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International Andreas Gruentzig Society (IAGS) Prepares for 16th Biennial Scientific Sessions
January 18, 2022. Houston, Tx. – The IAGS prepares to gather this month for their 16th biennial scientific meeting. Attendees will meet to address current challenges in the treatment of cardiovascular disease and to clarify and define areas of focus for medical researchers, industry, and clinicians. The summary statements and proceedings will be published in the Journal of Invasive Cardiology in order to widely disseminate their consensus findings.
This year this multidisciplinary meeting will include coronary, structural, and endovascular disease. Topics include elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), plaque modification, bifurcation lesions, stenting strategies, drug-coated balloons, TAVR, and stroke prevention for TAVR. Structural heart disease will be an important part of this year’s program, where ascending arch and thoraco-abdominal devices, tricuspid valve interventions, LAA occlusion, and PFO closure will be discussed. Hemodynamic support for STEMI and shock will be on the program. Identifying treatments in peripheral arterial disease, especially below the knee, as well as deep venous arterialization for critical limb ischemia. A prominent focus of the meeting will be emerging therapies. This year’s topics include coronary sinus reduction for acute and refractory ischemia, renal denervation (status of energy-based and chemical therapies), and UHD and 3D coronary imaging, as well as advances in CTO intervention. Clinical trial design will be discussed this year and a new session has been added on disaster preparedness for the cardiovascular service line.
Robert Bersin, MD, FACC, Swedish Heart and Vascular, Seattle, Washington, who will head up the scientific programming committee for 16th Biennial Scientific Sessions, said “this conference remains an important and strategic event, gathering creative minds from various disciplines, including industry experts, to discuss the most difficult problems facing our treatment approaches. We believe this is where the most creative solutions emerge.”
A shark tank competition will take place during the upcoming meeting and participants will be able to make the case for emerging therapies they believe will make the most impact.
The 16th biennial scientific meeting will be held in the Dominican Republic January 30-February 3, 2022. The meeting proceedings will be disseminated in the Journal of Invasive Cardiology soon after the meeting. H Vernon (‘Skip’) Anderson, MD, FACC, FSCAI, from the University of Texas, HSC at Houston, Executive Secretary and Board member, will organize the writing committee.
About the IAGS
The International Andreas Gruentzig Society is an international educational society of physicians and scientists interested in the health sciences in the cardiovascular and related fields. Society members cooperate in the advancement of knowledge and education through research, publication, study and teaching in the fields of cardiovascular disease. In addition, the society: (a) fosters the continuing development of the specialties of health sciences in the cardiovascular and related fields as an art and science; (b) improves the methods of teaching cardiovascular therapeutic techniques; (c) stimulates interest in the study of diseases of the vessel wall and research in treating cardiovascular disease; (d) fosters communication and fellowships between top tier, international investigators, clinicians and Industry Researchers/Developers, in the specialties of interventional radiology, cardiology, surgery, regenerative medicine and neuroradiology, who work towards developing novel products and/or techniques for the treatment of cardiac, vascular and structural disease; (e) conducts a scientific meeting amongst the above mentionedspecialties in order to provide a platform for presenting problems, offering solutions and debating innovations with the end goal ofadvancing products and/or techniques for treating cardiac, vascular and structural diseases.
For a summary of last year’s session, please visit HERE.
To contact the IAGS, please visit HERE.
