Programme


Thursday, September 2

08.30 Registration
08.45 Welcome

Aortic Valve

09.00 Severe Aortic Stenosis – Indications for Surgery

Marku Kupari, Meilahti University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

AVR in the Octogenarians

Per Wierup, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark

Aortic Valve Repair

Hans-Joachim Schäfers, Homburg/Saar, Germany

10.30 Coffee break with exhibitors
11.00 Transfemoral Aortic Valve Replacement

Knud-Erik Pedersen, Odense University Hospital

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation – experience and results from Rigshospitalet

Lene Kjær Olsen, Rigshospitalet, Denmark

Transapical Aortic Valve Replacement

Kaj-Erik Klaaborg, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark

Hemodynamics of Stented versus Stentless Aortic Valves

Jonas Funder, Århus University Hospital, Skejby

12.30 Lunch

The Pulmonary Valve

13.30 The Pulmonary Valve in the GUCH populations

Vibeke Hjortdal, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark

Reoperation for Heart Valve Disease

14.00 Reoperation for Heart Valve Disease – Techniques and pitfalls

Gösta Pettersson, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH, US

14.30 Coffee break with exhibitors

Endocarditis

15.00 Diagnosis, Indications, and Timing of Surgery

Henrik Egeblad, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark

Surgical Treatment

Gösta Pettersson, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH, US

17.30 Panel discussion

Friday, September 3

Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease

08.00 The natural history and indications for mitral valve surgery

Alain Berrebi, Hopital European, George Pompidou, Paris, France

Avoiding Systolic Anterior Motion (SAM)

Patrick M McCarthy, Northwestern Cardiovascular Institute, Chicago, US

Respect Rather Than Resect

Patrick Perrier, Bad Neustadt, Germany

Atrial fibrillation in Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease

Henrik Schersten, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

10.00 Coffee break with exhibitors

Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery

10.30 Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery using theHeart Port Access

Denis Bouchard, Montreal Heart Institute, Canada

Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair – First Danish experience

Lars Søndergaard, Rigshospitalet

Endoscopic Mitral Valve Repair

Per Wierup, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark

Transapical Mitral Valve Repair

Per Wierup, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark

12.30 Lunch

Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation

13.30 Diagnosis and Indications for Treatment

TBA

Surgical Treatment Strategies

Patrick M McCarthy, Northwestern Cardiovascular Institute, Chicago, US

Moderate Mitral Regurgitation in Patients Undergoing CABG – the MoMIC Trial

Per Wierup, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark

Tricuspidal regurgitation. Tricuspidal repair – current views

Dennis Bouchard, Montreal Heart Institute, Canada

15.30 Panel discussion
16.00 Adjourn
Kaj-Erik Klaaborg, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark