Day 3 Talks

Seemed the most senior of the Japanese delegates

Microknuckle technique of keeping the wire just within the tip of the microcatheter

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Overview of BTK drug delivery trials...

ADD-DEX, DANCE, LIMBO, TANGO, YUKON, DESTINY, ACHILLES

Newer items : CELA1, Vonapanitase

Peter Schneider overview of BTA work

Kawarada classification of the foot arch : Types 1, 2A, 2B, 3

Dual wires to protect tarsal branch when plastying the DPA trunk in foot

Wires : Fielder, Command

Catheters : CXI, Quickcross

Liberal use of Dorsal and Plantar Flexion at ankle intra-procedure

Convincing Demo Images of DPA entrapment!

Functional obstruction of the Dorsalis pedis artery in plantar flexed foot

Releases flow in neutral position

Dual benefit of heel protectors!

Perc vs Cut-down comparison

Taken using Watson AI analysis of a large (55 million) database retrospectively

Comparison of Pre-close ProGlide vs Cutdown groin access

40% less hospital LOS, 60% less infection, 80% less transfusion; 

supposedly 70% less mortality

with the percutaneous approach

The Italian Percutaneous Club data

Negative Predictors : profile over 20F; greater calcification in vessel

Highlighted post closure duplex

Data from unselected pts unselected endografts : says 96% success rate

Quotes pEVAR into previous Dacron bypasses

Quotes perc access for fEVAR and bEVAR

perc closure for axillary punctures

Puncture site : 3rd part of Axillary a. just distal to the Pec minor, overlying Teres major

Dual access at time of closure : 7F up from the groin to the site of the axillary puncture

Balloon assisted : Tie the pro glides, shoot DSA, if bleed, inflate balloon, put in an Atrium or Viabahn for bleeding, BMS for dissection / occlusion