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15th Training Course for Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Surgery

September 15 - 18, 2024

Valve Surgery under RE-CONSTRUCTION

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Day 2 | Monday | September 16 | 2024

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

08:30 - 09:00Welcome
 Introductory lecture:
The art of visualization in mitral valve surgery
Theoretical lecture:
How to improve the results of a minimally invasive program by enhanced recovery after surgery		 
09:00 - 12:00Live surgeries
 Case presentations live from the OR
Live surgery 1
Transaxillary AVR
Surgeon: TBA
Learning objectives: TBA

Live surgery 2
Endoscopic AVR
Surgeon: TBA
Learning objectives: TBA

 

Discussion of strategies: panel

10:00-10:30Coffee break
 

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
 
12:00-13:00Lunch break
13:00-14:00Technology corner
 Beating heart neochords for complex pathologies
Transseptal beating heart neochords
Emerging valves for TTVI
TEER for complex pathologies
14:00-14:30Keynote lecture: Mitral valve repair 2030: End of story for surgery?
14:30-18:00Live surgeries
 Case presentations live from the OR
Live surgery 3
Endoscopic MV LAAO/LA Ablation
Surgeon: TBA
Learning objectives: TBA

Live surgery 4
Endoscopic MV
Surgeon: TBA
Learning objectives:TBA
Discussion of strategies: Panel
16:00-16:30Coffee break
 

Presentations block 2: Atrial fibrillation – What every surgeon needs to know
• Digital medicine and atrial fibrillation
• Ablation lines: the science behind it
• LA Ablation in mitral surgery: when to do
• LA Ablation in mitral surgery: when not to do
• Hybrid ablation: time for take-off

18:00End of Day 2