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Day 2 | Monday | September 16 | 2024

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

08:30 - 09:00WelcomeAlfieri O
 Introductory lecture:
The art of visualization in mitral valve surgery
Müller L
 Theoretical lecture:
How to improve the results of a minimally invasive program by enhanced recovery after surgery
Kindo M
09:00 - 12:00Live surgeries
Moderator: Reichenspurner H
Panel: Di Eusanio M, Krane M, Pitsis A, Zimpfer D
 Case presentations live from the OR
Live surgery 1
Endoscopic AVR with conventional suturing
Surgeon: Bonaros N
Learning objectives: Patient positioning, CT-based planning, clamping, aortotomy, conventional suturing

Live surgery 2
Endoscopic AVR with automated suturing device
Surgeon: Bakhtiary F
Learning objectives: Endoscopic access, camera placement, clamping, automated suturing
 

Presentations Block 1: Let’s talk about access in MIVS

  • Hemisternotomy: the swiss army knife for valve surgery
  • Endoscopic valve surgery
  • Robotic valve surgery
  • Transaxillary access: no scope, no special tools
 

Dzemali O
Lakew F
Pereda D
Di Eusanio M
10:00-10:30Coffee break
10:00 - 11:00SKILLS LAB:
Aortic and mitral endoscopic simulators, aortic and mitral open surgery simulators, MICS & ECMO Cannulation Trainer
meeting point: registration desk (registration is free, limited number of participants)		Ben Gal Y
12:00-13:00Lunch break
13:00-14:00Technology corner
Yadav R, Andreas M
 Beating heart neochords for complex pathologies
Transseptal beating heart neochords
Emerging valves for TTVI
New tissue valves data		D'Onofrio A
TBA
Walther T
Casselman F
14:00-14:30Keynote lecture: Translational approach of valvular disease
 Holfeld J
14:30-18:00Live surgeries
Moderator: Alfieri O
Panel: Casselman F, Laufer G, Sadaba R, Schachner T, Zierer A
 

Case presentations live from the OR
Live surgery 3
Endoscopic MVR LAAO/LA Ablation
Surgeon: Doll K.-N.
Learning objectives: LAA occlusion, left atrial ablation lines, right atrial ablation lines, epicardial lesion, mitral repair

Live surgery 4
Ministernotomy double valve surgery
Surgeon: Grimm M, Gollmann-Tepeköylü C
Learning objectives: Access for double valve surgery, dealing with mitral annular calcifications, AVR with conventional suturing

Facilitator: Berrebi A

 

Presentations Block 2: Atrial fibrillation – What every surgeon needs to know

  • Digital medicine and atrial fibrillation
  • Concomitant surgical ablation with a new nanoseconds pulsefield ablation clamp
  • LA Ablation in mitral surgery: when to do
  • LA Ablation in mitral surgery: when not to do
  • Hybrid ablation: time for take-off
 

 

Bauer A
Ad N
Benussi S
Suwalski P
Castella M

16:00 - 16:30Coffee break
15:00 - 16:00SKILLS LAB:
Aortic and mitral endoscopic simulators, aortic and mitral open surgery simulators, MICS & ECMO Cannulation Trainer
meeting point: registration desk (registration is free, limited number of participants)		 Dzemali O
 
18:00End of Day 2