Friday
SESSION XIX: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF LOWER EXTREMITY ARTERIAL DISEASE BY OPEN SURGERY (5-MINUTE TALKS WITH 2 QUESTIONS AFTER EACH TALK - NO PANEL)
Moderators:Mark A. Adelman, M.D.
SESSION XIX SCHEDULE
9:50 AM - 9:55 AM Lower Extremity Bypass Grafting Improves Quality Of Life: Results Of An 83-Center Study From The PREVENT Trial
  Presenters(s): Gregory L. Moneta, M.D.  
9:56 AM - 10:01 AM Duplex Guided Suction Thromboembolectomy – Techniques And Results: Is It A Better Way?
  Presenters(s): Enrico Ascher, M.D.  
10:02 AM - 10:07 AM Debate: Minimally Invasive Vein Harvest Is Better For Lower Extremity Bypasses
  Presenters(s): Peter Gloviczki, M.D.  
10:08 AM - 10:13 AM Debate: Compromised Bypass Outcomes After Minimal Incision Vein Harvest: It May Not Be A Better Way
  Presenters(s): Thomas E. Brothers, M.D.  
10:14 AM - 10:19 AM Is There A Role For Endografts In The Treatment Of Long Segment SFA Occlusion?
  Presenters(s): Thomas F. Panetta, M.D.  
10:20 AM - 10:25 AM Femoropopliteal Bypass Is Still The Gold Standard For SFA Disease
  Presenters(s): John E. Connolly, M.D.  
10:26 AM - 10:31 AM Debate: Have Distal Anastomotic Vein Patches/Cuffs Or Distally Hooded Grafts Proven To Be Better Than Standard Prosthetic Grafts To Infrapopliteal Arteries?
  Presenters(s): Paul J. Gagne, M.D.  
10:32 AM - 10:37 AM Debate: All This Stuff About Patches, Cuffs And Hoods Is Nonsense
  Presenters(s): Evan C. Lipsitz, M.D.  
10:38 AM - 10:43 AM Improved 3-Year Patency Of Heparin Bonded PTFE (Propaten™) Grafts For Leg Bypasses
  Presenters(s): Patrick Peeters, M.D.  
10:44 AM - 10:49 AM What Factors Affect Lower Extremity Graft Failure? Can Any Be Modified?
  Presenters(s): Anton N. Sidawy, M.D., M.P.H.  
10:50 AM - 10:55 AM Management Of Popliteal Artery Injuries In The War On Terrorism: Can Limbs Be Saved And How?
  Presenters(s): David L. Gillespie, M.D.  
10:56 AM - 11:01 AM A New Swirl Design For Prosthetic Bypass Grafts: Reasons Why This May Be Better Than Existing Grafts: Experimental And Early Clinical Results
  Presenters(s): Nicholas J.W. Cheshire, M.D.  
END OF SESSION XIX