Pioneering Progress: Key Trials from EACTS 2024
Join our hosts Can Gollmann-Tepeköylü and Miia L Lehtinen for their late-breaking trials highlights presented at the 38th EACTS Annual Meeting in Lisbon, including:
- (0:39 – 4:31) Long-term mortality after PCI or CABG in patients with diabetes and multivessel coronary artery disease: A SWEDEHEART study by Dr Emma C Hansson
- (4:32 – 8:33) Long-term (>10 years) results of transcatheter Mitral valve-in-valve implantation for degenerated surgical mitral bioprosthesis: Italian MItral VIV registry (MIVIV registry) by Dr Edoardo Zancanaro
- (8:34 – 11:55) Personalized multimodal teleprehabilitation in elective cardiac surgery: results from the Digital Cardiac Counselling multicentered randomized Controlled Trial (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT04393636.) by Dr Bart Scheenstra
- (11:55 – 16:15) 5-Year Results on Aortic Remodeling in the Dissected Aorta Repair Through Stent (DARTS) Implantation Trial by Dr Ryaan EL-Andari
- (16:16 – 19:49) CEASE-AF: Effectiveness and safety of hybrid epicardial and endocardial ablation in patients with persistent and longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation by Dr Piotr Suwalski
Guest speakers:
Emma C Hansson | MD PhD, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Dr Emma C Hansson is a board-certified specialist in Cardiothoracic Surgery since 2021. She studied medicine at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, and completed her residency in Cardiothoracic surgery at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, on the west coast of Sweden.
Edoardo Zancanaro | MD, PhD fellow Cardiac Surgery Resident and Interventional Cardiology Fellow, San Raffaele University Hospital, Milan, Italy
Dr Edoardo Zancanaro was born in Italy and obtained his medical degree in the International MD Program at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, Italy. His residency is at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan and his fellowship at University Hospital of Mainz, Germany. His area of expertise is cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology with a focus on valvular heart disease treatment.
Bart Scheenstra | Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart and Vascular Center, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands Professor Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Dr Bart Scheenstra is a clinical cardiologist at Basalt Rehabilitation Centre in the Netherlands. After completing his residency at Maastricht University Medical Centre, he began a PhD focused on cardiovascular risk management and cardiac rehabilitation.
Ryaan EL-Andari | Resident, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Dr. Ryaan EL-Andari was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. Dr. EL-Andari began his residency training in cardiac surgery at the University of Alberta in 2022 and is currently pursuing his PhD in experimental surgery during his residency.
Robert Klautz | Professor and Chair of the departments of cardiothoracic surgery of Leiden and Amsterdam University Medical Centers
Professor Klautz attended medical school at Leiden University, where he also did his PhD research combined with a research fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. He was trained as a cardiothoracic surgeon at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. Since 2002 he has worked as a CT surgeon at Leiden UMC, where he became professor and chair of the department in 2008. In 2019 he was also appointed chair of the department of CT surgery at Amsterdam UMC.
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