59th ESCVS Congress - April 15-18th 2010, Izmir (Turkey)
2009-12-14
59th International Congress of European Society for Cardio-Vascular Society (ESCVS) will be held in Izmir, Turkey, April 15-18, 2010. The annual congress of the Society will be held in conjunction with the 6th Congress of Update in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery.
This year main topics concerning cardiac surgery will be as following:
- controversies in coronary artery surgery (role of off-pump surgery, role of robotics, anastomosis devices)
- risk stratification in adult and pediatric cardiac surgery
- controversies in valvular surgery (repair or replacement, stented or stentless prosthesis)
- complex aortic surgery
- aortic root surgery (total replacement or plasty)
- cardiac arrhytmias (interventional strategies)
- mitral valve surgery (prosthesis, plasty or ?)
- advanced treatment of end-staged heart failure (new medical treatments, mechanical devices, OHT, future options)
- hypoplastic left heart syndrome
- tissue banking
- off-pump cardiopulmonary bypass (perioperative monitoring and management, surgical strategies)
- cardiopulmonary bypass (role in postoperative morbidity)
Main topics concerning vascular and endovascular surgery:
- carotid surgery
- carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS)
- cerebral protection devices (CPD)
- carotid kinking
- supraaortic trunks vascular surgery
- abdominal aortic aneurysms
- endovascular treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms
- ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms
- critical limb ischemia
- aortic iliac obliterative disease
- femoro-polipteal obliterative disease
- visceral arteries obliterative disease
- arterial surgery in octogenarian
- emergency arterial surgery
- vascular injuries
- complications in vascular surgery and their management
- failures in vascular and endovascular surgery
- renal artery stenosis
- abdominal angina
- renal and visceral arteries aneurysms
- Takayashu disease
- congenital arterial diseases
- myointimal hyperplasia
- hemodialysis access
- grey areas of uncertainity in vascular surgery
- hybrid vascular and endovascular procedures
- venous disease
- vein graft diseases
Main topics in cardiovascular surgery:
- descending thoracic aorta aneurysms
- aortic dissections
- thoracoabdominal aneurysms
- graft material
- role of gene therapy in cardiovascular diseases
- hybrid vascular and endovascular procedures for treatment of aortic and thoracoabdominal aneurysms
Important dates:
Abstract submission deadline January 15th, 2010
Notification of abstract submission February 15th, 2010
For more information please visit ESCVS official websites:

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