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Deep Dive Lab

Ticketed Event
Deep Dive

Deep Dive: Advanced Endovascular Strategies for Critical Limb Threatening Ischemia (CLTI)

Saturday, April 11, 2026
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET
Location: 701A

Note: Tickets are required to attend. Add the Deep Dive to your SIR 2026 meeting experience during the registration process.

This intensive, case-based course provides practicing interventional radiologists with advanced strategies in the evaluation and endovascular management of critical limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI). Emphasis is placed on complex anatomy, chronic total occlusions (CTOs), below-the-ankle/pedal loop revascularization, deep venous arterialization for the “no-option” patient, and considerations for hybrid/multidisciplinary approaches. Through interactive lectures, live case reviews, technical pearls, and hands-on skills lab, participants will develop expertise in decision-making, advanced device techniques, complication management, and optimizing complex limb salvage outcomes.

Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Accreditation Statement: The Society of Interventional Radiology is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement: The Society of Interventional Radiology designates this live activity for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The deadline to claim CME credit for SIR 2026 is December 31, 2026, at 11:59 PM ET.

Disclosure of Financial Relationships: The planners and faculty for this activity did not have any relevant relationships with ACCME-defined ineligible companies to disclose unless listed here. All relevant relationships were mitigated prior to the start of the activity according to The Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.

Learning Objectives:

  • Recognize and classify CLTI: Apply updated Global Vascular Guidelines (GVG), WIfI (Wound, Ischemia, foot Infection) staging, and imaging criteria to risk stratify patients.
  • Master advanced crossing strategies: Compare and employ antegrade, retrograde, transcollateral, pedal, and combined access techniques for complex infrainguinal occlusions.
  • Optimize below-the-knee and pedal interventions: Select devices and techniques for infrapopliteal revascularization, pedal loop reconstruction, and below-the-ankle interventions.
  • Understand the principles and patient selection for deep venous arterialization (DVA). Perform technical steps of DVA: crossing into the venous system, outflow creation, and adjunctive therapies.
  • Integrate new technologies: Assess evidence and best practices for drug-coated balloons, drug-eluting stents, atherectomy, intravascular lithotripsy, microcatheters, and specialty wires in CLTI.
  • Manage complications: Anticipate and treat dissection, perforation, embolization, and no-reflow syndromes in high-risk tibial and pedal interventions.
  • Incorporate a multidisciplinary approach: Incorporate opportunities to collaborate with other CLTI specialties including vascular surgery, podiatry, wound care, and infectious disease to maximize limb salvage and patient outcomes.
  • Evaluate real-world cases: Apply advanced endovascular strategies through interactive review of complex case scenarios, including bailout and hybrid solutions.

Presentations:

  • 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET
    CLTI Management – Data & Guidelines

    Speaker: Alok Bhatt, MD – Kaiser Permanente

  • 1:15 PM - 1:30 PM ET
    Endovascular Treatment of CFA Disease: Data & Interventions

    Speaker: Timothy W.I Clark, MD, FSIR, MS – University of Pennsylvania; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

  • 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM ET
    SFA 1 – Native, Heavily Calcified

    Speaker: Brian J. Schiro, MD, FSIR, RPVI – Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute / Radiology Associates of South Florida

  • 1:45 PM - 2:00 PM ET
    SFA 2 – Prior Open/endovascular Interventions, Occluded Bypasses or Stents

    Speaker: Ansar Z. Vance, MD, MS – University of Pennsylvania

  • 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM ET
    Non-aneurysmal Popliteal Disease Management

    Speaker: Raisa Durrani, MD – Charlotte Radiology

  • 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM ET
    Tibial Interventions

    Speaker: Amy C. Taylor, MD, MBA (she/her/hers) – University of Virginia

  • 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM ET
    Below-the-ankle Interventions

    Speaker: Constantino Pena, MD – Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute

  • 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM ET
    New Frontiers: Deep Venous Arterialization and Percutaneous Transmural Arterial Bypass

    Speaker: Nicholas Petruzzi, MD, FSIR – Vascular Institute of Atlantic Medical Imaging

  • 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET
    Wound Care in the IR Clinic

    Speaker: Kumar Madassery, MD – Rush University Medical Center, Rush Oak Park

  • 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM ET
    Hands-on Lab/simulations

    Hands-on Faculty: Mike Watts, MD, FSIR – Atlantic Medical Imaging

    Hands-on Faculty: Geogy Vatakencherry, MD, FSIR – Kaiser Permanente physician

    Hands-on Faculty: Assaf Graif, MD (he/him/his) – ChristianaCare

    Hands-on Faculty: Christopher J. Grilli, DO, FSIR – Christiana Care

    Hands-on Faculty: Sabeen Dhand, MD – Harbor UCLA Medical Center

    Hands-on Faculty: Yolanda Bryce, MD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center