Dublin, November 2010 Winner RAMI Clinical Case Conference:

TEVAR Hybrid Repair for a Challenging Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneuryms

Galway, September 2010. 35th Sir Peter Freyer Memorial Lecture and Surgical Symposium

Management of Complex Aortic Pathologies Using Minimal Invasive Surgical Techniques. Early Encounter with TEVAR & Hybrid Surgery

Assignment of Endovascular Surgery to the Management of Combined Arterial and Venous Ulcers (CAVUS). A Prospective 36 Months Clinical Study

Ballinasloe, Co Galway, May 2010, WREN 2010, Western Region Education Network

Endovascular management of Multiple Aneurysms Associated with Hypereosinophilia Syndrome

Limerick, March 2010. Sylvester O’Halloran Surgical Meeting,

Initial encounter with thoracic endovascular aneurysm repair (TEVAR) for thoraco-abdominal Pathology (TAP) in a tertiary referral vascular centre. A technical challenge of debranching, chimneys, snorkel endovascular grafts in the era of hybrid surgery?

Sydney, Australia, December 2010.  Endovascular Summit 2010

Challenging Case Presentations Endovascular Management of a complicated Chronic Type B Dissection with the application of multi-layer stent technology

Challenging Case Presentations: Multilayer stenting of a Thoraco-abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Challenging Case Presentations: Redefining The Limit Of Endovascular Stenting

Washington D.C., USA, October 2010, American College of Surgeons 96th Annual Clinical Congress

Five-Year Irish Trial of CLI Patients with TASC II Type C/D Lesions Undergoing Subintimal Angioplasty or Bypass Surgery Based on Plaque Echolucency

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2010. European Society of Vascular Surgery XXIV Annual Meeting

Fast track Carotid Surgery is the Gold Standard for High-risk (HRP) Carotid Artery Intervention: Five year Cost-effectiveness and Quality Stroke Free Survival Comparison between Carotid Endarterectomy (CEA), Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting Technique (CAST) and Optimal Medical Therapy (OMT) In Symptomatic Patients at a University Vascular Centre with Appraisal of the Contemporary Prose.

Galway, Ireland, June 2010. 8th Annual Western Vascular Institute Symposium

CEA Is the Procedure of Choice for Stroke in Evolution. Treatment with CAS Is Akin to Playing Russian Roulette.

Paramillennium High-Risk AAA Saga: A Clinical Dilemma But Is Not a Major Concern for the Endovascular Specialist.

Five-Year Prospective Study of Duplex Ultrasound Arterial Mapping (DUAM) as a Primary Modality in Management of Critical lower Limb Ischemia (CLI): Technical and Clinical Outcome after Bypass Surgery (BS) and Endovascular Revascularization (EvR).

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcal Infections (MRSA) and Colonization Rates and Their Long-Term Consequences for Vascular Patients Presenting to a Tertiary Referral Unit: A 7-Year Experience.

Supragenicular Bypass Using Cuffed Synthetic Grafts in Management of Critical Lower Limb Ischemia (CLI): A 4-Year Observational Parallel-Group Prospective Comparative Study.

Thermal Ablation Is a Primitive Way of Managing Superficial Vein Reflux.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Is More Clinically Efficacious and Cost-effective Compared to Compression Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Venous Ulcers.

Case-Control Divergence of a Pivotal Study of Tinzaparin Alone versus Warfarin for Treatment of Acute Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism: Early Experience, Q-TWIST, and Paradigm Shift in Management of DVT in a Tertiary Referral Center.

To Ligate or Not to Ligate in Migrating Superficial Thrombophlebitis.

Filter-Protected CAS Is More Dangerous and Associated with More Procedure-Related Complications than Unfiltered CAS.

Pararenal Endovascular Aortic Repair Is Superior to Open Repair and Affords the Most Clinically Efficacious and Cost-Effective Outcome.

Early Experience with Chimney Thoracoabdominal Endografts.

Incidence of Concomitant Malignancy in AAA: 8-Year Experience.

Long-Term Follow-up of AAA Patients and Factors Determining Sac Shrinkage.

Vascular Surgeons Are More Experienced in Infragenicular Disease and Are Better Equipped to Treat These Unique Vessels.

Subintimal Angioplasty Is an Invaluable and Cost-effectiveTechnique in Experienced Hands.

There is always a Plan D for Limb Salvage.

Primary Nonsynthetic AVFs: Are Proximal AVF Access Procedures Superior to Distal Access Interventions? A 5-Year Congruence Scrutiny Assessment Study

Cardiovascular Antiaging: Can We Roll Back the Years? YES, WE CAN!

Do Statins Adversely Affect Glycemic Control in Nonobese Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients? A Deplorable Bona Fide Conscious Clinical Scenario!

A Prospective Study of the Relevance of Global Vascular Bed Pathology in the Pattern of Management of Vascular Patients Referred to a Vascular Tertiary Referral Center: The Clinical Implications of the Presence of Asymptomatic Vascular Pathology for Outcome in Peripheral Arterial Disease (PVD), Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA), and Carotid (CAS) Intervention.

Endovenous Subadventitial Stripping of the Great Saphenous Vein: The 21st Century Graceful Solution.

A Successful Future for Vascular Specialists Extends beyond Device Design. How Can We Manage Our Future and Move Forward as a Sector? Bioconvergence.

Marseilles, France, June 2010.  MEET 2010, Multidisciplinary European Endovascular Therapies Congress.

Practice of BTK angioplasty: Access, technique & tools for BTK angioplasty - Antegrade upsilateral approach

Cost-effectiveness and Quality of Life following Contemporary Management of Critical Lower Limb Ischaemia (CLI) in the femoro-popliteal segment. Randomization of CLI Patients with TASC C&D lesions to Subintimal Angioplasty (SIA) or Bypass surgery

Boston, Massachusetts, USA, June 2010, Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Meeting. 

Sustained 5 Years Performance Analysis of Sequential Compression Biomechanical Device (SCBD) in Critical Limb Ischaemia (CLI) Patients with Un-reconstructable Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD) vs Primary Amputation in a Tertiary Referral Vascular Centre With Quality of Time Without the Symptoms or Toxicity of the Disease (QTWiST)

Five-Year Experience with Pararenal Endovascular Aortic Repair (PEVAR) Without Fenestration. Clinical Efficacy, Reintervention Rates & Cost-effectiveness Compared With Open Surgical Repair (OSR) in a High Deliberare Practice Volume Centre.

Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, April 2010, Society of Clinical Vascular Surgery 38th Annual Symposium.

Sir Peter Samuels Award: A Mid to long term Experience of Clinical Efficacy and Cost per Quality-Adjusted -Life Years with Pararenal Endovascular Aortic Repair (PEVAR) without Fenestration for Para-renal AAA compared with Open Surgical Repair.

Does Topical Wound Oxygen (TWO2) Offer an Improved Outcome Over Conventional Compression Dressings (CCD) in the Management of Refractory Non-Healing Venous Ulcers (RVU)?

Challenging Case Presentation: Endovascular Management of Multiple Inflammatory Aneurysms associated with Hypereosinophilic Syndrome

Lisbon, Portugal, December 2010. I International Forum on Vascular Diseases

Endovascular Management of Para-renal AAA

New Advances for Management of Venous Ulceration

New York, USA, November 2010. VEITHsymposium, 37th Annual Symposium on Vascular and Endovascular Issues

Cardiovascular Disease And Anti-Aging And Regenerative Medicines: A Revolution In Vascular Care

EVAR For Ruptured AAAs Is Better: Open Treatment If The Patient Has Favorable Anatomy Is Akin To Murder

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Is More Effective Clinically And In Terms Of Cost Than Compression Treatment For Refractory Venous Ulcers

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2010. XI Pan-American Congress on Vascualr & Endovascular Surgery.

Five-Year Outcomes Of Carotid Interventions In High Risk Patients: Predictor Factors After Endarterectomy, Stenting Or Medical Management

Long-term outcomes of AV fistula formation using veins.

The 6L Irish trial comparing cool excimer laser assisted angioplasty and balloon angioplasty in TASC D infrapopliteal disease.

Subintimal angioplasty is an invaluable and cost effective technique for patients with TASC C & D femoral-popliteal disease

Milan, Italy, October 2010. 10th International Vascular and Endovascular Course (IVEC):  Emerging Technologies, New Achievements and Future Perspectives in Endovascular Interventions/3rd European Congress of the International Society for Vascular Surgery (ISVS)

Pararenal Endovascular Aortic Repair Using Standard Commercially Available Devices is Superior to Open Repair and Affords the Most Clinically Efficacious and Cost-effective Outcomes

Endovascular Management of Ruptured Aortic Aneurysms: To Open a Patient is Murder

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is More Clinically Efficacious and Cost Effective Compared to Compression Therapy in the Treatment of Refractory Venous Ulcers

Bethesda, Maryland, USA, October 2010, 28th International Surgery Day, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Appraisal of the Contemporary Prose of the UnKnown Unknowns with a Cardiovascular Antiaging Program.

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, June 2010, 11th Annual New Cardiovascular Horizons

Clinical Results of the Six L Trial in CLI; Randomization of Laser vs. Balloon

Siena, Italy, March 2010. ETI 2010 - Endovascular Therapy International

Cool  excimer laser assisted PTA for tibial occlusive disease

Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A., February 2010.  International Society of Endovascular Specialists 23rd Annual International Congress on Endovascular Interventions

Contemporary Management of Critical Lower Limb Ischaemia (CLI) in the femoro-popliteal segment. Randomization of CLI Patients with TASC C&D lesions to Subintimal Angioplasty (SIA) or Bypass surgery (BS)


Posters

Milan, Italy, October 2010, 10th International Vascular and Endovascular Course (IVEC):  Emerging Technologies, New Achievements and Future Perspectives in Endovascular Interventions/3rd European Congress of the International Society for Vascular Surgery (ISVS)

Primary Non-synthetic AVFs (PAVF) for Long Term Venous Access (LTVA): Are Proximal AVF Access Procedures Superior to Distal (DAVF) Access Interventions? A 5-Year Congruence Scrutiny Assessment Study.

Supragenicular Bypass Using Cuffed Synthetic Grafts in Management of Critical Lower Limb Ischaemia (CLI) for Patients Unsuitable for Endovascular Revascularisation (EvR) in TASC II D Lesions: A 6 Year Observational Three Parallel Groups( ePTFE, Distaflo® ,Dynaflo® grafts) Prospective Comparative Study with Quality Adjusted Time Spent Without Symptoms of Disease or Toxicity of Treatment (Q-TWiST).

Technical Superiority and Clinical Excellence of Duplex Ultrasound Arterial Mapping (DUAM) vs Magnetic Resonance Angiogram (MRA), as the Sole Imaging Modality in Bypass Surgery (BS) and Endovascular Revascularisation (EvR) For Critical Lower Ischemia (CLI) Patients. 6 Years Comparative Study in a Tertiary Referral Vascular Centre.

Cardiovascular Burden is More Treacherous Than any Neoplastic Pathology; Prevalence of Malignancies Post AAA Repair: an Eight Years Observational Study of EVAR vs Open Repair

Preoperative Vascular Screening and its Clinical Implications in the Presence of Aortic, Carotid and Peripheral Pathology for the Strategic Certitude for Vascular Surgery Patient’s Outcome

Washington D.C., USA, October 2010, Diabetic Limb Salvage Conference, Georgetown University Hospital.

A 5 Years parallel observation study of the Use of Sequential Compression Biomechanical Device in Critical Limb Ischaemia

Washington D.C., USA, October 2010, American College of Surgeons 96th Annual Clinical Congress

A Mid to Long-Term Experience of Clinical Efficacy and Cost per Quality-Adjusted Life Years with Pararenal Endovascular Aortic Repair (PEVAR) without Fenestration for Para-renal AAA compared with Open Surgical Repair.

Cool Excimer Laser Assisted Angioplasty (CELA) vs. Tibial Balloon Angioplasty (TBA) in Management of Infragenicular Tibial Arterial Occlusion in Critical Lower Limb Ischaemia (CLI) TASC DE. A Pivotal Observational Analogy Congregate Proportional Analysis over 48 Months “Six L Trial “.

A Three-Year Experience with Technical and Clinical Outcome and Quality-Adjusted Time Spent without Symptoms of Disease and Toxicity of Treatment (Q-TWiST) of Topical Wound Oxygen in Comparison with Conventional Compression Dressings in the Management of Refractory Non-Healing Venous Ulcers.  

Waterford, October 2010, Waterford Surgical Meeting

Assessing the Impact of patient Risk Factors and Methods of Wound Closure on Vascular Surgical Site Infection (VSSI) Rates

Boston, USA, June 2010, Society of Vascular Surgery Annual Meeting

Carotid Artery Endarterectomy (CEA) for Stroke in Evolution (SIE): Technical and Long-term Clinical Outcome in a Tertiary Referral Vascular Centre. When to Master Silence? 

The 6L Irish Pivotal Trial Comparing Three-Year Outcomes of Cool Excimer Laser Assisted Angioplasty (CELA) and Tibial Balloon Angioplasty (TBA) in Management of Infragenicular Tibial Arterial Occlusion in Critical Lower Limb Ischaemia (CLI) TASC D E .

Management of Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome (MALS) with Decompression and Coeliac Ganglion Sympathectomy (CGS) for Chronic Mesenteric Ischaemia (CMI). Procedural, Clinical and Enduring Results With Quality-Adjusted Time Spent Without Symptoms of Disease and Toxicity of Treatment (Q-TWiST).

Does Topical Wound Oxygen (TWO2) Offer an Improved Outcome Over Conventional Compression Dressings (CCD) in the Management of Refractory Non-healing Venous Ulcers (RVU)? Three-Year Technical and Clinical Outcome and Midterm Results With Quality-Adjusted Time Spent Without Symptoms of Disease and Toxicity of Treatment (Q-TWiST).

Marseilles, France, June 2010 MEET 2010, Multidisciplinary European Endovascular Therapies Congress.

Comparison of Endovenous Upward Perforate Invaginate Stripping (EUPIS), Downward Invaginate (DIS) and High-energy Endovenous LASER ablation (HE-EVLA) for Varicose Veins.

A prospective comparative study of pre-operative Duplex Ultrasound Arterial Mapping (DUAM), Digital-Subtraction Angiography (DSA) and Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) in Critical Lower Limb Ischaemia (CLI) prior to Bypass Surgery (BS) or Endovascular. 

Fast track Carotid Surgery is the gold standard for High-risk (HRP) Carotid Artery Intervention: Five year Cost-effectiveness and Quality Stroke Free Survival comparison between CEA, CAS and OMT.

Limerick, Ireland, March 2010, Sylvestor O’Halloran Surgical Meeting

The use of sequential compression biomechanical device in critical limb ischemia patients with un-re-constructable peripheral vascular disease. A 5 years experience in a tertiary referral vascular centre.