1st MEETING OF THE SLOVENIAN AND CROATIAN SOCIETIES FOR VASCULAR SURGERY Nova Gorica, 18.10. 2013 INTRODUCTION 09.00 Slovenian president of the SSVS 09.10 Croatian president of the CSVS CAROTID ARTERY 09.30 09.45 10.00 10.15 10.30 10.45 11.00 11.15 11.30 Flis: The role of surgery in treating patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis Šnajdar: Treatment strategy for concomitant carotid and coronary artery disease Kerin: Carotid TEA under local anesthesia Primc: Early complications after CEA in patients older than 65 years Korpivica : Eversion carotid endarterectomy Šibli: Amaurosis fugax in total ACC occlusion Radonić: Aneurysm of the ACI Lovričević I: Carotid endarterectomy- what can we do better ? Ivkošić : Rare cases of extracranial carotid pathology COFFE BREAK 11.45 – 12.15 INVITED LECTURE 12.15 Klokočovnik: Surgical treatment of complex thoracoabdomial aortic pathology THORACIC AND ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM 12.45 Petrunic M: Spinal cord and organ protection during thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic surgery 13.00 Flis: Surgical treatment of jukstarenal AAA 13.15 Meštrović: Prediction of operative mortality in ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms 13.30 Gasparini: Minimal invasive approach for surgical treatment of AAA PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE 13.45 14.00 14.15 14.30 Makovec: Distal limb revascularisation Lovričević: Treatment of acute SMA occlusion – our results Špan: Endoscopic vein harvesting for infrainguinal bypasses Praček: Femoro-femoral bypass: still an option ? LUNCH 14.45 – 16.00 VARICOSE VEINS 16.00 Šikovec: Current options for surgical treatment of varicose veins 16.15 Čandrlić: Surgical treatment of venous ulcers 16.30 Popović: Is it enough to treat only the incompetent VSM ? MISCELLANEOUS 16.45 Valentinuzzi: An interesting case report 17.00 Fila B: Problems with AV fistula creation for haemodyalisis 18.45 JOINT DINNER