Program

07:00 – 08:00 Registration
08:30 – 09:45 SESSION 1 — Arterial Switch Operation: General Aspects
Marcelo Jatene, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Christo I. Tchervenkov, Montreal, Canada
I. Nyoman Semadi, Bali, Indonesia
08:30 Welcome from Local Hosts
Hafil Abdulgani, Jakarta, Indonesia
I. Nyoman Semadi, Bali, Indonesia
08:35 Welcome from the President
Marcelo B. Jatene, Sao Paulo, Brazil
08:40 Welcome from Executive Director
Christo I. Tchervenkov, Montreal, Canada
08:45 Historical Overview of the Development of ASO
Giovanni Stellin, Padova, Italy
09:00 Anatomical Consideration for Surgery for dTGA: Great Vessels, Ventricles & Coronary Anatomy
Hiromi Kurosawa, Tokyo, Japan
09:15 Pre and Post-operative imaging for dTGA
Girish Shirali, Kansas City, USA
09:30 Pre-operative Management and Optimal Timing for ASO
James D. St Louis, Kansas City, USA
09:45 Panel Discussion
10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:00 SESSION 2 — Arterial Switch Operation: dTGA
Richard A. Jonas, Washington, USA
Zohair Al-Halees, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Yopie A. Habibie, Banda Aceh, Indonesia
10:30 ASO for TGA/IVS & TGA/VSD: Surgical Techniques
Richard A. Jonas, Washington, USA
10:45 Closed Coronary Transfer Technique in ASO for TGA: Pitfalls and Technical Tips
Darshan Reddy, Durban, South Africa
11:00 ASO for TGA, IVS and Late Presentation
Sivakumar Sivalingam, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
11:15 Atrial Switch for TGA, IVS and Late Presentation
Adel Elgamal, Mansoura, Egypt
11:30 Management of Late Presentation for TGA, IVS: The Indonesian Experience
Pribadi W. Busro, Jakarta, Indonesia
11:45 ASO for TGA with Intramural Coronaries
Marcelo Jatene, Sao Paulo, Brazil
12:00 Keynote Lecture 1: The Arterial Switch Operation: What Can the Experience in India Teach Us?
Sachin Talwar, New Delhi, India
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 SESSION 3 — Arterial Switch Operation: TGA with LVOTO
Erle Austin, Louisville, USA
Giovanni Stellin, Padova, Italy
Paul Tahalele, Surabaya, Indonesia
14:00 Rastelli Operation for TGA/VSD/LVOTO
Zohair Al Halees, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
14:15 Role of the REV Operation for TGA/VSD/LVOTO
Krishna Iyer, New Delhi, India
14:30 Role of the Nikaidoh Operation for TGA/VSD/LVOTO
Chinnaswamy Reddy, Bengaluru, India
14:45 Surgical Options for TGA, IVS, LVOTO
Christo I. Tchervenkov, Montreal, Canada
15:00 – 16:30 SESSION 4 — Oral Abstracts 1 (1-6)
Erle Austin, Louisville, USA
Giovanni Stellin, Padova, Italy
Paul Tahalele, Surabaya, Indonesia
15:00 Oral 1: Timing of Arterial Switch Operation for Transposition with Intact Ventricular Septum: Challenges of Assessing Data Accuracy in the World Database
Rajesh Sharma, Nguyen Ly Thinh Truong, Byalal R Jagannath, Krishna S. Iyer, Cheul Lee, Erle H. Austin,Yasutaka Hirata, Sandre McNeal, James D. St. Louis, Christo I. Tchervenkov, Richard A. Jonas, Kirsten Finucane, Nestor F. Sandoval, Ulisses A. Croti, James K. Kirklin, New Delhi, India
15:15 Oral 2: Arterial switch operation with single coronary artery: Is it still a risk factor for early mortality?
Nguyen Ly Thinh Truong, Hanoi, Vietnam
15:30 Oral 3: Impact of the LV Mass index (LVMi) on the mortality of Primary Arterial Switch Operation in Transposition of Great Arteries with Intact Ventricular Septum
Satyagraha Pradipto, Budi Rahmat, Poppy S. Roebiono, Oktavia Lilyasari, Jakarta, Indonesia
15:45 Oral 4: Arterial Switch: variables predicting reoperation in a low volume center
Rui Pedro Soares Cerejo, Manuela Silva, Rui Alexandre Nobre Rodrigues, Conceição Trigo, José Inácio Guerra Fragata, Lisbon, Portugal
16:00 Oral 5: Use of Tissue Engineered Bovine Pericardial Patch (Cardiocel) for neopulmonary reconstruction in Arterial Switch Operation: Initial Experience
Biswa Panda, Mumbai, India
16:15 Oral 6: Coronary transfer techniques in unusual coronary anatomy in transposition of great arteries: Our experience
Ashutosh Singh, Srinivas Laxmivenkateshaiah, Dilip Chavan, Mahesh Thorat, Parmanand Andankar, Jayshree Balip, Sudhir Sane, Thane, India
18:00 – 21:00 World Society Governing Council Meeting
08:00 – 10:00 SESSION 5 — Arterial Switch Operation: ccTGA and Other Malformations
Hiromi Kurosawa, Tokyo, Japan
Sertac Cicek, Rochester, USA
Nuralim Mallapasi, Makassar, Indonesia
08:00 Anatomical Consideration for Surgery for ccTGA: Great Vessels, Ventricles & Coronary Anatomy
Hiromi Kurosawa, Tokyo, Japan
08:15 National History of ccTGA: the Fate of the Systemic Right Ventricle
James K. Kirklin, Birmingham, USA
08:30 Pre and post-operative imaging for ccTGA
Girish Shirali, Kansas City, USA
08:45 Arterial Switch/Mustard/Senning Operation for ccTGA
Rajesh Sharma, New Delhi, India
09:00 Rastelli/Mustard/Senning operation for ccTGA
Hiromi Kurosawa, Tokyo, Japan
09:15 Palliative ASO, Biventricular & Univentricular Hearts
Rajesh Sharma, New Delhi, India
09:30 ASO with Ventricular Septation for Univentricular Heart with TGA
Christo I. Tchervenkov Montreal, Canada
09:45 Panel Discussion
10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:30 SESSION 6 — Arterial Switch Operation: Management of Complications & Controversies
Jorge Cervantes, Mexico City, Mexico
David Winlaw, Sydney, Australia
Arief R. Hakim, Surabaya, Indonesia
10:30 Management of Pulmonary Obstruction following ASO
Sertac Cicek, Rochester, USA
10:45 ASO for TGA/DORV with Systemic Obstruction
David Winlaw, Sydney, Australia
11:00 Management of Coronary Stenosis/Occlusion following the ASO
Kisaburo Sakamoto, Shizuoka, Japan
11:15 Management of Neo Aortic Valve Regurgitation following the ASO
Yuki Nakayama, Tokyo, Japan
11:30 Role of Interventional Cardiology in dTGA/ccTGA
Anna Ulfah Rahayoe, Jakarta, Indonesia
11:45 Panel Discussion
12:00 – 12:30 Keynote Lecture 2: Anatomic Repair for ccTGA: Remaining Challenges and Long-term Outcome
Christian P. R. Brizard, Melbourne, Australia
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Seminar WS Research Committee
14:00 – 16:00 SESSION 7 — The World Database for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery in Asia: A Linkage to the Remainder of the World
James K. Kirklin, Birmingham, USA
James D. St. Louis, Kansas City, USA
Krishna Iyer, New Delhi, India
Kisaburo Sakamoto, Shizuoka, Japan
Christo I. Tchervenkov, Montreal, Canada
14:00 Introduction and Current State of the World Database
James D. St Louis, Kansas City, USA
14:10 Linkage Projects with National Congenital Heart Surgery Databases
Nick Timkovich, Birmingham, USA
14:20 Linkage of the Japanese Congenital Heart Surgery Database to the World Database
Yasutaka Hirata, Tokyo, Japan
14:30 Update on the National Database of China and Collaboration with the World Database
Alex Fong, Beijing, China
14:40 Congenital Heart Surgery in Korea
Cheul Lee MD, Seoul, Korea
14:50 Need for a National Congenital Heart Surgery Database in Vietnam
Nguyen Ly Thinh Truong, Hanoi, Vietnam
15:00 Congenital Heart Surgery in Malaysia: Need for a National Database
Sivakumar Sivalingam, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
15:10 How to Accomplish Risk Stratification and Assignment of Case Complexity on an International Scale
Rajesh Sharma, New Delhi, India
15:20 Collaboration Between the World Database and the CHSS
Erle Austin, Louisville, USA
15:30 Congenital Heart Surgery Database in Indonesia
Budi Rahmat, Jakarta, Indonesia
15:40 Congenital Heart Surgery Database in the Middle East
Zohair Al-Halees, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
15:50 Concluding Comments
James K. Kirklin, Birmingham, USA
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 18:00 SESSION 8 — Oral Abstracts 2 (7-12)
Beatriz Furlanetto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Piya Samankatiwat, Bangkok, Thailand
Fuad Jindan, Pekan Baru, Indonesia
16:30 Oral 7: Neoaortic regurgitation in patients with transposition long term after an arterial switch operation and its relation to the root diameters and surgical technique used
Krzysztof W. Michalak, Katarzyna Sobczak, Jacek J. Moll, Konrad Szymczyk, Jadwiga A. Moll, Maciej Moll, Lodz, Poland
16:45 Oral 8: Multimodal assessment of pulmonary valve regurgitation in adolescents and young adults with transposition of the great arteries after an arterial switch operation in relation to the surgical technique used
Maciej Moll, Krzysztof W. Michalak, Jacek J. Moll, Jadwiga A. Moll, Lodz, Poland
17:00 Oral 9: Tracheostomy in complex congenital heart surgery: A single centre experience from India
Sudip Dutta Baruah, Nagananda L, Baiju S Dharan, Sabarinath Menon, Sai Suraj Kotera, Sowmya Ramanan V, Saravanan Babu M S Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
17:15 Oral 10: Intermediate term developmental outcomes of Indian children after arterial switch operation single centre experience
Sowmya Ramanan,Soumya Sundaram, Arun Gopalakrishnan, Sabarinath Menon, Sudip Duttah Baruah, Baiju Sasi Dharan Trivandrum, Kerala, India
17:30 Oral 11: Heartware implantation and systemic tricuspid valve replacement for the treatment of severe congestive heart failure in an adult patient with unrepaired ccTGA and dextrocardia
Yousif Diyab, Duncan Hamilton, Tommaso Generali, Asif Hasan, Fabrizio De Rita, Mohammed ElHassan Diyab, United Kingdom
17:45 Oral 12: Linkage of the Congenital Division of Japan Cardiovascular Surgery Database to the World Database
Yasutaka Hirata, Tokyo, Japan
19:00 – 22:00 Gala Dinner
08:00 – 10:00 SESSION 9 — Arterial Switch Operation: Long Term Outcome
Igor Konstantinov, Melbourne, Australia
Jorge Cervantes, Mexico City, Mexico
Ito Puruhito, Surabaya, Indonesia
08:00 ASO for Failing Atrial Switch in TGA
Marcelo B. Jatene, Sao Paulo, Brazil
08:15 Role of Transplantation in TGA and ccTGA
James K. Kirklin, Birmingham, USA
08:30 Long Term Outcome Following ASO
Igor Konstantinov, Melbourne, Australia
08:45 Long Term Functional Status and Quality of Life
Igor Konstantinov, Melbourne, Australia
09:00 Incidence and Treatment of Late Arrhythmias Following ASO and Atrial Switch in dTGA and ccTGA
Waleed Manea, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
09:15 Neurodevelopmental Outcomes Following ASO
Richard A. Jonas, Washington, USA
09:30 Panel Discussion
10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:30 SESSION 10 — Video Session & Global Challenges
Frank Edwin, Accra, Ghana
Sivakumar Sivalingam, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Heroe Soebroto, Surabaya, Indonesia
10:30 Video 1: Epicardial release manoeuvre for difficult coronaries during Arterial Switch Operation
Girish Warrier, Kozhikode, India
10:45 Video 2: Pulmonary Root Translocation and Intra cardiac repair in a case of d-TGA with a large inlet VSD routable to aorta and severe sub valvular obstruction
Anil Dharmapuram, Secunderabad, India
11:00 Oral 13: The Utility of 3D Model in Facilitating Repair for Complex Transposition of the Great Arteries
Ting-Wei Lin, Wei-Ling Chen, Tsung-lung Yang, Jieh-Neng Wang, Chung-Dann Kan Tainan, Taiwan
11:15 Oral 14: Arterial Switch and Ventricular Septation for Correcting Univentricular Heart: Preliminary Experience
Shu-Chien Huang, Taipei, Taiwan
11:30 Management of TGA/IVS or TGA/VSD with Severe Pulmonary Artery Hypertension
Sachin Talwar, New Delhi, India
11:45 Surgery for TGA at High Altitude
Jorge Cervantes, Mexico City, Mexico
12:00 Surgery for TGA in Africa
Frank Edwin, Accra, Ghana
12:15 The Role of Guidelines for the Management TGA in Europe
Jose Fragata, Lisbon, Portugal
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Seminar: World Database for Pediatric & Congenital Heart Surgery
“Ethics and Patient Safety: Individual Rights First: Protecting the Confidentiality of the Patients.”

James D. St. Louis, Kansas City, USA
14:00 – 16:30 SESSION 11 — Global Council on Education for Congenital Heart Surgery: Focus in Asia
Richard A. Jonas, Washington, USA
Zohair Al-Halees, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Jinfen Liu, Shanghai, China
Christo I. Tchervenkov, Montreal, Canada
14:00 Welcome
Christo I. Tchervenkov, Montreal, Canada
14:05 Global Council on Education for Congenital Heart Surgery: Why Do We Need One?
Richard A. Jonas, Washington, USA
14:20 Competence and Certification for Congenital Heart Surgery in Japan
Kisaburo Sakamoto, Tokyo, Japan
14:30 Competence and Certification for Congenital Heart Surgery in China
Jinfen Liu, Shanghai, China
14:40 Competence and Certification for Congenital Heart Surgery in Korea
Tae-Gook Jun, Seoul, Korea
14:50 Competence and Certification for Congenital Heart Surgery in India
Krishna Iyer, New Delhi, India
15:00 Competence and Certification for Congenital Heart Surgery in Thailand
Piya Samankatiwat, Bangkok, Thailand
15:10 Competence and Certification for Congenital Heart Surgery in the Middle East
Zohair Al-Halees, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
15:20 Competence and Certification for Congenital Heart Surgery in Indonesia
Hafil Abdulgani, Jakarta, Indonesia
15:30 Competence and Certification for Congenital Heart Surgery in Vietnam
Nguyen Ly Thinh Truong, Hanoi, Vietnam
15:40 Competence and Certification for Congenital Heart Surgery in Malaysia
Sivakumar Sivalingam, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
15:50 Competence and Certification for Congenital Heart Surgery in Turkey
Sertac Cicek, Rochester, USA
16:30 Global Council on Education for Congenital Heart Surgery: Discussion of Mission, Objectives, Structure, and Composition
Christo I. Tchervenkov, Montreal, Canada
16:30 – 17:00 Special Closing Session
Hafil Abdulgani, Jakarta, Indonesia
Marcelo B. Jatene, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Christo I. Tchervenkov, Montreal, Canada
Sachin Talwar, New Delhi, India

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