Report on the Tripartite Meeting of the 7th Annual European Venous Forum, the Venous Forum of the Royal Society of Medicine and the American Venous Forum held at the Royal Society of Medicine, London 29 June–1st July 2006

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The 7th annual meeting of the European Venous Forum (EVF) was held in London at the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) from the 29th June to 1st July with great success under the presidency of Alun H Davies. It is the 1st time that the EVF joint forces with two other established venous societies: the Venous Forum of the RSM and the American Venous Forum (AVF). It was awarded 17 credit hours by the European Board of Vascular Surgery and 5 Continuing Professional development credits by the RSM. The meeting was a great success, attended by nearly 400 delegates from the UK, Europe, USA and Australia. More information about the meeting and the details of the scientific program appear in the eEJVES http://www.ejvesextra.com.

Keywords: European Venous Forum, American Venous Forum, Royal Society of Medicine Venous Forum, Venous disease, Report

The aim of the meeting was to address many issues with respect to the management of patients with venous disease. There was a plenary session which consisted of guest lectures, didactic sessions, case presentation, a debate and abstract presentations.

Over 100 abstracts were submitted and 30 were accepted for presentation. They were presented over the 2½ days, interspersed within the other sessions and invited lectures. Each abstract had a 10 minutes presentation followed by 10 minutes discussion, a format that has been successful since the formation of the EVF in 2000.

All participants received the excellent book “Venous disease simplified.” This comprises of chapters contributed by International authors and is edited by Alun H Davies, Tim A Lees and Ian F Lang (tsm publishing Ltd, 2006).

The EVF was founded in 2000, parallel to the AVF with the aim of presenting selected papers on venous disease of high scientific quality. Currently it has 263 members. The president of each EVF with his team, undertake to organize the congress locally. However, the registration, selection of papers and printing of the scientific program is done centrally from the organizing committee whose president is Professor A. N. Nicolaides.

One of the advantages of being member of the EVF (annual membership 55 Euro ie £40) is that the registration fee is very low for members.

Each year the EVF awards 3 prizes for the best presentations according to originality and quality. The 1st was given to RKG Eifell (no 29) and the 2nd to AM Van Rij (no 19). They are accompanied by Servier travelling grants to attend the following annual meeting of the AVF. The 3rd EVF prize was given to J Bergan (no 15). JR Scurr (no 14) and A Howard (no 11) received the RSM Venous Forum prizes.

The organisers of the meeting are extremely grateful to the following sponsors: Bioleitec, Sigvaris Britain Ltd, Tyco Healthcare, Medi UK, and WL Gore Associates and the 22 exhibitors who attended and supported the meeting.

The Gala dinner took place at the stylish Langhams Hotel on Friday.

The 8th meeting of the EVF will take place in Istanbul, Turkey from 29 June -1 July 2007 with president and organiser M. Kurtoglu. Further details are available from the www.europeanvenousforum.org or the executive secretary Anne Taft evenousforum@aol.com.

The scientific program appears below.

THURSDAY 29 JUNE 2006

Didactic Session

Diagnosis of Venous Disease. Tim Lees, Newcastle.

Ablation Techniques. Bruce Braithwaite, Nottingham.

Compression Techniques. Andrea Nelson, Leeds.

Scientific Session 1: Ulcers

Chairmen: R Corbett

Key Note Lecture: Ethnicity in Venous Disease.

Scientific Session 2: Outcomes

Chairmen: J Earnshaw, M Perrin

Scientific Session 3: Deep Venous Thrombosis

Chairmen: G Stansby, J Fareed

Invited Lecture: Thrombosis in Venous Disease. Tom Wakefield

Invited papers.

Chairmen: M Callum, JJ Guex

Therapeutic benefit of Daflon 500mg in the treatment of venous leg ulcers. P Coleridge-Smith, Lok C, Ramelet A-A

FRIDAY 30 JUNE 2006

Breakfast Session – Biolitec ELVeS Meeting:

Up-date on Endovenous Laser Oblitation

Chairman: Alun Davies

“Interesting Cases”

Chairmen: J Hobbs, P Zamboni

Scientific Session 4: Venous Diseases

Chairmen: J Wolfe, M Kurtoglu

DVT Prophylaxis – which modality, when? (Tyco Healthcare session)

Chairman: Alun Davies

Invited Lecture: Outcome Measures in Venous Disease. Greg Moneta, USA

Servier Travelling Fellowship Award Winners

Chairmen: B Eklof, T Wakefield

The Potential of a Venous Registry

Speakers: Mariella Catalano, Italy, Tim Lees, UK

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

SATURDAY 1 JULY 2006

Invited Lecture: Inflammation in venous disease. Paolo Zamboni, Italy

Scientific Session 5: Techniques of venous ablation

Chairmen: P Lamont, M Vandendriessche

Scientific Session 6: Imaging and Management

Chairmen: T Lees, A Comerota

Sclerotherapy Session

Chairpersons: Marianne Vandendriessche, Philip Coleridge-Smith