Focus: Valve 2025

16th Training Course for Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Surgery

September 21 - 24, 2025  |  Innsbruck  |  Austria

Precision in motion: Shaping the future of endoscopic valve surgery

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Day 2 | Monday | September 22 | 2025

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

08:30 - 09:00Welcome
 Honorary guest lecture: Valve meets Support: The Role of ECLS in Heart Valve InterventionsLorusso R
09:00 - 12:00Live surgeries
Moderation: Pomar JL
Panel: Dinges C, Pitsis A, Di Eusanio M, Färber G, Laufer G
 

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

10:00-10:30Coffee break at the exhibition hall
 Presentations Block 1: Aortic valve/ concomitant disease
  • AV Exposure in RAT
  • When to use rapid deployment and sutureless valves
  • Mini-Bentall
  • Transapical treatment of HOCM (online)
  • Live-in-a-box: TAVI valve explanation
 

Babliak O
Fischlein T
Dzemali O
Fang J
Walther T
10:00-11:00SKILLS LAB:
Aortic and mitral endoscopic simulators, aortic and mitral on a simulator open surgery simulators, MICS & ECMO Cannulation Trainer
meeting point: registration desk
12:00-12:30Keynote lecture:
From scope to clip:
 A modern journey in secondary mitral regurgitation treatment
 Reichenspurner H
12:30-13:30Lunch break at the exhibition hall
13:30-14:30The technology corner
Chair: Walther T, Zimpfer D
 Dedicated robotic instruments for cardiac surgery
TMVI
TTVI
Endoscopic treatment of HOCM (online)
Epygon: the mono-cusip transcatheter mitral valve
Palmen M
Zierer A
Dahle G
Balkhy H
Salizzoni S
14:30-18:00Live surgeries
Moderation: Perier P
Panel: Borger M, Benussi S, Berrebi A, Zimpfer D, Laufer G
 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
Echo commentary: Berrebi A
16:00 - 16:30Coffee break at the exhibition hall
 Presentations Block 2: Robotic | endoscopic | direct vision
Live-in-a-Box: Mitral valve repair after TEER
  • Direct vision axillary
  • Endoscopic
  • Robotic
  • From 3D mini to ports-only robotic
 

Treede H
Wilbring M
Pitsis A
Palmen M
Pereda D
15:00-16:00SKILLS LAB:
Aortic and mitral endoscopic simulators, aortic and mitral on a simulator open surgery simulators, MICS & ECMO Cannulation Trainer
meeting point: registration desk
18:00End of Day 2