Education and research

Working Group on Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Diseases

Find here educational and research content on Peripheral Circulation and Peripheral Arterial Diseases.

Survey: antithrombotic drug use in patients undergoing surgical and/or endovascular revascularisation

The Working Group on Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology collected some non-identifiable information about preferences regarding antithrombotic management of patients undergoing revascularization of popliteal, crural and/or pedal arteries for Chronic Limb Threatening Ischaemia (CLTI).

Results of the survey will be published on this webpage.

Webinar Series

What is new in the management of aortic diseases since the last ESC guidelines

Learning Objectives:

Assimilate new data since the 2014 ESC guidelines on Aortic disease
Manage patients with diseases of aorta with updated knowledge

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LEAD

Part 1 - Why and how should I diagnose LEAD? Access webinar >

Part 2 - How should I manage LEAD? Access webinar >

Learning Objectives:

To understand the prognostic burden of PAD
To learn the diagnostic tools and algorithms
To illustrate the non-pharmacologic strategies for PAD management
To illustrate up-to-date pharmacologic management of PAD

Educational Training Programmes

Antithrombotic Therapies: Clinical challenges and future directions

Following the webinar series “Updates in antithrombotic therapy for cardiovascular diseases”, the ESC Working Group on Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Diseases and the ESC Working Group on Thrombosis are renewing their collaboration to propose this course.

Eight sessions aims at:

Understanding clinically relevant mechanisms of action (haemostatic and pharmacological) underlying the most recent and effective combined antithrombotic strategies in atherothrombotic and venous thromboembolic diseases
Managing atherothrombotic diseases in the chronic and acute settings, in special patient populations such as diabetic, chronic kidney disease, pregnant, obese, older and/or frail patients who remain an unmet clinical need in spite of the most recent evidence
Managing cardioembolic and venous thromboembolic diseases in the chronic and/or acute settings, with a special focus on cancer patients

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Arteries from head to toe

The Educational Training Programme aims to provide physicians with up-to-date knowledge of peripheral artery disease in order to guide management.

Eight sessions aims at:

Clarifying diagnostic processes, including differential diagnoses
Giving critical review of revascularization strategies
Describing current guidelines about medical and invasive therapies
Reviewing the basics of ABI assessment and vascular imaging