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1. Aortic & Endovascular Therapies
2. Arrhythmia
3. Congenital & Pediatric
4. Revascularization Procedures- Strategies and Outcomes
5. Thoracic 1: Oesophagus & Mediastinum
6. Thoracic 2: Pain, Pleura and Port Approaches
7. Valve- Minimally Invasive Approaches: Mitral
8. Valve- Minimally Invasive Approaches: Aortic
9. Valve- Transcatheter Therapies
10. General

Topic 1: Aortic & Endovascular Therapies | Back to Top
P1	David-V Aortic Valve Sparing Procedure: Mid-term Results Ozge Altas, Tanil Ozer, Deniz Gunay, Emre Selcuk, Ahmet Elibol, Sabit Sarikaya, Yucel Ozen, Kaan Kirali. Kosuyolu Heart Training & Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
P2	Aortic Root Surgery through Lower Partial Sternotomy Kenji Minatoya, Yoshimasa Seike, Tatsuya Oda, Yosuke Inoue, Tatsuya Itonaga, Hiroshi Tanaka, Hiroaki Sasaki, Junjiro Kobayashi. National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan.
P3	The Florida Sleeve Procedure Improves Aortic Valve Function in Marfan's Syndrome Patients Seyed Hossein Aalaei Andabili1, Tomas Martin2, Philip Hess3, Charles klodell1, Teng Lee1, Thomas Beaver1. 1Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Gainesville, FL USA, 2Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Orlando, FL USA, 3Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN USA.
P4	Surgical Strategy to Balance less Invasiveness with Complete Aortic Repair and Less Neurologic and Aorta-Related Complications for Extended Thoracic Aortic Disease Including Aortic Arch Tomohiro Mizuno, Tsuyoshi Hachimaru, Keiji Oi, Masahumi Yashima, Eiki Nagaoka, Hidehiko Kuroki, Dai Tasaki, Tatsuki Fujiwara, Masashi Takeshita, Ryoji Kinoshita, Hirokuni Arai. Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Science, Tokyo, Japan.
P5	Staged thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair of Extensive Aortic Arch Aneurysm Akihrio Yoshitake, Kazuma Okamoto, Ichiro Kashima, Mio Kasai, Akinori Hirano, Yuuta Akamatsu, Hidenori Oka, Takayuki Kawashima, Hiroto Kitahara, Hideyuki Shimizu. Keio University, Shinjyuku, Tokyo, Japan.
P6	Four Branch Elephant Trunk Prosthesis for the Treatment for Type A Aortic Dissection: Midterm Follow-up Advantages Jens Brickwedel, Hermann Reichenspurner, Marcel Coutandin, Christian Detter. University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
P7	Thoracic Endovascular Aneurysm Repair versus Open Heart Surgery for Aortic Aneurysm in Octogenarian and over: Single Center Experience Masato Furui, Takeshi Yoshida, Shoji Sakaguchi, Bunpachi Kakii. Matsubara Tokushukai Hospital, Matsubara, Osaka, Japan.
P8	Quantitative Evaluation of Endoleakage by Transesophageal Echocardiography during Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair Hiroto Kitahara1, Kenichi Hashizume1, Shinya Inoue1, Atsushi Nemoto1, Kanako Hayashi1, Ryusuke Hosoda1, Hiroaki Kaneyama1, Hideyuki Shimizu2. 1Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital, Tochigi, Japan, 2Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
P9	Total Arch Replacement using Frozen Elephant Trunk Technique for Residual Dissection after Acute Type-A Dissection Repair Makoto Hibino1, Akihiko Usui2, Hideki Oshima2, Masato Mutsuga2, Yoshiyuki Tokuda2, Hideki Ito2. 1Tokyo Bay Urayasu Ichikawa Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan; 2Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Cardiac Surgery, Nagoya, Japan.
P10	Sliding Arch Aortoplasty with Continuous Coronary Perfusion for Aortic Arch Hypoplasia beyond Infancy Nicholas B. Cavanaugh1, Jason W. Tcheng2, Alyse M. Carlson1, Jose E. Torres3, Sarah E. Holgren1, Joseph W. Turek1. 1Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, University of Iowa Children's Hospital, Iowa CIty, IA USA, 2Harrison HealthPartners, Bremerton, WA USA, 3Yavapai Cardiac Surgery, P.C., Prescott, AZ USA.
P11	Combined Open and Endovascular Treatment for Extensive Aortic Diseases Using the Frozen Elephant Trunk Technique: Early Mortality Is Mainly Influenced By the Underlying Pathology Christian Detter, Jens Brickwedel, Marcel Coutandin, Thilo Koelbel, Hermann Reichenspurner. University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
P12	Novel Non-invasive Evaluation Method of Cerebral Microcirculation during Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest using Laser Speckle Flowgraphy: A Pilot Study Fumiaki Kimura1, Hiroyuki Kamiya1, Hirotsugu Kanda2, Yuki Toyama2, Takayuki Kunisawa2, Taiji Nagaoka3, Akitoshi Yoshida3. 1Department of Cardiac surgery, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan, 2Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan, 3Department of Ophthalmology, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan.
Topic 2: Arrhythmia | Back to Top
P13	Reliable Prediction of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation from High-resolution ECG-based Assessment of Cardiac Autonomic Derangement and altered Heart Rhythm Dynamics Jurij M. Kalisnik1, Viktor Avbelj2, Jon Vratanar3, Tilen Tumpaj4, Janez Zibert5. 1Department of Cardiac Surgery – Cardiovascular Center, Klinikum Nuernberg - Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany, 2Department of Communications and Computer Networks, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 3School of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 4Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 5Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
P14	The Use of Continuous Loop Recorders in Accurately Determining the True Success of Cox-Cryomaze Procedures Faisal H. Cheema, Muhammad A. Younus, Sophia Roberts, Muhammad J. Younus, Muhammad A. Mahmood, Harold G. Roberts, Jr.. Aegis Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Aventura, FL USA.
P15	To Detect or To Ablate": Determinants of Successful Left Atrial Ganglionated Plexi Detection during Surgical Ablation of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Grzegorz Suwalski, Leszek Gryszko, Kamil Kaczejko, Jakub Mroz, Andrzej Skrobowski. Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland.
P16	Pulmonary Vein Anatomy Impact to Long-Term Results of Surgical Minimally Invasive Ablation of Persistent and Long Standing Persistent Atrial Fibrillation using Bipolar Radiofrequency Ablation Device: Case Series of 75 Patients Vilius Janusauskas1, Lina Puodziukaite1, Greta Radauskaite1, Aleksejus Zorinas1, Mindaugas Mataciunas2, Sigita Aidietiene1, Kestutis Rucinskas1, Audrius Aidietis1. 1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vilnius University Medicine Faculty, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2Department of Radiology, Vilnius University Medicine Faculty, Vilnius, Lithuania.
P17	Lack of Atrial Contraction as a Predictor for Permanent Pacemaker Implantation Jongbae Son, Min Soo Kim, Dong Seop Jeong, Young Tak Lee, Pyo Won Park. Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of.
P18	Minimally Invasive Cox Maze IV Ablation Procedure Performed Entirely by Bipolar Clamp Concomitant to Mitral Valve Surgery through Right Lateral Minithoracotomy Ju Mei, Zhaolei Jiang, Nan Ma, Hao Liu, Fangbao Ding, Chunrong Bao, Jianbing Huang. Xinhua Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong Univers, Shanghai, China.
P19	Mid-term Results of Five-box Biatrial Thoracoscopic Ablation of Advanced Atrial Fibrillation on the Beating Heart Talal Al-Atassi, Isil Uzun, Anja Muehle, Mihaela Te Winkel, Xunzhang Wang, Ali Khoynezhad. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA USA.
P20	Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: The Maze IV Procedure is Significantly Superior to Other Ablation Procedures Huiming Guo, Cong Lu, Huanlei Huang, Bin Xie, Xiaosheng Zhang, Jian Liu, Wenda Gu, Jimei Chen, Jian Zhuang. Guangdong General Hospital, Guangzhou, China.
P21	Long-term Results of Concomitant Surgical Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation Simon Pecha, Susanne Ghandili, Stephan Willems, Hermann Reichenspurner, Florian Mathias Wagner. University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
P22	Use of Del Nido and Blood Cardioplegia in Adult Cardiac Surgery Ji Seong Kim, Ho Young Hwang, Jin Hee Jeong, Sin Ju Moon, Hyuk Ahn. Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of.
P23	Initial Experience with Minimally Invasive Surgical Exclusion of Left Atrial Appendage with an Epicardial Clip Nathan Smith1, Jeevan Joseph2, Saqib Masroor1. 1Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL USA, 2Aventura Hospital and Medical Center, Aventura, FL USA.
P24	Definition of Success after Epicardial Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion: Formation of Left Atrial Diverticulum and Remnant Stump Grzegorz Suwalski1, Robert Emery2, Leszek Gryszko1, Kamil Kaczejko1, Jakub Mroz1, Przemyslaw Szlanski1, Andrzej Skrobowski1. 1Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland, 2Department of Cardiac Surgery St Joseph's Hospital, Minnesota, MN USA.
Topic 3: Congenital & Pediatric | Back to Top
P25	Improved Flow Modeling using a Modified Aortic Arch Advancement for Neonatal Arch Hypoplasia Joseph R. Nellis1, Timothy K. Chung2, Nandita Agarwal1, Jose E. Torres3, Sarah E. Holgren1, Madhavan L. Raghavan2, Joseph W. Turek4. 1University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA USA, 2University of Iowa College of Engineering, Iowa City, IA USA, 3Yavapai Regional Medical Center, Prescott, AZ USA, 4University of Iowa Children's Hospital, Iowa City, IA USA.
P26	Treatment of Isolated Ventricular Septal Defects in Children: A Comparative Analysis Between Minimally Invasive Transthoracic and Percutaneously Quansheng Xing, Qin WU. Qingdao Women and Children's Hospital, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.
P27	Outcomes of Two-Centimeter Incision as A Routine Approach for Ventricular Septal Defect Repair in Infants Less Than 6 months of Age Zhongdong Hua. Fuwai Hospital Beijing, Beijing, China.
P28	Minimally Invasive Video-assisted Surgical Closure Atrial Septal Defect on Beating Heart without Aortic Clamping Nguyen Cong Huu. Cardiovascular Centre, E Hospital, Ha Noi, Viet Nam.
P29	Transverse Sternal Split: A Safe Mini-Invasive Approach for Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot Arvind Kumar Bishnoi, Pankaj Garg, Chandrasekaran Ananthanarayanan, Malkesh Tarsaria, Pranav Sharma, Amber Malhotra, Jigar Patel, Himani Pandya. U.N. Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Center, Ahmedabad, India.
P30	Right and Left Anterolateral Minithoracotomy for Repair of Congenital Ventricular Septal Defect in Vietnam Huy Q. Dang, Huu C. Nguyen, Thanh N. Le. Cardiovascular Center, E hospital, Hanoi, Viet Nam.
P31	Inetrventional Procedures for Congenital Heart Disease Zan K. Mitrev, Anguseva N. Tanja, IV. Spec.Hospital for Cardiosurgery, Skopje, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of.
P32	Small is beautiful: But Is It Also Better? An Evaluation of Different Minimally Invasive Repair Techniques of Atrial Septal Defects Ioannis Tzanavaros1, Constanze Merz2, Anita Narr1, Brigitte Stäbler1, Alexander Horke2, Nicolas Doll1, Michael Scheid1, Markus Liebrich3. 1SANA Cardiac Surgery, Stuttgart, Germany, 2University of Hannover, Medical School, Hannover, Germany, 3SANA Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Stuttgart, Germany.
P33	Secundum Atrial Septum Defect Closure in Neonates and Infants: Scrutinizing Three Different Surgical Approaches Closely Markus Liebrich1, Anita Narr1, Brigitte Stäbler1, Alexander Horke2, Frank Uhlemann3, Michael Scheid1, Ioannis Tzanavaros1. 1SANA Cardiac Surgery, Stuttgart, Germany, 2University of Hannover, Medical School, Hannover, Germany, 3Department for Pediatric Cardiology, Pulmonology and Intensive Care Medicine, Olgahospital, Stuttgart, Germany.
P34	Percutaneous Device Closure of ASD under Transesophageal Echocardiography with a Newly Designed Adjustable Sheath through Right Internal Jugular Vein off Fluroscopy Silin Pan, Quansheng Xing, Benzhen Wang, Zhen Bing, Yueyi Ren. Qingdao Women and Children's Hospital, Qingdao, China.
P35	Percutaneous Trans-femoral Technique for Atrial Septal Defect Closure under Trans-esophageal Echocardiographic Guidance Peng Ling, Ke Lin, Gan Chang ping, Liang Zhong lei, Ruan Wei Giang. West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
P36	Two-port Robotic Cardiac Surgery for Atrial Septal Defect Using Cross-arm Technique Ishikawa Norihiko, Go Watanabe, Tatsuya Tarui, Ryuta Kiuchi, Hiroshi Ohtake, Shigeyuki Tomita, Kenji Kawachi. NewHeart Watanabe Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
Topic 4: Revascularization Procedures- Strategies and Outcomes | Back to Top
P37	Endoscopic Radial Artery Harvesting Using a New “Direct Heat” Dissector In An All-Comers Clinical Setup Serap Alkaya, Arnaud Van Linden, Mani Arsalan, Florian Hecker, Mirko Doss, Josepha Köhne, Thomas Walther. Kerckhoff Klinik, Bad Nauheim, Germany.
P38	Non-rib Spreading Minimmaly Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting using 3D Endoscope Takahiro Takemura, Yujirou Kawai, Hirokazu Niitsu, Yasuyuki Toyota, Yasutoshi Tsuda. Saku Central Hospital Advanced Care Center, Saku, Japan.
P39	Surgical Treatment of Single Vessel Disease Increases Francis P. Sutter, Mary Ann Wertan. Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, PA USA.
P40	Are Two Internal Thoracic Grafts Better Than One? Analysis of 4247 cases between 1996 and 2010 Dmitry Pevni, Rephael Mohr, Dan Loberman, Amir Kramer, Nahum Nesher, Zak Aizek, Yosef Paz, Benjamin Medalion, Yanay Ben Gal. Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
P41	Robotic-assisted Direct Coronary Artery Bypass (RADCAB): Does the Addition of Hybrid Increase Morbidity and Length of Stay in the Hospital? Feras Khaliel, Vincenzo Giambruno, Michael WA Chu, Kumar Sridhar, Patrick Teefy, Bob Kiaii. London Health Science Center, Western University of Ontario, London, ON Canada.
P42	Safety and Efficacy of Multi-vessel Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Using Proximal Suture Device Suguru Ohira, Kiyoshi Doi, Satoshi Numata, Sachiko Yamazaki, Keiichi Itatani, Hidetake Kawajiri, Kazuki Morimoto, Kaichiro Manabe, Kohki Ikemoto, Hitoshi Yaku. Kyoto Prefectural University of Medecine, Kyoto, Japan.
P43	Single Center Outcome of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for Kawasaki Disease Mainly with Arterial Graft Revascularization Woo Sik Han, Min Soo Kim, Jongbae Son, Dong Seop Jeong, Pyo Won Park, Young Tak Lee. Seoul Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of.
P44	Off- pump and On-pump CABG by Experienced Surgeons; Excellent Contemporary Outcomes regardless of Use of Cardiopulmonary Bypass Ramachandra Reddy, Amit Pawale, Julie Swain, Farzan Filsoufi, David H. Adams. Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY USA.
P45	Benefit of Off Pump Coronary Artery Revascularization technique in Diabetic Patients Pradeep Narayan, Debasis Das, Rahul Guha Biswas, Saibal Roy Chowdhury, Emmanuel Rupert, Mrinalendu Das. RTIICS, Kolkata, India.
P46	Effect of Surgical Timing and the use of Bilateral Internal Thoracic Artery Grafting on Outcome of Patients after Acute MI? Nachum Nesher1, Dan Loberman2, Rephael Mohr1, Demitri Pevni1, Mohamed Medleg1, Amir Kramer1, Zachi Aizer1, Yossi Paz1, Yanai Ben-Gal1. 1Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA USA.
P47	Repeat Revascularization after Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Is It a Problem? Maria Lorena Rodriguez, Harry Lapierre, Benjamin Sohmer, Marc Ruel. University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON Canada.
P48	The Mid-term Clinical Outcomes of Hybrid Procedure for Treating Patients with Multivessel Coronary Artery Diseases Zhiyong Liu, Wei He, Qitong Lu, Jianmin Zhou, Jie Jiang. Zhongda Hospital and School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
Topic 5: Thoracic 1: Oesophagus & Mediastinum | Back to Top
P49	Comparison of the Outcomes between Open Thoracotomy versus Minimally Invasive Thoracoscopic Esophagectomy in Esophageal Cancer Reza Bagheri, Sr.1, Seyed ziaollah haghi1, Nazanin Hazrati1, Mahdi Seilanian Toussi2, Mitra Ahadi1. 1Cardio-Thoracic Surgery & Transplant Research Center, Emam Reza hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, Islamic Republic of, 2Cancer Research Center, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, Islamic Republic of.
P50	First Year Experience in Minimally Invasive Robot-assisted Esophagectomy in a Large Academic Referral Center Stefano Bongiolatti1, Alessandro Gonfiotti1, Mario Annecchiarico2, Michele Di Marino2, Domenico Viggiano1, Benedetta Pesi2, Luca Voltolini1, Andrea Coratti2. 1Thoracic Surgery Unit, Florence, Italy, 2Division of Oncological and Robotic General Surgery, Florence, Italy.
P51	Early Experience with Robotic-assisted Minimally Invasive Collis Gastroplasy Nicholas Hess1, Inderpal Sarkaria2, Jonathan D'Cunha2, Katie Nason2, James Luketich1. 1University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA USA, 2University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA USA.
P52	Advantages of Robotic Approach for Plication of Diapghram for Eventeration Narendra Agarwal, Shaiwal Khandelwal, Mohd Fauzi, Kamran Ali, Ali Zamir Khan. Medanta The Medicity, Gurgaon, India.
P53	Redo PEH Repair is Associated with Excellent Symptomatic and Objective Outcomes Stephanie G. Worrell, Kyle M. Green, Katrin Schwameis, Steven R. DeMeester. Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA.
P54	Uniportal VATS Thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis Kamran Ali, Shaiwal Khandelwal, Narendra Agarwal, Ali Zamir Khan. Medanta the Medicity, Gurgaon, India.
P55	Unilateral Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Thymectomy in the Treatment of Thymic Tumor: A Single Surgeon's Experience Mi Hyoung Moon, Youngkyu Moon, Seok Whan Moon, Jae Kil Park, Sook Whan Sung. Seoul St. Mary's Hospital in Korea, Seoul, Korea, Republic of.
P56	VATS Resection of Mediastino-cervical Thymic Cysts Shaiwal Khandelwal, Kamran Ali, Narendra Agarwal, Ali Zamir Khan. Medanta the Medicity, Gurgaon, India.
P57	Robotic Surgery compared with Median Sternotomy for Thymic Mass Resection Anna L.W. Tam, Atasha Asmat, Aneez D.B. Ahmed. Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
P58	Experiences of Single-port Vats Thymectomy through the Sub-Xiphoidal Incision without Co2 Insufflation Do Kyun Kang, InHa Kim, Woon Heo, Sung Kwang Lee, Ho-ki Min, Hee Jae Jun, Youn-ho Hwang. Haeundae Paik Hospital, Busan, Korea, Republic of.
P59	Lessons Learned: Minimally Invasive Resection of Mediastinal Pathology Hannah M. Conn1, Conor Haynes2, Lorenzo De Marchi3, Margaret Blair Marshall4. 1Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC USA, 2Georgetown University, Washington, DC USA, 3MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Department of Anesthesia, Washington, DC USA, 4MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Washington, DC USA.
P60	The Incidence and Clinical Burden of Air Leak Complications in Lung Surgeries: a Retrospective Analysis of a U.S. Hospital Database Andrew Yoo1, Sudip Ghosh2, Walter Danker2, Edmund Kassis3, Iftekhar Kalsekar1. 1Epidemiology, Medical Devices, Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ USA, 2Global Health Economics and Market Access, Ethicon, Inc., Cincinnati, OH USA, 3Medical Affairs, Ethicon, Inc., Cincinnati, OH USA.
Topic 6: Thoracic 2: Pain, Pleura and Port Approaches | Back to Top
P61	Is There Clinical Benefit In 12mm Single Port Surgery In Spontaneous Pneumothorax? Mi Hyoung Moon2, Hyun woo Jeon1, Young-du Kim1, Sook Whan Sung2. 1Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital, Bucheon, Korea, Republic of, 2Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of.
P62	Does Abrasion Pleurodesis increase the Morbidity of Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Primary Pneumothorax? Jinglong Li, Qigang Luo, Dazhi Pang, Alan D. Sihoe. The University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China.
P63	Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Versus Axillary Thoracotomy in Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax Reza Bagheri, Sr.1, Seyed ziaollah haghi1, Davood Attaran2, Fatemeh Ebadi1, Yaser Rajabnejad1, Ata'ollah Rajabnejad1. 1Cardio- Thoracic Surgery & Transplant Research Center, Emam Reza hospital, Mashhad university of medical sciences, mashhad, Iran, Islamic Republic of, 2Lung Disease Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, mashhad, Iran, Islamic Republic of.
P64	Can Neurovascular Bundle-Sparing Thoracotomy (NVBST) rival Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) in Terms of Pain Scores? Sanjeet Singh Avtaar Singh, Ahmad Ali, Peter Lang, Rohith Govindraj, Alan Kirk. Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
P65	Patient-controlled Epidural Analgesia Provides Better Analgesia Than Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia for Patients Following Thoracotomy Sanjay Kumar, Tarun K. Lahiri. Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
P66	The Role of SPECT/CT to Predict Postoperative Pulmonary Function In Patients With Marginal Pulmonary Function Samina Park, Gi Jeong Cheon, Yoohwa Hwang, Hyun Joo Lee, In Kyu Park, Chang Hyun Kang, Young Tae Kim. Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of.
P67	Minimally-Invasive Sublobar Resection of Tiny Pulmonary Nodules with Real-Time Image Guidance in the Hybrid Theatre Sze Yuen Peter Yu, Wing Hung Rainbow Lau, Freddie G. Capili, Yuk Pui Innes Wan, Malcolm John Underwood, Cheuk Man Chu, Chun Ho Simon Yu, Sze Hang Calvin Ng. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
P68	Minimally Invasive Treatment of Metastatic Pleuritis Severgin Vladislav. Odessa National Medical University, Odessa, Ukraine.
P69	Use of Hybrid Techniques to Improve the Learning Curve for VATS Narendra Agarwal, Shaiwal Khandelwal, Kamran Ali, Mohd Fauzi, Ali Zamir Khan, Ali Zamir Khan. Medanta the Medicity, Gurgaon, India.
P70	A Uniportal Thoracoscopic Major Pulmonary Resections Mitsuhiro Kamiyoshihara, Takashi Ibe, Natsuko Kawatani, Hitoshi Igai. Maebashi Red Cross Hospital, Maebashi, Japan.
P71	Treatment Outcomes of Anatomical Lung Resection In Single-port VATS (SPVATS) for Stage I Lung Cancer Kyoji Hirai. Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusou Hospital, Chiba, Japan.
P72	Single-port Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery for Primary Lung Cancer: A Single Center Experience Do Kyun Kang, InHa Kim, Woon Heo, Sung Kwang Lee, Ho-Ki Min, Hee Jae Jun, Youn-ho Hwang. Haeundae Paik Hospital, Busan, Korea, Republic of.
Topic 7: Valve- Minimally Invasive Approaches: Mitral | Back to Top
P73	A Simplified Minimally Invasive Technique Operation for Mitral Valve Repair: Better with Less Risk Marco Diena1, Gheorghe Cerin2, Philippe Caimmi3, Gabriele Musica3, Angelo Romano4, Edmond Stelian4, Eugenio Novelli5, Gian Luca Martinelli3, Ugo Tesler6. 1Cardioteam Foundation, Torino, Italy, 2Dept. of Cardiology, San Gaudenzio Clinic, Novara, Italy, 3Dept. of Cardiac Surgery, San Gaudenzio Clinic, Novara, Italy, 4Dept. of Cardiac Anaesthesia, San Gaudenzio Clinic, Novara, Italy, 5Dept. of Statistics, San Gaudenzio Clinic, Novara, Italy, 6Dept. of Cardiac Surgery, Novara, Italy.
P74	Incremental Improvements in a Minimally Invasive Mitral Repair Program Sion G. Jones, Kenneth Palmer, Omar Al-Rawi, Paul Modi. Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
P75	Robotic Mitral Valve Repair: Mid-term Follow-up Results Changqing Gao, Huajun Zhang, Ming Yang, Cangsong Xiao, Yao Wang, Gang Wang. PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
P76	Minimally Invasive Mitral Surgery versus Sternotomy Approach: A Meta-Analysis of "Statistically Sound" Studies Massimo Meco, Enrico Giustiniano, Paolo Panisi, Silvia Cirri, Antonio Miceli, Mattia Glauber. Icsa Milan, Milan, Italy.
P77	Endoscopic Mitral Valve Surgery Following Basic Setting of Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery Toshiaki Ito, Masayoshi Tokoro, Jyunji Yanagisawa, Atsuo Maekawa. Japanese Red Cross Nagoya First Hospital, Nagoya, Japan.
P78	Three Ports Thoracoscopic Techniques for Mitral Valve Replacement without Robotically Assisted Surgical System: Technical Challenges and Solutions Zengshan Ma, Sr., Hourong Sun. Shandong Unversity, Ji'nan, China.
P79	Mitral Valve Procedures without Aortic Cross Clamping via Right Minithoracotomy Using Titanium Fasteners Rafik Margaryan, Giacomo Bianchi, Tommaso Gasbarri, Giovanni Concistrè, Pierandrea Farneti, Marco Solinas. Ospedale Del Cuore Fondazione 'G. Monasterio', Massa, Italy.
P80	Beating Heart Mitral Valve Surgery: Results in 120 Consecutive Patients Considered Non-Suitable Candidates for Conventional Mitral Valve Surgery Stephan Jacobs, Simon Sündermann, Volkmar Falk. German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
P81	Transapical Off-Pump Implantation of Artificial Cordae in Mitral Valve Regurgitation Nalan Schnelle1, Horst Sievert2, Laura Vaskelyte2, Dilek Ister1, Christian F. Vahl1. 1University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, 2Cardiovascular Center Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
P82	3D Imaging in Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery: An 18 Months Single Center Experience Christoph Krapf, Bastian Schneider, Cenk Özpeker, Juliane Kilo, Michael Grimm, Ludwig Müller. Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
P83	Totally Thoracoscopic Mitral Valve Repair with Modify Loop Technique Bin Xie. Cardiovascular Department of GuangDong Province People's Hospital GuangZhou China, GuangZhou, China.
P84	A New Twist on an Old Problem: Robotic Septal Myectomy and Anterior Mitral Valve Leaflet Enlargement for Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy Sarah L. Breves1, Thomas M. Kelley, Jr.2, James McCarthy1, Mohammed Kashem1, G. William Moser1, Daniel L. Dries1, Clifton T. Lewis3, T. Sloane Guy4. 1Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA USA, 2Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Augusta, GA USA, 3Princeton Baptist Medical Center, Birmingham, AL USA, 4Weill Cornell School of Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY USA.
Topic 8: Valve- Minimally Invasive Approaches: Aortic | Back to Top
P85	Sutureless Aortic Perceval Bioprosthesis: Single Center Experience in Cardiac Reoperations Giovanni Concistrè, Francesca Chiaramonti, Giacomo Bianchi, Michele Murzi, Egidio Varone, Tommaso Gasbarri, Filippo Santarelli, Enkel Kallushi, Alfredo Cerillo, Pierandrea Farneti, Marco Solinas. Ospedale del Cuore "G. Pasquinucci" - Fondazione G. Monasterio CNR, Massa, Italy.
P86	Single Centre Experience of Aortic Valve Replacement with Rapid-Deployment Bioprosthesis: One Hundred and Fourteen Implantations Francesca Chiaramonti, Giovanni Concistrè, Federica Marchi, Egidio Varone, Giacomo Bianchi, Tommaso Gasbarri, Pier Andrea Farneti, Marco Solinas. Heart Hospital G.Pasquinucci FTGM, Massa, Italy.
P87	Sutureless Prosthesis Option in Patients Undergoing Concomitant Aortic Valve and Ascending Aorta Replacement: First Experience in 13 Cases Mattia Glauber, Antonio Lio, Matteo Ferrarini, Antonio Miceli. Cardiac Surgery and Great Vessel Department, Istituto Clinico Sant'Ambrogio, Milan, Italy.
P88	Minimally-Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement via Right Anterior Mini-thoracotomy and Central Aortic Cannulation: A 13-Year Experience Daniel M. Bethencourt1, Jennifer Le2, Gabriela Rodriguez3, Robert W. Kalayjian3, Gregory S. Thomas3. 1MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute at Long Beach and Orange Coast Memorial, Long Beach, CA USA, 2University of California San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy, La Jolla, CA USA, 3MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute at Long Beach Memorial, Long Beach, CA USA.
P89	Full or Partial Sternotomy Rather Than Right Minithoracotomy: Tailoring the Best Approach for Each Patient in Aortic Valve Replacement Elisa Mikus, Simone Calvi, Marco Panzavolta, Marco Paris, Mauro Del Giglio. Maria Cecilia Hospital, GVM for Care & Research, Cotignola (Ra), Italy.
P90	Mini-Bentall: An Attractive Approach for Elective Patients Elisa Mikus, Marco Pagliaro, Alberto Tripodi, Diego Magnano, Mauro Del Giglio. Maria Cecilia Hospital, GVM for Care & Research, Cotignola (Ra), Italy.
P91	Feasibility of Minimally Invasive Aortic Root Surgery Alon Aharon1, Oleg Orlov2, Ioannis Paralikas3, Matthew Thomas3, Joshua Wong4, Amber Melvin4, Konstadinos Plestis3. 1Lankenau medical center, Philadelphia, PA USA, 2Lankenau medical center, Philadelphia, PA USA, 3Lankenau medical center, Philadelphia, NY USA, 4Division of Cardiac Surgery University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY USA.
P92	Intermediate Term Evaluation of Hemodynamic Behavior and Patient Prosthesis Mismatch at Rest and Under Stress after Aortic Valve Replacement with Sorin Freedom Pericardial Stentless Prosthesis Guglielmo Stefanelli, Fabrizio Pirro, Alina Olaru, Clorinda Labia, Massimo Longo, Marco Meli. Hesperia Hospital, Modena, Italy.
P93	Minimally-invasive Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients with Concomitant Coronary Artery Disease Alon Aharon1, Matthew Thomas1, Oleg Orlov1, Ioannis Paralikas1, Djamila Abjigitova2, Joshua Wong1, Amber Melvin3, Konstadinos Plestis1. 1lankenau Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA USA, 2Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 3Division of Cardiac Surgery University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY USA.
P94	Reduced Length of Hospital Stay for Mini-Invasive Aortic Valve Replacements after Implementation of an Enhanced Recovery after Surgery Program Pierre OSES, Sr., Cedrick Zaouter, Jocelyn Duchateau, Alexandre Ouattara, Louis Labrousse. Bordeaux University Hospital, PESSAC, France.
P95	Aortic Valve Replacement Using a Rapid Deployment Valve through Anterior Right Thoracotomy: A Single Center Study Stephane Mahr, Martin Andreas, Andreas Habertheuer, Martin Schauperl, Dominik Wiedemann, Alfred Kocher, Gunther Laufer. Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
P96	The use of Rapid Deployment Valves In Combined Aortic And Mitral Valve Surgery: 1 Year Clinical and Echocardiographic Outcomes Markus Schloemicher, Peter Lukas Haldenwang, Vadim Moustafine, Matthias Bechtel, Justus Thomas Strauch. Ruhr-University Hospital Bergmannsheil, Bochum, Germany.
Topic 9: Valve- Transcatheter Therapies | Back to Top
P97	The Influence Of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy On Mortality In Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Danielle D. Spragan, Fenton McCarthy, Katherine McDermott, Saif Anwaruddin, Jay Giri, Wilson Szeto, Howard Herrmann, Joseph Bavaria, Nimesh Desai. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA.
P98	Reduced Ejection Fraction: Is there an improvement after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement? Mahim Malik1, Muhammad Shareef1, Juan A. Crestanello1, Barry S. George2, Gregory D. Rushing1. 1Ohio State University, Columbus, OH USA, 2Ohio State University, Columbus, OH USA.
P99	Outcome after Aortic Valve Replacement for Low-Flow/Low-Gradient Aortic Stenosis with Poor Contractile Reserve on Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography Sanjay Kumar1, Tarun K. Lahiri2. 1Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT USA, 2Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
P100	Perioperative Outcome of Low Flow Low Gradient Aortic Stenosis in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Insights from a Two Center Study With More Than 700 Patients Markus Kofler1, Nikolaos Bonaros1, Sebastian Reinstadler2, Samir Ahad3, Tim Schäufele4, Lukas Stastny1, Gudrun Feuchtnerr5, Silvana Müller2, Ludwig Müller1, Guy Friedrich2, Michael Franz2, Michael Grimm1, Ulrich Franke3, Hardy Baumbach3. 1Medical University of Innsbruck, Cardiac Surgery, Austria, 2Medical University of Innsbruck, Cardiology, Austria, 3Robert Bosch Klinikum Stuttgart, Cardiac Surgery, Germany, 4Robert Bosch Klinikum Stuttgart, Cardiology, Germany, 5Medical University of Innsbruck, Radiology, Austria.
P101	Impact of Gradient and Flow on Perioperative Renal Function after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Markus Kofler1, Hardy Baumbach2, Sebastian Reinstadler1, Samir Ahad2, Stephan Hill3, Lukas Stastny1, Gudrun Feuchtner4, Silvana Müller5, Ludwig Müller1, Guy Friedrich5, Wolfgang Franz5, Michael Grimm1, Nikolaos Bonaros1. 1Medical University of Innsbruck, Cardiac Surgery, Austria, 2Robert Bosch Klinikum Stuttgart, Cardiac Surgery, Germany, 3Robert Bosch Klinikum Stuttgart, Cardiology, Germany, 4Medical University of Innsbruck, Radiology, Austria, 5Medical University of Innsbruck, Cardiology, Austria.
P102	Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Redo Patients with Native Aortic Valve Stenosis: A Meta-Analysis Alexander Meyer, Simon Sündermann, Axel Unbehaun, Semih Buz, Volkmar Falk, Jörg Kempfert. German Heart Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
P103	Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation versus Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement with Sutureless Valve: A Single Centre Matching Study Francesca Chiaramonti,1, Giovanni Concistrè1, Tommaso Gasbarri1, Federica Marchi1, Giacomo Bianchi1, Danyar Gilmanov1, Pier Andrea Farneti1, Sergio Berti1, Mattia Glauber2, Alfredo Giuseppe Cerillo1, Marco Solinas1. 1Heart Hospital G.Pasquinucci FTGM, Massa, Italy, 2Istituto Clinico Sant1Ambrogio, Milano, Italy.
P104	Transapical Aortic Valve Implantation in Dialysis-Dependent Patients Sergey Leontyev, Philip Kiefer, Norman Mangner, Axel Linke, Gerhard Schuler, Friedrich W. Mohr, David Holzhey. Heart Center Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
P105	Right Thoracotomy: The Access of Choice for Transaortic Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Julius I. Ejiofor1, Morgan T. Harloff1, Marko T. Boskovski1, Siobhan McGurk1, Prem S. Shekar1, Lawrence H. Cohn1, Pinak Shah2, Tsuyoshi Kaneko1. 1Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Boston, MA USA, 2Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Cardiology, Boston, MA USA.
P106	Improved Outcomes in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement using a Minimalist Approach: A Single Center Experience Kendra J. Grubb, Tyler Fields, Mary Jo Noon, Michael Flaherty, Jaimin Trivedi. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY USA.
P107	The Surgical Experience of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement for Bicuspid Aortic Valve Kizuku Yamashita, Yusuke Shimahara, Tomoyuki Fujita, Hiroki Hata, Yuta Kume, Yorihiko Matsumoto, Junjiro Kobayashi. National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita City, Japan.
P108	Transcatheter Transapical Mitral Valve-in-valve Implantation: The Singapore Experience Zameer Aziz, Jia Lin Soon. National Heart Centre, Singapore, Singapore.
Topic 10: General | Back to Top
P109	Efficacy of Intraoperative Monitoring Of Limb Perfusion with Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Prevention of Lower Limb Neuropathy after Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Kosuke Nakajima, Kazuyuki Nagata, Toshinori Totsugawa, Arudo Hiraoka, Tomoya Oshita, Ryosuke Muraki, Masahisa Arimichi, Hidenori Yoshitaka, Taichi Sakaguchi. The Sakakibara Heart Institute of Okayama, Okayama, Japan.
P110	Low incidence of Cerebral Microembolization during Convergent Procedure for Atrial Fibrillation Borut Gersak1, Katarina Surlan Popovic2, Marta Cvijic3, Bor Antolic3, Tine Prolic Kalinsek4, Matevz Jan4. 1University of Ljubljana, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, UMC Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2Department of Interventional Radiology, UMC Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 3Department of Cardiology, UMC Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 4Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, UMC Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
P111	Impacts of Size and Viability of Revascularized Area on Graft Flow and Patency in Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Hiroyuki Nakajima, Tabata Mimiko, Masaru Kambe, Masahiro Ikeda, Kazuhiko Uwabe, Toshihisa Asakura, Atsushi Iguchi, Hiroshi Niinami. Saitama International Medical Center, Saitama, Japan.
P112	IntraClude Device: How to Predict the Balloon Volume Inflation from Previous Experience Analysis Monica Contino1, Massimo Giovanni Lemma1, Claudia Romagnoni1, Andrea Mangini1, Antonietta Delle Fave1, Simone Colombo1, Carlo Antona2. 1Ospedale Luigi Sacco, Milan, Italy, 2Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.
P113	Risk Stratification and Care Bundle Approach including Endoscopic Vein Harvesting Reduces Sternal and Donor Site Infection Rates to 0% Rashmi Yadav, Melissa Rochon, Terri Ann Russell, Cesare Quarto, Richard Trimlett, Anthony DeSouza. Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
P114	Pre-operative Eligibility for Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: An Examination of Epicardial Adipose Using Computed Tomography Kate Dillon1, Marjorie Johnson1, Ian Chan2, Bob Kiaii3. 1Western University, London, ON Canada, 2Western University, London Health Sciences Centre Department of Radiology, London, ON Canada, 3Western University, London Health Sciences Centre Divison of Cardiac Surgery, London, ON Canada.
P115	Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement: No Groin, A New Perfusion Technique: The "R-R India Method" Ravi K. Singh, Rajneesh Malhotra. Max Heart and Vascular Institute, New Delhi, India.
P116	Single-stage Hybrid Coronary Intervention with Concomitant Minimal Invasive Valve Surgery Andreas Habertheuer, Arminder Jassar, Bill Matthai, Prashanth Vallabhajosyula, Clark Hargrove, Jacob Gutsche, William Vernick, Wilson Y. Szeto. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA.
P117	Comparison of Corknot Device Suture-Fastening System versus Hand Tying In Conventional Open Cardiac Surgery: A Retrospective Study Sudeep Das De, Paschalis Kapsomenakis, Susan Dewar, Hussein El-Shafei. Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen UK, United Kingdom.
P118	Robotic Assistance in Reoperative Cardiac Surgery: Feasibility and Early Outcomes Husam H. Balkhy, Zewditu Asfaw, Brooke Wilkey, Mackenzie Reupert, Dorothy Krienbring, Susan Arnsdorf. University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL USA.
P119	Alteration of Echocardiographic Findings and Analysis of the Long-Term Survival Factors after Pericardiectomy Min Soo Kim, Jongbae Son, Dong Seop Jeong, Kiick Sung, Pyo Won Park. Seoul Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of.
P120	Evaluation of the Efficacy of a Novel Medial Adhesive, MAR VIVO-107, in a Vessel Burst Pressure Study Pramod Kadaba Srinivasan, Kerstin Pawlowsky, Babette Koegel, René Tolba. University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany.