DAY 1
THURSDAY 24
08:15 Welcome coffee in the exhibition hall
08:45 Opening Ceremony. Khalil Fattouch, Patrizio Lancellotti, Mani Vannan
08:50 Local host presentation of the venue. Khalil Fattouch
09:00 Keynote lecture
Chair: Patrizio Lancellotti
09:00 Emerging concepts in the timing of treatment of valvular heart disease. Philippe Pibarot
09:20 Hot topics in heart valve disease
Chairs: Vicenzo Argano, Giovanni La Canna , Marc Radermecker
09:20 Impact of treatment on TR grading. Corrado Fiore
09:30 The RV: does it really matter? Theo Pezel
09:40 Surgery for isolated TR. Gilles Dreyfus
09:50 The new kids in the blocks: TEER vs TTVR. Mani Vannan
10:00 Tricuspid valve repair: surgery or transcatheter. Vincenzo Polizzi
10:10 Round table discussion with expert’s panel: Mathieu Lempereur, Miriam Lo Presti
10:15 Flash news in transcatheter tricuspid valve intervention
Chair: Giuseppina Novo, Corrado Tamburino
10:15 A mystery case : transcatheter bicaval implantation. Michele Di Mauro
10:30 Round table discussion with expert’s panel: Eustachio Agricola, Giovanni Fazio, Mario Moscarelli
10:35 Coffee break in the exhibition hall: poster display of accepted abstract
11:00 Solutions and dilemmas in the management of secondary mitral regurgitation
Chairs: Ottavio Alfieri, Marco Caruso, Francesco Patane
11:00 5 thoughts on anatomy and morphology of mitral valve. Alain Berrebi
11:10 5 thoughts on assessment of mitral regurgitation. Geu-Ru Hong
11:20 5 thoughts on surgical mitral valve treatment. Khalil Fattouch
11:30 Thoughts on assessment of transcatheter mitral valve treatment. Giovanni La Canna
11:40 Round table discussion with expert’s panel: Mathieu Lempereur, Jadranka Separovic, Tommaso Viva
11:50 Flash news
Chairs: Marco Barbanti, Carlo Cicerone, Geu-Ru Hong
11:50 Infective endocarditis: what should we know? Gilbert Habib
12:05 Discussion
12:15 Poster presentation session
Chairs: Mathieu Lempereur, Tommaso Viva
13:15 Lunch break in the exhibition hall: poster display of accepted abstract
14:30 How should we manage?
Chairs: Corrado Tamburino, Mani Vannan
14:30 Moderate aortic stenosis. Augustin Coisne
14:45 TAVI HALT/HAM. Mario Moscarelli
15:00 Coronary artery disease in TAVI patients. Mathieu Lempereur
15:15 Cardiac amyloidosis in aortic stenosis. Lieven Herbots
15:30 Patient-prosthesis mismatch after SAVR. Anna Sannino
15:45 Antithrombotic therapies after TAVI. Antonio Micari
16:00 Round table discussion with expert’s panel: Rodolfo Citro, Federica Ilardi, Giovanni Longo
16:20 Coffee break in the exhibition hall: poster display of accepted abstract
16:50 The need of critical assessment of evidence (Joint with Italian Society of Cardiac Surgery)
Chairs: Raffaele Fugà, Domenico Paparella & Michele Pilato
16:50 RCTs and real word registries: opposite or complementary? Fabio Barili
17:00 Is there new evidence on transcatheter devices for mitral and tricuspid valve disease? Amodeo Anselmi
17:10 Time is up! We should finally have the right follow-up for setting the TAVI/SAVR issue. Alessandro Parolari
17:20 What we can expect for the future guidelines? Philippe Pibarot
17:40 Round table discussion with expert’s panel: Mario Moscarelli, Mani Vannan
17:50 Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Chairs: Carlo Caserta, Salvo Lentini, Alberto Minacapelli
17:50 Diagnostic work-up of concomitant mitral valve pathologies. Mauro Pepi
18:00 TEER or surgery for MR. Carmelo Grasso
18:10 Medical treatment or surgery for obstructive disease. Vincent Tchana Sato
18:20 Extended myectomy for anomalous apical basal bundles in HOCM. Shuichiro Takanashi
18:30 Round table discussion with expert’s panel: Giovanni La Canna , Calogera Pisano, Marc Radermecke