Focus: Valve 2026

17th Training Course for Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Surgery

September 13 - 16, 2026  |  Innsbruck  |  Austria

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DAY 3 | TUESDAY | SEPTEMBER 15 | 2026

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

08:30 -08:35ICU Update
Surgeon on duty
08:35 - 08:50The beginnings of endoscopic valve surgery - Breaking the sternotomy barrier
Perier P
08:50 - 09:00Case presentations from the OR
09:00 - 12:00Live surgery block 3
Moderation: Reichenspurner H
Panel: Zierer A, Schachner T, Palmen M, Berrebi A
Echo from the OR: tba - Whiteboard: Treede H
 

Live surgery 5: 3D endoscopic repair for PML prolapse
Surgeon: Lakew F
Learning points: Port placement, the snall-technique for repair

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, identation

10:00 - 10:30Coffee break
 

Presentations Block: Master course in endoscopic valve surgery

  • My best trick 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
12:00 - 13:00Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30Atrial 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 - 18:00Live 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: Endoscopic mitral and tricuspid repair in atrial secondary pathology 
Surgeon: Girdauskas E
Learning points: Cannulation strategies, ring selection for atrial secondary MR/TR. tipps for tethering

16:00 - 16:30Coffee 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
    Conradi L
  • Forget the trcuspid
    Zacharias J
     

Young patient with cardiomyopathy 37% EF and secondary ventricular MR

  • TEER with new generation devices
    Hausleiter J
  • Surgery with subvalvular techniques
    Färber G

PART 2: Let's be honest….
Moderation: Golllmann-Tepeköylü C
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…
Mini
Robotic
Transaxillary

Topic 3: The aortic valve will come back…
Only without sternotomy
It does not matter

18:00End of Day 3