The Hellenic Society of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery leads the effort to re-publish and upgrade the Society's official scientific journal. The journal, entitled "Hellenic Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery", will be published in English to have a greater scientific impact and reach beyond the borders of Greece. HJVES is aimed at any specialty dealing with patients with arterial, venous and lymphatic diseases. Thus, contribution from the fields of vascular surgery, interventional radiology, anesthesiology, angiology, diabetology, cardiology and any other that involves some kind of vascular pathology is welcomed. We therefore invite everyone that is interested to submit his/her scientific work, including original studies, systematic reviews, interesting cases, technical aspects and other interesting articles in the field of vascular surgery, vascular imaging, intravascular techniques as well as in the prevention and treatment of vascular diseases. In particular, endovascular techniques and reports on the emerging technology are also encouraged.

The journal will be published by the Publisher Press "ROTONDA PUBLICATIONS", based in Thessaloniki, and will be available free of charge in electronic form (pdf), through its’ website. Submission and publication of articles will be also free of charge. All articles will be subjected to "peer review" by external peer reviewers who are specialized in the field of the subject in order to improve and harmonize them with the structure of the journal. The thematic and lead publishers will make the final decision for publication, while the Journal is committed decisions not to delay more than 40 days from submission. The process of "peer review" is considered necessary both to ensure the quality of the magazine and its possible future acceptance by international databases and PubMed in particular.

Letter from the Editors
Prof. Miltos Matsagkas, Editor in Chief - Prof. John Kakisis Senior Editor

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Letter from the President οf Hellenic Society of Vascular

and Endovascular surgery
Prof. Kyriakos D.  Ktenidis,President of HSVES

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Which PAD patients will probably benefit more from a COMPASS strategy?
Miltos Matsagkas, Petroula Nana, Konstantinos Spanos

Vascular Surgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

Pages: 149-151

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Preoperative prediction of type II endoleak following standard EVAR

D. Dasteridou¹, A.M. Lazaris², G. Theocharopoulos², S. Mastoraki², V. Katsikas¹, P. Hatzigakis¹, G. Kopadis¹, G. Sfyroeras², K. Moulakakis², J. Kakisis², E. Brountzos³, G. Geroulakos², A. Machairas⁴, S. Vasdekis²

¹Vascular Surgery Department, G. Gennimatas Athens Hospital, Athens, Greece
²Vascular Surgery Department, Attikon Teaching Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
³2nd Radiological Department, Attikon Teaching Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
⁴3rd Surgical Department, Attikon Teaching Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Pages: 152-158

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Ultrasonography guided percutaneous EVAR using the ProGlide® Perclose
device. Single center preliminary results
P. Nana¹, N. Rousas¹, K. Spanos¹, M. Mpareka², K. Mpatzalexis¹, E. Arnaoutoglou², A. Giannoukas¹, M. Matsagkas¹

¹Department of Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
²Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

Pages: 159-164

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Initial experience with the CERAB technique: case series
P. Nana¹, K. Spanos¹, G. Kouvelos¹, M. Mpareka², K. Mpatzalexis¹, N. Rousas¹, E. Arnaoutoglou², A. Giannoukas¹, M. Matsagkas¹

¹Department of Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
²Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

Pages: Β165-Β169

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A systematic review of endovascular management of chronic iliofemoral
venous thrombosis
C. Argyriou, M.K. Lazarides, EI. Georgakarakos, A. Koutsoumpelis, M.K. Tasopoulou, S. Popidis, G.S. Georgiadis
Department of Vascular Surgery, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Pages: Β170-Β176

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Hellenic Vascular Registry (HEVAR): structure, perspectives and scopes
Konstantinos G. Moulakakis, MD, PhD, MSc, FEBVS ^1,2, Andreas M. Lazaris, MD, PhD, FEBVS, FACS ^1,2

¹School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Vascular Surgery, Attikon University
Hospital, Athens, Greece
²Governing Committee, Hellenic Vascular Registry (HEVAR), Greece

Pages: C177-C179

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Applied statistics in vascular surgery Part IV: Introduction to survival analysis
Constantine N. Antonopoulos¹, Efthymios D. Avgerinos², John, Kakisis^1
1Department of Vascular Surgery, Athens University Medical School, "Attikon" Hospital, Athens, Greece
²Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA

Pages: C180-C181

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False lumen occlusion in chronic type B aortic dissection using the candyplug
technique
John D. Kakisis, Konstantinos G. Moulakakis, George S. Sfyroeras, Andreas M. Lazaris, Andreas I. Panagiotopoulos,
Georgios N. Theoharopoulos, Nikolaos T. Krinos, George M. Pappas, Constantine N. Antonopoulos, George Geroulakos
Department of Vascular Surgery, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “Attikon” UniversityHospital, Athens, Greece

Page: D182-D185

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Crossed limb (Ballerina) Endovascular Aneurysm Repair: Presentation of a
case and Literature review
Panagiotis G. Theodoridis¹, Ilias Dodos¹, Dimitrios Staramos¹, Tsapaki Virginia², Konstantinos Dervisis^1
1Department of Vascular Surgery, Konstantopouleio General Hospital, Nea Ionia, Athens, Greece
²Medical Physics Department, Konstantopouleio General Hospital, Nea Ionia, Athens, Greece

Page: D186-D188

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Endovascular repair of a thoraco-abdominal aneurysm using the sandwich
technique
Petroula Nana¹, Georgios Kouvelos¹, Konstantinos Spanos¹, Aikaterini Bouzia², Konstantinos Batzalexis¹, Eleni Arnaoutoglou², Athanasios Giannoukas¹, Miltiadis Matsagkas¹

¹Department of Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
²Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

Page: D189-D192

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Axillo-femoral and femoro-femoral graft to bypass aorto-iliac occlusion. How
is it possible for the latter to be patent if the former occludes?
Nikolaos Kontopodis, Christos V. Ioannou

Vascular Surgery Unit, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion, Greece

Page: D193

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