Interdisciplinary Cardiac-Vascular Surgery - ESCVS Dubrovnik 2012

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Honoured Lecture
(Elafiti 3+4 – Hotel Lacroma)
12:30 – 13:00 Future horizons with MCS Devices O.H. Frazier, Houston, Texas, USA
13:00 -14:00 Lunch – Visit Exhibition and Posters
Lunch Symposium – ETHICON
Olipa – Hotel President
Lunch Symposium – SHIMADZU
Tajan – Hotel President
Lunch Symposium – ABBOTT VASCULAR
Asimon – Hotel Lacroma
Lunch Symposium – HANSEN
Bokar – Hotel Lacroma
14:00 – 15:30 Short-Term Support
Chairmen:
S. Schueler (UK), A. Zuckermann (Austria)
14:00 – 14:15 MCS in Acute Heart Failure: Available Options I. Gregoric, Houston, Texas, USA
14:15 – 14:30 ECMO: What is New in 2012
Disclosure: Scientific Consultant for Maquet Cardiovascular LLC
M. Firstenberg, Columbus, USA
14:30 – 14:45 CentriMag Device for Short and Mid-Term Support: When, How any Why? I. Netuka, Prague, Czech Republic
14:45 – 15:00 Chronic Implant Therapy vs. Heart Transplant E. McGee, Chicago, USA
15:00 – 15:15 Panel Discussion
Final Scientific Program
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break – Visit Exhibition and Posters
16:00 – 17:30 Complex Cases – Case Discussion
Chairmen:
E. McGee (USA), E. Potapov (Germany)
16:00 – 16:15 Challenges in Set Up of the Integrated ECLS/MCS/HTx Programme B. Biočina, Zagreb, Croatia
16:15 – 16:30 Re-establishing the Heart Transplant Programme Following Successful
Implantation of LVAD as a Bridge to Heart Transplantation at Ankara University
16:30 – 16:45 Heart Failure Recovery after an Acute Non-fulminant Myocarditis:
A Bridge Too Far?
A. Ruchan, Ankara, Turkey
D. Barić, Zagreb, Croatia
16:45 – 17:00 Challenging Cases in ECMO: Absolute Contraindications Are Only Relative M. Firstenberg, Columbus, USA