Valve Insights: Navigating current and future trends
Explore the latest in aortic, mitral, and tricuspid valve therapies through expert-led discussions, case studies, and debates.
Includes “carte blanche” sessions where course directors share their perspectives on current trends and challenges.
Watch on demand
Mon 31 Mar 2025
12:00 | 1 h
Welcome lunch
13:00 – 13:05 | 5 min
Day 1 opening
13:05 – 14:40 | 1 h 35 min | Hall G1
Challenging mitral valve disease scenarios
Moderators: Victoria Delgado and Nikolaos Bonaros
A syndrome called Barlow - Different faces, different therapies?
Patrick Perier
Not an everyday case - a patient with mitral annular calcification
Nikolaos Bonaros & Victoria Delgado
Oh my god - I need to re-clamp!
Torsten Doenst
Live-in-a-box | How to deal with mitral valve after failed TEER?
Hendrik Treede
Scientific breakthroughs in mitral valve surgery: Highlights from the last 2 years
Can Gollmann-Tepeköylü
Interview | Future directions in primary MR treatments
Victoria Delgado & Torsten Doenst
Round table discussion
Panel
14:40 | 20 min
Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:20 | 1 h 20 min | Hall G1
What’s new in aortic valve stenosis?
Miniaccess, endoscopic and robotic: state of the art of minimally invasive SAVR
Markus Kofler
Degenerated TAVR: TAVR explant or TAVR in TAVR? The importance of preoperative planning
Sabine Bleiziffer
Long term outcomes and durability of SAVR and TAVR. Insights from the newest evidence
Torsten Doenst
A journey towards personalized surgery
Sabine Bleiziffer
Aortic valve stenosis in young patients: how to effectively plan a lifetime strategy combining SAVR and TAVR
Daniel-Sebastian Dohle
Round table discussion
Panel
16:20 | 20 min
Coffee Break
16:40 – 17:40 | 1 h | Hall G1
Advances in surgical aortic valve interventions for aortic regurgitation: from indications to techniques
Beyond aortic diameter: all the variables to consider for Alessandro Della Corte aortic surgery in patients undergoing aortic valve procedures
Alessandro Della Corte
Ross procedure: the ultimate solution for lifetime management of aortic valve disease
Olivier Bouchot
Bentall with new generation devices vs valve sparing: is there still a gap?
Augusto D’Onofrio
Round table discussion
Panel
Interview | From Endo-Bentall to total endovascular aortic arch repair
Bradley Taylor
17:40
Day 1 take-home messages
19:00
Group Dinner
Session Leads:

Patrick Perier
Bad Neustadt, Germany

Nikolaos Bonaros
Inssbruck, Austria

Victoria Delgado
Barcelona, Spain

Augusto D’Onofrio
Padova, Italy

Sabine Bleiziffer
Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

Torsten Doenst
Jena, Germany
Tue 1 Apr 2025
09:00
Day 2 opening
09:00 – 10:40 | 1 h 40 min | Hall G1
Tricuspid regurgitation on the spotlight
Risk assessment strategies for Tricuspid Valve disease to guide treatment decisions
Gilles Dreyfus
Case presentation
Gloria Färber
My rationale for choosing surgical minimally invasive beating heart tricuspid valve repair
Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben
My rationale for choosing T-TEER
Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben
Round table discussion
Panel
Case Resolution
Gloria Färber
When repair is not an option: Valve replacement
Jörg Hausleiter
Interview | Which transcatheter technique holds the future: TTVR or T-TEER?
Gloria Färber & Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben & Jörg Hausleiter
Conclusion
Hendrik Treede & Gilles Dreyfus
10:40 | 20 min
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:40 | 1 h 40 min | Hall G1
Addressing the challenge of mixed and multivalvular heart diseases
Understanding the phenotype of patients with multivalvular heart diseases
Victoria Delgado
Tips and tricks to diagnose properly multivalvular heart diseases
Madalina Garbi
What do the guidelines say?
Nina Ajmone Marsan
Case presentation
Nina Ajmone Marsan
Intervention of multivalvular heart diseases: which technique, which sequence?
Nikolaos Bonaros
Case resolution
Nina Ajmone Marsan
Interview | A glimpse into the future: which studies will change practice?
Nikolaos Bonaros & Madalina Garbi & Hendrik Treede
12:40
Day 2 take-home messages
12:50
Lunch
Session Leads:

Hendrik Treede
Mainz, Germany

Victoria Delgado
Barcelona, Spain

Nikolaos Bonaros
Inssbruck, Austria

Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben
Mainz, Germany