OPENING SESSION

Devices and Strategies for MICS

4:00-5:00 PM

Paving the way for the Surgeon of the Future
Sponsored by Corcym
Moderator: M. Castella

• Mastering mitral repair with MEMO 4D in trans-axillary approach
  C. Zingaro
• Transaxillary (MICLAT-S) in AVR using Perceval sutureless valves
  M. Wilbring
• Getting started with the trans-axillary approach:
  the perspective of Riga Stradins University
  P. Stradins
• Enabling the surgeon of the future: the importance of education
  V. De Angelis

5:00-6:00 PM

Innovation without limits. UnstOppable progress
Sponsored by Medtronic
Moderator: M. Solinas

• What is MICS nowadays
  M. Solinas
• Mitral ring repair with endoscopic approach
  L. Conradi
• AVR and surgical ablation treatment through anterior right minithoracotomy
  J. Fleerakkers

6:00-7:00 PM

Pioneering Structural Heart Care, Improving Lives
Sponsored by Edwards Lifesciences
Moderator: K. Zannis

• From guidelines to the OR: Positioning minimally invasive surgery in modern valve care
  T. Doenst
• Totally endoscopic surgery: what makes me love it
  J. Zacharias
• Robotic cardiac surgery: what makes me love it
  J. Kempfert
• Transaxillary valve surgery: what makes me love it
  M. Di Eusanio

Welcome

M. Di Eusanio, U. Kappert

Introduction
Transaxillary valve surgery: the concept

M. Di Eusanio

AORTIC VALVE

Chairmen: M. Di Eusanio, F. Grigioni, J. Kempfert, M. Solinas

FROM THE OR – CASE PRESENTATION

Live surgery 1
Transaxillary AVR (ERAS)

OR surgeon: M. Wilbring
OR moderator: U. Kappert

Live surgery 2
Transaxillary AVR (ERAS)

OR surgeon: C. Zingaro
OR moderator: K. Zannis

PRESENTATIONS

Options to avoid patients-prosthesis mismatch

1. PPM: what all surgeons should know
   P.G. Malvindi
2. LVOT index: new ideas
   A. Taghizadeh-Waghefi
3. Sutureless and rapid deployment valves
   P. Berretta
4. Root enlargement
   J. Kempfert
5. The Ross procedure
   J. Vojacek
6. TAVI
   G. Tarantini

Discussion

AVR and TAVI: follow up data and lifetime management

1. Interventional cardiologist’s perspective
   G. Tarantini
2. Surgeon’s perspective
   T. Doenst
3. Clinical cardiologist’s perspective
   F. Grigioni

Discussion

MITRAL and TRICUSPID VALVES

Chairmen: T. Doenst, T. Hanke, A. Pitsis, M. Wilbring

FROM THE OR – CASE PRESENTATION

Live surgery 3
Transaxillary Mitral and Tricuspid Valve repair (ERAS)

OR surgeon: U. Kappert
OR moderator: M. Castella

Live surgery 4
Transaxillary Mitral and Tricuspid Valve repair + AF abl + LAAM (ERAS)

OR surgeon: M. Di Eusanio
OR moderator: M. Kofler

PRESENTATIONS

Perfusion strategies and complex scenario

• Perfusion Stratiegis
  M. Wilbring
• REDO MV surgery
  J. Kempfert
• MAD
  M. Solinas
• Endocarditis
  J. Zacharias
• MAC
  A. Pitsis

Discussion

COMBINED AORTIC AND MITRAL VALVES

Chairmen: N. Bonaros, E. Castella, J. Zacharias, K. Zannis

FROM THE OR – CASE PRESENTATION

Live surgery 5
Transaxillary AVR + MV repair (ev TV repair) (ERAS)

OR surgeon: M. Di Eusanio
OR moderator: M. Solinas

Live surgery 6
Transaxillary AVR + MV replacement (ev. LAAM and AF abl) (ERAS)

OR surgeon: U. Kappert
OR moderator: M. Wilbring

PRESENTATIONS

AF ablation and LAAM

• Surgical timing and strategies for atrial functional MR
  T. Hanke
• Af ablation: 3 pillars
  M. Castella
• Totally toracoscopic AF ablation
  B. Maesen
• PFA in ablation surgery
  B. Van Putte

Discussion

ERAS

• ERAS: expanding the concept of MICS
  C.M. Münch
• ERAS by telemedice
  P.G. Malvindi

Discussion

COURSE DIRECTOR

Marco Di Eusanio, Ancona – Italy

GUEST CO-DIRECTOR

Utz Kappert, Dresden – Germany

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Paolo Berretta, Ancona – Italy
Pietro Giorgio Malvindi, Ancona – Italy
Manuel Wilbring, Dresden, Germany