SURGERY

Day 1: 17 July, 2017 Monday

Surgery: Congenital and Acquired Coronary Anomalies
10:00 – 10:20 Anomalous Aortic Origin of Coronary Artery (AAOCA): Natural History, Surgical Indications and Outcomes
Julie Brothers, US
10:20 – 10:40 Anomalous Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery (ALCAPA): Surgical options and outcomes
Emre Belli, France
10:40 – 11:00 Arterial Switch Operation for Transposition with Intramural Coronary Arteries
Kirsten Finucance, New Zealand
11:00 – 11:20 PA/IVS with RV Dependent Coronary Circulation: Surgical Options and Outcomes
James St. Louis, US
11:20 – 11:40 Kawasaki Disease: Surgical Indications
Masami Ochi, Japan
11:40 – 12:00 Discussion
Surgery: Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
13:30 – 13:50 Norwood Operation with Systemic Pulmonary Shunt
Thomas Spray, US
13:50 – 14:10 Norwood Operation with Right Ventricular to Pulmonary Artery Conduit
Shunji Sano, Japan
14:10 – 14:30 Hybrid Procedures for HLHS
Hakan Akinturk, Germany
14:30 – 14:50 Norwood Outcomes: Is it Surgeon, Institution or Volumes? What Drives a Successful Single Ventricle Program?
Emile Bacha, US
14:30 – 14:50 Biventricular Repair for HLHS
Christo Tchervenkov, Canada
14:50 – 15:10 The Role of Transplantation for HLHS
James Kirklin, US

15:10 – 15:30 Discussion

Day 2: 18 July, 2017 Tuesday

Surgery: Coarctation & Interrupted Aortic Arch
10:00 – 10:20 Neonatal Aortic Coarctation repair and hypoplastic aortic arch: surgical techniques
Charles Fraser, US
10:20 – 10:40 Recurrent Coarctation: surgical approach and results
Victor Tsang, UK
10:40 – 11:00 Surgical treatment of coarctation and ventricular septal defect
Luca Vricella, US
11:00 – 11:20 Repair for interrupted aortic arch; surgical techniques
Sertac Cicek, Turkey
11:20 – 11:40 Interrupted aortic arch: surgical options for severe LVOTO
Jim Twedell, US
11:40 – 12:00 Discussion
Surgery: Pulmonary Conduits and Valve Replacement
13:30 – 13:50 Anatomic substrates requiring pulmonary outflow tract reconstruction in neonates and infants
Christian Kreutzer, Argentina
13:50 – 14:10 Optimal pulmonary conduit in young children
Kristine Guleserian, US
14:10 – 14:30 Current indications for late pulmonary valve placement for chronic pulmonary insufficiency
Judith Therrien, Canada
14:30 – 14:50 Percutaneous pulmonary valve placement
Ziyad Hijazi, Qatar
14:50 – 15:10 Optimal pulmonary valve prosthesis in teenagers and young adults
Joseph Dearani, US
15:10 – 15:30 Discussion

Day 3: 19 July, 2017 Wednesday

Surgery, ICU, & Nursing : "A Multidisciplinary Approach to Challenging Cases”
There will be 3 cases by 3 different teams presented with 30 min per case structured as follows: Three 5 minute talks by APN (ICU management), ICU (indications for surgery), Surgeon (surgical options) followed by 15 minute discussion.
08:00 – 08:30 Case #1 – 2 month old TOF patient with hypercyanotic spells
Team - South America Christian Kreutzer, Maria Balestrini (from Garrahan ‎Hospital)
08:30 – 09:00 Case #2 - 5 month old patient with complete atrioventricular canal postoperative day #5 with severe left atrioventricular valvar regurgitation
Team – India Parvathi Iyer, Krishna Iyer (from Fortis Escorts Heart Institute (FEHI), New Delhi)
09:00 – 09:30 Case #3 - 3-month-old patient with tricuspid atresia with normally related great vessels status post Glenn, postoperative day #0 with severe hypoxemia
Team – US Redmond Burke, Jo Ann Nieves (from Nicklaus Children’s Hospital)
Surgery: Atrioventricular Septal Defect 

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Symposium at The World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery

10:00 – 10:20 Repair of Partial AV Canal and Transitional AV Canal
Carl Backer, US
10:20 – 10:40 Operative Management of AV Canal in Developing Countries including Management of the older patient with AV Canal
Sherard Little, Jamaica
10:40 – 11:00 Diagnosis and Management of Unbalanced AV Canal
David Overman, US
11:00 – 11:20 Complex AV Canal including TOF/AV Canal and DORV/AV Canal
Sitaram Emani, US
11:20 – 11:40 Reoperative cardiac surgery in patients with AV Canal?
J. William Gaynor, US
11:40 – 12:00 Discussion
Surgery: WCPCCS 2017 ECHSA Juan Comas Session
13:30 – 13:50 "Juan Comas Memorial Lecture” Leadership in Congenital Heart Surgery
Transposition of Great Arteries
13:50 – 14:05 Morphology and the "Transposition Spectrum"
Giovanni Stellin, Italy
14:05 – 14:20 Surgical technique update
Mark Hazekamp, Netherlands
14:20 – 14:35 Towards uniformization – guidelines
George Sarris, Greece
14:35 – 14:50 Management of late referred cases
Sertac Cicek, Turkey
14:50 – 15:05 Long term results and complications
Lorenzo Galleti, Italy
15:05 – 15:30 Discussion
Bridging Session: Surgery & Ambulatory Cardiology: Diagnosis and Management of Aortopathies
13:30 – 13:50 Genetic and molecular basis of aortic disease in children
13:50 – 14:10 Pre- and post-operative imaging in children with aortic root dilation
14:10 – 14:30 Operations to address aortic dilation in children and adolescents
Duke Cameron, US
14:30 – 14:50 Management of non-syndromic aneurysms in young patients
Luca Vricella, US
14:50 – 15:10 Follow-up of pediatric patients with aortic pathology
Jennifer Hibashi, US
15:10 – 15:30 Discussion

Day 4: 20 July, 2017 Thursday

Surgery and Anesthesia
08:00 – 08:30

Debate: Normothermic CPB is safe

  • Pro: Emre Belli, France
  • Con: James DiNardo, US
Perspectives on patient care: Early extubation for infant cardiac surgery
08:30 – 08:50 Anesthesia Perspective
Alexander Mittnachti US
08:50 – 09:10 Surgical Perspective
Christopher Caldarone, Canada
09:10 – 09:30 Discussion
Surgery: Surgical Issues Related to Tetralogy of Fallot

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Symposium at The World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery

10:00 – 10:20 Surgical approaches to Palliation: Systemic to pulmonary artery shunt, transannular patch only
Robert Jaquiss, US
10:20 – 10:40 Tetralogy of Fallot: What Operations are ACTUALLY Most Commonly Performed in Europe and North America and what are their outcomes? Lessons Learned from the ECHSA/EACTS Congenital Heart Surgery Database and the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database
Jeffrey Jacobs, US
10:40 – 11:00 Repair of tetralogy with a valve preserving trans-annular patch
Tom Karl, US
11:00 – 11:20 Management of the Pulmonary Valve in Adults with tetralogy of Fallot
Jim Jaggers, US
11:20 – 11:40 What is the best prosthetic valve for the adult with tetralogy?
Frank Pigula, US
11:40 – 12:00 Discussion
Surgery: Congenital Aortic Valve Disease
13:30 – 13:50 Anatomy of the Aortic Valve: Anatomy for Surgeons
Robert Anderson, UK
13:50 – 14:10 Neonatal Aortic Stenosis: The role of surgical valvuloplasty
Viktor Hraska, US
14:10 – 14:30 When and how to enlarge the small aortic root?
Hiromi Kurosawa, Japan
14:30 – 14:50 Aortic Valve repair: Beyond the Neonate
Giovanni Batista Luciani, Italy
14:50 – 15:20 Options for aortic valve replacement in children
Zohair Al Halees, Saudi Arabia
15:20 – 15:30 Discussion