Aortic Valve Repair: A Step by Step Approach

The Aortic Valve Repair: A Step by Step Approach course will run in-person from 19-21 March 2025

19 – 21 Mar 2025
Paris, France
In Person

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Event Information

Date / Duration

19-21 March 2025
Location

Paris, France
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Course Director

E Lansac, Paris
Course Format

Invited presentations
Live surgeries
Technical video sessions
Technical wetlab on anatomical hearts
Course Fee

EACTS Members: €595
Non Members: €695

Registration fees include all sessions, lunch and refreshments.

In order to enhance interaction, we have limited the number of participants to 60, allowing for active and free discussions.
Target Audience

Cardiac surgeons and advanced residents, echo cardiographers (cardiologists and anesthesiologists).
Heart team consisting of surgeons and echographers is encouraged.

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Course Overview

The programme will provide in-depth training of aortic valve repair from valve sparing root replacement to isolated aortic valve repair for tricuspid, bicuspid and unicuspid valve including pediatric AV repair. The aim is to integrate state-of-the-art into daily practice as well as to challenge current knowledge through lectures from our international faculty, live surgeries, detailed technical video sessions and wetlab on human hearts.

Learning Objectives

Identifying good candidates for aortic valve repair.
Learning the surgical steps for a reproducible repair from valve sparing root replacement and isolated aortic valve repair surgery.
Management of specific situations or failures.
Setting up of a network with colleagues for an active aortic valve repair programme.
Setting up an evaluation of the results (implementation of database or participation to existing registries).

Programme subject to change

	SESSION 1
08:00	Rationale of aortic annuloplasty for a step by step valve sparing root replacement
	Roadmap echocardiographic analysis for a successful aortic valve repair
	Live surgery: Root aneurysm tricuspid valve
10:30	Break
11:00	CT and MRI: Identifying the aorta phenotype for repair strategy
	Repair or replace: What is the real world evidence?
	Video Session – Aortic root aneurysm tricuspid valve and specific lesion sets
13:00	Lunch
14:00	SESSION 2
	Aortic aneurysm: Raising the level of evidence
	Step by step bicuspid valve repair
	Live Surgery: Bicuspid root aneurysm
16:00	Break
16:30	Unicuspid and other paediatric repair strategies
	PEARS: Are we too aggressive on the root?
	Video session – Specific lesions: Bicuspid valve repair and specific lesion sets
18:00	Close

	SESSION 3
08:00	Step-by-step isolated aortic valve repair using double ring annuloplasty
	Aortic insufficiency: Are we operating too late?
	Live surgery: Isolated aortic valve repair
10:30	Break
11:00	Valve sparing root replacement for aortic dissection: When and how to do it
	Minimal invasive AV repair: When and how to do it
	Video session: Isolated bicuspid AV repair and specific lesion sets
13:00	Lunch
	SESSION 4
14:00	The role of annuloplasty in the Ross procedure
	Cusp replacement: OZAKI and other perspectives?
	Live surgery: Isolated aortic valve repair
	Video session: Isolated tricuspid AV repair and specific lesion sets
16:15	Break
16:45	Residual regurgitation: When to reclamp?
	Clinical cases of intraoperative failures and re-operation
	How to start and evaluate your aortic valve repair programme
18:00	Close

	SESSION 5
	Anatomical Heart Wetlab
08:30	– Anatomy of the aortic root – Aortic cusp assessment including measurement of cusp effective height – Remodelling of the aortic root with subvalvular external aortic annuloplasty technique for VSRR – Double sub and supra valvular aortic annuloplasty for isolated AI
13:00	Close