SATURDAY OCTOBER 8

09:00 – 10:30 DEBATES ON HEART VALVE DISEASE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT

09:00 That this House believes transcatheter closure should be always the first option in paravalvular leak.

Chairs: Len Shapiro, Patrizio Lancellotti

  • Proposition: Patrick Calvert, Jeroen Bax | Expert Panel: Jan Kovac, Alain Berrebi
  • Opposition: Milind Desai | Expert Panel: Sam Nashef, Marc Radermecker
  • Results: Proposition votes / opposition votes / abstentions

09:30 That this House believes Ross procedure is the treatment of choice in young adults with bicuspid aortic valve.

Chairs: Clive Lewis, Conal Austin

  • Proposition: Serban Stoica | Expert Panel: Marjan Jahangiri, Agnès Pasquet
  • Opposition: Ravi De Silva | Expert Panel: Marius Berman, Neil Cartwright
  • Results: Proposition votes / opposition votes / abstentions

10:00 That this House believes surgical aortic valve replacement is the treatment of choice for aortic stenosis in patients predicted to have good surgical outcome and good life expectancy.

Chairs: David Philip Jenkins, Iqbal Malik

  • Proposition: Marjan Jahangiri | Expert Panel: Khalil Fattouch, Joseph Zacharias
  • Opposition: Mike O’Sullivan | Expert Panel: Thomas Modine, Mamta Buch
  • Results: Proposition votes / opposition votes / abstentions

 10:30  –  Coffee break in the exhibition hall 
Poster Display of accepted abstract

11:00 – 12:30 DEBATES ON HEART VALVE DISEASE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT

11:00 That this House believes minimally invasive mitral valve surgery should be an option for patients with severe degenerative mitral regurgitation.

Chairs: Narain Moorjani (SCTS), Mani Vannan

Proposition: Joseph Zacharias | Expert Panel: Steven Hunter, Max Baghai
Opposition: Francis Wells | Expert Panel: Norman Briffa, Marc Radermecker
Results: Proposition Votes / Opposition Votes / Abstentions

11:30 That this House believes transcatheter edge-to-edge repair in ventricular-secondary mitral regurgitation can provide a bridge to transplantation.

Chairs: Marius Berman, Eustachio Agricola

Proposition: Mamta Buch (BHVS) | Expert Panel: Felix Kreidel, Philippe Unger
Opposition: Stephen Pettit | Expert Panel: Patrizio Lancellotti, Gilbert Habib
Results: Proposition Votes / Opposition Votes / Abstentions

12:00 That this House believes transcatheter techniques will prevail in the treatment of isolated tricuspid regurgitation.

Chairs: Jonathan Byrne, Patrizio Lancellotti

Proposition: Francesco Maisano | Expert Panel: Mike Mullen, Felix Kreidel
Opposition: Gilles Dreyfus | Expert Panel: Francis Wells, Marc Radermecker
Results: Proposition Votes / Opposition Votes / Abstentions

 12:30  –  Lunch in the exhibition hall 
Poster Display of accepted abstract

13:30 – 14:30 SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM

14:30 – 15:30 CONTROVERSIES, DEBATES, GAPS IN VHD DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT

14:30 That this House believes transcatheter staged approach instead of surgery can be offered in multiple valve disease.

Chairs: Iqbal Malik, Max Baghai

  • Proposition: Charis Costopoulos | Expert Panel: Philippe Unger, Jonathan Byrne
  • Opposition: Norman Briffa | Expert Panel: Paul Modi, Sam Nashef
  • Results: Proposition votes / opposition votes / abstentions

15:00 That this House believes minimally invasive surgery should be considered for patients with previous sternotomy and patent LIMA, before transcatheter techniques.

Chairs: Khalil Fattouch, Mike Mullen

  • Proposition: Paul Modi | Expert Panel: Marjan Jahangiri, Steven Hunter
  • Opposition: Jonathan Byrne | Expert Panel: Felix Kreidel, Mamta Buch
  • Results: Proposition votes / opposition votes / abstentions

 15:30  –  Coffee break in the exhibition hall 
Poster Display of accepted abstract

16:00-16:30 FLASH NEWS: COMPANY: EDWARDS

Optimizing the result of surgical AVR and of future valve-in-valve TAVI (Inspiris Resilia, aortic root enlargement). Max Baghai, John Taghavi

16:30-17:00 OPTIMIZING THE RESULT OF TRANSCATHETER AVR AND MVR

Chairs: Charis Costopoulos, Mamta Buch
Speaker: Jaffar Khan

17:00 – 17:30 DEBATABLE SURPRISE IN A BOX CASES – WHAT SHOULD I DO? / WHAT DID I DO?

Chairs: Augustin Coisne, Patrizio Lancellotti
Expert Panel: Khalil Fattouch, Mamta Buch, Brian Campbell, Jonathan Weir-Mccall

17:00 Surprise in a box
17:00 Surprise case 1. Charis Costopoulos
17:10 Surprise case 2. Joseph Zacharias
17:20 Surprise case 3. John Taghavi

 17:30  –  Closing remarks 
Madalina Garbi

 Farewall coffee break