Scientific Session 1

(8-minute presentation / 4-minute Q & A)
Moderators: Marc Schermerhorn, MD & Andres Schanzer, MD

Introduction from the Moderator

1 - Intraoperative EEG Changes During TCAR are More Frequent than Previously Reported
Laura C. Lamb, Edward Gifford, Parth Shah, Ilene Staff, Akhilesh Jain, James Gallagher, Gaurav Rana, Thomas Divinagracia
Hartford Healthcare, Hartford, CT

2 - Natural History of Late Type 1a Endoleaks
Thomas FX O’Donnell, Jahan Mohebali, Laura T. Boitano, Glenn M. LaMuraglia, Christopher J. Kwolek, Mark F. Conrad
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

3 - A Significant Proportion of Current United States EVAR Practice Fails to Meet SVS Clinical - Practice Guideline Recommended AAA Diameter Treatment Thresholds
Salvatore T. Scali1, Bjoern D. Suckow2, Philip P. Goodney2, Thomas S. Huber1, Gilbert R. Upchurch, Jr.1, Dan Neal1, Jesse A. Columbo2, Jeanwan Kang2, Marc L. Schermerhorn3,
Richard J. Powell2, David H. Stone2
1University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; 2Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH; 3Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

4 - The Impact of Completion and Follow-Up Endoleaks on Survival, Reintervention and Rupture
Chun Li1, Livia de Guerre1, Kirsten Dansey1, Jinny Lu1, Priya B. Patel1, Mahmoud B. Malas2, Douglas W. Jones4, Marc L. Schermerhorn1
1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; 2University of California San Diego Health System, San Diego, CA; 3Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA; 4UMASS Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA

5 - The Medical Resource Utilization and Financial Impact of Infection on Venous Leg Ulcers
Mark D. Iafrati1, Raffi Melikian2, Thomas F. O'Donnell, Jr.1 - 1Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA; 2
Tufts Medical School, Boston, MA

Scientific Session 2

(8-minute presentation / 4-minute Q & A)
Moderator: Jessica Simons, MD & Kimberly Malka, MD

Introduction from the Moderator

6 - The Degree of Oversizing in Endovascular Aortic Aneurysm Repair
Livia de Guerre1, Rens Varkevisser1, Nicholas Swerdlow1, Chun Li1, Salvatore Scali2, Virendra
Patel3, Joost van Herwaarden4, Marc Schermerhorn1
1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center, Boston, MA; 2University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL; 3Columbia University Irving
Medical Center, New York, NY; 4UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

7- Contemporary Intermittent Claudication Treatment Patterns in the Commercially Insured Non- Medicare Population
Jeffrey J. Siracuse1, Jonathan Woodson1, Randall P. Ellis2, Alik Farber1, Sean P. Roddy3,
Scott R. Levin1, Jayakanth Srinivasan4
1Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA;
2Boston University, Department of Economics, Boston, MA; 3Albany Medical Center, Albany,
NY; 4Boston University, Questrom School of Business, Boston, MA

8 - Effects of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy on Graft Patency after Lower Extremity Bypass
Nathan Belkin, Jordan Stoecker, Benjamin M. Jackson, Scott M. Damrauer, Julia D. Glaser,
Venkat Kalapatapu, Grace J. Wang
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

9 - The Role of Transfemoral Carotid Artery Stenting with Proximal Balloon Occlusion Embolic Protection in the Contemporary Endovascular Management of Carotid Artery Stenosis

Patric Liang1, Peter Soden1, Mark C. Wyers1, Mahmoud B. Malas2, Brian W. Nolan3, Grace J.
Wang4, Richard J. Powell5, Marc L. Schermerhorn1
1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
Boston, MA; 2University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA; 3Maine Medical Center,
Portland, ME; 4University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 5Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical
Center, Lebanon, NH

10 - Simultaneous Treatment of Common Carotid Lesions Increases the Risk of Stroke and Death after Carotid Artery Stenting
Charles DeCarlo1, Adam Tanious1, Laura T Boitano1, Jahan Mohebali1, David H. Stone2, W.
Darrin Clouse3, Mark F. Conrad1
1Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA;
2Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH; 3University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA

11 - Long-Term Outcomes of Flared Limbs in Aneurysmal Iliac Arteries

R. Clement Darling, III, Alexander Kryszuk, Nicholas Russo, Jeffrey Hnath
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY

Scientific Session 3

(8-minute presentation / 4-minute Q & A)
Moderator: Jennifer Stableford, MD & Carla Moreira, MD


Introduction from the Moderator

12 - Similar Five-Year Outcomes between Patients with and without Hostile Proximal Neck
Anatomy Following Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair with the Ovation Stent Graft Platform

Rens R.B. Varkevisser1,2, Priya B. Patel1, Nicholas J. Swerdlow1, Chun Li1, Hence J.M. Verhagen2, Sean P. Lyden3, Marc. L. Schermerhorn4
4Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; 2University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands; 3Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

13 - Primary Venous Leiomyosarcoma Resection, IVC Reconstruction
Erion Qaja, Edward Gifford, Oscar Serrano - UConn/Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT

14 - Transcarotid Artery Revascularization Versus Carotid Endarterectomy and Transfemoral Stenting in Octogenarians
Ambar Mehta1, Priya Patel2, Danielle Bajakian1, Richard Schutzer1, Nicholas Morrissey1, Karan Garg3, Mahmoud Malas4, Marc Schermerhorn5, Virendra I. Patel4
4Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY; 2Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ; 3New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY; 4University of California San Diego Health, San Diego, CA; 5Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

15 - The Effect of Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm Extent on Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Fenestrated/Branched Endovascular Aortic Repair
Kyle R. Diamond, Jessica P. Simons, Allison S. Crawford, Edward J. Arous, Dejah R. Judelson, Francesco A. Aiello, Douglas W. Jones, Louis Messina, Andres Schanzer
UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA

16 - 3-Vessel Fenestrated Repair of 6cm Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm after a Chronic Type B Dissection
Mohammad Alqaim
UMASS Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA

17 - Stress Testing Prior to Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Does Not Prevent Postoperative Cardiac Events
Jesse A. Columbo, Zachary J. Wanken, Daniel B. Walsh, Bjoern D. Suckow, Jocelyn M. Beach, Stanislav Henkin, Philip P. Goodney, David H. Stone
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH

18 - A Multicenter, Prospective Randomized Trial of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy for Infrainguinal Revascularization Groin Incisions
Daniel Bertges1, Lisa Smith1, Rebecca Scully2, Mark Wyers3, Jens Eldrup-Jorgenson4, Bjoern Suckow5, C. Keith Ozaki2, Louis Nguyen2
4University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT; 2Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; 3Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; 4Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME; 5Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH

Presidential Address - Rise to the Challenge
Marc Schermerhorn, MD; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Introduced by Palma Shaw, MD; SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY
Scientific Session 4

Introduction from the Moderator

19 (RF) - Off Label Use of EVAR Devices is Associated with Adverse Outcomes and Should Be Avoided
Thomas FX O’Donnell, Laura T. Boitano, Jahan Mohebali, Glenn M. LaMuraglia, Christopher J. Kwolek, Mark F. Conrad
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

20 (RF) - Long-Term Tunneled Dialysis Catheters Use is Not Associated with Mortality but is Associated with Increased Morbidity
Victor K. Castro, Alik Farber, Yixin Zhang, Quinten Dicken, Logan Mendez, Scott R. Levin, Thomas W. Cheng, Rebecca B. Hasley, Jeffrey J. Siracuse
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

21 (RF) - Comparative Analysis of Open Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Outcomes Across National Registries
Rebecca E. Scully, Gaurav Sharma, Andrew J. Soo Hoo, Jillian Walsh, Ginger Jin, Matthew
T. Menard, Charles Keith Ozaki, Michael Belkin - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

22 (RF) - Occupational and Patient Radiation Dose Reduction with a Reduced Frame Rate and Roentgen Protocol Utilizing Fixed Imaging
Alex M. Lin, Amanda C. Methe, Vincent R. Narvaez, Matthew Kronick, Volodymyr Labinskyy, Marc A. Norris, Amanda Kravetz, Avery Y. Ching, Neal C. Hadro, Marvin E. Morris
Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA

23 (RF) - Short and Long-Term Outcomes after Concurrent Splenectomy for Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
Christopher A. Latz, Laura T. Boitano, Charles DeCarlo, Zach Feldman, Maximilian Png, Jahan Mohebali, Anahita Dua, Mark F. Conrad
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

24 (RF) - Trends in General Surgery Operative Experience for the Integrated Vascular Surgery Resident

Emily Fan, Allison Crawford, Edward J. Arous, Dejah R. Judelson, Francesco Aiello, Andres Schanzer, Jessica Simons
University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA

25 (RF) - Characteristics and Outcomes of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Below the Size Threshold for Elective Repair
Kirthi Bellamkonda, Naiem Nassiri, Mehran M. Sadeghi, Yawei Zhang, Raul Guzman, Cassius I. Ochoa Chaar - Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

26 (RF) - Six-Year Outcomes of the Endologix AFX1 Endovascular AAA System: A Single Center Experience
Truc M. Ta, Nathan J. Aranson, Michael P. Bianco, Amy L. Fournier, Elizabeth A. Blazick, Kimberly T. Malka, Robert E. Hawkins, Paul H.S. Bloch, Brian W. Nolan
Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME

27 (RF) - Procedure-Associated Costs and Mid-Term Outcomes of Endovascular Zone 0 and Zone 1 Aortic Arch Repair
Jonathan Aaron Barnes, Zachary J. Wanken, Jesse A. Columbo, David P. Kuwayama, Mark
F. Fillinger, Bjoern D. Suckow - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH

28 (RF) - Patients Undergoing Interventions for Intermittent Claudication in States that Increased Cigarette Tax are Less Likely to Actively Smoke

Scott R. Levin1, Summer S. Hawkins2, Alik Farber1, Philip P. Goodney3, Nicholas H. Osborne4, Tze-Woei Tan5, Jeffrey J. Siracuse1
1Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA; 2Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA; 3Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH; 4University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 5University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ