EDITORIAL
Dual inhibition pathway after interventions for peripheral arterial Disease Konstantinos Spanos, George Kouvelos, Miltiadis Matsagkas Vascular Surgery Department, University Hospital of Larissa, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

AORTIC DISEASE
Open repair of suprarenal and thoracoabdominal type IV aneurysms using the “roof top” approach. A single center early experience Petros K. Chatzigakis1 , Vasileios Katsikas1 , Andreas M. Lazaris2 , Emmanouil Barmparessos1 , Georgios Geropapas1 , Alexios Kalamaras1 , Mikes Doulaptsis1 , Alexandros Kalogeromitros3 , Georgios C. Kopadis1 1Department of Vascular Surgery “G. GENNIMATAS” Athens General Hospital 2 Department of Vascular Surgery, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “ATTIKON” University Hospital, Athens Greece 3 Critical Care Unit, “G. GENNIMATAS” Athens General Hospital

Early experience with the Incraft® device for endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair George Kouvelos1 , Petroula Nana1 , Konstantinos Mpatzalexis1 , Konstantinos Spanos1 , Athanasios Haidoulis1
Metaxia Mpareka2 , Eleni Arnaoutoglou2 , Miltiadis Matsagkas1 1Department of Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 2 Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

The impact of graft surface area of polyester stentgrafts on post implantation syndrome after EVAR Mete Gursoy1 , Serkan Ketencıler1 , Mehmet Atay2 , Cihan Yucel1 , Haluk M. Ozgoz1 , Burcin C. Karademir1 , Melek Yılmaz1 , Nihan Kayalar1 1 Prof. Dr. Cemil Tascioglu City Hospital Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Turkey 2 Bahçelievler State Hospital Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Turkey

VENOUS DISEASE
Catheter-Directed Interventions (CDIs) for Acute Pulmonary Embolism: a 10-year single-center experience Sina Asaadi, MD, Patrick Cherfan, MD, Adham N. Abou Ali, MD, Rabih A. Chaer, MD, Efthymios D. Avgerinos, MD Division of Vascular Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa, USA

CASE REPORTS
Combination of the Chimney Technique and an iliac-branched device for the repair of a failed EVAR Petroula Nana1 , George Kouvelos1 , Konstantinos Batzalexis1 , Konstantinos Spanos1 , Katerina Koutsothymiou2 , Eleni Arnaoutoglou2 , Miltiadis Matsagkas1 1Department of Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 2 Department of Anesthesiology, Facu

In situ needle fenestration for revascularization of the left subclavian artery during thoracic endovascular aortic repair John D. Kakisis, Konstantinos G. Moulakakis, George S. Sfyroeras, Andreas M. Lazaris, Christos Verikokos, Andreas I. Panagiotopoulos, Georgios N. Theoharopoulos, Nikolaos T. Krinos, George M. Pappas, Alexandra Terzoglou, Anastasios Pyliotis, George Geroulakos Department of Vascular Surgery, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “Attikon” University Hospital, Athens, Greece

The unusual case of total occlusion of the three splanchnic arteries and the infrarenal aorta Petroula Nana1 , George Kouvelos1 , Konstantinos Mpatzalexis1 , Anastasios Maskanakis1 , Metaxia Mpareka2 , Eleni Arnaoutoglou2 , Miltiadis Matsagkas1 1Department of Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 2 Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

A proposition: Don’t push ENDO in such intriguing lesions Gerasimos Papacharalampous, Christiana Anastasiadou, Anastasios Papapetrou, Sotirios Giannakakis, Chrisostomos Maltezos Department of Vascular Surgery – General Hospital of Attica “KAT”, Athens, Greece

VASCULAR IMAGE
The “draped aorta” sign Polyzois Tsantrizos, MD, MSc1 , Spyros Papadoulas, MD, PhD1 , Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos MD, MSc, PhD1 , Peter Zampakis, MD, PhD2 , Eleftheria Spanou1 , Stavros K. Kakkos, MD, MSc, PhD, DIC, RVT3 1Vascular Surgery Department, Patras University Hospital, Patras-Greece 2 Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Patras University Hospital, Patras, Greece 3 Associate Professor & Chairman, Vascular Surgery Department, Patras University Hospital, Patras, Greece