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Postgraduate Course

Saturday June 27th, 2009

Evolving Concepts and Techniques in Aortic Root Surgery

 

Course Directors:

Prof Charles Yankah, Dr David Adams, Dr Michael Borger & Prof Thomas Walther

 

Faculty

(to be confirmed)

David Adams, MD

Robert O Bonow, MD

Michael Borger, MD

Blase A Carabello, MD

Volkmar Falk, MD

Ulrich Gerckens, MD

Matthias Gutberlet, MD

Roland Hetzer, MD

Dieter Horstkotte, MD

Heinrich Koertke, MD

Francesco Maisano, MD

Friedrich W Mohr, MD

Hermann Reichenspurner, PhD

Jose Manuel Revuelta, MD

Maurice E Sarano, MD

Hans-Joachim Schaefers, MD

Hartzell V Schaff, MD

Hans-Hinrich Sievers, MD

Thomas Walther, MD

Sir Magdi Yacoub, FRS

Charles Yankah, MD

Preliminary Programme

 

Aortic root – Imaging and Surgery

Moderators: Prof Sir Magdi Yacoub (London), Hartzell Schaff (Rochester)

 

08.00 – 08.20

Molecular genetics of bicuspid aortic valve disease

 

Yacoub

(London)

08.20 – 08.40

Echocardiographic perioperative imaging of the aortic root

 

Sarano

(Rochester)

08.40 – 09.00

Imaging – CT and MRI

 

 

Gutberlet

(Leipzig)

09.00 – 09.20

Yacoub/David techniques: successes and failures

 

Schaefers

(Hamburg)

09.20 – 09.40

Relocation technique for a dislocated aortic root in ascending aortic aneurysm with Al

 

Hetzer

(Berlin)

09.40 – 10.00

Ross procedure in adults.  A vanishing concept?

 

Sievers

(Luebeck)

10.00 – 10.20

Prosthesis of choice at re-replacement of bioprostheses after structural valve deterioration

 

Yankah

(Berlin)

10.20 – 10.40

The current concept of long-term anticoagulation, self control

 

Koertke

(Bad Oeynhausen)

10.40 – 11.05

Refreshment Break

 

Inflammatory aortic valve disease

Moderators: Blase Carabello (Houston), Charles Yankah (Berlin)

 

11.05 – 11.25

Burn-out rheumatic aortic valve disease. Repair or replace? Predictability of repair

Revuelta

(Santander)

 

11.25 – 11.45

Indication and timing for surgery of bacterial and fungal aortic root endocarditis

 

Horstkotte

(Bad Oeynhausen)

11.45 – 12.05

Selection of valve replacement for acute aortic root endocarditis and redo-procedures

Borger

(Leipzig)

 

12.05 – 12.25

Reconstruction of LVOT for aortic root absess and ventricular aortic discontinuity

 

Schaff

(Rochester)

12.25 – 14.00

Lunch

 

Catheter-based approaches to semilunar valve disease

Moderators: Robert Bonow (Chicago), Thomas Walter (Leipzig)

 

14.00 – 14.20

Indications in high risk aortic valve disease: the Cardiologist’s view

Bonow

(Chicago)

 

14.20 – 14.40

Indications in high risk aortic valve disease: the Surgeon’s view

Adams

(New York)

 

14.40 – 15.00

Perspectives in imaging for transcatheter AVI

 

Falk

(Zurich)

15.00 – 15.20

An “inoperable” patient for a conventional surgery

Reichenspurner

(Hamburg)

 

15.20 – 15.40

Percutaneous approach to aortic valve implantation

Gerckens

(Siegburg)

 

15.40 – 16.00

Transapical aortic valve implantation/redo AVR

Walther

(Leipzig)

 

16.00 – 16.20

The cardiac surgeon as interventionalist

Maisano

(Mailand)

 

16.20 – 16.45

Refreshment Break

 

16.45 – 17.30

Panel discussion

 

17.30

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