Room œil vert

13:30

WELCOME ADDRESS

Moderators:
Natzi Sakalihasan, Jean-Olivier Defraigne.
Edouard Louis, Dean of the Faculty of Medecine, University of Liège.

14:00

NEW INSIGHTS IN THE ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM PATHOLOGY AAA (I)

Moderators: Marc Bailey, Lars Mägdefessel

• 14:00 The role of smooth muscle cells in aortic aneurysms. Kakkhee Yeung
• 14:07 Role and therapeutic potential of non-coding RNAs in AAA . Lars Mägdefessel
• 14:14 Vascular smooth muscle cell de-differentiation and remodelling as a driving force behind AAA progression. Marc Bailey
• 14:21 Three commonly applied mouse models of AAA differ significantly in their susceptibility to inhibitors of inflammation and oxidative stress. Christine Brostjan
• 14:28 Parallel Murine and Human Aortic Wall Genomics Reveals Metabolic Reprogramming as Key Driver of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Progression. Gabor Gäbel
• 14:35 Discussion
• 14:49 Drug repurposing: Lenvatinib halts aortic aneurysm growth by restoring smooth muscle cell contractility. Albert Busch
• 14:56 What diabetes is teaching us about AAA disease. Ronald Dalman
• 15:03 AAA – does the arterial media and adventia have different roles? Joy Roy
• 15:10 The Huges Stovin Syndrome: what’s beyond pulmonary artery aneurysm. Andrea Ascoli Marchetti
• 15:17 Discussion

15:30

COFFEE BREAK

16:00

SEX & GENDER DIFFERENCES IN ANEURYSMAL DISEASE

Moderator: TBA

• 16:00 Sex differences in abdominal aortic aneurysm. Georgios Makrygiannis
• 16:07 Why are men so susceptible for aneurysms? Rebecka Hultgren
• 16:14 The anatomical differences in the aorta in men and women & associated complications. Colin Bicknell
• 16:21 Discussion
• 16:45 Screening women for abdominal aortic aneurysm. Matthew Bown
• 16:52 Sex-specific morphological differences in the visceral arteries contribute to increased complication rates in women following AAA repair. Janet Powell
• 16:59 Gender differences in EVAR versus open repair for AAA in the elective and urgent setting. Athanasios Giannoukas
• 17:06 Discussion

17:30

SEX & KEYNOTE LECTURE : HOW OFTEN DO WE NEED NEW GUIDELINES?

Janet Powell