ESC 365 - Professor Alison Halliday

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Professor Alison Halliday

University of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland)

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Emeritus Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Oxford and Chair of the ESC Stroke Council. Alison is Past-President of the European Society for Vascular Surgery and Principal Investigator in the large ACST multi-national randomised Carotid Trials: ACST-1, recruited over 3000 patients, randomising to either carotid surgery with medical treatment, or to medical treatment alone. Results clearly showed that surgery for tight asymptomatic carotid stenosis reduced the subsequent 10-year risk of stroke; the 5 and 10-year trial results were published in the Lancet (2004,2010) ACST-2 compared surgery with stenting, again for tight asymptomatic carotid stenosis, and completed recruitment of 3625 patients. The 5-year results were presented as a 'hot topic' at ESC in August 2021 and simultaneously published in the Lancet. The trial is now in its final year of follow up and 10-year results should be available by September 2025 The ACST trials have influenced practice worldwide.

Sessions Presentations

Carotid plaque: epidemiology and evolution

Event: ESC Congress 2024

Topic: Carotid Disease

Session type: Moderated ePosters

Case-based cardiovascular collaborations: working together for a better future?

Event: ESC Congress 2024

Topic: Cardiovascular Surgery

Session type: Official Joint Session

Great Debates: acute stroke intervention - what's next after thrombectomy?

Event: ESC Congress 2024

Topic: Treatment

Session type: Great Debates

The floor is yours: bring your questions on minimising the risk of stroke during cardiovascular interventions

Event: ESC Congress 2024

Topic: Prevention

Session type: Bring your Questions

The Heart Failure-Stroke Complex Relationship

Event: ESC Heart & Stroke 2023

Topic: Stroke

Session type: Teaching Course

Wrap up

Event: ESC Heart & Stroke 2023

Topic: Stroke

Session type: Teaching Course

Welcome and Introduction

Event: ESC Heart & Stroke 2023

Topic: Stroke

Session type: Teaching Course

The heart and the brain

Event: ESC Congress 2023

Topic: Stroke

Session type: Moderated ePosters

ESC Geoffrey Rose Lecture in Population Sciences

Event: ESC Congress 2023

Topic: European Society of Cardiology

Session type: Special Session

Saving the brain and the peripheral arteries

Event: ESC Congress 2023

Topic: Clinical

Session type: Moderated ePosters

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