Surgical Skills: Management of Paediatric and Congenital Atrio-Ventricular Valve Anomalies

Surgical Skills: Management of Paediatric and Congenital Atrio-Ventricular Valve Anomalies Course will be an in-person meeting and will run from 03-04 November in Paris, France. Join us for a two-day level 3 course with a comprehensive program that includes live surgery transmission with commentary from the most renowned experts in their respective field, interactive lectures and lively debates with a focus on the current controversies for the best treatment of each individual congenital and pediatric atrio-ventricular valvular anomalies, from birth to adult age, sessions will include a special focus on the latest advances in valve repair techniques. There will be a space for “cases corner” during which participating audience will be able to present and discuss their previously submitted video and/or clinical cases.

3 – 4 Nov 2025
Paris, France
In Person

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Event Information

Date/Duration

03 – 04 November 2025 (2 day course)
Course Directors

E Belli, Paris
Location

Marie Lannelobgue Hospital, Paris

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Course Format

Interactive lectures
Live surgery transmission
Lively debates
Course Fee

To be announced
Target Audience

Skills Level 3 – Surgeons established in independent practice.

Pediatric and congenital cardiac surgeons at any level of experience and trainees, adult cardiac surgeons dealing with congenital atrioventricular valve anomalies.

EACTS Academy terms and conditions.

Programme and faculty subject to change

08:50	Welcome and Introduction E Belli, Paris
	Session 1 – Mitral Valve Moderators – P Del Nido, Boston
09:00	Morphological consideration
09:20	Echocardiographic analysis of abnormal mitral valve
09:40	Surgical repair techniques for mitral regurgitation: Padova experience
10:00	Coffee break
10:30	Surgical repair techniques for mitral regurgitation: Beijing experience
11:00	Surgical repair techniques for mitral regurgitation: outcome of augmentation patches used for valve repair
11:30	Surgical managemjent of mitral stenosis in neonate & infant
12:00	Intraoperative evaluation of mitral valve repair: good enough or better?
12:30	Mitral valve replacement options in children
13:00	Lunch
	Session 2 – Tricuspid Valve Moderators – To be announced
14:00	Morphological considerations
14:30	Surgical management of abnormal tricuspid valve in PAIVS
15:00	Management of TVR in HLHS
15:30	Tricuspid valve dysplasia: a surgical challenge
16:00	Close

	Session 2 – Continued Moderators – To be announced
09:00	Neonatal Ebstein’s: when and which surgical indications and techniques
09:20	Ebstein’s anomaly: evolution of surgical indications and techniques
09:40	Ebstein’s anomaly beyon childhood: who requires surgery and how to predict RV dysfunction
10:00	Tricuspid valve regurgitation in systemic RV: a clinical challenge
10:30	Coffee break
	Session 3 – Common AV Valve Moderators to be announced
11:00	Morphological considerations
11:30	CAVSD: Preoperaztive echocardiographic identification of surgery complexity
12:00	CAVSD repair: surgical technical details that influence outcome
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Technical aspects for AV valve reoperations after AVSD repair
14:30	Single ventricle with regurgitant common AV: surgical techniques
15:00	Single ventricle with AV valve regurgitation at any age: optimal timing for valve procedure
15:30	Transcatheter interventions in adult patients with a Fontan circulation: Current practice and future developments
16:00	Closing remarks
16:30	Close

Surgical Skills: Management of Paediatric and Congenital Atrio-Ventricular Valve Anomalies

Event Information

Course Programme

Monday 03 November

Tuesday 04 November

Faculty

Emre Belli