Conferences & Presentations 2000 - 2017

Selected Presentations

2nd International Anglo-Brazilian Workshop on Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Royal Free Hospital-University College London, London, UK. 4th-5th September 2013.
“Saphenous vein for CABG: structural distortions and more...”

Lifestyle and Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Diseases: The Satellite Symposium of the 20th European Society for Hypertension Scientific Meeting, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. 14-16th June 2010.
“On vascular and neural changes in experimental diabetes and treatment.”

The Prof. Miroslaw Mossakowski Memorial Lecture: "Saphenous vein as an aorto-coronary bypass: the newest data."12 December 2006.
Invited by Polish Academy of Sciences Division VI Medical Sciences and the M.Mossakowski Medical Research Center, Warsaw.

Cardiovascular Science and Medicine Day at UCL, Institute of Child Health. 5 May 2005.
"Is venous smooth muscle affected by harvesting procedure for coronary artery bypass surgery? iNOS and cell-to-cell communication."

The Role of Nitric Oxide in Cardiovascular System, Medical Institutes of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava. April 8-10, 2005
"Search for the causes of vein graft failure in coronary bypass surgery".
Slovak Academy of Sciences Workshop (sponsored by COST European Science Foundation).

5th UK NO Forum, Medical School, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland. 20th December 2004
"Damaged smooth muscle cells of saphenous vein during harvesting for CABG are immunoreactive for iNOS: ultrastructural findings."

Polish Academy of Sciences M. Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Warsaw, Poland. 14th October, 2004
"On the harvesting and structure of saphenous vein for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)."

Polish Academy of Sciences Medical Research Centre, Warsaw, Poland. 5th September 2000.
"Vasoactive substances of vascular endothelium, and blood flow."

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Other Presentations

Loesch A, Dooley A, Shi-Wen X, Abraham DJ, Dashwood MR, Dreifaldt M, Souza DSR (2008) Human saphenous vein vascular smooth muscle cells mechanically damaged during vein harvesting as coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) co-express iNOS and ET-1. The Physiological Society Themed Meeting: "Vascular and Smooth Muscle Physiology", King's College London, 15-17 December 2009. Abstracts p81-82.

Dashwood MR, Loesch A (2008) Improved vein graft performance in coronary artery bypass surgery patients is achieved by reducing surgical trauma: a protective role of tissue NO. 8th Meeting of France - New EU Members 16th JMRC Symposium "New Frontiers in Cardiovascular Research", 5th - 7th June, Krakow, Poland. Abstracts: 39, p. 56.

Loesch A, Dashwood MR (2008) Saphenous vein conventionally harvested for coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) co-expresses iNOS and ET-1 in damaged vascular smooth muscle cells. 8th Meeting of France - New EU Members 16th JMRC Symposium "New Frontiers in Cardiovascular Research", 5th - 7th June, Krakow, Poland. Abstracts: 40, p. 56.

Loesch A (2008) Immunoelectron microscopy. Hands-On Electron Microscopy, Course Presenter. Institute of Orthopaedic & Musculosceletal Science, UCL, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust Campus, Stanmore, UK. February 2008.

Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology UCL, Science Away Weekend, University of Surrey, 24-25 June, 2006. "On blood vessels in health and pathology." Loesch A.

Cardiovascular Science and Medicine Day at UCL, Institute of Child Health. 2 May 2006. "Does disruption of saphenous vein vasa vasorum during harvesting for coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) contribute to graft failure?" Dashwood MR, Dreifaldt M, Souza DSR, Loesch A.

6th UK NO Forum, British Pharmacological Society 2005 Winter Meeting, Institute of Education, UCL. 19th December 2005.
"Are iNOS and ET-1 induced and co-localised in damaged smooth muscle cells of saphenous vein harvested for CABG?". Loesch A, Dashwood MR, Souza DSR.

12th Meeting of the London Vascular Biology Forum, King's College London. 2 November 2005.
"Injured smooth muscle cells of saphenous vein during harvesting for CABG express immunoreactive ET-1: ultrastructural findings." Loesch A, Dashwood MR, Souza DSR.

Cardiovascular Science and Medicine Day at UCL, Institute of Child Health. 5 May 2005.
"Coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG), vein graft failure and nitric oxide (NO)." Dashwood M, Loesch A, Dooley A, Shi-Wen X, Abraham D, Johansson B, Souza DSR.

5th UK NO Forum, The Medical School Teviot Place, Edinburgh. 20th December 2004.
"A role for NO in vein graft failure due to surgical trauma during coronary artery bypass surgery".
Savage K, Loesch A, Souza DSR, Dashwood MR.

International Society for Heart Research Satellite Meeting, University of Hong Kong, China. Aug. 13-15, 2004.
"Endothelial damage due to surgical trauma: a major contribution to vein graft failure in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery". Dashwood MR, Tsui JCS, Loesch A, Filbey D, Karlsson MG, Souza DSR.

Autonomic Neuroscience Institute (ANI), Royal Free and University College Medical School. Seminar. 15 July 2004.
Surgical trauma: a major cause of vein graft failure. Dashwood MR, Loesch A.

Cardiovascular Science and Medicine Symposium, Institute of Child Health, UCL, London, UK. April 30, 2004.
"Exposure of surgical trauma to saphenous vein for CABG: transmission and scanning EM findings". Loesch A, Dashwood MR, Filbey D, Souza DSR.

Cardiovascular Science and Medicine Symposium, Institute of Child Health, UCL, London, UK. April 30, 2004.
"Surgical trauma, nitric oxide and vein graft failure in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery". Dashwood MR, Dooley A, Loesch A, Filbey D, Souza DSR.

Department of Molecular Pathology and Clinical Biochemistry, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London Seminar. 28 April 2004.
"Harvesting saphenous vein for coronary artery bypass surgery". Souza DSR, Dashwood MR, Loesch A.

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