Portovenous Interventions of the Liver, Düsseldorf/DE, April 24-25, 2025

Preliminary programme

Thursday, April 24, 2025

08:30-09:00  Registration

09:00-09:15  Welcome and faculty introduction, course objectives, and schedule

09:15-10:45  TIPS I

TIPS in Adults – Indications and Contraindication for TIPS
TIPS in Children – Indications and Contraindications
Post procedural Management and Outcome of TIPS (Adults + Children)
TIPS in Adults – How I do it
TIPS in Children How I do it
Discussion

10:45-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:15  TIPS II plus alternatives

Management of complex diseases
TIPS: Lessons learned from complex cases
Alternative to TIPS – BRTO/PARTO/CARTO
Outcome of BRTO vs. TIPS

12:15-13:15 Lunch

13:15-16:15 Hands-on device training (rotating groups)

TIPS – device training and models
TIPS in children – device training and technique
BRTO/PARTO/CARTO – technique, material and sclerosants
TIPS simulator training

16:15-16:30 Working coffee break

16:30-18:00  Interactive video case discussion

TIPS in Adults
TIPS in Children
BRTO

Friday, April 25, 2025

08:30-09:30 Portal vein thrombosis

Pathophysiology of PVT
To TIPS or not to TIPS – IR management of PVT
Thrombectomy – overview of thrombectomy devices
PVT in Children – What is different?

09:30-10:00 Portal vein embolization (PVE): technical lectures

Indications and contraindications for PVE
Technical aspects of embolization (Cyanoacrylate, Microspheres, Coils, Plugs)

10:00-10:15 Coffee break

10:15-11:05 Portal vein embolization (PVE): technical lectures continued

PVE: From a hepatology point of view
PVE: How I do it (and why)
Why not surgery? PVE vs. Surgery

11:05-11:50 Interactive case discussion I

PVE case discussion and deep dive

11:50-12:30 Lunch

12:30-15:30 Hands-on device training (rotating groups)

Thrombectomy devices
Coils and Plugs – device training and simulator
Glue for PVE
Microspheres and sclerosants

15:30-15:35 Working coffee break

15:35-16:15 Interactive case discussion II

PVE: When things go wrong
PVT: Lessons learned from complex cases

16:15-16:30 Final discussion, course wrap up, and remarks

Venue

University Hospital Düsseldorf
Moorenstrasse 5
40225 Düsseldorf
Germany

Registration

Please note that this course is open only to interventional radiologists who have completed their radiology training.

The registration fees are as follows:

General Information

• Please note that this course is limited to 30 participants and registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.
• To attend the ESIR courses as a member, CIRSE membership fee for the year of the course must be settled.
• Please note that your registration becomes valid only after receipt of payment and after confirmation by the CIRSE Central Office.
• When making your flight bookings, please make sure that you will be able to stay for the entire course.

Cancellation of course registration

The CIRSE Foundation offers all participants the possibility of purchasing insurance with our partner “Europäische Reiseversicherung” via this link. Thus, the CIRSE Foundation itself will not refund any amount after a cancellation of registration. All requests have to be issued to the “Europäische Reiseversicherung” directly. Refunds will be given within the terms and conditions of the “Europäische Reiseversicherung”. Name changes will be handled as a cancellation and new registration. Please note that CIRSE offers just a platform to affect a policy between you and “Europäische Reiseversicherung”.

Invoices will be issued by the CIRSE Foundation, Neutorgasse 9, 1010 Vienna, Austria.

CIRSE Foundation
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1010 Vienna
Austria

Phone: 0043 1 904 2003
Fax: 0043 1 904 2003 30
Email: [email protected]

Accommodation

Below is a list of recommended hotels within the vicinity of the course venue. To proceed with booking your rooms for the course duration, please get in touch with the hotels directly. Accommodation is not included in the registration fee and course delegates shall bear all costs in this context themselves.