Focus: Valve 2026

Live Case 1: 3D endoscopic aortic valve procedure
Surgeon: Pitsis A

Learning points: Incision, port placement, mitral and aortic valve expossure, automated suturing

Live surgery 3: Endoscopic mitral repair for anterior leaflet prolapse
Surgeon: Girdauskas E

Learning points: Patient placement, root exposure, safe coronary buttons re-implantation

Live surgery 5: 3D endoscopic repair for PML prolapse
Surgeon: Treede H

Learning points: Port placement, repair with free-hand chordae

Live surgery 8: 
Mini-mitral with concomitant endocardial ablation and LAA clipping
Surgeon: Doll N

Learning points: Access for MVR+Afib treatment, anatomy of ablation lines, safe LAA occlusion

Live surgery 2: Transaxillary AVR using a tissue valve
Surgeon: Di Eusanio M

Learning points: Patient placement, transaxillary access, valve exposure and replacement

Live surgery 4: Repair techniques for anterior and commissural prolapse
Surgeon: Höfer D

Learning points: Port placement, preparatory steps, Barlow's repair

Live surgery 7: 3D endoscopic repair in complex anatomy
Surgeon: Gollmann-Tepeköylü C, Bonaros N

Learning points: Step-by-step valve repair using pre-measured loops, how to deal with identations

Live surgery 9: 
Aortic valve repair with concomitant atrial fibrillation surgery 
using a bipolar ablation clamp - Surgeon: Bonaros N

Learning points: Valve evaluation for repair or replacement, full box lesion for atrial ablation