Programme

November 15th 2025
8:30 Registration of participants
9:15

Welcome message from the local organizing committee

Michał Juszyński, Marta Szymańska, Professor Piotr Myrcha

9:30

Honorary Lecture by Professor Pier Luigi Antignani

Vascular Center Nuova Villa Claudia and Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

9:50

Lecture by invited expert speaker: Professor Szymon Darocha, MD, PhD, FESC

Depatrment of Pulmonary Circulation, Thrombotic Disease and Cardiology

Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland

10:10

1st Scientific Session: Veins and Thrombosis

5 Presentations (each 7 minutes + discussion 2 minutes)

Chairs: prof. Pier Luigi Antignani, prof. Arkadiusz Jawień, prof. Szymon Darocha

10:10 Endovenous laser ablation - daily routine challenges.  Helena Zielińska. DoktorA Medical Centers, Warsaw, Poland

10: 20  Rapid Action, Full Recovery: A Hybrid Approach to Severe Phlegmasia Cerulea Dolens

           Iga Wójcik, Jerzy Leszczyński, MD, PhD, Kamil Stępkowski, MD, Prof. Zbigniew Gałązka, MD, PhD

           Department of General, Vascular, Endocrine and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

10:30  Suprarenal Inferior Vena Cava Atresia – a rare cause of Deep Vein Thrombosis in a healthy middle-aged patient.

            Piotr Więckowski, Department of General and Vascular Surgery, Mazovian Voivodship Hospital, Siedlce, Poland

10:40   May-Thurner syndrome complicated with asymptomatic peripheral pulmonary embolism in young female patient

            Katarzyna Krysińska MD, Weronika Niewiarowska, Julia Tarnowska, Jerzy Leszczyński MD, PhD, Professor Zbigniew Gałązka

             Department of General, Vascular, Endocrine and Transplant Surgery, University Clinical Centre of the Medical University of Warsaw

10:50 Vascular reconstruction as part of complex treatment of retroperitoneal leiomyosarcoma: a case report.

          Joanna Hołdakowska, Jerzy Leszczyński MD, PhD, Krzysztof Madej MD, PhD, As. Prof. Sadegh Toutounchi MD, PhD, Ewa Krajewska MD

           Aleksandra Kudelska-Pawlik MD, Prof. Zbigniew Gałązka MD, PhD. Department of General, Vascular, Endocrine and Transplant Surgery,

           Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

11:00

Coffee break (+ sandwiches)

11:30

Honorary Lecture by Professor Piotr Kasprzak

Vascular Surgery Unit, University of Regensburg, Germany

11:50

Lecture by invited expert speaker: Professor Zbigniew Gałązka

Department of General, Vacular, Endocrine and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

12:10

2nd  Scientific Session: Aorta

5 Presentations (each 7 minutes + discussion 2 minutes)

Chairs: prof. Piotr Kasprzak, prof. Zbigniew Gałązka, prof. Piotr Myrcha

12:10  From the Aorta to Metabolism: Subgroup Analysis in Ormond’s Disease

          Łukasz Leśnowolski MD, Izabela Łoń MD PhD, prof. Jacek Lewandowski, prof.Jolanta Małyszko         

           Department of Internal Medicine, Hypertension and Vascular Diseases, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

12:20  Not just an aneurysm: A Case of Endovascular Repair Complicated by Endoleaks, Renal Dysfunction, and urological Interventions

           Julia Tarnowska, Oskar Gąsiorowski, Kamil Stępkowski, Jerzy Leszczyński, Zbigniew Gałązka

           Department of General, Vascular, Endocrine and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

12:30  A unique presentation of rupture – successful classical intervention in elderly patient after Endovascular Aneurysm Repair

          Weronika Niewiarowska, Jerzy Leszczyński, MD, PhD, Kamil Stępkowski, MD, Prof. Zbigniew Gałązka, MD, PhD

           Department of General, Vascular, Endocrine and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

12:40  Right kidney arteriovenous malformation and accompanying giant inferior vena cava malformation – a treatment challenge

          Katarzyna Krysińska MD, Jerzy Leszczyński MD PhD, Kamil Stępkowski MD, Weronika Niewiarowska, Łukasz Wielocha MD,           Professor Zbigniew Gałązka

           Department of General, Vascular, Endocrine and Transplant Surgery, University Clinical Centre of the Medical University of Warsaw

12:50  Bacteriophage therapy in the management of thoracic and abdominal aortic stent grafts infections

           Halyna Berkyta

           Department of Vascular Surgery and Angiology, Nicolaus Copernicus University Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Poland

 

13:00

Lunch break

13:30

Honorary Lecture by Professor Pavel Poredoš

Department of Vascular Diseases, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

13:50

Lecture by invited expert speaker - Professor Arkadiusz Jawień

Department of Vascular Surgery and Angiology, Nicolaus Copernicus University Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Poland

14:10

3rd Scientific Session: Peripheral Arterial Disease

4 Presentations (each 7 minutes + discussion 2 minutes)

Chairs: prof. Pavel Poredoš, prof. Arkadiusz Jawień, prof. Marek Maruszyński

14:10 Connective Tissue and Vascular Compression: The Missing Link

           Ilkin Bakirli.  Department of Vascular Surgery, National Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases, Bratislava, Slovakia

14:20  Superficial femoral artery infection as a late complication of mechanical atherectomy

           Mila Lecluyse, Michał Juszyński, Witold Woźniak, Piotr Myrcha

           1st Department of General and Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

14:30  Analysis of etiological factors of vascular graft and endograft infections

            Stefania Kozdój, Stanisław Chlebowski

           School of Medicine - Collegium Medicum, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland

14:40  Iatrogenic Vascular Trauma Associated with Orthopaedic Knee Surgery: Current Perspectives

          Šimon Smoter, Roman Slyško

            Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Bratislava, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia         
14:50

Lecture by invited expert speaker - Professor Marek Maruszyński

15:10

Coffe break (+ sweets)

15:30

Lecture by invited expert speaker - Professor Piotr Myrcha

15:50

Lecture by invited expert speaker - Assoc. professor Kosmas Paraskevas

16:10

4th Scientific Session: Carotids

6 Presentations (each 7 minutes + discussion 2 minutes)

Chairs: prof. Piotr Myrcha, prof. Pavel Poredoš, assoc. prof. Kosmas Paraskevas

16:10  Racing to the Thrombectomy Center: Comparative Assessment of CP-SSS, RACE, and FAST-ED for Large-Vessel Occlusion Detection

           Piotr Olejnik, Aleksandra Golenia

           Department of Neurology, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

16:20  Abnormalities of the Circle of Willis as a predictor of atypical carotid artery cross-clamping intolerance during endarterectomy

            Aleksandra Sieradzka, Dominika Groth, Natalia Strzelczyk, Michał Juszyński, Piotr Myrcha.
            1st Department of General and Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

16:30  The impact of surgical treatment of Internal Carotid Artery stenosis upon cerebral blood flow and cognitive functions

            Joanna Kaszczewska, Piotr Kaszczewski, Michał Elwertowski, Tomasz Ostrowski, Jerzy Leszczyński, Oskar Gąsiorowski, Weronika Wójtowicz,
            Professor Zbigniew Gałązka. Department of General, Vacular, Endocrine and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

16:40  Carotid cross-clamping during endarterectomy does not guarantee tolerance on the contralateral side

            Klaudia Wojtach, Michał Juszyński, Piotr Myrcha
            1st Department of General and Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
16:50  Late-Onset Carotid Pseudoaneurysm Following Endarterectomy: A Rare Vascular Complication
            Maciej Dercz, Paulina Pawlak, Bartosz Migda MD PhD
            Department of Ultrasound Imaging, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
17:00  Successful endovascular treatment of chronic carotid in-stent occlusion
           Joanna Łysak, Marta Szymańska, Aleksandra Sieradzka, Michał Juszyński, Piotr Myrcha
           1st Department of General and Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
17:10

Summary and closing remarks