Focus: Valve 2026

17^th Training Course for Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Surgery

September 13 - 16, 2026 | Innsbruck | Austria

DAY 3 | TUESDAY | SEPTEMBER 15 | 2026

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

08:30 -08:35	ICU Update Surgeon on duty
08:35 - 08:50	The beginnings of endoscopic valve surgery - Breaking the sternotomy barrier Perier P
08:50 - 09:00	Case presentations from the OR
09:00 - 12:00	Live surgery block 3 Moderation: Glauber M Panel: Zierer A, Schachner T, Berrebi A, Laufer G Echo from the OR: tba - Whiteboard: Palmen M
	Live surgery 5: 3D endoscopic repair for PML prolapse Surgeon: Treede H Learning points: Port placement, repair with free-hand chordae Live surgery 6: Robotic mitral repair Surgeon: Pereda D (live from Barcelona) Learning points: Port placement, valve exposure, robotic repair using free-hand chords 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
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee break
	Presentations Block: Master course in endoscopic valve surgery My best trick to address major annular calcifications Benussi S My best tricks for redos in fibrillating heart Dzemali O My best tricks for a mini-MVR in patients with hostile thorax Modi P My best tricks for endoscopic mitral repair and biatrial ablation Suwalski P The HOCHM innovation: surgical percutaneous septal radiofrequency ablation Zhou R
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30	Atrial fibrillation: From stepchild to spotlight Moderation: Castella M, Benussi S
	How to detect silent AF (watches, ECG, ILR) Reinstadler S PFA ablation Osorio E New clamps for ablation Heuts S Anticoagulation after valve surgery: Are we overtreating or taking risks? Milojevic M
14:30 - 18:00	Live surgery block 4 (Case presentation from the OR) Moderation: Alfieri O Panel: Andreas M, Castella M, Dahle G, Di Eusanio M, Berrebi A Echo from the OR: tba, Whiteboard: Andreas M
	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 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
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
	Debate Session PART 1: Let's Argue with Facts – 5 Slides to Convince Me Patient with primary MR, mild TR, annulus 40 Do the tricuspid Dreyfus G Forget the tricuspid Kofidis T PART 2: Let's Be Honest… Moderation: Pitsis M Panel: Perier P, Pomar J-L, Alfieri O, Dreyfus G, Grimm M Topic 1: Endoscopic valve surgery: Star surgeon or many players? Elite technique or daily practice? (Live Poll) Topic 2: Posterior leaflet repair 2035: the majority of surgeons will do…(Live poll) - Mini - Robotic - Transaxillary Topic 3: The aortic valve will come back…(Live poll) - Only without sternotomy - It does not matter End of Day 3

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