8.00 - 9.30
UIP SESSION I 
 
 
Chairs: Nick Morrison, Kurosh Parsi
Co-moderators: Nick Morrison (President), Kurosh Parsi (President-elect), Andrew Bradbury (Chair, Scientific Committee), Mark Meissner (General Secretary), Oscar Bottini (Chair, Education Committee), David Connor (Executive Director), Lowell Kabnick (Vice President), Victor Canata (Vice President), Sergio Gianesini (Vice President), Lorenzo Tessari (Vice President), Dong-ik Kim (Vice President), Malay Patel (Assistant Secretary)
 
 
8.00 - 8.10
Nick Morrison
Presidential lecture
 
8.10 - 8.20
Kurosh Parsi
UIP Future: Our Vision and Mission
 
8.20 - 8.30
Andrew Bradbury
UIP Scientific Committee. Major Scientific Findings in Phlebology in the Past 2 Years
 
8.30 - 8.40
Mark Meissner
Post-thrombotic Syndrome: Need for a New Instrument
 
8.40 - 8.45
Mark Meissner
UIP Operations: Need for Reform
 
8.45 - 8.55
Oscar Bottini
UIP Education Program: Our exciting new initiatives
 
8.55 - 9.00
David Connor
UIP Educational Modules
 
9.00 - 9.20
UIP Vice Presidents: Lowell Kabnick, Victor Canata, Sergio Gianesini, Lorenzo Tessari,Dong-ik Kim
Around the Globe with UIP: North America, Latin America, Northern Europe, Near East, North Africa, Southern Europe, Asia and Oceania
 
9.35 - 09.55
KEYNOTE LECTURE: Mark Meissner 
Chronic pelvic vein disease 2019 update: what do we know? what we do not know?
 
10.00 - 10.30
 Coffee break
 
10.30 - 12.00
SCIENTIFIC SESSION:
Foam Sclerotherapy – from the consensus document to the clinical practice 
 
 
Chair: E. Rabe 
Co-moderators: L. Tessari, A. Bradbury, C. Hamel-Desnos, N. Morrison, K. Parsi, Z. Rybak 
 
 
10.30 - 10.40
Eberhard Rabe
New European Guidelines on Sclerotherapy – what is new?
 
10.40 - 10.55
Andrew Bradbury
Tips and tricks of successfully maintaining and injecting foam – what should we know about US guided foam sclerotherapy?
 
10.55 - 11.05
Lorenzo Tessari
Foam sclerotherapy – the safety issue
 
11.05 - 11.15
Attilio Cavezzi
Saphenous vein sclerotherapy – does tumescence and blood irrigation make the difference?
 
11.15 - 11.25
Neil Khilnani
Foam Sclerotherapy in C1 treatment
 
11.25 - 11.35
Claudine Hamel-Desnos         
How sclerothepary can replace phlebectomy in primary therapeutic attempt or in the recurrent varicose vein treatment?
 
11.35 - 11.45
Marianne de Maeseneer
Is atrophie blanche irreversible? Effects of foam sclerotherapy
 
11.45 - 11.55
Johann Chris Ragg
Foam sclerotherapy – lessons from physics and chemistry
 
11.55 - 12.00
Session summary: Nick Morrison
Discussion will continue during the LUNCH with the Sclerotherapy Experts – Multi Hall S4 12.00-12.45
 
13.00 - 14.15
SCIENTIFIC SESSION: 
C0s – towards consensus on the diagnostics and therapy 
 
Chair: A. Nicolaides
Co-moderators: E. Rabe,  N. Labropoulos, C. Allegra, S. Kakkos,  M. Schul , A. Jawień 
 
 
13.00 - 13.10
Eberhard Rabe
Epidemiology of C0s – what do we know about?
 
13.10 - 13.20
Andrew Nicolaides
The link between hemodynamics and signs as well as symptoms of the chronic venous disease
 
13.20 - 13.30
Nicos Labropoulos
Symptoms of the chronic venous disease learning through a clinical casev. How to assess the symptoms of the chronic venous disease – 2019 update?
 
13.30 - 13.40
Marc Vuylsteke
Chronic venous disease progression – is it unavoidable?
 
13.40 - 13.50
Patrick Carpentier
C0s diagnostics – objective evaluation and possibilities of confirmation of the chronic disease presence in C0s patients
 
13.50 - 14.00
Stavros Kakkos
C0s treatment possibilities – 2019 update
 
14.15 - 15.30
SCIENTIFIC SESSION: 
Innovations in phlebology
 
Chair: S. Elias
Co-moderators: R. Milleret, Ch. Ragg, W. Chi, T. Yamaki, E. Shaydakov, G. Halena
 
 
14.15 - 14.25
Steve Elias 
Fully percutaneously created or surgically inserted artificial vein valves in CVD treatment – research status and first clinical data
 
14.25 - 14.35
Stephen Black
Recent developments in the dedicated venous stents – lessons learned and future direction
 
14.35 - 14.45
Johann Chris Ragg
Hyaluronan injection based treatment in phlebology – why and when?
 
14.45 - 14.55
Alfred Obermayer 
First percutaneous – non invasive – vein ablations using high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)
 
14.55 - 15.05
Rene Milleret, B. Greillier, O. Pichot, T. Charrel, C. Lafon
Transcutaneous obliteration of varicose veins by ultrasound: HIFU and Cavitation solutions
 
15.05 - 15.15
Willy Chi
Telemetric vein diagnostics: how does technology enable patients compliance?
 
15.15 - 15.25
Francesco Zini
SFALT: Sclerofoam assisted laser therapy for saphenous refluxes: an innovative tumescence-free technique
 
15.25 - 15.30
Session summary: Steve Elias
Discussion with the Innovators – Exhibition Area/Discussion Corner
 
15.30 - 16.00
 Coffee break
 
16.00 - 17.35
SCIENTIFIC SESSION: 
What is new in our understanding of the chronic venous disease 
 
 
Chair: A. Nicolaides
Co-moderators: N. Morrison, C. Allegra, P. Thibault, Ch. Lattimer, T. Zubilewcz, S. Kakkos
 
 
16.00 - 16.10
Christopher Lattimer
Our current understanding of the chronic venous obstruction
 
16.10 - 16.20
Nicos Labropoulos
Chronic venous thrombosis – does it really exsist
 
16.20 - 16.30
Marian Simka 
What is new in our understanding of the cerebral venous outflow? – possible link with neurodegeneration
 
16.30 - 16.40
Paul Thibault
Neck vein obstruction: Diagnosis and the role of chronic Chlamydophila pneumoniae infection
 
16.40 - 16.50
Johann Chris Ragg
Every valve tells a story! what do we know from HR Ultrasound research on the valve impact on the CVD occurrence and progression – clinical implications
 
16.50 - 17.00
Sarah Onida
Venous diameter, clinical severity and quality of life – does the size of the incompetent vein matters?
 
17.00 - 17.10
Ferdinando Mannello, Daniela Ligi, Rosanna Maniscalco, Leonardo Aluigi, Pier Luigi Antignani
What is new in our understanding of the chronic venous disease pathogenesis at the cell and tissue level
 
17.10 - 17.20
Gabriele Färber
Obesity and Inflammation in venous and lymphatic diseases
 
17.20 - 17.25
Sergio Gianesini 
Guidelines from the world: 5 minutes for 5 emergent recommendations
 
17.25 - 17.35
Discussion
Session Summary: Andrew Nicolaides