NOME UNITA VASCULAR AND ENDOVACSULAR SURGERY CLINIC

HEADQUARTERS

Offices and secretaried: Monoblocco 1st Floor

Clinic and Operating Rooms: Monoblocco 2^nd Floor

Clinic Beds at the “ Dozzinanti” Section –Monoblocco 10 th Floor

Outpatients clinic, Eco-color-doppler and Advanced wound care Office: Monoblocco “Rialzato” Floor

CHIEF PROFESSOR FRANCO GREGO

Secretary

Universitary teaching Session : LUISA MENEGHETTI – 0498212638 – luisa.meneghetti.1@unipd.it

Clinical Session: MARIAGRAZIA SECHI, MARIAGRAZIA BROGRARA, CHIARA GOBBO – 049.8212636 – chir.vascolare@aopd.veneto.it

CLINICAL ACTIVITIES

The Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Clinic of the Padova University, Chief Prof. F Grego, is one of the leading Clinic in the diagnosis and treatment of arterial diseases, either atherosclerotic, congenital, inflammatory, traumatic, with 30 available beds.

One of the pioneer Vascular Clinic in the management of arterial disease, is able to treat annually about 1200 patients with a 50 years experience in the treatment of ANEURYSMS of the abdominal aorta, thoracic aorta, thoraco-abdominal aorta, visceral and renals vessels, peripheral aneurysms (femoral, popliteal, carotid)

The Clinic treat also PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASES, where a stenosis or occlusion of the artery in different arterial region (carotid, vertebral, subclavian, innominate artery, visceral and renals, abdominal aorta and iliacs, femoro-popliteal and tibial vessels) may be the cause of life-threatening conditions.

Results obtained in terms of low-operative risk and excellent long term outcomes, make the Padova Vascular and Endovascular Clinic in the top ranked International Centers.

OPEN SURGERY

Allow to treat with a surgical approach the arterial disease in different region of the body. This method guarantee excellent early and long term results thanks to its “direct approach” to the lesion affected by atherosclerosis thanks to procedures as endoarterectomy, bypass or resection with substitution.

Surgical treatments are:

• CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY (AS ALSO FOR SUPRAOARTIC VESSELS)
• CAROTID BODY TUMORS RESECTION
• ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM REPAIR WITH PROSTHETIC GRAFT (ALSO THORACIC AND THORACO-ABDOMINAL)
• SURGERY OF VISCERAL AND RENAL ARTERIES
• SURGICAL BY-PASS WITH VEIN OR PROSTHETIC GRAFT
• LIMB SALVAGE
• DIABETIC FOOT TREATMENT
• VASCULAR RECONSTRUCTIONS AFTER TRAUMA

ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY

A section is dedicated to this approach, allow when indicated, to treat in local or regional anesthesia, (thanks to percutaneus access or mini incision) different arterial diseases. Thanks to an ednoluminal route several types of guides and catethers are used to advance and deploy stents or endografts or perform angioplasty. In selected cases custom endografts may be planned to be deployed in more complex aortic cases.

Endovascular interventions are:

• EVAR (ENDOVASCULAR AORTIC ANEURYSM EXCLUSION)
• TEVAR (THORACIC ENDOVASCULA ANEURYSM REPAIR)
• FENESTRATED ENDOGRAFT (FOR COMPLEX AORTIC ANEURYSM)
• BRANCHED ENDOGRAFT (FOR EXTENSIVE THORACOABDOMINAL ANEURYSM)
• CUSTOM ENDOGRAFT FOR AORTIC ARCH ANEURYSM
• ANGIOPLASTY AND STENTING OF CAROTID ARTERY, PERIPHERAL ARTERIES, VISCERAL AND RENAL ARTERIES
• POPLITEAL ANEURYSM EXCLUSION WITH ENDOGRAFTS

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

Major fields of interest:

• Endovascular treatment of aortic aneurysms (abdominal, thoracic and thoraco-abdominal)
• The role of new generation stent graft for the treatment of obstructive aorto-iliac lesions.
• New generation uncovered stents for carotid PTA and stenting
• The role of shunting during carotid endoarterectomy

Major National and International Collaborations

NAZIONAL:

• ILIACS (Italian Multicenter Registry on Primary Endovascular Treatment of Aortoiliac Occlusive Disease
• Italian PheoChromocitoma/Paraganglioma Network
• Triveneto Registry for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair with “Incraft” Endograft
• Padova-Modena Thoraco-Abdominal project for the study of bridging stent effect at early and midterm
• Padova-Trento Conformable Project.

 INTERNAZIONAL

• G.R.E.A.T. (Global Registry for Endovascular Aortic Treatment)
• ENDORSE Study Group - Meta-analysis of effect of stent design on carotid artery stenting (Collaboration with Utrecht University Medical Center, Netherlands)
• External iliac artery stenting outcomes (Padova, Oviedo, Spain)

TEACHING ACTIVITY

• Vascular and  Endovascular Recidency and Fellowship Program (5 years)
• Vascular and Endovascular Course for the School of Medicine

EQUIPE

Academic Instructors:

Prof. Franco Grego – Full Professor

Prof. Michele Antonello – Associate Professor Universitario

Prof. Michele Piazza – Associate Professor Universitario

Dott. Mirko Menegolo – Researcher

DOCTORS:

Piero Battocchio MD

Alberto Dall’Antonia MD

Carlo Maturi MD

Riccardo Campo Dall’Orto MD

Marco Zavatta MD

Luca Milan MD