Postgraduate Course
SYMPOSIUM ON LEFT HEART LESIONS: FROM A TO Z
Postgraduate Course Committee
Chair: Christo I. Tchervenkov, Montreal, Canada
Marcelo B. Jatene, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Zohair Al-Halees, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Sertac M. Cicek, Istanbul, Turkey
Jose Fragata, Lisbon, Portugal
Viktor Hraska, St. Augustine, Germany
Jeffrey P. Jacobs, St. Petersburg, USA
Marshall L. Jacobs, Baltimore, USA
Richard A. Jonas, Washington, USA
Tom Karl, Brisbane, Australia
James K. Kirklin, Birmingham, USA
Christian Kreutzer, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hiromi Kurosawa, Tokyo, Japan
Eduardo Sancho, Campinas, Brazil
Nestor Sandoval, Bogota, Colombia
Giovanni Stellin, Padova, Italy
Session 1: 8:00 – 10:30
Morphology and Diagnosis of Left Heart Lesions
Chairmen
Marcelo B. Jatene, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Giovanni Stellin, Padova, Italy
Christo I. Tchervenkov, Montreal, Canada
8:00 Welcome from Local Host & Chairman, Program Committee Marcelo B. Jatene
Sao Paulo, Brazil
8:05 Welcome from President Giovanni Stellin
Padova, Italy
8:10 Welcome from Chairman, Postgraduate Course
Christo I. Tchervenkov
Montreal, Canada
8:15 Morphology of the Left Ventricle, Nature’s perfect systemic pump
(including morphology of aortic valve, mitral valve and aortic arch)
Vera D. Aiello
Sao Paulo, Brazil
8:45 Imaging in Left Heart Lesions I:
The Role of Echocardiography including 4D echo
Simone Pedra
Sao Paulo, Brazil
9:00 Imaging in Left Heart Lesions II:
The Role of CT, MRI Cesar Nomura
Sao Paulo, Brazil
9:15 Imaging in Left Heart Lesions III: The Role of Angiography Adrian Dancea
Montreal, Canada
Oral Abstract 1 (09:30 – 10:30)
9:30 Oral 1 Abstract 139
FROM SCREENING TO SURGERY: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY NETWORK IN NORTHEAST BRAZIL
Sandra Mattos, Claudio Regis, Juliana De Araujo, Lucia Moser, Thamine Hatem, Carolina De Freitas, Felipe Mourato, Rossana Severi, Renata Gomes, Sheila Hazin
Heart Network de Pernambuco, Recife, BRAZIL
9:45 Oral 2 Abstract 146
EXIT ANGIOGRAPHY AND INTRAOPERATIVE STENTING IN A HYBRID ROOM: IMPACT ON MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AND OUTCOMES
Rodrigo Costa, Marcelo Ribeiro, Luis Camanha, Paulo Chaccur, Glaucio Furlanetto, Virginia Santana, Valmir Fontes, Simone Pedra, Daniela Kreuzig, Carlos Pedra
Cardiology Institute Dante Pazzanese, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
10:00 Oral 3 Abstract 85
EFFECT OF RECENTLY TREATED INFECTION ON OUTCOMES OF SURGERY FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
Arun Ramaswamy, Sreedevi Kh, Neeraj Awasthy, Ashutosh Marwah, Vishal Singh, Rajesh Sharma
Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi, INDIA
10:15 Oral 4 Abstract 119
MIDTERM RESULTS OF RIGHT AXILLARY MINI-THORACOTOMY: A COSMETIC ROUTE TO REPAIR CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS IN CHILDREN
Luciana Da Silva, Jose Da Silva, Jose Baumgratz, Rodrigo Castro, Rodrigo Bezerra, Jose Vila
Hospital Beneficencia Portuguesa, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
Break: 10:30 – 11:00
Session 2: 11:00 – 13:00
Mitral Valve Lesions
Chairmen: Jose Fragata, Lisbon, Portugal
John W. Brown, Indianapolis, USA
James Munene, Nairobi, Kenya
11:00 Epidemiology of Rheumatic Heart Disease in developing countries
Multiple valve involvement
Sandra Mattos
Recife, Brazil
11:15 Surgical treatment in rheumatic mitral valve disease
Jose Fragata
Lisbon, Portugal
11:30 Catheter intervention for mitral stenosis in children: results and perspectives
Anita Saxena
New Delhi, India
11:45 Conservative mitral valve repair techniques in congenital lesions (other than AV canal) Giovanni Stellin
Padova, Italy
12:00 Innovative approaches to mitral valve replacement in children
John W. Brown
Indianapolis, USA
12:15 Results of mitral valve replacement: biological versus mechanical prosthesis
E. Samuel Ramirez Marroquin
Mexico City, Mexico
Stella Van Praagh Lecture (12:30 – 13:00)
“Stella Van Praagh and the cardiac morphologists: More than students and educators, partners of cardiac surgeons! “
Vera Aiello
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Introduced by Marcelo Jatene, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Lunch Symposium 1
13:00 – 14:00
Fetal Interventions: Where are we in 2014?
Session 3: 14:30 – 16:00
Left Ventricular Outflow Tract I
Chairmen: Hiromi Kurosawa, Tokyo, Japan
Adel Elgamal, Mansoura, Egypt
Pedro A. Becker, Santiago, Chile
14:30 Image details of LVOT to plan an adequate operation
Valeria de Melo Moreira
Sao Paulo, Brazil
14:45 Anatomy of the LV outflow tract and conduction system Hiromi Kurosawa
Tokyo, Japan
15:00 Critical aortic stenosis in the neonate: Surgical spectrum from biventricular to univentricular hearts Christopher Caldarone
Toronto, Canada
15:15 Critical aortic stenosis in the neonate and infant: Balloon dilatation Johnathan Rome
Philadelphia, USA
15:30 Critical aortic stenosis in the neonate and infant: Surgical Aortic valvuloplasty Viktor Hraska
St. Augustine, Germany
15:45 Hypoplastic Left Heart Complex Christo I. Tchervenkov
Montreal, Canada
Break: 16:00 – 16:30
Session 4: 16:30 – 18:30
Left Ventricular Outflow Tract II
Chairmen: Zohair Al-Halees, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Patricia M. de Oliveira, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Robin H. Kinsley, Johannesburg, South Africa
16:30 Aortic Valve repair for aortic stenosis or regurgitation
Richard Jonas
Washington, USA
16:45 Long-term results Ross operation in neonates and infants
Jennifer Hirsch-Romano
Ann Arbor, USA
17:00 Long-term results of the Ross operation in children
Zohair Al-Halees
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
17:15 Ross Konno and modified Konno operations for complex LVOTO
Tom Spray
Philadelphia, USA
17:30 Surgical management of subaortic stenosis and recurrences
Sertac Cicek
Istanbul, Turkey
17:45 Surgical treatment of supravalvar aortic stenosis
Kirsten Finucane
Auckland, New Zealand
18:00 Long-term outcome following aortic valve replacement with mechanical or tissue valves in children Tjark Ebels
Groningen, Netherlands
18:15 Long-term anticoagulation strategies Jorge Carneiro
Sao Paulo, Brazil
