventions
- Review the various techniques and discuss the advantages and limitations of interventional procedures in treating complex peripheral vascular disease
- Demonstrate the procedural techniques and use of Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) devices
- Describe recent developments in the area of critical limb ischemia and below-knee interventions
- Summarize the findings of major clinical trials in claudication and critical limb ischemia
- Discuss essential elements of multidisciplinary limb salvage team development
- Describe catheter-based techniques for treatment of acute limb ischemia
- Discuss the diagnosis and medical management of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms
- Review trial data available for the endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms
- Describe techniques to safely perform percutaneous endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms
- Analyze imaging modalities to perform aneurysm surveillance after EVAR
- Discuss management of complications of endovascular repair of aortic aneurysms
Program Coordinators
Bret N. Wiechmann, MD
Sanjay Misra, MD, FSIR
Robert A. Lookstein, MD, FSIR
Steering Committee
James F. Benenati, M.D., FSIR
Jafar Golzarian, M.D.
Mahmood K. Razavi, M.D.
Hotel Information
The Westin Michigan Avenue Chicago
909 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
Specific hotel reservations details and deadlines coming soon.
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