SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
THURSDAY, MAY 14TH, 2026
Open registration
AORTA SCIENCE
This concurrent session includes original research and case presentations by students, residents and young surgeons
Anchor: Germano Melissano – ITA
Group III • Judges: Ana Terezinha Guilhaumon – BRA, Edwaldo Joviliano – BRA, Sidney Galego – BRA
AORTA WORKSHOPS
This newly added session (40minutes) includes hands on simulation for small groups of 10-20 surgeons with industry technology representatives, national and international proctors. Attendance will rotate between all stations.
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
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
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 – USA
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
Industry Symposium I Sponsored by Cook Medical Inc. and ETAMUSSINO
Complex Aortic Cases (CCA)
Anchor: Marcelo Ferreira – BRA
Case presentations
Jong Park
Lucas Ferreira
Marcelo Mandelli
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
Gustavo Paludetto – BRA
Felipe Murad – BRA
Lucas Freire – BRA
Panelists
Alvaro Razuk – BRA
Guilherme Centofanti – BRA
Mariano Castelli-ARG
Pierre Galvagni – BRA
Eric Verhoeven – GER
Summary & Closing
Industry Symposium III Sponsored by Endovastec
Shaping the Future – Practical Solutions for Complex Anatomy
EVAR (Minos, Altura and Aorfix)
TEVAR (Castor, Talos and Hector)
Anchor: Gustavo S. Oderich-USA
Moderators: Alvaro Razuk -BRA and Eric Verhoeven-GER
Complex Case Sharing of Minos Ultra-Low-Profile Stent Graft System
Julio Peclat – BRA
Interactive Discussion: Robert Guimaraes -BRA (2min)
Complex Case Sharing of Aorfix Endovascular Stent Graft
Nilo Mosquera – ITA
Interactive Discussion: Marcus Cury – BRA (2min)
Complex Case Sharing of Altura Endograft System
Altino Ono – BRA
Interactive Discussion: Marcelo Giust – BRA (2min)
How to Perform PMEG with Low Profile Stent Graft
Andre Pinheiro – BRA
Interactive Discussion: Paulo Ronaldo – BRA (2min)
Complex Case Sharing of Castor Branched Stent Graft System
Alejandro Cuacci – ARG
Interactive Discussion: Paulo Sassaki – BRA (2min)
Complex Case Sharing of Talos Thoracic Stent Graft System
Felipe Nasser – BRA
Interactive Discussion: Clayton de Paula -BRA (2min)
Endovascular Aortic Arch Repair with Multi Branched Arch Endograft – Hector
Gary Zhu – CHI
Interactive Discussion: Guilherme Centofantti – BRA (2min)
Q&A
Closing remarks and Free Night Dinner
FRIDAY, MAY 15TH, 2026
Registration
NATIONAL SOLUTIONS FOR A COMPLEX PROBLEM
Moderators: Pierre Silveira Galvagni – BRA and Arno von Ristow – BRA
Apolo 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
End of session
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)
Eduardo Saadi – BRA, President of SBCCV (3min)
SESSION 1 EVAR: WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WE DON’T KNOW
Moderators: Ana Terezinha Guilhaumon – BRA and Dittmar Bockler – GER
08:00
Alexandre Pereira – BRA
How much hostility is too much? When to push or not push the limits of endovascular technology?
Cristiano Bortoluzzi – BRA
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?
Samuel Moreira – 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
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 Mini Session
F/BEVAR Revolution BENTLEY sponsored
Anchor: Alvaro Razuk
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
Argentina experience with BeFlared
Mariano Castelli – ARG
5 min intermission to lunch
Moderators: Bernardo Mendes-USA and Eric Verhoeven – GER
Castor’s Branched Stent Graft Experience in Brazil
Gustavo Paludetto-BRA
Panelist Discussion: Felipe Murad -BRA
Hemi-Arch options- Cratos
Eric Verhoeven – GER
My Clinical Experience Sharing for Cratos in EU, a New Generation of Branched Stent Graft
Nilo Mosquera -ITA
Initial experience 1st Triple branched stent graft – Hector in Argentina
Martim Rabelino – ARG
Panelist Discussion: Gustavo Judas – BRA (3min)
Zelus. “Thoracoabdominal Aortic Stent graft System”
Gary Zhu
My Clinical Experience Sharing for Hector in EU
Hence Verhagen – GER
Panelist Discussion: Gustavo Judas – BRA (3min)
13:19
Closing
Bernardo Mendes – USA and Eric Verhoeven – GER
13:30
Coffee break in the exhibition hall
SESSION 3 A COMPLEX AAA, NOT A TAAA
Moderators: Adamastor Pereira – BRA and Kak Khee Yeung – USA
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
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
Registration
BREAKFAST SESSION (food will be served)
BRIDGING STENT SOLUTIONS FOR A COMPLEX PROBLEM
Sponsored by iVascular
Anchor: Alvaro Razuk – BRA
Moderators: Cristiano Matos Luz-BRA and Gustavo Paludetto – BRA
iCover and Global status
Guilherme Centofanti – BRA
Bridging stent – transfemoral femoral access
Marcus Cury – BRA
iCover registry – cases and performance
Vladimir Vasconcelos – BRA
Bridging stent performance
Mariano Ferreira – ARG
Discussion
SESSION 5 ACUTE AORTIC SYNDROME CHALLENGES
Moderators: Mark Farber – USA and Pierre Silveira Galvagni – BRA
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
Coffee break in the exhibition hall
SESSION 6 CONCHERING CHRONIC DISSECTIONS
Anchor: Gustavo Oderich – USA
Moderators: Carlos Timaran – USA, Arno von Ristow – BRA and Fabio Jatene – BRA
Case presentation: Endovascular repair of Chronic TBAD using a new FLOD
Antonio Rizza – ITA
Think Aorta (Pense Aorta) Testimony
Marcos Calazans – BRA
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 – USA
How to manage a compressed true lumen and separete origin of target vessels in cTBAD when septotomy in not an option
Jong Hun Park – BRA
Judicious use of trans-catheter electrosurgical septotomy: when is needed & how to avoid complications?
Gustavo S. Oderich – 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
Panel discussion
Moderators: Lucas Freire – BRA and Frederico Araujo – BRA
Luciano Curado – BRA
My experience with Solaris platform
Marcelo Ferreira – BRA
Solaris stentgraft as bridging Stent
Marcus Cury – BRA
Experience with solaris via total transfemoral access
Jong Park – BRA
DESCOVER trial and next challenge
Thiago Barroso – BRA
Discussion
Break in the exhibition hall
SESSION 7 ASCENDING & ARCH CHALLENGES
Moderators: Joseph Coselli – USA and Rodrigo Bernardes – BRA
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
Evolving role of in situ fenestrations
Alvaro Razuk – BRA
Evolution of zone 0 arch: what is available & what is coming on the pipeline?
Mauri Comparini – BRA
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
Outcomes of retrograde arch branches
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
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 05-07, 2027 Sheraton Hotel São Conrado
Alvaro Razuk – BRA and Marcelo Ferreira- BRA
Meeting Adjourn