Ancona Virtual Live Course MINIMALLY INVASIVE AND TRANS-CATHETER CARDIAC SURGERY From Theory to Practice

Due to the major disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Minimally Invasive and Transcatheter Cardiac Surgery post-graduate meeting, which was going to occur in Ancona, is being converted into a virtual live course to be presented by CTSNet on June 8-9, 2020. Most of the original invited faculty will be taking part in the virtual event.

The Minimally Invasive and Transcatheter Cardiac Surgery Virtual Course will be held on a highly interactive online platform. The original distinguished international faculty will share techniques and opinions on minimally invasive and transcatheter techniques for the treatment of aortic and mitral valve disease.

Further information about the scientific program and participation in the Virtual Live Course presented by CTSNet will be communicated shortly.

We thank you for understanding our difficult decision to cancel the 2020 in-person meeting, and for your commitment to the success of this year’s Virtual Live Course. Next year’s in-person meeting is scheduled to take place June 7-8, 2021, in Ancona.

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our Post-graduate Meeting ‘Minimally Invasive and Trans- catheter Cardiac Surgery’ (June, Ancona, Italy) has been converted in the new Ancona Live Virtual Course that will be presented on CTSNet on June 2020, 8th and 9th.

We stay home..but we move on! Cardiac surgeons are resilient!

Given the current excellence of our cardiac surgical results, I strongly believe both perioperative QoL and promptness of recovery should become new hard clinical end-points of our specialty. The achievement of this new ambitious goal cannot be separated from a wider use of minimally invasive techniques and catheter-based techniques that cardiac surgeons have to embrace with vigor if they really aim remaining patients’ interlocutors and key-players in the management of structural heart diseases.

Therefore, not in Ancona, but within a virtual conference hall presented by CTSNet, a prestigious faculty of international opinion leaders and experts will explain their prevailing vision of cardiac surgery and share their minimally invasive and trans-catheter approaches for the treatment of aortic and mitral valve diseases.

The conference format will adapt to its new virtual nature. Shortly, we will have:

• one session per day, each of 120 minutes (aortic and mitral valve)
• each session will contemplate a few opening lectures given by opinion leaders in the field followed by rapid-fire presentations where experts will present, and defend, their own minimally invasive approaches.
• interactivity between the faculty and the attendees will be ensured by real-time virtual chat, ballot and an appropriate time for discussion.
• the conference will be archived by CTSNet so others can have later access.

I believe our Ancona Virtual Live Course presented by CTSNet may represent for all stakeholders an opportunity to evolve by adapting to the unprecedented time we are experiencing. While offering an attractive and diverse scientific program, the Faculty, the Audience, CTSNet and the Sponsors,  will have the opportunity to show that we are resilient and that, ALL TOGHETER, WE WILL GET THROUGH THIS!

We are looking forward to welcoming you on CTSnet for an unforgettable educational and opinion exchange experience.

Prof Marco Di Eusanio

Virtual Live Course
June 8-9, 2020

June 8, 2020

Session 1 – AORTIC VALVE
Chairmen: T. Nguyen, M. Rinaldi

4.00 pm Introduction – M. Di Eusanio
4.05 pm Trends and real words outcomes in transcatheter valve interventions: report from the STS/ACC TVT REGISTRY – J. Bavaria
4.20 pm TAVR and SAVR in 2020: where do we go from here? – F. Musumeci 
4.35 pm 360° mini-AVR: going beyond ‘a small cut’ – M. Di Eusanio

MiniAVR: Why I Do it
4.50 pm Ministernotomy – T. Yan
4.55 pm Right anterior minithoracotomy – M. Solinas
5.00 pm Transaxillary – U. Kappert
5.05 pm Endoscopic – L. Salvador
              Online ballot and discussion

5.30 pm Is TAVR done by cardiac surgeons as good as TAVR done by cardiologists? – M. Cassese

What is the best reoperative AV intervention?
5.45 pm ViV – T. Nguyen
5.50 pm Redo (mini) AVR – M. Glauber
              Online ballot and discussion

June 9, 2020

Session 2 – MITRAL VALVE
Chairmen: M. Borger, F. Maisano

4.00 pm Minimally invasive is ‘gold standard’ in mitral valve surgery – M. Borger
4.15 pm Trans catheter mitral valve surgery: the present and the perspectives – O. Alfieri

Mini MVR: Why I Do it
4.30 pm Direct vision Transaxillary – M. Di Eusanio
4.35 pm Video assisted / fully endoscopic – M. Solinas
4.40 pm Robotic – E. Navarra
4.45 pm Transapical chordal repair – G.Gerosa
              Online ballot and discussion

5.10 pm Evolving as a surgeon: Incorporating trans catheter mitral techniques into your practice. – F. Maisano
5.25 pm Step-by-step guide in edge-to-edge mitral valve repair – a surgeon’s perspective – P. Denti
5.35 pm Is TMVR ready for prime time? – T. Modine
              Online discussion
Closing remarks – M. Di Eusanio

REGISTRATION
Registration is free. if you are interested in joining the Course, please fill in the form HERE

To attend the Virtual Course and get more info click HERE

CONTACTS
Monica Falzoni
Email m.falzoni@noemacongressi.it
Ph. +39 051 230385

FACULTY

Ottavio Alfieri, Milano – Italy
Joseph Bavaria, Philadelphia – USA
Michael Andrew Borger, Leipzig – Germany
Mauro Cassese, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG) – Italy
Paolo Denti, Milano – Italy
Marco Di Eusanio, Ancona – Italy
Gino Gerosa, Padova – Italy
Mattia Glauber, Milano – Italy
Utz Kappert, Dresden – Germany
Francesco Maisano, Zurich – Switzerland
Thomas Modine, Lille – France
Francesco Musumeci, Roma – Italy
Emiliano Navarra, Bruxelles – Belgium
Tom Nguyen, Houston – USA
Mauro Rinaldi, Torino – Italy
Loris Salvador, Vicenza – Italy
Marco Solinas, Massa – Italy
Tristan D. Yan, Sydney – Australia

We would like to express our gratitude to our industry partners for their continued support and commitment, which enhance and encourage the dialogue as an essential tool for learning and sharing scientific information with other professionals in cardiothoracic surgery, at a time when connection is fundamental.