12 - 14 MARCH, 2025, ESSEN
Dear colleagues and friends,
ALICE –Advanced Live Interventional Course of Essen- will be hold in Essen from the 12th to the 14th of March 2025.
We are pleased to welcome you back in Essen. We are planning a combination of live cases, presentations and discussions. Live cases will go throughout the whole spectrum of intracranial endovascular therapy including aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, dural fistulae, intracranial stenosis and thrombectomies with broadcasting from various centers. We will share our ideas on the endovascular management in demanding situations and debate on the various techniques of aneurysm treatment. Since last ALICE 2023, additional developments have been entering our practice in the management of dural fistulae and AVMs, which we will expose and debate.
We will have this year a special debate between Tim Darsault and Christophe Cognard to find out why some studies show that most AVMs are not occluded by embolization and others show high occlusion rates using the same technique.
Brian Howard will also explain why and how he only treats cavernous sinus fistulae by direct puncture of the sinus.
Another new highlight is a special BANANAZ lecture on vascular anatomy from Maksim Shapiro and Eytan Raz.
This year’s Jean-Jacques Merland’s lecture will be held by Nick Higgins who first pioneered intracranial venous stenting.
Our special session "ALICE in trouble" will focus on complications with potential ways on how to avoid or resolve it.
We will keep you updated on all treated cases during previous editions of ALICE. We expect again interesting and passionate discussions between all participants with the support of our experienced moderators and of our special good mood factor Aster whose cartoons steadily keep the whole audience attentive.
Our website is steadily evolving. A new archiving system has been implemented allowing access to all past treatments. The content is directly accessible via keywords so that when selecting for instance „#TVE", the 27 transvenous embolization procedures of AVMs and Dural Fistulae achieved in the previous ALICE sessions are immediately displayed and can be reviewed in full length at any time.
I look forward to meet you again at the Philharmonic Hall of Essen in March at ALICE 2025.
René Chapot
CME Applied to cme approved with 12 cme credits for March 12th, 10 cme credits for March 13th, 9 cme credits for March 14th In order to receive CME points, German doctors must give their LÄK barcode each day they attend the congress. The counter is to be found at registration
CME credits will only be available for German physicians who partake on-site. cme4u will share limited registration information, namely your name, city, country, specialty and institution, with industry partners to help them best prepare for the event and accommodate the needs and interests of participants.
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Scientific programme 2025
Updated on 06 March
| March 12th, 2025 | ||
| 07:30 | Registration | |
| 08:00 | Opening ALICE | |
| 08:15 | Live Case 1 from Essen: AVM treated by TVE | Moderation : Dodi Boccardi, Christophe Cognard, Gyula Gal, Jan Gralla, Qiang Li, Markus Möhlenbruch, Paul Stracke, Tomoaki Terada |
| 09:45 | Live Case 2 from Essen: Cervical ICA anerysm in tonsillar loop | |
| 10:00 | Post-embolization discussion | |
| 10:15 | Coffee break | Learning Corner |
| 10:30 | Live Case 3 from Santander: AVM | Moderation: Dodi Boccardi, Ahmed El Serwi, Markus Holtmanspötter,Tufail Patankar, Eytan Raz, Noboyuki Sakai, Nader Sourour, Wim van Zwam |
| 11:45 | Post-embolization discussion | |
| 12:00 | Jean-Jacques Merland Lecture : The three faces of cranial venous outflow insufficiency | Nick HIGGINS |
| 12:25 | Round Table Discussion coordinated by Vittorio Civelli | Fabian Arnberg, Nick Higgins, Anat Horev, Raul Nogueira, Adnan Siddiqui, Hannes Nordmeyer, Vittorio Civelli, Eytan Raz |
| 12:50 | New dedicated Stent for sinus stenting | Anat Horev |
| 13:00 | Lunch | Learning Corner |
| 13:30 | Live Case 4 from Essen : MCA Aneurysm | Moderation: Anil Arat, Tim Darsaut, Markus Heddier, Bo Hong, Raul Nogueira, Maksim Shapiro, Adnan Siddiqui, Paul Stracke, Michihiro Tanaka |
| 14:15 | Post-embolization discussion | |
| 14:30 | Live Case 5 from Santander | |
| 15:15 | Post-embolization discussion | |
| 15:30 | Coffee break | Learning Corner |
| 16:00 | Stroke | |
| 16:00 | Important messages from last studies | Wim van Zwam |
| 16:10 | Upcoming studies in China | Jian Min Liu |
| 16:20 | Tenekteplase: what does it change for the interventionalist? | Senta Frol |
| 16:30 | How to access the true lumen of a dissected ICA? | Jan Gralla |
| 16:40 | How to access the supraaortic vessels in Leriche syndrom? | Anil Arat |
| 16:50 | MT in large infarcts | Raul Nogueira |
| 17:00 | Dedicated techniques for the recanalization of chronic occluded arteries | Adnan Siddiqui |
| 17:10 | Super Large Bore Catheter | Markus Möhlenbruch |
| 17:20 | Round Table Discussion coordinated by Wim van Zwam, Raul Nogueira and Jan Gralla | Christophe Cognard, Yibin Fang, Senta Frol, Jan Gralla, Markus Möhlenbruch, Raul Nogeira, Eytan Raz, Adnan Siddiqui, Paul Stracke, Wim van Zwam |
| 18:30 | End of Session | |