3rd Athens Cerebral Vascular and Endovascular Hands-on Course

Friday 24

April 2026

(Europe/Athens)

18 tracks

	3.1 Penfield Lounge	2.0 Willis Dissection Lab	6.0 Perneczky Lecture Room
			Welcome address Aristeidis Prassas, MD, PhD, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Papageorgiou General Hospital of Thessaloniki, President of the Hellenic Neurosurgical Society	Introduction Vasileios PANAGIOTOPOULOS, MD, Phd, Professor of Neurosurgery. University Hospital of Patras, Greece
			Use of Vascular microsurgical equipment Themistoklis PAPASILEKAS, MD, MSc(Oxon), PhD, Attending Neurosurgeon Vascular & Endovascular Neurosurgery Department of Neurosurgery, University of Athens, Evaggelismos General Hospital
9:00 AM			Splitting the Sylvian Fissure Nikolaos FOROGLOU, Professor of Neurosurgery, Aristotle University, School of Medicine, Chair Department of Neurosurgery, AHEPA University Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
			Anterior Circulation Aneurysms: Anatomy - Surgical Approaches Moschos FRATZOGLOU, MD, PhD, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Director, Neurosurgical Department, General District Hospital of Nikaia, Piraeus, Greece
			Posterior Circulation Aneurysm: Anatomy - Surgical Approaches
			Clipping of previously embolized brain Aneurysms Vasileios PANAGIOTOPOULOS, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Patras, Greece
10:00 AM	Coffee break

		Hands-On Session 1 \| Clipping on Brain Models

11:00 AM



12:00 PM



1:00 PM
	Light Lunch
			Perspective of Vascular and Endovascular training in Europe and USA Konstantinos FOUNTAS, Professor of Neurosurgery, Medical School University of Thessaly, Head of the Department of Neurosurgery, Larissa University Hospital, Larissa, Greece
			Brain AVM Microsurgical Resection
2:00 PM			Brain AVM Endovascular Management Vasileios Panagiotopoulos, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Patras, Greece
			Supratentorial Brain CM Microsurgical Excision Moschos FRATZOGLOU, MD, PhD, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Director, Neurosurgical Department, General District Hospital of Nikaia, Piraeus, Greece	Brain AVM SRS Management

			Complications of microsurgical treatment of Brain Aneurysms and their treatment Nikolaos FOROGLOU, Professor of Neurosurgery, Aristotle University, School of Medicine, Chair Department of Neurosurgery, AHEPA University Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
3:00 PM			Techniques of Mechanical thrombectomy Panagiotis PAPANAGIOTOU, Professor of Radiology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Professor of Neuroradiology, Hospital Bremen-Mitte, Germany
		Techniques of Mechanical thrombectomy


4:00 PM



5:00 PM



6:00 PM

Saturday 25

April 2026

(Europe/Athens)

15 tracks

	3.1 Penfield Lounge	2.0 Willis Dissection Lab	6.0 Perneczky Lecture Room
8:00 AM			Hybrid vascular (angiographic & cadaveric) anatomy of the aortic arch & brain Petros ZAMPAKIS, Professor of Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital of Patras
			Endovascular equipment. Access (femoral, radial, aortic arch, carotid, aneurysm). Basic catheterization and embolization techniques for brain aneurysms. How I do it Michail MANTATZIS, MD, PhD, EBNR, Assistant Professor of Radiology Neuroradiology, Intervetional Radioactinologist, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece	Stent -assisted coiling in ruptured Brain Aneurysm

			Ruptured Brain Aneurysms: diagnosis and treatment guidelines-Indications for endovascular treatment. Clipping vs Coiling Aristotelis MITSOS, MD, MSc, PhD Colonel of Hellenic Army Consultant Neurosurgeon
9:00 AM			Vasospasm: incidence and current treatment options. The role of endovascular management Themistoklis PAPASILEKAS, MD, MSc(Oxon), PhD, Attending Neurosurgeon Vascular & Endovascular Neurosurgery Department of Neurosurgery, University of Athens, Evaggelismos General Hospital
	Coffee break


10:00 AM		Hands-On Session 3 \| Endovascular simulator



11:00 AM



12:00 PM



1:00 PM	Light Lunch


			Advanced endovascular techniques: Endovascular devices. How I do it
2:00 PM			Complications of endovascular treatment and their management Vasileios PANAGIOTOPOULOS, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurosurgery & Endovascular Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Patras, Patra, Greece
			The role of preoperative imaging in acute ischemic stroke management Petros ZAMPAKIS, Professor of Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital of Patras
			Advanced Image-guided techniques for cerebral aneurysm embolization
			The role of embolization in chronic subdural hematomas Michail MANTATZIS, MD, PhD, EBNR, Assistant Professor of Radiology Neuroradiology, Intervetional Radioactinologist, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
3:00 PM			Hybrid Operating Room. Future perspectives in aneurysm treatment
		Hands-On Session 4 \| Endovascular simulator


4:00 PM



5:00 PM



6:00 PM