Digital Vascular Medicine: The future we cannot ignore
Nikolaos Tsilimparis, Konstantinos Stavroulakis and Carlota F. Prendes
Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, Campus Großhadern, Germany
Pages: 37- 38

HSVES Working Groups: a novel initiative towards the improvement of ongoing vascular research and education in Greece
MAndreas M. Lazaris^1,9,10, Michael Peroulis², Theophanis Papas^3,9, Dimitrios Staramos^4,9, Anastasios Papapetrou^5,9, George Geropapas^6,9, Triantaphillos Giannakopoulos^7,9,10, Panagiotis Theodoridis^4,9, Anastasios Chronopoulos^8,10,
George Geroulakos^1,9, Konstantinos Dervisis^4,9
1Vascular Surgery Department, Attikon University Hospital, Athens
²Vascular Surgery Department, Mediterraneo Hospital, Athens
³Vascular Surgery Department, Hellenic Red Cross Hospital, Athens
⁴Vascular Surgery Department, Konstantopoulio Hospital, Athens
⁵Vascular Surgery Department, KAT Hospital, Athens
⁶Vascular Surgery Department, G. Gennimatas Hospital, Athens
⁷Vascular Surgery Department, Hellenic Naval Hospital, Athens
⁸1st Vascular Surgery Department, Henry Dynant Hospital Center, Athens
⁹Board of Directors, Hellenic Society of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
10Board of Directors, Professional Association of Vascular Surgeons of Greece
Pages: 39 – 40

The impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the workland of a tertiary vascular surgery department
Antonia Skotsimara, Natasa Hasemaki, Kiriaki Kakavia, Alexandros Giosdekos, Sotiris Georgopoulos, Chris Klonaris, Chris Bakogiannis
Vascular Surgery Unit, First Department of Surgery, Laiko General Hospital, National and Kapodistran Univestity of Athens, Greece
Pages: 41- 42

Rate of female patients treated for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm may be extremely low in specific populations
Nikolaos Kontopodis, MD,MSc,PhD, Emmanouil Tavlas, MD,MSc, Stella Lioudaki MD, MSc,PhD, Nikolaos Daskalakis, MD, Christos Chronis, MD,MSc, Ioannis Dimopoulos, MD, Alexandros Kafetzakis, MD, PhD, Christos V. Ioannou, MD, PhD
Vascular Surgery Unit Department of Vascular and Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Crete, Medical School
Pages: 43 – 47

Heparin Resistance in surgical patients: Could individualized prophylaxis through recognition of high and low responders to antithrombotic treatment represent an option to optimal antithrombotic strategy in the future?
Michalis N. Gionis, MD¹, Georgios I. Tagarakis, MD, PhD², Vasiliki C. Manaki¹, Pavlos Chatzigeorgiadis¹, Andreas Koutsoumbelis¹, Kyriakos D. Ktenidis, MD, PhD, EBSQ VASC^1
1Department of Vascular Surgery, AHEPA University Hospital of Thessaloniki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
²Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, AHEPA Hospital of Thessaloniki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Pages: 48 – 53

Endovascular Thrombus Aspiration Using the AngioVac System. Technical Considerations and Operating Room Setup
Filippos-Paschalis Rorris MD ¹, Constantine N. Antonopoulos MD, PhD¹, Ilias Samiotis MD, PhD¹, Anastasios Stathopoulos MD², Efstratios Anagnostou¹, Panagiotis Dedeilias MD, PhD¹, Mihalis Argiriou MD, PhD¹,
John Kokotsakis MD, PhD¹, Christos Charitos MD, PhD^1
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece
²Department of Anesthesiology, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece
Page: 54 – 57

Endograft preservation during aortoenteric fistula management after EVAR
Ioakeim Giagtzidis, Ioulia Grigoriou, Despina Giriki, Aikaterini Kosmidou, Christos Karkos, Assaloumidis Nikolaos, Konstantinos Papazoglou
Vascular Unit, 5th Department of Surgery, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippocratio Hospital, Thessaloniki,
Greece
Page: 58 – 61

Open repair of extracranial-internal carotid artery aneurysm: a case report
Athanasios Chaidoulis , MD, Konstantinos Spanos, MD, MSc, PhD, Petroula Nana, MD, MSc, George Kouvelos, MD, MSc,PhD, Maria Ntalouka, MD, Eleni Arnaoutoglou, MD, MSc, PhD, Miltiadis Matsagkas, MD, PhD, FEBVS
Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece
Page: 63 – 66