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VHP Spotlight—Great Debates in Vascular Medicine
You decide which expert wins the following debates, using our audience response system!

• Should iliofemoral DVT be treated with catheter-based intervention?
• Have endovascular stents changed indications for AAA repair?
• Is renal stenting the preferred treatment of renal arterial stenosis?
• Is RAS inhibition is the best therapy for hypertension with diastolic dysfunction?
• Should pulse pressure guide antihypertensive therapy?
• Are mineralocorticoid abnormalities an underestimated cause of hypertension?
• Should patients with hypertriglyceridemia be treated to a TG goal of <150 mg/dl?
• Should patients at intermediate CHD risk undergo preclinical screening?
• Should all patients at increased CHD risk be treated with statins?

Joint Symposium: American College of Cardiology/European Society of Cardiology

• Raising HDL: Any new hope?
• LDL therapies: Latest statin information
• Women and lipids
• Obesity and hyperlipidemia

More Highlights
Current strategies in hyperlipidemia

• Assessing global risk
• Combination therapies
• Safety of lipid therapies
• Novel approaches

Status of endovascular revascularization in peripheral arterial disease: From the carotids to the iliofemoral arteries

Thrombosis and anticoagulation

• Evidence-based diagnosis and treatment of venous thromboembolic disease
• Heparin induced thrombocytopenia
• New anticoagulants

Practical skills
Testing in the vascular lab

• Arterial and venous duplex ultrasound
• Physiologic testing of the lower extremities
• Training and credentialing requirements

Nuts and bolts of pulmonary arterial hypertension

• When should you suspect pulmonary arterial hypertension?
• Diagnostic algorithm, interpreting results
• New imaging techniques and biomarkers
• Treatment choices: Treatment of early disease, combination therapies, novel therapeutics

Plus Register for the SCAI Annual Scientific Session in Partnership with ACC i2 Summit and you get:

• Cerebrovascular interventions: Acute stroke intervention, advances in embolic protection, managing carotid stent complications
• Peripheral interventions: Tips and tricks
• Expert debate: Is carotid stenting appropriate for asymptomatic patients?
• Critical limb ischemia: Evolving options, technologies, and techniques

Click here for more information about SCAI-ACCi2.