AORTIC DISEASE
Thoraco-Aorto-Bi-Femoral Bypass for extensive aorto-iliac disease in patients with anatomic constraints for standard infrarenal aortic bypass
Christos V. Ioannou, Stella Lioudaki, Emmanouil Tavlas, Nikolaos Daskalakis, Alexandros Kafetzakis, Christos Chronis, Kyriaki Papageorgiou, IfigeniaTzartzalou, George Tzouliadakis,
Alexandra Papaioannou*, Nikolaos Kontopodis
Vascular Surgery Unit, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery & *Department of Anesthesiology, University of
Crete Medical School, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Near occlusion of the internal carotid artery: interventional or conservative treatment?
Part III: Against the motion. Carotid near occlusion should be treated interventionally
Alexandros Giosdekos
2nd Department of Vascular Surgery, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laikon Hospital,
Athens, Greece

VENOUS DISEASE
Early results of cyanoacrylate glue closure of the great saphenous vein in venous insufficiency Petros K. Chatzigakis, Aikaterini- Karolina Zianika, Georgios Geropapas, Alexios Kalamaras,
Vasileios Katsikas, Georgios C. Kopadis
Department of Vascular Surgery “G. Gennimatas” Athens General Hospital, Athens, Greece

LYMPHATIC DISEASE
Effects of early Manual Lymphatic Drainage in the prevention of secondary lymphoedema in breast cancer patients. A literature Review Alexios Klonis BSc (Hons), MBBChir, MA1 , Marina-Eleni Kloni BSc, MSc, MA, MSCP 2, Prodromos Papapavlou 3 , Anastasia Constandinidou MSc, MRC4
1 Department of Anaesthesia, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK
2 Physiotherapist, Department of Physiotherapy, Larnaca General Hospital, Pandoras, Larnaca, Cyprus
3 Head of Department of Angio-surgery, Metropolitan Hospital, Piraeus, Greece
4 Medical Oncologist, Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre, Strovolos, Cyprus

EDUCATION
The results of the Greek vascular society from the vascular e-Learning during the COVID-19
pandemic (EL-COVID) survey: a comparison to the global results
Nikolaos Patelis1,2*, Kyriaki Kakavia2*
, Theodosios Bisdas1 , Zaiping Jing3 , Jiaxuan Feng3, Matthias Trenner4, Nyityasmono Tri Nugroho5
, Paulo Eduardo Ocke Reis6, Stephane Elkouri7, Alexandre Lecis8, Lamisse Karam9, Dirk Le Roux10, Mihai Ionac11, Marton Berczeli12, Vincent Jongkind13, Kak Khee Yeung14, Athanasios Katsargyris15,1, Efthymios Avgerinos16,1, Demetrios Moris17, Andrew Choong18, Jun Jie Ng18, Ivan Cvjetko19, George A. Antoniou20, Phillipe Ghibu21, Alexei Svetlikov22, Fernando Gallardo Pedrajas23, Harm Ebben13, Hubert Stepak24, Andrii Chornuy25, Sviatoslav Kostiv25, Stefano Ancetti26, Niki Tadayon27, Akli Mekkar28, Leonid Magnitskiy29, Liliana Fidalgo Domingos30, Sean Matheiken31, Eduardo Sebastian Sarutte Rosello32, Arda Isik33, Georgios Kirkilesis2, Sotirios Georgopoulos2* Equally contributing as first authors
1 Third Department of Vascular Surgery, Athens Medical Center, Greece
2 National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
3 Vascular surgery department, First affiliated hospital to Navy medical university, Shanghai, PR China
4 Klinikum rechts der Isar, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Germany
5 Faculty of Medicine University of Indonesia – Cipto Mangunkusumo National Hospital, Indonesia
6 Federal University Fluminense, Brazil
7 Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Canada
8 Centre Hospitalier de Troyes, France
9 Hotel Dieu de France Hospital, Lebanon
10 University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
11 University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania
12 Semmelweis University, Hungary
13 Amsterdam University Medical Center, The Netherlands
14 VU Medical Center, The Netherlands
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15 Paracelsus Medical University, Klinikum Nurenberg, Germany
16 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
17 Duke University Medical Center, USA
18 National University of Singapore, Singapore
19 University Hospital Merkur, Croatia
20 Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UK
21 University Hospital Hairmyres, UK
22 Vascular & endovascular surgery Center, National Scientific-Clinical Memorial Hospital, “Professor I.I. Mechnikov”, NorthWestern Medical University, The Russian Federation
23 Hospital Quironsalud Málaga, Spain
24 Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland
25 Ternopil University Clinic, Ukraine
26 University of Bologna, Italy
27 Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran
28 CHU Titi Ouzou, Algeria
29 Pirogov City Hospital No1, The Russian Federation
30 Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Spain
31 Bedford Hospital NHS Trust, UK
32 Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
33 Erzincan Binali Yildirim University, Turkey

CASE REPORTS
Aortobifemoral graft infection treated with an in situ bovine pericardial self-made bifurcated graft John D. Kakisis, Andreas Lazaris, Alexandra Terzoglou, Nikolaos Krinos, George Pappas, Andreas Panagiotopoulos, John Theodosopoulos, Anastasios Pyliotis, Constantine Antonopoulos, Christos Verykokos, George Sfyroeras, George Geroulakos
Department of Vascular Surgery, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “Attikon” University
Hospital, Athens, Greece

A custom-made endograft for the treatment of an abdominal aortic aneurysm with an ectopic pelvic kidney Andreas M. Lazaris, MD1, Aikaterini Poulou, MD1, Nikolaos Krinos, MD1, Konstantina Katseni, MD1, Patrick Bohan2, Stavros Spiliopoulos, MD3, Elias Brountzos, MD3, Georgios Geroulakos, MD1
1Vascular Surgery Department, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon Teaching Hospital, Athens, Greece
2 Medical Affairs, Terumo Aortic, Sunrise, FL, USA
3 2nd Department of Radiology, Division of Intereventional Radiology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon Teaching Hospital, Athens, Greece