5th Annual Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
Course Director: Ralph J. Damiano, Jr., MD

Exhibition Hall Hours (WetLabs open 5-6PM)

SYMPOSIUM: The Great Debate

Moderators:

William E. Cohn, MD James D. Fonger, MD

Sponsored by CardioVations, Inc.

Opening & Welcome
Naresh Trehan, MD
ISMICS 2005 President

Session 1: Live Surgery

Course Director:	Valavanur A. Subramanian, MD
Moderators:	Naresh Trehan, MD Alan Menkis, MD Gerhard W. Greinecke, MD

(from Lenox Hill Hospital)

Case 1. Septal Reshaping for Left Ventricular Restoration
Antonio Calafiore, MD
Turin, Italy

Valavanur A. Subramanian, MD
New York, NY

Case 2. Robotic Mitral Valve Repair
Douglas Murphy, MD
Atlanta, GA

Didier F. Loulmet, MD
New York, NY

Case 3. Endovascular Assisted Single Stage Total Arch Replacement
George Tolis, MD, Valavanur A. Subramanian, MD
New York, NY

Video 1. Combined Treatment Of Aortic Type A Dissection Ascending Aorta Replacement And Placement Of A Stent In The Descending Aorta
Saed Jazayeri¹, Marie Carmen Gomez-Bielefeld², Etienne Tatou¹, Montajab Saleh¹, Sabino Caprio¹, Michel David¹, Olivier Bouchot¹, Roger Brenot¹, Aline Laubriet^1
1Department Of Cardiovascular Surgery, Dijon University Hospital, Dijon, France, ²Department Of Anesthesiology, Dijon University Hospital, Dijon, France

Video 2. Aneurysm Hybrid Treatment By Simultanous Replacement Of Ascending Aorta/Aortic Arch And Endoluminal Stenting Of The Descending Aorta
Friedrich-Christian Riess¹, Hans Krankenberg², Thilo Tuebler², Matthias Danne^1
1Dept. of Cardiac Surgery, Albertinen Heart Center, Hamburg, Germany, ²Center for Cardiology, Hamburg, Germany

Session 2: Innovative Valve Surgery And Endovascular Aortic Therapies

Moderators:

William Cohn, MD James D. Fonger, MD

1. Aortic Valve Replacement Through A Mini Lateral Right Thoracotomy Associated To A High Thoracic Epidural Anesthesia
Francesco Siclari¹, Romano Mauri², Stefanos Demertzis¹, Tiziano Cassina², Tiziano Moccetti^3
1Cardiac Surgery, Cardiocentro Ticino, Lugano, Switzerland, ²Cardiac Anesthesia, Cardiocentro Ticino, Lugano, Switzerland, ³Cardiology, Cardiocentro Ticino, Lugano, Switzerland

2. Mid-Term Outcome Of 506 Consecutive Mitral Valve Operations Using A Mini Thoracotomy
Jeffery Martin, Robert Messier, R Duane Davis, Donald Glower
Surgery, Duke Univ Med Ctr, Durham, NC, USA

3. Minimally Invasive Port Access Assisted Aortic Valve Replacement
Bradley G. Leshnower¹, Candace Trace², Arthur T. Martella², Angus Gillis³, Robert Day³, Robert S. Boova^2
1Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, ²Department of Surgery, The Bryn Mawr Hospital, Main Line Health System, Philadelphia, PA, USA, ³Department of Anesthesiology, The Bryn Mawr Hospital, Main Line Health System, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Mini Presentations

MP1. Endoscopic Access Closure For Direct Implantation Of Valved Stents
Piergiorgio Tozzi¹, Malgorzata Pawelec-Wojtalik², Dorota Bukowska³, Ma Liang¹, Ludwig K. von Segesser^1
1Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland, ²University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland, ³University of Agriculture, Poznan, Poland

MP2. Feasibility Of A Trans-Apical Approach For Aortic Valve Implantation Using A Device Delivered Valve
Todd M. Dewey¹, Thomas Walther², Mirko Doss³, David Brown¹, William H. Ryan¹, Gerhard Wimmer-Greinecker³, Stefan Wildhirt⁴, Rainer Hambrecht², Friedrich W. Mohr², Michael J. Mack^1
1Cardiopulmonary Research Science and Technology Insititute, Dallas, TX, USA, ²Heart Center Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, ³University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, ⁴German Heart Center Munich, Munich, Germany

MP3. Direct Access Percutaneous Valve Replacement (DAPVR) A New Technique For Aortic Valved Stent Implantations
Christoph H. Huber¹, Lawrence H. Cohn¹, Ludwig K. von Segesser^1
1Div. Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, ²Centre Universitaire Hospitalier Vaudois (CHUV), Service de Chirurgie Cardiovasculaire, Lausanne, Switzerland

Video 3. Intraoperative Open-Stent Implantation For Treatment Of Aortic Dissection
Gabriele Di Giammarco, Michele Di Mauro, Marco Contini, Gerardo Liberti, Marco Pano
Cardiac Surgery, University of Chieti, Chieti, Italy.

Symposium: Making Minimally Invasive Ablation a Reality: Developing and Sustaining a Lone AF Practice
Sponsored by: Guidant Cardiac Surgery Group

Symposium: Current Strategies in the Surgical Treatment of Active Endocariditis
Chair: Pascal Dohmen, MD
Charite, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Sponsored by Shelhigh, Incorporated

Symposium: An Overview of Minimized Cardiopulmonary Bypass Systems: Incorporating Minimized Bypass Into the Cardiac Surgery Practice.
Sponsored by NovoSci™ Corporation

Session 3: Innovative Therapies And Strategies For Thoracic Surgery
Moderator: Robert J. Downey, MD

4. Clipping Of Patent Ductus Arteriosus By Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery; Minimally Invasive, Maximally Effective: Report Of 1300 Cases
Mohammad H. Nezafati, Jr
Cardiac Surgery, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad, Iran (Islamic Republic of)

5. A Comparison Of 100 VATS Versus Robotic-Assisted Lobectomy Cases For Early Stage Lung Cancer. Is The Robot Worth The Time?
Raja M. Flores, Bernard Park, Valerie W. Rusch
Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Video 4. A Review Of Our Experience With Video-Assisted Thorascopic Sympathectomy For Pain Control In Chronic Pancreatitis
LC Huffman, MP Reeq, JA Howington
Surgery, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA

Mini Presentations

MP4. Fully Endoscopic Robotic Lobectomy, Early Experiences
Rex Stanbridge, Alex Charitou, Ashok Cherian
Cardiothoracic Surgery, St Marys Hospital, London, United Kingdom

MP5. Three-Year Experience With Totally Endoscopic Robotic Thymectomy
Charles Y. Ro¹, Joseph J. DeRose, Jr.², Cliff P. Connery³, Sandhya K. Balaram², Robert C. Ashton, Jr.^3
1Department of Surgery, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA, ²Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA, ³Division of Thoracic Surgery, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA

Invited Topic: "Limited Lung Resections and RFA"
Christopher Fernando, MD

Video 5. Robotically Assisted Resection Of An Esophageal Granular Cell Tumor
Charles Y. Ro¹, Joseph J. DeRose, Jr.², Sandhya K. Balaram², Amre Ramila³, Pushpa Kancherla³, Cliff P. Connery⁴, Robert C. Ashton, Jr.^4
1Department of Surgery, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, NY, NY, USA, ²Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, NY, NY, USA, ³Department of Pathology, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, NY, NY, USA, ⁴Division of Thoracic Surgery, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, NY, NY, USA

Session 4: Strategies And Outcomes Of Revascularization Procedures

Moderators:

John D. Puskas, MD Anno Diegeler, MD

6. OPCAB With And Without Thoracic Epidural AnalgesiAM - Does It Make A Difference?
Mahesh Ramchandani¹, Zbigniew Wojciechowski², Michael Reardon^1
1Cardiothoracic Surgery, Methodist DeBakey Heart Center, Houston, TX, USA, ²Cardiovascular Anesthesia, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

7. MIDCAB - 5 Year Follow Up In 1148 Patients
Volkmar Falk, Stephan Jacobs, David Holzhey, Thomas Walther, Michael Mochalski, Jan F. Gummert, Friedrich W. Mohr
Cardiac Surgery, Heartcenter Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

8. Comparison Between Multivessel Drug-Eluting Stents And Bilateral Internal Thoracic Grafting For Myocardial Revascularization
Itzhak Herz¹, Rephael Mohr², Yaron Moshkovitz², Yosef Paz², Einat Zivi², Yanai Ben-Gal¹, Roni Braunstein², Gideon Uretzky^2
1Cardiology, Tel Avi Sourasky Medical Center, ²Dept of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center & Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, ³Catheterization Dept., Assuta Med Ctr, Tel Aviv

Mini Presentations

MP6. Minimized Extracorporeal Circulation (MECC System) improves cerebral perfusion in CABG patients
Amir Khosravi¹, Christian Skrabal¹, Bernd Westphal¹, Christof Stamm¹, Thomas Birken², Gustav Steinhoff¹, ¹Andreas Liebold
¹Cardiac Surgery, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany, ²Anesthesiology, Univeristy of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

MP7. Effect Of Minimal Extracorporeal Circulation Compared To Cardiopulmonary Bypass System On Organ Function And Inflammatory Response: A Prospective Randomized Study
Christian Detter¹, Jeannette Schönebeck¹, Uwe Mehrmann², Sonja Schrepfer¹, Dieter H. Boehm¹, Bernhard Dahme¹, Hermann Reichenspurner^1
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, ²Department of Psychology III, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

MP8. Glucose And Lactate Metabolism In On/Off CABG Patients
Peter Brucek, Zbynek Straka
Cardiac Surgery, Univ. Hospital Kralovske Vinohrady, Prague, Czech Republic

Video 6. Sternum Lifting Technique for Thorascopic Internal Thoracic Artery Harvesting
Toshiya Ohtsuka, Mikio Ninomiya, Tasei Maemura
Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Fuchu General Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

9. Preclinical Validation Of A New Dual Beam Doppler Blood Flowmeter In The Phantom Model
Mustafa Cikirikcioglu, Karim Djebaili, Ebrahim Khabiri, Banu Cikirikcioglu, Afksendiyos Kalangos, Beat H. Walpoth
Cardiovascular Research, Department of Surgery, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

Expert Panel: "Conduit Harvesting"
Davy Cheng, MD
London, ON, Canada

Keith B. Allen, MD
Indianapolis, IN

Dedicated WetLab Time

Atricure, Inc
Cardiovations
Converge
CryoCath Technologies
Edwards Lifesciences
ESTECH/Boston Scientific
Guidant Cardiac Surgery Group
Medtronic, Inc.

Case Reports
Moderator: Hani Shennib, MD

CR1. Does Coronary Endarterectomy Offer Survival Benefit In Patients Undergoing Combined Valve And Coronary Bypass Surgery?
Sandeep Agarwala, Sanjay Kumar, Charlie Talbot, R Unni Nair
Department Of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yorkshire Heart Centre,Leeds General Infirmary, Great George Street,Leeds, United Kingdom

CR2. Does Left Ventricular Reconstruction Without Myectomy Improve Ventricular Function In Dilated Ventricle
Sanjay Kumar, Diane Barker, R U. Nair
Department Of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yorkshire Heart Centre,Leeds General Infirmary, Great George Street,Leeds, United Kingdom

CR3. Concominant Beating Heart Mitral Valve Surgery And Coronary Artery Bypass In Patients With Compromised Ventricular Function
Gabriele Di Luozzo, Pierluca Lombardi, Alberto Maldonado, Marco Ricci, Tomas A. Salerno
Cardiothoracic Surgery, Miller/University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

CR4. Transabdominal Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Using The Right Gastroepiploic Artery
Giuseppe Tavilla
Cardiothoracic Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

CR5. Aortic Wrap For Moderate Aneurysmal Dilation
Francis D. Ferdinand, Scott M. Goldman, Timothy W. Swain, III, Louis E. Samuels, Candace Trace, Mary Ann C. Wertan, Francis P. Sutter
Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, The Lankenau Hospital - 280 MSB, Wynnewood, PA, USA

CR6. Reduction In Neurological Injury With Evolution To Opcab: A Single Team's Experience
Alex Zapolanski¹, Michael B. Pliam¹, Jill Ley², Laurel Mengarelli^1
1San Francisco Heart & Vascular Institute, Daly City, CA, USA, ²California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA

Session 5: Live Surgery (from Lenox Hill Hospital)

Course Director:	Valavanur A. Subramanian, MD
Moderators:	Naresh Trehan, MD; Herman Reichenspurner, MD Andrzej Bocheneck, MD

Case 4. Minimally Invasive Pulmonary Vein Isolation with Atrial Appendage Exclusion
Randall K. Wolf, MD
Cincinnati, OH

George Tolis, MD, Valavanur A. Subramanian, MD
New York, NY

Case 5. Multi-vessel Small Thoracotomy (MVST) Off Pump Hybrid Revascularization
Sudhir Srivastava, MD
Odessa, TX

Nilesh Patel, MD
New York, NY

Case 6. OPCAB with Stabilizer and Positioner Smorgasbord and Epicardial Ablation with Novadaq Post-op Coronary Graft Visualization
Nirav Patel, MD, Valavanur A. Subramanian, MD
New York, NY

Video 7. Segmental Approach (Cut And Sew) For Off-Pump LITA To LAD Long Onlay Bypass Grafting Using Handmade Intra-Luminal Shunt
Osamu Tagusari, Junjiro Kobayashi, Ko Bando, Kazuo Niwaya, Hiroyuki Nakajima, Takeshi Nakatani, Toshikatsu Yagihara, Soichiro Kitamura
Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

Symposium: New Paradigms Guiding the Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
Chair: W. Randolph Chitwood, Jr., MD
East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina

Sponsored by CryoCath Technologies & Cardiovascular Institute at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina

Symposium: The Past, Present and Future of the Coronary Anastamosis
Sponsored by Medtronic, Inc.

Symposium: What Every Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident Should Know About Building A Successful Career
Sponsored by Guidant Cardiac Surgery Group

Keynote Speaker: "Can Global Warming Trigger A Big Chill?"
Robert B. Gagosian, PhD
President & Director of the Institution Directorate, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA

Session 6: New Techniques And Strategies In The Surgical Treatment Of Arrhythmia

Moderators:

Randall K. Wolf, MD Adam E. Saltman, MD

10. Adjunctive Atrial Fibrillation Therapy With OPCAB; Standard Of Care?
James H. Wudel
Surgery, Nebraska Heart Institute, Lincoln, NE, USA

11. Video-Cardioscopic Trans-Septal Cryoablation Of Left Atrium In Non-Mitral Cases
Toshiya Ohtsuka, Mikio Ninomiya, Taisei Maemura
Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Fuchu General Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

12. Do Surgical Ablation Lesions Have To Be Fully Transmural To Block Conduction?
Spencer J. Melby, Anson M. Lee, Richard B. Schuessler, Ralph J. Damiano, Jr.
Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

13. Cryoablation Versus Radiofrequency Ablation In Curative Surgical Treatment Of Atrial Fibrillation - Prospective, Randomized Trial
Piotr Suwalski¹, Grzegorz Suwalski², Piotr Scislo³, Janusz Kochanowski³, Franciszek Majstrak¹, Andrzej Kurowski¹, Kazimierz B. Suwalski^1
1Cardiac Surgery Department, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, ²Cardiac Surgery Department, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, ³Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Mini Presentations

MP9. Expanding The Use Of Closed Chest Stand Alone Pulmonary Vein Isolation And Left Atrial Appendage Excision
John R. Mehall, E. William Schneeberger, Randall K. Wolf
Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

MP10. Two Year Follow-Up Of Robotic Biventricular Pacing Demonstrates Excellent Lead Stability And Improved Response Rates
Joseph J. DeRose, Jr.¹, Sandhya Balaram¹, Charles Ro¹, Daniel G. Swistel¹, Jonathan S. Steinberg², Sandeep Joshi², Robert C. Ashton, Jr.^1
1Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Luke-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA, ²Cardiology, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA

MP11. Closed Chest Endoscopic Ablation for Lone Atrial Fibrillation: A Comparison of Paroxysmal versus Chronic
Robert R. Lazzara, Sr.¹, J. Crayton Pruitt, Jr.², George Ebra², Gary H. Dworkin², Vinay Badhwar², Carol Kuma^3
1Cardiac Surgical Associates Maze Workgroup, Tampa-St Petersburg, FL, USA, ²Cardiac Surgical Associates Maze Study Group, Tampa, FL, USA, ³Cardiac Surgery, Cardiac Surgical Associates Maze Study Group, Tampa, FL, USA

MP12. Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Ablation through Single Right-Sided Robotic Thoracoscopy
Jean-Luc Jansens¹, Anne Ducart², Didier De Canniere^1
1Cardiac Surgery, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium, ²Anaesthesiology, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

Video 8. Complex Bileaflet Mitral Valve Repair (Barlow's) Using The Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System
Saqib Masroor¹, L Wiley Nifong², W Randolph Chitwood, Jr.^2
1Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY, USA, ²Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, USA

Session 7: Innovative Technology For Resvascularization

Moderators:

Vassilios Gulielmos, MD Rex Stanbridge, MD

14. Distal Anastomotic Devices For CABG: 5 Years Of Experience In A Single Center
Sven Martens, Panagiottis Therapidis, Steffen Bargenda, Mirko Doss, Anton Moritz, Gerhard Wimmer-Greinecker
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, JWGoethe University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

15. Single Vessel To Multivessel Beating Heart Totally Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass (TECAB). Progress Or Distraction?
Sudhir Srivastava, Suresh Gadasalli, Madhava Agusala, Ram Kolluru, Manish Shroff, Reyna Barrera, Shaune Quismundo, Vishwa Srivastava
Alliance Hospital, Odessa, TX, USA

16. Clinical And Angiographic Outcomes Of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting With And Without Cardio-Pulmonary Bypass: Harefield Prospective Randomised Trial
Sharif Al-Ruzzeh, Shane George, Mahmoud Bustami, Michael Kemp, Jane Chambers, Jo Wray, Thanos Athanasiou, Ken Ali, Charles Ilsley
Mohamed Amrani Harefield Hospital, London, United Kingdom

17. Total Endoscopic Beating Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Using New 3-D Imaging System
Shigeyuki Tomita, Nishida Satoru, Yasuda Tamotu, Watanabe Go
General and Cardiothoracic surgery, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

18. Evolution Of Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Over 15 Years - A Single Institution Experience Of 14,030 Cases
Dr Yugal Mishra, Manisha Mishra, Rajneesh Malhotra, Zile Singh Meharwal, Vijay Kohli, Naresh Trehan
Escorts Heart Institute And Research Centre, New Delhi, India

Mini Presentations

MP13. A Single Center Comparison Of Proximal Anastomoses Performed With The PAS-Port™ Device Versus Hand Sewn Technique - Results From A Prospective Randomized Trial
Jan F. Gummert, Ulrich Opfermann, Jörg Kempfert, Markus Barten, Markus Richter, Ardawan Rastan, Thomas Walther, Volkmar Falk, Friedrich W. Mohr
Cardiovascular Surgery, University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

MP14. Six Month Angiographic And Two Year Clinical Follow-Up From The Cardica PAS-Port™ Pivotal Trial
Wolfgang Harringer¹, Stefanos Demertzis², Hendrik Treede³, Christian Detter³, Ingo Kutschka¹, Francesco Siclari², Edwin Alderman⁴, Hermann Reichenspurner^3
1Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Klinikum Braunschwieg, Braunschweig,Germany, ²Department of Cardiac Surgery, Cardiocentro Ticino, Lugano, Switzerland, ³Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, ⁴Department of Cardiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

MP15. Radial Artery Function After Endoscopic And Standard Harvesting Techniques
Benjamin Medalion¹, Roee Inon², Anna Tobar³, Yelena Chepurko², Alon Shtamler¹, Erez Sharoni¹, Menahem Matza¹, Gideon Sahar¹, Edith Hochhauser², Bernardo A. Vidne^1
1Cardiothoarcic Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Campus Beilinson, Petach Tiqva, Israel, ²The Cardiac Research Laboratory of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Petach Tiqva, Israel, ³Pathology, Rabin Medical Center, Campus Beilinson, Petach Tiqva, Israel

MP16. Effects On Lung Function In Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery On- Vs Off-Cardiopulmonary Bypass: A Randomised Trial
Gunaratnam Niranjan¹, George Asimakopoulos¹, Brendan Madden¹, Matthew Thompson², Venkatachalam Chandrasekaran^1
1Cardiothoracic Surgery, St Georges Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ²Vascular Surgery, St. Georges Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Video 9. Multi-Vessel OPCAB Using A New Multi-Suction Cardiac Positioner
Hirokuni Arai, Tomohiro Mizuno, Tomoya Yoshizaki, Fusahiko Itoh, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Makoto Sunamori
Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Session 8: New Surgical Techniques For The Treatment Of Heart Failure

Moderators:

Lishan Aklog, MD Mercedes K.C. Dullum, MD

19. External Reshaping Of Left Ventricle In Off Pump Surgery
Sotirios N. Prapas¹, Vasilios Kotsis¹, Ioannis Panagiotopoulos¹, Dimitrios Protogeros¹, Alexandros Sidiropoulos¹, Vasiliki Prapa², Dimitra Karatza¹, Fotini Danou^3
1Cardiothoracic, Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, Greece, ²Anaesthesiology, Thriassio General Hospital, Athens, Greece, ³Anaesthesiology, Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, Greece

20. Induction Of Neoangiogenesis In Ischemic Myocardium By Omentum Derived Intrinsic Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
Hirokuni Arai, Tomohiro Mizuno, Tomoya Yoshizaki, Fusahiko Itoh, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Makoto Sunamori
Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

21. Epicardial Crawling Device For Myocardial Injections
Cameron N. Riviere¹, Nicholas Patronik¹, Suad Elqarra², Marco A. Zenati^2
1Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, ²Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

22. Effects Of On And Off Pump CABG On Colonic Mucosa
Nadeem Khwaja¹, Michael O. Murphy¹, Anastassi Halka¹, Raymond McMahon², Jane M. Eddleston³, Daniel J. Keenan⁴, Michael G. Walker^1
1Vascular Surgery, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom, ²Histopathology, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom, ³Critical Care, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁴Cardiothoracic Surgery, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom

Video 10. Off-Pump Repair of Postinfarction Ventricular Septal Defect
Joanna Chikwe¹, Ian Morgan², Alan Wood^3
1Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ²Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, ³St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Video 11. A Novel Minimal Access Transabdominal Approach to Insert CorCap™ Cardiac Support Device In A Patient With Heart Failure
Nilesh U. Patel¹, Louis Labrousse², Nirav Patel¹, Claude Deville², Valavanur A. Subramanian^1
1Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY, USA, ²Hopital Cardiologique du Haut-Leveque, Pessac-Bordeaux, France

Video 12. Transventricular Mitral Valve Annuloplasty
Mitrev K. Zan, Sr.¹, N Tanja, Sr.^2
1Cardiosurgery, Special Hospital of Cardiosurgery, Skopje, Macau, ²Intensive care, Special Hospital of Cardiosurgery, Skopje, Macau

Current Controversies: "CABG/MVR After Multi-Vessel PCI: Optimal Therapies Or Table Scraps?"

Panelists:

Steve Colvin, MD Craig Smith, MD Thomas A. Vassiliades, MD

Invited Topic: "Endovascular Valve Therapies: Initial Directions And Perspectives"
Thomas A. Vassiliades, MD
Atlanta, GA

Session 9: Imaging & Facilitating Technology For Cardiac Surgery

Moderators:

Gregory P. Fontana, MD John L. Knight, MD

23. 3D Reconstruction Of Ultrafast 16 Slice CT Images And CT Angiography Versus Conventional Coronary Angiography At One Year In Multivessel OPCAB And C-CAB Surgery
Rajneesh Malhotra¹, Manisha Mishra², Poonam Khurana³, Monika Aggarwal³, Yugal Mishra¹, Zile Singh Meharwal¹, Vijay Kohli¹, Naresh Trehan^1
1Cardiothorcic Surgery, Escorts Heart Institute And Research Centre, New Delhi, India, ²Cardiac Anaesthesiology, Escorts Heart Institute And Research Centre, New Delhi, India, ³Radiology, Escorts Heart Institute And Research Centre, New Delhi, India

24. A Comparative Study Of Imaging Techniques In Aortic Dissection, DeBakey Type I - Intraoperative Live 3D Epicardial Echocardiography, Multiplane Transesophageal Echocardiography And Spiral CT
Manisha Mishra¹, Poonam Khurana², Zile Singh Meharwal³, Naresh Trehan^4
1Cardiac Anesthesia, Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre, New Delhi, India, ²Cardiac Radiology, Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre, New Delhi, India, ³Cardiac Surgery, Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre, New Delhi, India, ⁴Cardiac Surgery, Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre, New Delhi, India

25. Aortic Root Surgery: Is A Minimal Invasive Access Really Feasible?
Carlo Banfi, Andrea M. D'Armini, Mauro Rinaldi, Carlo Pellegrini, Matteo Pozzi, Mario Viganò
Division of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Mini Presentations

MP17. Detecting Coronaries And Evaluating Anastomoses With A 15 Mhz Broadband Ultrasound Transducer
Wolfgang Schiller¹, Dieter Bimmel¹, Chris Probst¹, Christoph Schmitz¹, Klaus Tiemann², Armin Welz^1
1Dept. of Cardiac Surgery, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, ²Dept. of Cardiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

MP18. Robotic Replacement Of The Descending Thoracic AortAM - An Alternative For Endovascular Therapy?
Eyal E. Porat, Peter D. Herrera, Roy Sheinbaum, Anthony L. Estrera, Tam T. Huynh, Ali Azizzadeh, Bradley S. Allen, Hazim J. Safi
Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Texas Medical School at Houston and the Memorial Hermann Institute for Cardiovascular Research and Robotics Technology, Houston, TX, USA

MP19. Aortic Arch Stabilizzation In Redo Operation For Aortic Type A Dissection
Francisco Guerra¹, Danilo Santo¹, Fiore Iorio¹, Boutros Khlat¹, Leonardo Calabrese¹, Antonio Maria Calafiore^2
1Cardivascular Surgery, Policlinico Monza, Monza, Italy, ²Cardivascular Surgery, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy

MP20. Clinical Application Of An Original Flexible M-K Stent-Graft For Non-Ruptured Taa Or Taaa
Hiroshi Ohtake¹, Keiichi Kimura¹, Ikuko Kosugi¹, Go Watanabe¹, Junichiro Sanada², Osamu Matsui^2
1General & Cardiothoracic Surgery, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, ²Radiology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

Video 13. A New Implantation Technique Of The Valsalva Prothesis During David Reconstruction Provides For Better Anatomical Reconstruction Of The Aortic Root
Friedrich-Christian Riess, Ralf Bader, Matthias Danne, Lena Heller, Niels Bleese
Dept. of Cardiac Surgery, Albertinen Heart Center, Hamburg, Germany