Asymptomatic Carotid Surgery Trial (ACST) Asymptomatic Carotid Surgery Trial (ACST)
Collaborators
Meetings
Malmö, May 2003
In May 2003 many of our collaborators came to our meeting in Malmö, Sweden. It was lovely to see so many of you there.
We started the meeting on the Friday night with a lively debate 'Medical treatment makes carotid surgery irrelevant” with Dr Henrik Sillesen and Professor Torben Schroeder for the proposal and Professor Charles Warlow and Professor Ross Naylor against, followed by a lovely fish buffet at the Malmö Sauna House.
On Saturday morning Professor Charles Warlow talked about NASCET/ECST and Dr Dafydd Thomas spoke about medical treatment for symptomatic trial patients. Miss Alison Halliday presented a talk about trials in asymptomatic patients to date and Professor Richard Peto spoke about current medical treatment for asymptomatic/symptomatic patients. A summary of the preliminary ACST 5-year results were then presented.
In the afternoon results were presented in further detail by Miss Alison Halliday, Professor Richard Peto, Dr Dafyyd Thomas and Professor Michael Harrison.
After all
that information we needed time to relax! Dinner was at the Margaretta Pavillion
(where the photo above was taken).
Thank YOu
We would like to say an especially big thank you to both Dr Mätzsch and Dr Gottsäter from Malmö General Hospital for all their hard work ensuring that the meeting was a sucess and was great fun.
December
2000
The 3rd ACST Collaborators Meeting was held at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford from Friday the 15th to Sunday the 17th of December 2000. A welcome reception in the charming ambiance of Balliol College was followed by a thorough assessment of the traditional Oxford pubs.
The following day over 100 collaborators joined the scientific meeting, which was opened with an overview of the progress of ACST since 1993. Angela Rau gave an outline of the total ACST recruitment profile, followed by presentations on the progress of ACST in Italy, Spain, Hungary, Poland, and Sweden.
Dr Dafydd Thomas updated us with the incidence of fatal, disabling, and minor strokes, and he re-iterated the importance of classifying each stroke according to the characteristics used by NASCET. Professor Vaughan Ruckley rounded up the session with an informative presentation on auditing major events within ACST.
