Tilo Kölbel, MD (German Aortic Centre, University Heart Centre Hamburg, Germany) questions the dogma that rejects the use of endovascular treatment of connective tissue disorders, during a session on the latest techniques for endovascular repair of…

A novel endovascular strategy to target severe calcified occlusions, the so-called “pave-and-crack” technique, was the focus of a presentation by Manuela Matschuck, MD, from University Hospital Leipzig.

“Catheter-directed intra-arterial thrombolysis is a rational and well-used method for therapy of chronic limb ischemia (CLI) patients with thrombotic occlusions of lower extremity arteries or bypass grafts,” said Ulrich Beschorner, MD.

Results of the first European prospective, multicenter clinical study of the use of a proximal scallop endograft that accommodates the supraaortic trunks were presented by Jean-Marc Alsac, MD.

Robert Lookstein, MD (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City) presented 10-year findings of the LONG DES-BTK study of the use of drug-eluting stents (DES) in the treatment of BTK disease.

Peter Schneider, MD, discussed the latest investigational device exemption (IDE) study of the DETOUR System, dubbed the US IDE DETOUR II Clinical Trial, which is currently recruiting across 37 sites in the U.S., Germany, Poland, and Latvia.

A discussion of the COMPARE trial 12-month data, presented for the first time by Sabine Steiner, MD.

Dierk Scheinert, MD, and Bill Gray, MD, moderate this LINC 2020 session focusing on paclitaxel safety and with several new data releases. Featured are presentations by Drs Holden, Ouriel, Schneider, Guo, Zeller, Freisinger, and Gray.

(Leipzig, Germany) January 29, 2020 -- Two-year registry data on the LimFlow (LimFlow SA, France) percutaneous deep vein arterialization (pDVA) system were presented by Andrej Schmidt, MD (University Hospital Leipzig, Germany) in a first-time data…