Trial highlights from EACTS Annual Meeting 2023
Join our hosts Can Gollmann-Tepeköylü and Miia L Lehtinen for their late-breaking trials highlights presented at the 37th EACTS Annual Meeting in Vienna, including:
- (2:40 – 8:53) Subannular Repair for Secondary Mitral Regurgitation with restricted systolic leaflet Motion (type IIIb): 2-year results from REFORM-MR registry by Dr Jonas Pausch
- (8.53 – 13:47) Mechanistic insights from the CAST-HF trial: Transcriptomic analysis of human myocardial biopsies reveal biglycan as crucial mediator of angiogenesis by Dr Johannes Holfeld
- (13.47 – 20:55) First-in-human experience with a novel custom-made double branch stent graft for aortic arch repair – The NEXUS DUO by Prof. Mario Louis Lachat & Dr P Buyl
- (20:56 – 25:28) Real World Experience of 510 On-X Aortic Valve Replacement Patients Treated with Low Dose Warfarin by Prof Aungye OO
- (25:28 – 32:1) 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:
Dr Jonas Pausch | Resident at the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, 20251 Hamburg, Germany
Since his graduation at the University of Würzburg in 2015, Dr Jonas Pausch has worked as a Resident at the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg. Apart from endoscopic valve surgery, his scientific interest includes advanced surgical treatment options for secondary mitral regurgitation as well as mechanical circulatory support in chronic heart failure patients.
Dr Johannes Holfeld | Senior consultant at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
Johannes Holfeld graduated from Medical University of Vienna and was a research fellow at the University of Texas. He is a senior consultant at the Department of Cardiac Surgery and besides his clinical program lead for conventional heart failure surgery, he is dedicated to translational research focusing on myocardial regeneration and the role of the innate immune system in cardiovascular disease.
Prof. Dr. med. Mario Louis Lachat | Co-Chair of Aortic and Vascular Center, Clinic Hirslanden Zürich, Witellikerstrasse 40, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland
Mario Lachat graduated in general, cardiac and vascular surgery at University Hospital Zürich. His main interest is the aortic arch. He is downgrading invasiveness of open surgery using endovascular tools and/or open surgery. He performed first complete endovascular aortic arch repair 10 years ago and regularly uses the Nexus Stentgraft system since 2014. He is medical co-director of Endospan.
Professor Aung Oo | Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery, Queen Mary University of London
Professor Aung Oo was born in Yangon, Myanmar. He obtained his medical degree from the Institute of Medicine 1 Yangon. He underwent basic and higher surgical training in cardiothoracic surgery in United Kingdom. His area of interest includes aortic valve surgery, coronary surgery and complex aortic surgery. He is a professor of cardiovascular surgery at Queen Mary University of London.
Piotr Suwalski MD PhD | Professor and head of the Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology of the National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration and Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland.
Prof Suwalski was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1975. He received a degree from the Medical University of Warsaw in 2000 and a PhD, from the same University. During 2003/04 he worked in the Heart Center Leipzig, Germany, under Prof Dr F. W. Mohr. In 2010 he received a professor degree at the Silesian Medical University. 2019–21 President of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (ISMICS). Member of EACTS New Technology, Arrhythmia, and Valvular Surgery Taskforces with his focus on minimally invasive, thoracoscopic and robotic cardiac surgery, surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation and reconstructive techniques of the heart valves. He is co-author of numerous publications including EACTS/ESC Guidelines and Consensus Papers.
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