EDITORIAL
Abdominal aortic aneurysm disease and cancer Konstantinos Spanos, Petroula Nana, Miltiadis Matsagkas
Vascular Surgery Department, University Hospital of Larissa, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of
Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

AORTIC DISEASE
A pilot study on the predictive role of CD105 in the development of abdominal aortic aneurysms Nikolaos Patelis1,2, Spyridon Davakis2 , Demetrios Moris3 , Theodoros Liakakos2 , Sotirios Georgopoulos2 1 3rd Department of Vascular Surgery, Athens Medical Center, Athens – Greece 2 First Department of Surgery, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laiko General Hospital, Athens – Greece 3 Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC – USA

Endovascular repair of aorto-iliac aneurysmal disease with the Gore IBΕ device: midterm outcomes of a single center experience Konstantinos Batzalexis1 , Konstantinos Spanos1 , Petroula Nana1 , George Kouvelos1 , Athanasios Haidoulis1 , Nikolaos Roussas1 , Metaxia Bareka2 , Eleni Arnaoutoglou2 , Athanasios Giannoukas1 , Miltiadis Matsagkas1 1 Department of Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 2 Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

Invited Commentary
The GORE iliac branch device: a new kid on the block Theodosios Bisdas, MD, PhD, Panagiotis Theodoridis, MD, Nikolaos Patelis, MD, PhD 3rd Clinic for Vascular Surgery, Athens Medical Center, Athens, Greece

EDUCATION
Applied statistics in vascular surgery Part VII: Plots with dots Constantine N. Antonopoulos, John Kakisis Department of Vascular Surgery, “Attikon” University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

CASE REPORTS
Gradual elastic suture approximation (shoelace technique) for closure of large fasciotomy wounds following delayed lower extremity revascularisation: a report of a rather forgotten technique Vangelis G. Alexiou1,2, Andreas Lazaris3 , Dimitrios Chatzis1 , Vasileios Tatsis4 , Areti Lagiou5 , Anna Ntanika5 ,
Stylianos Koutsias1 1 Department of Surgery – Vascular Surgery Unit, School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 2 Alfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences (AIBS), Athens, Greece 3 Department of Vascular Surgery, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece 4 Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 5 School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

Endovascular repair of a failed EVAS using the Altura endograft Petroula Nana1 , Konstantinos Spanos1 , George Kouvelos1 , Konstantinos Mpatzalexis1 , Eleni Arnaoutoglou2 , Miltiadis Matsagkas1 1 Department of Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 2 Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece