ALICE 2025
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
Scientific programme 2025
| 07:30 | Registration | |
| 08:00 | Opening ALICE | |
| 08:15 | Live Case 1 from Essen : AVM | Moderation : Christophe Cognard, Gyula Gal, Jan Gralla, Markus Möhlenbruch, Mani Puthuran, Paul Stracke, Tomoaki Terada |
| 10:00 | Post-embolization discussion | |
| 10:15 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 | Live Case 2 from Santander: AVM | Moderation: Ahmed El Serwi, Markus Holtmanspötter,Tufail Patankar, Eytan Raz, Noboyuki Sakai, Yong Sam Shin, Nader Sourour, Wim van Zwam |
| 11:45 | Post-embolization discussion | |
| 12:00 | Jean-Jacques Merland Lecture : Stenting of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension | Nick HIGGINS |
| 12:25 | Round Table Discussion coordinated by Vittorio Civelli | Fabian Arnberg, Nick Higgins, Anat Horev, Howard Riina, Adnan Siddiqui, Hannes Nordmeyer, Vittorio Civelli, Eytan Raz |
| 12:50 | New dedicated Stent for sinus stenting | Anat Horev |
| 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Live Case 3 from Essen | Moderation: Anil Arat, Tim Darsaut, Markus Heddier, Raul Nogueira, Maksim Shapiro, Adnan Siddiqui, Paul Stracke, Michihiro Tanaka |
| 14:15 | Post-embolization discussion | |
| 14:30 | Live Case 3 from Essen | |
| 15:15 | Post-embolization discussion | |
| 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 | Stroke | |
| 16:00 | Important messages from last studies | Wim van Zwam |
| 16:10 | Tenekteplase: what does it change for the interventionalist? | Senta Frol |
| 16:20 | How to access the true lumen of a dissected ICA? | Jan Gralla |
| 16:30 | How to access the supraaortic vessels in Leriche syndrom? | Anil Arat |
| 16:40 | MT in large infarcts | Raul Nogueira |
| 16:50 | Super Large Bore Catheter | Markus Möhlenbruch |
| 17:00 | Round Table Discussion coordinated by Wim van Zwam, Raoul Nogueira and Jan Gralla | Christophe Cognard, Senta Frol, Jan Gralla, Markus Möhlenbruch, Raul Nogeira, Eytan Raz, Adnan Siddiqui, Paul Stracke, Wim van Zwam |
| 18:30 | End of Session |
| 8:00 | Follow-up of ALICE patients 2023 | Jonas Schüßler |
| 8:15 | Live Case 5 from Essen: AVM | Moderation: Armand Aymard, Vittoria Civelli, Christophe Cognard, Alberto Gil, Markus Holtmannspötter, Mani Puthuran, Adnan Siddiqui, Tomoaki Terada |
| 09:45 | Post-embolization discussion | |
| 10:00 | Coffee break | |
| 10:15 | Live Case 6 from Bordeaux | Moderation: Tim Darsaut, Markus Möhlenbruch, Ahmed El Serwi, Raul Nogueira, Eytan Raz, Nobuyuki Sakai, Nader Sourour |
| 11:00 | Post-embolization discussion | |
| 11:15 | Live Case7 from Essen | |
| 11:45 | Post-embolization discussion | |
| 12:00 | BANANAZ at ALICE: the basilar perforators & Cone Beam CT in skull base tumors | Maksim Shapiro, Eytan Raz and Michihiro Tanaka |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Live Case 8 from Essen: Aneurysm | Moderation : Anil Arat, Gyula Gal, Markus Heddier, Tufail Patankar, Mani Puthuran, Maksim Shapiro, Yong Sam Shin |
| 14:00 | Post-embolization discussion | |
| 14:15 | Live Case 9 from Bordeaux: | |
| 14:45 | Post-embolization discussion | |
| 15:00 | AVM & Dural Fistulae | Moderation: Alberto Gil, Brian Howard, Eytan Raz, Adnan Siddiqui, Tomoaki Terada |
| 15:00 | Treatment of Cavernous Fistulae by direct puncture | Brian Howard |
| 15:25 | Etiology of dAVF and AVM: the possibility of second hit theory | Tomoaki Terada |
| 15:40 | Staged TVE: 10 years experience | Ahmed Ayad |
| 15:50 | Obtura: the future of embolic agent? | Alberto Gil |
| 16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 | Curative Embolizaiton in AVMs : Staged Venous Embolization, Interest of 3D in understanding, Latest Evolutions | René Chapot |
| 16:50 | Efficiency of embolisation in AVMs: how good or bad are we? | |
| 16:50 | We're good | Christophe Cognard |
| 17:00 | We're bad | Tim Darsaut |
| 17:10 | So what? | René Chapot |
| ALICE in trouble | Moderation : Christophe Cognard and Adnan Siddiqui | |
| 17:20 | Anil Arat | |
| 17:30 | Brian Howard | |
| 17:40 | Tomoaki Terada | |
| 17:50 | Alberto Gil | |
| 18:00 | Markus Holtmanspötter | |
| 18:10 | Eytan Raz | |
| 18:20 | Fabian Arnberg | |
| 18:30 | Markus Möhlenbruch | |
| 18:40 | Christophe Cognard | |
| 18:50 | Mani Puthuran | |
| 19:00 | Vittorio Civelli | |
| 19:10 | Ahmed El Serwi | |
| 19:20 | Gyula Gal | 19:30 | End of Session |
| 08:30 | Live Case 11: Dural Fistula Essen | Moderation : Anil Arat, Gyula Gal, Alberto Gil, Ahmed El Serwi, Paul Stracke, Tomoaki Terada |
| 10:15 | Post-embolization discussion | |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45 | Live Case 12 Valladolid: Aneurysm | Moderation: Vittorio Civelli, Markus Holtmannspötter, Markus Möhlenbruch, Mani Puthuran, Nobyuki Sakai, Maksim Shapiro |
| 11:30 | Post-embolization discussion | |
| 11:45 | Live Case 13 Essen: | |
| 12:15 | Post-embolization discussion | |
| 12:30 | Electroembolization of AVMs | Walter Wohlegemuth |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Live Case 14 Valladolid: Aneurysm | Moderation: Tim Darsaut,Tomoaki Terada, Yong Sam Shin, Nader Sourour, Eytan Raz, Gyula Gal, Tufail Patankar |
| 14:15 | Post-embolization discussion | |
| 14:30 | Aneurysms: ISAT 2 and FDs | |
| 14:30 | ISAT 2: Results | Tim Darsault |
| 14:40 | ISAT 2: the end of EVT? Discussion coordinated by Fabian Arnberg | Fabian Arnberg, Tim Darsault, Tomoaki Terada, Yong Sam Shin, Nader Sourour, Eytan Raz, Gyula Gal, Tufail Patankar |
| 15:00 | FDs in ruptured aneurysms | Fabian Arnberg |
| 15:15 | FDs in giant aneurysms | Tufail Patankar |
| 15:30 | Optimization in the use of 3D roadmap | Markus Holtmanspötter |
| 15:45 | Fusiform Basilar Aneurysms: the Essen experience in 70 patients | Fathallah Islim |
| 16:00 | END of ALICE 2023 |
How to find the venue?
Theater und Philharmonie Essen GmbH (TUP) RWE Pavillon
Huyssenallee 53 45128 Essen
Organization
Klinik für Neuroradiologie
Alfried Krupp Krankenhaus
Rüttenscheid
Alfried-Krupp-Straße 21
45131 Essen
Accreditation
The accreditation for ALICE 2025 will be applied by the Ethical Med and information will follow soon
Congress Organization
cme4u GmbH
Denise Thom
Röntgenstrasse 7-9,
60388 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Phone +49 (0)6109 6960760
Fax +49 (0) 6109–6960769
Email: d.thom@cme4u.org
CME Credits
Please keep in mind that due to rules and regulations we can provide your CME credits and certificate only if you have filled in the evaluation form which you can request by email from the congress organization, Denise Thom d.thom@cme4u.org.
The certificate of attendance will be sent by email to you.