Cardiac Track

ISMICS PRE-MEETING WORKSHOP OPPORTUNITY

The International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS) is delighted to announce a Pre-Meeting Training Workshop offered in partnership with Medtronic on Tuesday, 9 June 2026, at the Baptist Health Education Center in Miami. This half-day course will be held from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

Course Details
Medtronic Workshop: A Journey Through the Mitral Valve: Exploring the Next Wave of Cardiac Innovation

Come join us for a comprehensive hands-on training on the mitral valve, highlighting MICS repair, replacement, and cannulation strategies. This training will include state of the art simulators and hands-on wet labs.

Key ISMICS leaders will participate as Faculty and work alongside participants.

The application period is now passed. Individuals who applied will be notified soon.

ISMICS Residents and Fellows Training
Abbott

How to Do It Movie Session
Moderators: Wouter Oosterlinck, Sahin Senay, Abbas Abbas

Talk 1 Cardiac: Robotic implantation of a new mitral tissue valve
Danny Ramzy

Talk 2 Thoracic: Carinal Resection
Sid Murthy

Talk 3 Cardiac: Totally endoscopic aortic valve replacement
Dinh Nguyen

Talk 4 Thoracic: Superior Sulcus
Inderpal Sarkaria

Talk 5 Cardiac: Totally Endoscopic Congenital VSD Surgery
Tomas Holubec

Talk 6 Cardiac: Multivessel MIDCAB
Keita Kikuchi

Talk 7 Thoracic: SP Robotic Esophagectomy or Lung
Mike Zeros

Talk 8 Cardiac: Aortic Root Enlargement Via Upper Hemisternotomy Using the A. Kocher Technique
Alfred Kocher

Talk 9 Cardiac: Totally Endoscopic TAVR Explanation
Jae Suk Yoo

Cardiac Session 1: Robotic Valves - Expert Talks & Live Surgery
Moderators: Jörg Kempfert and Nirav Patel
Panelists: Gry Dahle, Tom C. Nguyen and Ergun Demisroy
(8 min talk, 2 min discussion)

Talk 1: Robotic heart surgery: how it all began
Johannes Bonatti

Talk 2: How to establish robotic cardiac program under current situation in Europe
Stepan Cerny

Talk: David and Goliath: Robotic surgery and what makes us unique
Sudhir Srivastava

Cardiac Session 2: Robotic Valve Abstracts
Moderators: Johannes Bonatti and Ramachandra Reddy
Panelists: Eric J. Lehr, Daniel Pereda and Robinson Poffo
(4 minute presentation, 2 minutes of discussion)

C1. Mitral Valve Repair With A Novel Single-port Robotic System: An Animal Experimental Feasibility Study
Jiamiao GONG, Sheng LIU, Hang XU, Chunyu YU, Zhe ZHENG.
National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases and Fuwai Hospital, Beijing, China

C2. Robotic Endoscopic Re-repair Of Recurrent Mitral Regurgitation: A Case Series
Yazan AlJamal¹, Sarah Nisivaco², Husam H. Balkhy³.
¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA, ²Northwestern Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA, ³University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

C3. Robotic Mitral Valve Repair Using An Indigenous Ssi Mantra Robotic System
Lalitaditya Malik, Mch(CTVS).
Manipal Hospital, Jaipur, India.

C4. Robotic Mitral Valve Surgery Mitigates Sex-based Disparities In Minimally Invasive Access
Xander Jacquemyn, Andrea Amabile, Kei Kobayashi, Irsa Hasan, Takuya Ogami, Danny Chu, Derek Serna-Gallegos, David Kaczorowski, Ibrahim Sultan, Johannes Bonatti.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

C5. Robotic AVR Simplified, Longitudinal Aortotomy
Zeynep Sila Ozcan¹, Gokhan Arslanhan¹, Murat Bastopcu², Anil Karaagac², Ibrahim Gokce³, Muharrem Kocyigit⁴, Aleks Degirmencioglu⁵, Sahin Senay¹, Cem Alhan¹.
¹Acibadem University School of Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Acibadem Altunizade Hospital, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Acibadem University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Acibadem University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵Halic University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Istanbul, Turkey.

Subramanian Innovation Award Competition
Finalist 1: Smokeaway: A Novel Integrated Instrument For Smoke Evacuation Electrocautery And Targeted Illumination In Mini-thoracotomy Surgery
Aakash Dinesh Joshi
Un Mehta Institute Of Cardiology And Research, Ahmedabad, India

Finalist 2: In Vivo Feasibility And Comparative Evaluation Of Novel Vascular Connection Strategies For Long-term Extracorporeal Support
Xiayimaierdan Yibulayin¹, Janina Emunds¹, Valentine Gesché², Felix Vorwold¹, Prescher Andreas¹, Ehsan Arkin¹, Kalverkamp Sebastian¹, Johannes Greven¹, Jan Spillner¹.
¹University hospital of RWTH, Aachen, Germany, ²PerAGraft GmbH, Aachen, Germany.

Finalist 3: Novel Cryoablation Method For Epicardial Surgical Ablation Of Ventricular Tachycardia On The Beating Heart
Mariusz Kowalewski¹, Grzegorz Wroblewski², Sebastian Stec³, Michal Pasierski¹, Natalia Ogorzelec¹, Anna Chomentowska¹, Piotr Suwalski¹.
¹Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology, National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Warsaw, Poland, ² Institute of Metrology and Biomedical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, ³Subcarpathian Center for Cardiovascular Intervention, Sanok, Poland.

CORCYM: Lunch Symposium
Introducing TriMemo: From Mitral Heritage to Tricuspid Innovation
Speakers:
Dr. William Kent, MD
Prof. Nikolaos Bonaros, MD
Dr. Castillo-Sang, MD

Presidential Address
Gry Dahle

Cardiac Session 3: Robotic/Endoscopic Valves/HOCM - Expert Talks & Abstracts
Moderator: Niv Ad
Panelists: Marco Solinas, Taichi Sakaguchi
(4-minute presentation, 2 minutes of discussion)

C6. Outcomes Of Endoscopic Mitral Valve Repair In Asymptomatic Severe Mitral Regurgitation: A 19-year Single-centre Experience
Ghazi Elshafie, Joseph Zacharias.
Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Blackpool, United Kingdom.

C7. Endoscopic Valve-in-ring Technique For Mitral Valve Replacement In Redo Surgery With Severe Mitral Annular Calcification
Johannes Spilka, Adel Sakic, Lukas Stastny, Felix Nägele, Leo Winter-Pölzl, Can Gollmann-Tepeköylü, Daniel Höfer, Michael Grimm, Nikolaos Bonaros.
Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

C8. Ai-applied Machine Learning In Preoperative Planning Of Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair
Rosa Giusti¹, Rafik Margaryan², Giacomo Bianchi³, Marco Solinas⁴.
¹Ospedale del Cuore, Massa, Italy, ²Rafik Margaryan, Massa, Italy, ³Giacomo Bianchi, Massa, Italy, ⁴Marco Solinas, Massa, Italy.

C9. Percutaneous Intramyocardial Septal Radiofrequency Ablation For Drug-refractory Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy
Xiang Zhou, Zhengdong Hua, Rong Zhou.
Wuhan Asia Heart Hospital, Wuhan, China.

C10. First In Human 4d Ice Echocardiogram Intraprocedural Use In Minimally Invasive Mitral Repair
Tommaso Hinna Danesi, Charles Nyman, Edoardo Zancanaro.
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

(8 min talk + 2 min discussion)

Talk 1: Endoscopic AV replacement (rapid deployment)
Marco Solinas

Talk 2: Robotic AV replacement (standard prosthesis)
Daniel Pereda

Talk 3: Minimally invasive ascending and aortic arch repair
Joseph Lamellas

Talk 4: Robotic HOCM surgery
T. Sloane Guy

Talk 5: Totally endoscopic mitral and tricuspid valve repair
Piroze Davierwala

Talk 6: Endoscopic rhythm surgery
Piotr Suwalski

Cardiac Session 4: Robotic and MICS Revascularization - Expert Talks & Abstracts
Moderators: Monica Gianoli and Marc Ruel
Panelist: Wouter Oosterlinck, Juan Pablo Umana and Stepan Cerny

(4-minute presentation, 2 min of discussion)

Talk 1: Do we need distal connectors and what do we have?
Bob Kiaii

Talk 2: Quality assessment of CABG (flow measurement/ultrasound)
Sam Balkhy

Talk 3: Robotic-assisted MIDCAB
Makoto Hashimoto

C11. Enhanced Recovery After Coronary Bypass Surgery In Morbidly Obese Patients: Impact Of A Robotic Totally Endoscopic Approach
Riya Bhasin, Sarah Nisivaco, Hiroto Kitahara, Charocka Coleman, Husam H. Balkhy.
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

C12. Hybrid Coronary Revascularization Improves Early Recovery With Equivalent Survival To Multi-arterial Bypass Grafting
Yashraj Srivastava¹, Korri Hershenhouse², Brandon E. Ferrell², Hersh V. Gupta¹, Abigail Haber¹, Abdulbasit Oyefeso¹, Arjun S. Kumar¹, John Skendelas², Joseph J. DeRose².
¹Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA, ²Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.

C13. Midcab As The Sole Approach For Primary Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting-an Indian Single Centre Study
Sushan Mukhopadhyay, Arumit Palit, Tamashis Mukherjee.
Apollo Multispeciality Hospital, Kolkata, India.

C14. Redefining Coronary Artery Bypass: Real-world Outcomes Of Robotic And Non-robotic Coronary Revascularization
Bob Kiaii¹, Husam Balkhy², Johannes Bonatti³, Alexander deGroot⁴, Tessa Runels⁴, Usha Kreaden⁴.
¹University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ²University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, ³UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, ⁴Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

C15. Twelve-year Experience With Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Trends In Outcomes And Conversion Rates
Abdusalom Abdurakhmanov, Nurken Usenov, Aliyar Kaipov.
Republic Research Center Of Emergency Medicine, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Medela: Breakfast Symposium
Chest Drain Management in Cardiothoracic Surgery: Innovation, Outcomes, and Cost-Benefit

Session Description
This session will highlight advances in chest drainage management across thoracic and cardiac surgery, focusing on the use of digital drainage systems to improve clinical outcomes, efficiency, and recovery pathways. Expert speakers will address optimization in minimally invasive procedures, clinical and economic impact, and integration into ERAS protocols, followed by an interactive Q&A.

Chair: Prof. Kevin Lobdell, Perfect Care, Charlotte, USA
Speakers:
Kevin Lobdell
Perfect Care, Charlotte, USA

Optimizing Chest Drain Management in Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery
Jobelle Joyce Anne R. Baldonado, MD
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tempa, Florida, USA

Evaluation of the Clinical and Economic Impact of Digital Drainage Systems Compared to Conventional Methods in Cardiac Surgery
Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Johannes Petersen, MHBA
UKE Hamburg, Germany

Integrating Digital Drainage Systems into ERAS Cardiac Protocols
Associate Surgeon, Sameer Hirji , MD, MPH
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Cardiac Session 5: LIVE SURGERY DAY 2, Surgical Valves - Expert Talks & Abstracts
Surgeon: Tom C. Nguyen
Moderator: Keita Kikuchi and Tomas Holubec
Panelist: Hermann Reichenspurner

Talk 1: How important is simulation for minimally invasive cardiac surgery
Peyman Sardari

Talk 2: Preoperative planning for minimally invasive cardiac surgery and cannulation Strategies
Jörg Kempfert

Talk 3: Intraoperative pearls and pitfalls - optimizing aortic and mitral valve exposure
Mario Castillo-Sang

Cardiac Session 6: Live Surgery Continuation & Transcatheter Treatment and Reoperations - Expert Talks & Abstracts
Moderators: Gry Dahle and Anson Cheung
Panelists: Sahin Senay and Marco Solinas

Talk 1: How to explant TAVI robotically
Danny Ramzy

Talk 2: How to explant Mitraclip or Pascal device endoscopically
Antonios Pitsis

Talk 3: Totally endoscopic transatrial TAVI in ring for MAC
Nikolaos Bonaros

Talk 4: Total endovascular aortic arch repair
Augusto D'Onoforio

C16. Innovative Use Of A Self-expanding Valve For Valve-in-valve Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement: 5 Years Follow Up
Haibo Zhang.
Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Tongzhou, Beijing, China, Beijing, China.

C17. Long-term (10 Years) Results of Transcatheter Mitral Valve-in-valve Implantation For Degenerated Surgical Mitral Bioprosthesis
Edoardo Zancanaro¹, Sergio Berti², Tommaso Hinna Danesi¹.
¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, ²Massa Monaterio Foundation, Massa, Italy.

C18. Combined Transapical Beating-heart Septal Myectomy And Tavi For Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy With Severe Aortic Stenosis
Cai Cheng¹, Xiaoxue Zhang², Ningxin Hou¹, Chenhe Li¹.
¹The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, ²Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.

Edwards: Lunch Symposium
The MAC attack: MIS mitral valve replacement techniques in patients with mitral annular calcification

Speakers:
Dr. Mario Castillo-Sang, MD
Dr. Danny Ramzy, MD
Dr. Thomas Caranasos, MD

Best Video Abstracts Competition (Joint with Thoracic)
Moderators: Abbas Abbas, Husam Balkhy, and Lana Schumacher
(5 minutes of video presentation, followed by live audience polling)

Robotic Tracheobronchoplasty Performed For Post Pneumonectomy Tracheobronchomalacia Induced Cough
Ky Ngo, MD¹, Mark Dylewski, MD², Erik Sylvin, MD¹.
¹University of Miami Miller School of Medicine - Holy Cross Health, Miami, FL, USA, ²Baptist Health South Florida – Miami Cancer Institute, Miami, FL, USA.

Modified Right Vertical Infra-axillary Thoracotomy Technique For The Surgical Treatment Of Tetralogy Of Fallot In Infants
Heqi Zhang, weijie liang, Haoju Dong, Taibing Fan.
Central China Fuwai Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, China.

How I Did My First Beating Heart TECAB LIMA/RIMA Y-graft To LAD And OM In The Absence Of A Robotic Endo-stabilizer
Johannes Bonatti¹, Andrea Amabile¹, Kei Kobayashi¹, Nicholas Hess¹, Martin Winter¹, Noah Rolleri², Jared Romeo¹.
¹University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, ²University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

How I Do It: Totally Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass (tecab) Using The Indigenous Ssi Mantra Robotic System
Lalitaditya Malik, Mch( CTVS).
Manipal Hospital, jaipur, India.

Robotic Assisted Tracheal Reconstruction
Shamele Battan-Wraith, Evelyn Alexander, Ahmed Elkamel, Stephanie Worrell, Praveen Sridhar.
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.

Keynote Lecture
Introduction: Gry Dahle
Speaker: Steve Bloom

Cardiac Session 7: Imaging/Pediatric/Education - Expert Talks & Abstracts
Moderators: Nikolaos Bonaros and Marc Gilinov
Panelists: Taichi Sakaguchi, Piotr Suwalski and Ergun Demirsoy

Talk 1: Benefits of imaging for minimally invasive cardiac surgery
Sahin Senay

Talk 2: Pediatric robotic cardiac surgery
David Kalfa

Talk 3: Are autonomous robots taking over?
Ashok Kumar Coimbatore Jeyakumar

C19. Can Ventricular Septal Defect Repair Be Performed Without Median Sternotomy? Evidence From An All-age Cohort
Weijie Liang, Heqi Zhang, Hua Cao, Haoju Dong, Taibing Fan.
Central China Fuwai Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, China.

C20. A Novel Suction-assisted Probe For Epicardial Pulsed Field Ablation
M. Cassandra Witt, Matthew R. Schill, Mohamed A. Zayed, Ralph J. Damiano, Christian W. Zemlin.
Washington University, Saint Louis, MO, USA.

C21. Percutaneous Bypass In Robotic Cardiac Surgery: A Single-center Experience
James Y. Lao¹, Berk Inan², Ian Mason³, Marco Tagliafierro³, Gerardo Ramos-Lemos³, Michael R. LaLonde³, Luigi Pirelli³, Isaac George³, Arnar Geirsson³.
¹Hospital of the University of Pennsyvlania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, ²Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, ³Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York, NY, USA.

C22. Robotic Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass With Concomitant Epicardial Maze Procedure
Emily Bach, BA, Amber Edwards, MD.
Ascension Saint Thomas West, Nashville, TN, USA.

C23. 3d Specific Hologram Virtual Reality Evaluation In Cardiovascular Surgery
Takeo Tedoriya.
Tokyo D Tower Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

Cardiac Session 8: ERAS Session - Expert Talks & Abstracts (Joint with Thoracic)
Moderators: Marc W Gerdisch and Abbas Abbas
Panelists: Peyman Sardari Nia, Stephen Yang and John Lazar

How to build up ERAS program?
Evaldas Girdauskas

ERAS after esophagectomy
Stephanie Worrell

ERAS after lung surgery
Constantine Poulos

C24. Length Of Stay After Enhanced Recovery With Integrated Selective Prehabilitation
Maria G. Lopez Trevino, Marcell Szekely, Istvan I. Gecse, Michael Reardon, Reul M. Ross, Marvin D. Atkins, Andrea G. Quarti, Fernando Ramirez Del Val.
Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.

C25. Next Day Discharge After Robotic Cardiac Surgery: Combining Early Recovery Surgery (ERAS) With An Endoscopic Surgical Approach
Sarah Nisivaco, Hiroto Kitahara, Brooke Patel, Charocka Coleman, Husam H. Balkhy.
University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.

C26. Clinical Determinants Of Early Outcomes After Robotic Anatomic Lung Resection In The Eras Era
Ismail Sarbay, Gulnar Fatalizade, Alper Toker.
Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.

Session 9: Fireside Talk
Moderators: Husam Balkhy and Nirav Patel and Abbas Abbas
Speaker: Dave Rosa, CEO Intuitive Surgical

Cardiac Session 10: Expert Talks Female Leadership - How I got there?
Moderators: Gry Dahle and Sharon Ben-Or
Speakers/Panelists: Sabine Bleiziffer, YJ Oh, Darla Hutton, Jill Javier, Kari Krogstad, Lana Schumacher

Kit V. Arom Lectureship: Skills Still Matter: Surgery in the Age of Innovation
Speaker: Niv Ad

Technical Challenges Abstracts: Pitfalls and Disasters and the Solution
Moderators: Gry Dahle and Ram Reddy
Panelists: Valavanur A. Subramanian, Tomas Holubec, and Tom C. Nguyen

Diagnostic Uncertainty Of A Pulsatile Mass After Transapical Beating-Heart Mitral Valve Repair
Navneet Kang¹, Amy Brown², Toshiro Sembo², Bob Kiaii², William DT Kent², Corey Adams².
¹University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ²University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.

When Percutaneous Tricuspid Valve Replacement Fails: A Minimally Invasive Surgical Rescue
Catarina Novo, Mariana Campos, Belisa Gomes, Daniel Martins, Nelson Santos, Paulo Neves.
ULSGE, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.

Beyond The Midline: Mitral Valve Repair Via Left Mini Thoracotomy In Patient With Severe Pectus Excavatum
Borko Ivanov, Sami Sirat, Katja Bohmann, Josepha Köhne, Tanja Josic, Mirko Doss.
Helios Hospital Siegburg, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Siegburg, Germany.

Coronary Steal Syndrome From A Cardiac Paraganglioma Tumor
Michael Gibson.
St Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA.

Totally Endoscopic Repair Of Common Atrium With Partial Atrioventricular Canal And Unroofed Coronary Sinus In Severe Pulmonary Hypertension
Xiaohua Li, Zhanhao Su, Jie Jian, Miao Tian.
Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, China.

Surgical Strategies Using Impella 5.5 And Impella Rp Flex Before And After Post-infarct Ventricular Septal Defect Repair
Hiroyuki Tsukui¹, Daisuke Kaneyuki².
¹Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA, ²Independence Health System Westmoreland Hospital, Greensburg, PA, USA.