Chair: Marie Josee van Rijn (Netherlands), Sandip Nandhra (United Kingdom), Emma Wilton (United Kingdom), A. Kürşat Bozkurt (Turkey)
1. Audience Polling
2. Will we all get varicose veins? Prevalence and risk factors of chronic venous disease and varicose veins in a general population
Speaker: Marie Josee van Rijn (Netherlands)
3. No concession on compression! VenUS-6: A randomised controlled trial
Speaker: Catherine Arundel (York, United Kingdom)
4. To strip or not to strip? Ten-year outcomes of a randomized clinical trial of endothermal ablation versus conventional surgery for great saphenous varicose veins
Speaker: Ian Chetter (United Kingdom)
5. No knife, no heat; sounds promising! A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials comparing thermal versus non-thermal endovenous ablation in superficial venous incompetence
- Speaker: Armando Mansilha (Portugal)
6. Flushing out the truth: Is Flush EVLA superior? A randomised, single-blind, controlled trial comparing Flush Endovenous Laser Ablation with standard Endovenous Laser Ablation of the great saphenous vein
Speaker: Tamana Alozai (Netherlands)