Local Host: Masaaki Yamagishi, Kyoto, Japan
Local Committee:
Chair: Masaaki Yamagishi, Kyoto, Japan 
 Co-Chair: Hiromi Kurosawa, Tokyo, Japan 
 Hajime Ichikawa, Osaka, Japan
 Akio Ikai, Morioka, Japan 
 Hiroshi Imoto, Kagoshima, Japan  
 Hideaki Kado, Fukuoka, Japan 
 Masaaki Kawada, Tochigi, Japan   
 Kiyozo Morita, Tokyo, Japan
 Kisaburo Sakamoto, Shizuoka, Japan
 Shunji Sano, Okayama, Japan 
 Takaaki Suzuki, Saitama, Japan 
 Takayoshi Ueno, Osaka, Japan
 Naoki Yoshimura, Toyama, Japan
Thursday, November 26, 2015 
 Governing Council Meeting – 18:00 to 21:00
 Buffet Dinner
PROGRAM
Postgraduate Course
CHALLENGES AND COMPLEX SURGERY 
 IN MALFORMATIONS OF THE VENTRICULOARTERIAL CONNECTIONS IN RIGHT AND LEFT HEART
Program Committee
Co-Chairs: Masaaki Yamagishi, Kyoto, Japan
 Hiromi Kurosawa, Tokyo, Japan
 Christo I. Tchervenkov, Montreal, Canada
Hafil Abdulgani, Djakarta, Indonesia
 Zohair Al-Halees, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 Carl L. Backer, Chicago, USA  
 Pedro A. Becker, Santiago, Chile
 Drissi Boumzebra, Marrakesh, Morocco 
 John W. Brown, Indianapolis, USA
 Victor Caicedo, Bogota, Colombia 
 Jorge Cervantes, Mexico City, Mexico
 Chung-I Chang, Taipei, Taiwan
 Sertac M. Cicek, Istanbul, Turkey
 Joseph A. Dearani, Rochester, USA
 Tjark Ebels, Groningen, Netherlands
 Frank Edwin, Accra, Ghana
 Kirsten Finucane, New Zealand
 Jose Fragata, Lisbon Portugal 
 Viktor Hraska, Sankt Augustin, Germany
 Hajime Ichikawa, Osaka, Japan
 Akio Ikai, Morioka, Japan 
 Hiroshi Imoto, Kagoshima, Japan  
 Jeffrey P. Jacobs, St Petersburg, USA
 Marshall L. Jacobs, Baltimore, USA
 Marcelo B. Jatene, Sao Paulo, Brazil 
 Richard A. Jonas, Washington, USA 
 Tae-Gook Jun, Seoul, South Korea
 Hideaki Kado, Fukuoka, Japan 
 Masaaki Kawada, Tochigi, Japan  
 James K. Kirklin, Birmingham, USA
 Martin Kostolny, London, United Kingdom
 Christian Kreutzer, Buenos Aires, Argentina 
 Jinfen Liu, Shanghai, China
 Krishna Iyer, New Delhi, India
 Kiyozo Morita, Tokyo, Japan 
 James Munene, Nairobi, Kenya
 Hani Najm, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 
 Ericka Perez Albrecht, Cochabamba, Bolivia
 James St. Louis, Kansas City, USA
 Kisaburo Sakamoto, Shizuoka, Japan
 Piya Samankatiwat, Bangkok, Thailand
 Eduardo Sancho, Campinas, Brazil 
 Nestor Sandoval Bogota, Colombia
 Shunji Sano, Okayama, Japan
 Rajesh Sharma, New Delhi, India
 Toshiharu Shinoka, Columbus, USA 
 Sivakumar Sivalingam, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
 Takaaki Suzuki, Saitama, Japan 
 Masashi Takahashi, Niigata, Japan 
 James S. Tweddell, Milwaukee, USA
 Takayoshi Ueno, Osaka University 
 Susan Vosloo, Cape Town, South Africa 
 Qing-Yu Wu, Beijing, China
 Naoki Yoshimura, Toyama, Japan
Friday, November 27, 2014 
 8:15 to 17:30
8:15 Welcome from Local Host   
 Masaaki Yamagishi
 Kyoto, Japan
8:20 Welcome from President, WSPCHS
 Hiromi Kurosawa
 Tokyo, Japan
8:25 Welcome from Executive Director & Founding President, WSPCHS
 Christo I. Tchervenkov
 Montreal, Canada
Special Morning Lecture 8:30 – 9:00
Chairman: Hiromi Kurosawa, Tokyo, Japan
 8:30 Morphology of the Left and Right Ventricular Outflow Tracts  
 Robert H. Anderson
 London, United Kingdom
Session 1: 9:00 – 10:30
Surgery for LVOTO
Chairmen:   Masaaki Yamagishi, Kyoto, Japan 
 Hiromi Kurosawa, Tokyo, Japan 
 Christo I. Tchervenkov, Montreal, Canada
 9:00  The complex spectrum of critical LVOTO: impact of associated mitral valve abnormalities & ventricular hypoplasia 
 Thomas L. Spray
 Philadelphia, USA
9:15 Surgical Aortic Valvuloplasty versus Balloon Aortic Dilatation
 John W. Brown
 Indianapolis, USA
 9:30 Experience with the Ross and Ross-Konno Operation
 Zohair Al-Halees
 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
9:45 Outcomes of small aortic prosthesis in children and young adults
 Drissi Boumzebra 
 Marrakesh, Morocco
10:00 Aortic root valve–sparing operations 
 Duke Cameron
 Baltimore, USA
10:15 Critical LVOTO: Lessons learned from the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database 
 Jeffrey P. Jacobs
 St. Petersburg, USA
10:30 – 11:00 Break: Posters and Exhibits
Session 2: 11:00 – 12:30
Basic Science Session
Chairmen:   Richard A. Jonas, Washington, USA
 Eduardo Sancho, Campinas, Brazil
 Toshiharu Shinoka, Columbus, USA
11:00 Anomalies of ventriculo-arterial connections and immature brain development 
 Nobuyuki Ishibashi
 Washington DC, USA
11:15 Tissue engineered valves   
 Toshiharu Shinoka 
 Columbus, USA
11:30 Development of cardiac tissues with the ability for independent cardiac assistance using cell sheet based tissue engineering
 Hidekazu Sekine
 Tokyo, Japan
11:45 The World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
 Marshall L. Jacobs, 
 Editor-in Chief, WJPCHS
 Baltimore, USA
Lunch Seminar 12:30 – 13:30
Ventricular Assist Devices & Transplantation for Congenital Heart Disease: Current State of the Art
Chairmen:   James K. Kirklin, Birmingham, USA
 Victor Caicedo, Bogota, Colombia
 Takayoshi Ueno, Osaka, Japan
12:30 Evolution of Ventricular Assist Devices & Berlin Heart
 Roland Hetzer
 Berlin, Germany
13:00 Current status of heart transplantation for CHD
 James K. Kirklin
 Birmingham, USA
Konno Memorial Lecture 13:30 – 14:00
Chairman: Masaaki Yamagishi, Kyoto, Japan
13:30 The Konno Operation
 Hiromi Kurosawa
 Tokyo, Japan
Session 3: 14:00 – 15:30
Complex Surgical Management RVOT
Chairmen: Sertac M. Cicek, Istanbul, Turkey
 Piya Samankatiwat, Bangkok, Thailand
 Naoki Yoshimura, Toyama, Japan
14:00 Surgical Treatment for PA, IVS  
 Jinfen Liu
 Shanghai, China
14:15 PA, IVS with RV Dependent Coronary Circulation
 James St. Louis
 Kansas City, USA
14:30 Surgical treatment of Tetralogy of Fallot, absent pulmonary valve syndrome    
 Richard A. Jonas
 Washington, USA
14:45 Valve-sparing techniques for repair of Tetralogy of Fallot     
 Kisaburo Sakamoto
 Shizuoka, Japan
15:00 Repair of PA, VSD, MAPCA’s 
 Takaya Hoashi
 Osaka, Japan
15:15 Truncus arteriosus with interrupted aortic arch 
 Sertac M. Cicek
 Istanbul, Turkey
15:30 – 16:00 Break: Posters and Exhibits
Session 4: 16:00 – 17:30
Late Surgical Management RVOT
Chairmen: Joseph A. Dearani, Rochester, USA
 Ericka Perez Albrecht, Cochabamba, Bolivia
 Kisaburo Sakamoto, Shizuoka, Japan
16:00 Late reoperations after repair of Tetralogy of Fallot
 Jose Fragata
 Lisbon, Portugal
16:15 Restrictive versus Nonrestrictive Physiology late after repair of TOF
 James S. Twedell
 Milwaukee, USA
16:30 Use of decellularized homografts for PV replacement   Masamichi Ono, 
 Munich, Germany
 16:45 Pulmonary valve replacement with stented bioprosthesis
 Joseph A. Dearani
 Rochester, USA
17:00 Is there a role for mechanical valve prosthesis for pulmonary valve replacement   
 Tjark Ebels
 Groningen, Netherlands
17:15 PTFE patch for outflow tract reconstruction 
 Takako Miyazaki, 
 Kyoto, Japan
 17:30 Pulmonary valve replacement with Contegra grafts
 John W. Brown
 Indianapolis, USA
Welcome Dinner Reception 19:00 – 21:00
 (All attendees)
Saturday November 28, 2015  
 8:30 to 17:40
Special Morning Lecture 8:30 – 9:00
Chairman: Hiromi Kurosawa, Tokyo, Japan
8:30 Morphology of Conotruncal Anomalies 
 Robert H. Anderson
 London, United Kingdom
Session 5: 9:00 – 10:30
Complex Surgical Management: Conotruncal Anomalies I
Chairmen:   Marcelo B. Jatene, Sao Paulo, Brazil 
 Susan Vosloo, Cape Town, South Africa
 Takaaki Suzuki, Saitama, Japan
9:00 What is the role of palliation in Tetralogy of Fallot?
 Carl L. Backer
 Chicago, USA
9:15  Effect of high altitude on timing and surgical treatment of patients with conotruncal anomalies
 Nestor Sandoval
 Bogota, Colombia 
 9:30 Cardiac Surgery for Conotruncal Anomalies in Sub-Saharan Africa
 Frank Edwin
 Accra, Ghana
9:45 Yasui operation in interrupted aortic arch with LVOTO 
 Toshihide Nakano
 Fukuoka, Japan
10:00 Primary Repair of Truncus Arteriosus: Alternatives to homografts
 Jorge Cervantes
 Mexico City, Mexico
10:15AtrioVentricular Groove Patch Plasty for Anatomically Corrected Malposition of the Great Arteries
 Kiyozo Morita 
 Tokyo, Japan
10:30 – 11:00 Break: Posters and Exhibits
Session 6: 11:00 – 12:00
Best Paper Presentations
Chairmen: Marshall L. Jacobs, Baltimore, USA
 Christian Kreutzer, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 Masaaki Kawada, Tochigi, Japan
11:00 Absrtact 1
11:10 Abstract 2
11:20 Abstract 3
11:30 Abstract 4
11:40 Abstract 5
11:50 Abstract 6
Lunch Seminar: 12:30 – 13:30
World Database for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery: 
 Defining the Future & the Needs in Asia
Chairmen:   James K. Kirklin, Birmingham, USA
 Nestor Sandoval, Bogota, Colombia
 Christo I. Tchervenkov, Montreal, Canada
 Kisaburo Sakamoto, Shizuoka, Japan
Speakers:     Sivakumar Sivalingam, Singapore
 Jun-Yen Pan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
 Si Chan Sung, Pusan, Korea
 Yasutaka Hirata, Tokyo, Japan
 Hani Najm, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 Rajesh Sharma, New Delhi, India
Adib Jatene Memorial Lecture 
 13:30 –14:00
Chairman: Hiroshi Imoto, Kagoshima, Japan
13:30  Title:
 Marcelo B. Jatene 
 Sao Paulo, Brazil
Session 7: 14:00 – 15:30
Complex Surgical Management: Conotruncal Anomalies II
Chairmen:   Hafil Abdulgani, Djakarta, Indonesia
 Pedro Becker, Santiago, Chile
 Hideaki Kado, Fukuoka, Japan
14:00 Repair of DORV, Tetralogy type    
 Qingyu Wu
 Beijing, China
14:15 Repair of the Taussig-Bing Heart
 Hani Najm
 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
14:30 DORV with Doubly-committed VSD: Surgical considerations
 Christo I. Tchervenkov
 Montreal, Canada
14:45 DOLV   Hiromi Kurosawa
 Tokyo, Japan
15:00 Biventricular Repair of ccTGA
 Tae-Gook Jun
 Seoul, Korea
15:15 Double Switch Operation for  in ccTGA    
 Chung-I Chang
 Taipei, Taiwan
15:30-16:00 Break: Posters and Exhibits
Session 8: 16:00 – 17:40
Complex Surgical Management: Conotruncal Anomalies III
Chairmen:   Zohair Al-Halees, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 Jeffrey P. Jacobs, St. Petersburg, USA
 Kiyozo Morita, Tokyo, Japan
16:00 Arterial Switch Operation for Intramural Coronaries
 Kirsten Finucane
 Auckland, New Zealand
16:15 Late Presentation TGA Shunji Sano
 Okayama, Japan
16:30 Late ASO After a Senning or Mustard
 Krishna Iyer
 New Delhi, India
16:45 Long-term outcomes of the Rastelli Operation for TGA, VSD, LVOTO
 Christian Kreutzer
 Buenos Aires, Argentina
17:00  Truncal switch for TGA, VSD, LVOTO 
 Masaaki Yamagishi 
 Kyoto, Japan
17:15 Surgical Options for TGA, IVS and LVOTO
 Martin Kostolny
 London, UK
17:30 Is there still a role for the Senning and Mustard Operation?
 Rajesh Sharma
 New Delhi, India
17:45 CLOSING REMARKS
Hiromi Kurosawa, Tokyo, Japan
 President, WSPCHS
Zohair Al-Halees, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 Local Host, 5th Scientific Meeting, WSPCHS
 October 27-30, 2016, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Christo I. Tchervenkov, Montreal, Canada
 Executive Director &  Founding President

