The Aortic Forum
- 18 – 20 Jun 2025
- Prague, Czech Republic
- In Person
Event Information
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Date/Duration
18-20 June 2025 (2.5 days)
- Location
Prague, Czech Republic
See HERE for more information- Aortic Forum Taskforce Chair
R de Paulis, Rome
- Local Chairmen
J Vojáček, Hradec Králove; I Netuka, Prague
- Forum Format
In-person meeting
Interactive lectures
Live surgical cases
Keynote presentations
Live-in-a-box videos
Abstract presentations- Forum Fee
To be announced
- Target Audience
All cardiac and vascular surgeons, cardiologists, radiologists and anaesthetists are invited to come together and broaden their competence and enjoy learning new skills in the field of major aortic surgery.
- Abstract Submission
Abstract submissions will open in October 2024.
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Forum overview
The comprehensive programme includes live surgery broadcasts 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 aortic pathology, sessions include a special focus on the latest advances in aortic valve repair and in the Ross operation. Pathology of the ascending aorta and arch, whether in its acute or chronic forms, will be presented and discussed according to the different treatment options by means of novel surgical, or transcatheter devices. The treatment of thoraco-abdominal pathologies will be focused on, the latest solution for transcatheter approach and novel possibilities of minimising the surgical trauma.
Aortic Forum Taskforce
R de Paulis; I Netuka; J Vojacek; J Bavaria; F Casselman; M Czerny; L de Kerchove; G El Khoury; T Holubec; K Kim; T MacGillivray; P Myers; A Oo; D Pacini; S Ronchey; R Sádaba; HJ Schäfers; F Schoenhoff; M Shrestha
Forum programme
13:00 Introduction 13:15 Session 1: Aortic valve repair Critical comparison and limitation of VSRR What residual AR can we tolerate and when to reclamp? Essential technique and difficult lesions including videos: – Deep aortic root dissection for VSRR or Ross procedure – Repair of tricuspid aortic valve – Repair of asymmetric BAV – Repair of very asymmetric BAV – How to deal with cusp fenestrations Live surgery 1: Minimally invasive VSARR – David procedure 15:30 Break 16:00 Session 2 – The Ross procedure Survival and the quality of life after Ross procedure: Do we have enough evidence? How to implement the Ross procedure into routine practice Harvesting and alternatives to pulmonary homograft in the Ross procedure Neonatal Ross procedure – strategies and outcomes Live-in-a-box videos: The Ross procedure: Different surgical options – How I do the Ross operation: Freestanding root – How I do the Ross operation: Inclusion into the Dacron graft – How I do the Ross operation: Inclusion into the PEARS Abstracts 17:30 Close 08:30 Session 3: Special situations in aortic root surgery – Video session Valve sparing aortic root replacement in acute aortic dissection Minimally invasive aortic valve-sparing and repair PEARS in aortic root surgery Aortic valve repair using internal geometric ring annuloplasty VSRR in South America Aortic annulus/root enlargement Abstract Live surgery 2: Ross procedure 10:40 Break 11:10 Session 4: Solving problems in aortic dissection Aortic dissection – my top 5 recommendations in the EACTS/STS 2023 guidelines and how they change practice How to cannulate for type A dissection with malperfusion Debate: Visceral malperfusion strategy – Endovascular repair first – Proximal open first – Discussion and rebuttal Abstracts Live surgery 3: Beating heart FET for chronic dissection 13:10 Lunch 14:10 Session 5: Controversies and solutions in acute type A dissection Root preservation, Bentall or VSRR – scoop and run or stay and play? Abstract Debate: Type A in the Arch: Too many devices, which option for which patient? – Do a FET and be done forever – AMDS – poor man’s total arch replacement? – Open zone 2 and TEVAR – best of both worlds? – Why do a sternotomy? Endovascular arch repair in type A (video) – Discussion and rebuttal 15:25 Break 15:55 Session 6: Dealing with the arch Debate: “Ideal temperature for the arch surgery” Normothermia vs deep hypothermia – Normothermia – Deep hypothermia with SACP – Discussion and rebuttal ‘Branch first concepts’: Various techniques and outcomes Techniques to simplify the supra-aortic vessel anastomoses in total aortic arch surgery Abstracts 16:55 Close 08:30 Session 7: Arch session II Honorary lecture – Elephant trunk to frozen elephant trunk technique: Tribute to Hans Borst Sex differences in thoracic aortic disease (aneurysms and dissections) Aortic arch replacement in Asian populations How to treat FET graft infection Abstracts Live Surgery 4: Endovascular – Step by step arch replacement 10:45 Break 11:15 Session 8: Transcatheter aortic arch treatment – the exceptional portfolio of options The branched total arch approach The fenestrated total arch approach The physician modified endograft approach (PMEG) Single or duo endo arch repair Single branch endovascular arch: Multicentre trial Abstract 12:15 Lunch 13:15 Session 9: Transcatheter treatment of thoracoabdominal aortic pathology – from alternative to routine Neuroprotection and monitoring in complex thoracoabdominal endovascular repair fEVAR for complex TA pathology- what is there and how to choose among the options bEVAR for complex TA pathology- doing the right things in the right patients Graft degeneration research- the messages have to be heard Debate: Treatment of TAAA in HTAD patients – Open TAAA is more durable! – Endo TAAA is much safer! – Discussion and rebuttal 14:25 Break 14:55 Session 10: The unseen struggles: Aortic surgery failures exposed Open TAAA Open Arch Valve sparing Endo Arch Dissection I Dissection II Ross 15:55 Closing remarks and awards 16:15 Close Programme subject to change.
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