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Early-bird tickets available until November 1, 2019. Ticket sales are open: click here.

Regular tickets available from November 1, 2019 until December 6, 2019.

On-site registration available on December 7, 2019.

Welcome to our 29th edition of the Vascular Symposium.

Moderators: Geert Lauwers (Genk, Belgium) & Valerie Waelbers (Deurne, Belgium)

• Surgical site infection: classification, risk factors and prevention
  Annette Schuermans (Leuven, Belgium)
• Treatment of surgical site infection after vascular surgery
  Lijckle Van der Laan (Breda, The Netherlands)
• Technical aspects of vascularized muscular flaps
  Zoltan Szeberin (Budapest, Hungary)
• Prophylactic negative pressure therapy for groin incisions
  Georgios Antoniou (Manchester, United Kingdom)

Moderators: Philip Lerut (Kortrijk, Belgium) & Philippe Remy (Charleroi, Belgium)

• Definition and epidemiology of vascular graft infection
  Hozan Mufty (Leuven, Belgium)
• Imaging for vascular graft infection
  Ben Saleem (Groningen, The Netherlands)
• Importance of deep cultures before starting antibiotics
  Rainer Gattringer (Wels-Grieskirchen, Austria)

Attribution by Frank Vermassen, President of BSVS

• Presentation of the winning paper

• Status of the project
  Donna Peerboom (Project Assistant – Leuven, Belgium)

Moderators: Maxime Elens (Brussels, Belgium) & Frank Vermassen (Ghent, Belgium)

• In situ versus ex situ reconstruction ; complete versus partial excision
  Thomas Wyss (Bern, Switzerland)
• Graft materials for in situ reconstruction
  Patrick Vriens (Tilburg, The Netherlands)
• Graft centric fistulae: stent graft as a temporary or definite solution
  Xavier Berard (Bordeaux, France)
• Antimicrobial management
  Eric Senneville (Lille, France)

• Current strategies to prevent vascular graft infection
  Bas Vierhout (Assen, The Netherlands)

• Bacteriophages
  Rob Lavigne (Leuven, Belgium)
• Inhibitors of biofilm formation
  Hans Steenackers (Leuven, Belgium)