Focus: Valve 2025

16^th Training Course for Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Surgery

September 21 - 24, 2025 | Innsbruck | Austria

Valve Surgery under RE-CONSTRUCTION

Day 2 | Monday | September 22 | 2025

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

08:30 - 09:00	Welcome
	Honorary guest lecture: Valve meets Support: The Role of ECLS in Heart Valve Interventions		Lorusso R
09:00 - 12:00	Live surgeries Moderation: Pomar JL Panel: Kocher A, Dinges C
	Case presentations live from the OR Live surgery 1: Bio-Bentall with a dedicated device Surgeon: Grimm M Live surgery 2: Endoscopic aortic valve replacement triangulated technique Surgeon: Bonaros N
10:00-10:30	Coffee break
	Presentations Block 1: Aortic valve/ concomitant disease AV Exposure in RAT When to use rapid deployment and sutureless valves Endoscopic Bentall Endoscopic treatment of HOCM Live-in-a-box: TAVI valve explanation		Babliak O Fischlein J Dzemali O Balkhy H Walther T
12:00-13:00	Lunch break
13:00-14:00	Technology corner Chair: Walther T, Zimpfer D
	Dedicated robotic instruments for cardiac surgery TMVI TTVI Transapical treatment of HOCM Epygon: the mono-cusip transcatheter mitral valve		Palmen M Zierer A Dahle G Quintana E Salizzoni S
14:00-14:30	Keynote lecture: Secondary mitral regurgitation: Personalized paths to treatment
	Reichenspurner H
14:30-18:00	Live surgeries Moderation: Perier P Panel: Borger M, Benussi S, Berrebi A, Zimpfer D
	Case presentations live from the OR Live surgery 3: Endoscopic mitral/ tricuspid Surgeon: Doenst T Live surgery 4: Endoscopic mitral repair - P2 Surgeon: Gollmann-Tepeköylü C
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
	Presentations Block 2: Robotic \| endoscopic \| direct vision Live-in-a-Box: Concomitant AV/ MV Direct vision axillary Endoscopic Robotic From 3D mini to ports-only robotic		Pitsis A Wilbring M Pitsis A Balkhy H Kempfert J
18:00	End of Day 2

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