SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
THURSDAY, MAY 14TH, 2026
AORTA SCIENCE
AORTA WORKSHOPS
Note to industry organizers: please provide final program by April 6, 2026; plan 2-3 proctors from Brazil with 1 international proctor; plan maximum 20 attendees per workshop and have it pre-registered; simulations would be ideal and digital simulation if available. 40 minutes each
Conformable Excluder Tips and Tricks
Planning, PMEGs and CMDs
PMEGs Tips and Tricks
Sizing and planning CMDs
Total arch solution
Moderators: Gustavo S. Oderich – USA and Arno von Ristow – BRA
Note to speakers: each talk should conclude by 9 min leaving 1 min transition, please avoid extensions
Braile Medical Complex Pipeline
Eng Rafael Braile – BRA
Safety Release
Edwaldo Joviliano – BRA
CMD – Indications, pitfalls and outcomes
Alexandre Pereira – BRA
Braile European Results
Antonio Rizza – ITA
Panel discussion
BAYLOR AORTIC SUMMIT
Note to speakers: each talk should conclude by 9 min leaving 1 min transition, please avoid extensions
Introductory remarks
Gustavo Oderich – USA
Baylor aortic legacy: where have we come from, where are we going?
Joseph Coselli – USA
What constitutes a comprehensive aortic center and why we need it?
Gustavo Oderich – USA
Imaging requirements for aortic centers: what do you need to differentiate yourself?
Thanila Macedo – USA
Training the next generation of open aortic surgeons
Anna Han Xue – USA
Perspectives on evolving indications of open repair in the endovascular era
Vicente Orozco Sevilla – USA
Aortic research: The impact of scientific evidence and why it is so important in order to disseminate endovascular techniques?
Ying Huang – BRA
Discussion
Coffee break in the exhibition hall
AORTA TECHNOLOGY DISPLAY & CHALLENGING CASES
Each symposium is 80 minutes with a ten-minute intermission
Industry sponsored sessions discuss novel technologies and challenging cases
Complex Aortic Cases (CCA)
Anchor: Marcelo Ferreira – BRA
Note to industry organizers: Please add additional lectures or discussants and note the time of 80 minutes for entire session with a 10-minute intermission after the session
Industry Symposium II Sponsored by WL Gore and associates
Complex AAA Repair: Enhancing Precision, Control and Conformability in Hostile Neck Anatomy
Featuring the now approved GORE® EXCLUDER® Conformable AAA
Endoprosthesis with ACTIVE CONTROL System
Welcome and Introduction
Bernardo Mendes – USA
Bernardo Mendes – USA
Note to speaker: Lecture should be maximum 9 minutes with 1 minute transition
Alvaro Razuk – BRA
Felipe Murad – BRA
Guilherme Centofanti – BRA
Gustavo Paludetto – BRA
Lucas Freire – BRA
Mariano Castelli – ARG
Pierre Galvagni – BRA
Note to case discussants: please keep maximum of two educational cases to allow proper presentation and discussion; each case presentation maximum 7 minutes with 7-minute discussion
Eric Verhoeven – GER
Note to speaker: Lecture should be maximum 9 minutes with 1 minute transition
Note to industry organizers: Please note the time of 80 minutes for entire session with a 10-minute intermission after the session
TBD
Note to industry organizers: Please add additional lectures or discussants and note the time of 60 minutes for entire session with a 10-minute intermission after the session
FRIDAY, MAY 15TH, 2026
Registration
NATIONAL SOLUTIONS FOR A COMPLEX PROBLEM
Moderators: Pierre Silveira Galvagni – BRA and Arno von Ristow – BRA
Note to speakers: each talk should conclude by 7 min leaving 1 min transition, please avoid extensions
Note to moderators: please enforce maximum time of 7 minute per lecture; the program cannot extend beyond allotted time
Nano Medical Complex Pipeline: Indications, pitfalls and outcomes
Júlio Peclat – BRA
Braile Medical Complex Pipeline: Indications, pitfalls and outcomes
Guilherme Meireles – BRA
Inside Complex Pipeline: Indications, pitfalls and outcomes
André Pinheiro – BRA
Experience with repair of TAAAs in the Brazilian Public Health System
Edwaldo Joviliano – BRA
Discussion
PLENARY SESSION
Opening Remarks
Alvaro Razuk – BRA, Gustavo Oderich – USA, Marcelo Ferreira – BRA, Carlos Abath – BRA and Eduardo Saadi – BRA (4 min)
Edwaldo Joviliano – BRA, President of SBACV (3 min)
Fernanda Uchiyama – BRA, President of SOBRICE (3 min)
SESSION 1 EVAR: WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WE DON’T KNOW
Moderators: Ana Terezinha Guilhaumon – BRA and Dittmar Bockler – GER
Note to speakers: The case presentation should be an 8 min case vignette, followed by a brief 2 min summary of the main questions to be answered. The plenary talks should conclude by maximum of 7 min, leaving 1 min for transition to next speakers; slides will be turned off to avoid extensions
Case presentation: creating access with intravascular lithotripsy technology (IVL)
Alexandre Pereira – BRA
How much hostility is too much? When to push or not push the limits of endovascular technology?
Ross Milner – USA
What have we learned from so called “high risk” anatomical surrogates?
Hence Verhagen – NED
Failing forward: how we plan to avoid future regret?
Bernardo Mendes – USA
Europeans say selection of open repair should be more liberal
Germano Melissano – ITA
Bad access should be not an excuse to avoid standard or complex EVAR: what is available in today’s armamentarium?
Grace Mulatti – BRA
Minimizing nephrotoxicity during endovascular aortic repair
Felipe Nasser – BRA
Supra and infrarenal fixation: does it matter & when?
Alvaro Razuk – BRA
Precision aortic therapy
Kak Khee Yeng – NED
WARRIORS Trial: Rationale for Sex-Based Difference in Indication and Surveillance of AAAs
Paulo Eduardo Ocke Reis – BRA
Can we justify a more tailored approach to surveillance?
Firas Mussa – USA
Panel discussion
Coffee break in the exhibition hall
SESSION 2 INCREASING ANEURYSM SAC? WHAT TO DO NEXT?
Moderators: Germano Melissano – ITA and Nelson De Lucia – BRA
Note to speakers: The case presentation should be an 8 min case vignette, followed by a brief 2 min summary of the main questions to be answered. The plenary talks should conclude by maximum of 7 min, leaving 1 min for transition to next speakers; slides will be turned off to avoid extensions
Case presentation: recalcitrant endoleak with sac expansion
Natália Galvão – BRA
What have we learned from sac enlargement data
Javairiah Fatima – USA
Determining complex endoleaks to plan targeted interventions after standard and complex EVAR: Role of CEUS & Dynamic CTA
Thanila Macedo – USA
Endovascular salvage of Type IA endoleak
Carlos Abath – BRA
Not all type II endoleaks are equal, how to select suitable endovascular cases?
Douglas Cavalcanti – BRA
Explantation tips & tricks to minimize morbidity
Laurant Chiche – FRA
Some aneurysm sacs will increase whatever you do: can you leave them alone?
Hence Verhagen – FRA
Panel discussion
Industry Sponsored Mini Session
Note to speakers: This next lecture should conclude by 9 min leaving 1 min transition, please avoid extensions
Evolution of bridging stents for fenestrations & branches
A BENTLEY sponsored talk
Sean Crawford – CAN
What is new in the Bentley platform? Why it will further improve FB-EVAR results?
Eric Verhoeven – GER
TBD
Mariano Castelli – ARG
Moderators: Bernardo Mendes – USA and Alvaro Razuk – BRA
Note to speakers: This next lecture should conclude by 9 min leaving 1 min transition, please avoid extensions
TBD
Nilo Mosquera – BRA
TBD
Eric Verhoeven – GER
TBD
Chang Shu – CHN
TBD
Martin Rabelino – ARG
Panel discussion
Coffee break in the exhibition hall
SESSION 3 A COMPLEX AAA, NOT A TAAA
Moderators: Adamastor Pereira – BRA and Kak Khee Yeung – USA
Note to speakers: The case presentation should be an 8 min case vignette, followed by a brief 2 min summary of the main questions to be answered. The plenary talks should conclude by maximum of 7 min, leaving 1 min for transition to next speakers; slides will be turned off to avoid extensions
Case presentation: a solution for pararenal AAAs
Bernardo Massière – BRA
Balancing durability with excessive thoracic coverage
Darren Schneider – GER
Fenestration vs. branch: what changed in device selection?
Bernardo Mendes – USA
Natural history and clinical implications of endoleaks following FB-EVAR
Carlos Timaran – USA
Benchmark results for target vessel patency: when should we be concerned?
Mark Farber – USA
Evolution of FB-EVAR outcomes over time
Gustavo S. Oderich – USA
What is new in the off-the-shelf armamentarium & how I select the best option?
Dittmar Bockler – GER
FB-EVAR + IBDs: selection, pitfalls and outcomes
Ezequiel Parodi – USA
What have we learned from parallel grafts & how to make them better? Introducing a new concept…
Pierre Silveira Galvagni – BRA
Which complex AAAs are not good for FB-EVAR and how to handle them?
Yamume Tshomba – ITA
Infected FB-EVAR, now what?
Vicente Orozco-Sevilla – ESP
Panel discussion
Coffee break in the exhibition hall
SESSION 4 CRITICAL ISSUES ON TAAAs
Moderators: Joe Coselli – USA and Júlio César Mariño – BRA
Note to speakers: The case presentation should be an 8 min case vignette, followed by a brief 2 min summary of the main questions to be answered. The plenary talks should conclude by maximum of 7 min, leaving 1 min for transition to next speakers; slides will be turned off to avoid extensions
Case presentation: the tale of two targets & a single branch
Gustavo Paludetto – BRA
Judgement is key: when to say ‘No’ to TAAA repair?
Aleem Mirza – USA
FB-EVAR reinterventions: what it means & where to focus?
Javairiah Fatima – USA
Top lessons from U.S. ARC on Endo TAAA repair
Mark Farber – USA
What is the consensus on spinal cord protection & rescue?
Darren Schneider – USA
The inner branch fuss: what does experience and data show?
Eric Verhoeven – GER
When retrograde visceral branches are useful and what to expect?
Nilo Mosquera – ESP
Practical tips to simplify something complex: my OTS approach?
Tomek Jakimowicz – POL
Optimal medical therapy after FB-EVAR: can we affect targets and survival?
Kak Khee Yeung – USA
Who & how we test for heritable thoracic aortic diseases?
Ezequiel Parodi – USA
Technical pitfalls & outcomes of open TAAA in patients with heritable thoracic aortic diseases
Joe Coselli – USA
Panel discussion
All attendees and guests invited
SATURDAY, MAY 16TH, 2026
BRIDGING STENT SOLUTIONS FOR A COMPLEX PROBLEM
Sponsored by iVascular
Note to speakers: This next lecture should conclude by 9 min leaving 1 min transition, please avoid extensions
Fixing the Fix: Reinterventions in Complex Aortic Endografts. Case reports
Mariano Ferreira – ARG
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
Discussion
SESSION 5 ACUTE AORTIC SYNDROME CHALLENGES
Moderators: Mark Farber – USA and Pierre Silveira Galvagni – BRA
Note to speakers: The case presentation should be an 8 min case vignette, followed by a brief 2 min summary of the main questions to be answered. The plenary talks should conclude by maximum of 7 min, leaving 1 min for transition to next speakers; slides will be turned off to avoid extensions
Case presentation: using trans-brachial staggered deployment for multibranch repair of chronic dissection
Tayrine Mazzoti – BRA
Open surgical strategies to facilitate endo repair in patients with acute Type A dissections
Anna Han Xue – USA
Type A with visceral malperfusion: strategy and timing of intervention
Leo Ferber – BRA
Current state of endovascular Type A dissection repair
Ali Azzizadeh – USA
Complicated Type B dissection: extent of coverage, stent selection and role of Petticoat?
Marcelo Mandelli – BRA
Over a decade experience with Stabilize technique
Germano Melissano – ITA
Natural history of uncomplicated Type B dissection: what is the real implication of medical therapy alone?
Firas Mussa – USA
Blunt aortic injury: SVS guidelines and current state of art
Ali Azzizadeh – USA
Predictors of stent-induced complications (retrograde Type A dissection and new entry tears) & how to prevent them?
Steve Maximus – USA
Optimal follow up surveillance of acute aortic syndromes
Andre Estenssoro – BRA
SESSION 6 CONCHERING CHRONIC DISSECTIONS
Moderators: Carlos Timaran – USA, Arno von Ristow – BRA and Fabio Jatene – BRA
Note to speakers: The case presentation should be an 8 min case vignette, followed by a brief 2 min summary of the main questions to be answered. The plenary talks should conclude by maximum of 7 min, leaving 1 min for transition to next speakers; slides will be turned off to avoid extensions
Case presentation: Endovascular repair of Chronic TBAD using a new FLOD
Antonio Rizza – ITA
Data shows sac enlargement is a problem after FB-EVAR for chronic post-dissection aneurysms
Carlos Timaran – USA
Should we use fenestrations or branches for chronic dissections? Which is best and when?
Darren Schneider – BRA
Pitfalls of inner branches for chronic dissections
Jong Hun Park – BRA
Judicious use of trans-catheter electrosurgical septotomy: when is needed & how to avoid complications?
Gustavo S. Oderich – USA
Direct sac solutions are needed (occluders, plugs, intercostal embolization): what we have & what is up in the horizon?
Ross Milner – USA
Staged proximal TEVAR for chronic dissection: planning and expected results
Marco Lourenço – BRA
False lumen occlusion device: indications, timing and expected outcomes
Fiona Rohlfs – GER
How to deal with target vessels when these are not suitable to endovascular incorporation?
Bernardo Mendes – USA
Bridging stents selection should be different for chronic dissections? How about for heritable diseases?
Steve Maximus – USA
Is there still a role for hybrid repair in chronic dissections: indications, techniques and results?
Laurant Chiche – FRA
Moderators: Lucas Freire – BRA and Frederico Araujo – BRA
Note to industry organizers: please confirm final program by April 6, 2026
Note to speakers: This next lecture should conclude by 9 min leaving 1 min transition, please avoid extensions
TBD
Jong Hun Park – BRA
TBD
Marcelo Ferreira – BRA
TBD
Marcus Cury – BRA
TBD
Thiago Barroso – BRA
Panel discussion
Coffee break in the exhibition hall
SESSION 7 ASCENDING & ARCH CHALLENGES
Moderators: Joseph Coselli – USA and Rodrigo Bernardes – BRA
Note to speakers: The case presentation should be an 8 min case vignette, followed by a brief 2 min summary of the main questions to be answered. The plenary talks should conclude by maximum of 7 min, leaving 1 min for transition to next speakers; slides will be turned off to avoid extensions
Case presentation: my approach to arch PMEG
André Brito Queiroz – BRA
Technical tips for Frozen Elephant Trunk
Ricardo Dias – BRA
Total open arch: setting a standard for endovascular options
Joseph Coselli – USA
Do we still have room for hybrid aortic-based repair
Yamume Tshomba – ITA
Evolution of zone 0 arch: what is available & what is coming on the pipeline?
Chang Shu – CHN
Single v multibranch: selection and current state
Dittmar Bockler – GER
Variations of the single to triple design: indications & technical pitfalls
Tomek Jakimowicz – POL
Pros and cons of retrograde arch branches
Fiona Rohlffs – GER
Novel stent design with dual bidirectional branch to optimize arch configuration
Marcelo Ferreira – BRA
How do we define high risk arch?
Eduardo Saadi – BRA
Supra-aortic trunk bridging stents: review of available options, current trends and outcomes
Aleem Mirza – USA
Evolving role of in situ fenestrations
Martin Rabellino – ARG
Panel discussion
Award ceremony for best scientific presentations
Marcelo Ferreira – BRA, Alvaro Razuk – BRA and Gustavo Oderich – USA
Closing remarks and Invitation to AORTA 2027 in Rio de Janeiro, May 12-14, 2027 Sheraton Hotel São Conrado
Alvaro Razuk – BRA and Marcelo Ferreira- BRA
Meeting Adjourn