When &amp; Where

Amber Hext - Edwards Lifesciences (Australia)

7:40 am

Minimally Invasive Surgery Simulator Workshop

Tristan Yan (NSW)

8:10 am

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8:25 am - 10:00 am - 09 November 2024

SESSION 5 - DISSECTING DISSECTIONS: TRICKS, TRAPS AND TRIUMPHS

Scientific Session - Default - Ballroom 3 - Ballroom 2 - Ballroom 1

8:25 am

MICS in direct vision - is it only for beginners

8:30 am

Aortic Dissection Type A: my most memorable case and lessons learned

George Matalanis (VIC)

Siven Seevanayagam (Victoria)

8:40 am

Aortic dissection Type B: my most memorable case and lessons learned

8:50 am

TEVAR and Aortic dissection: My most memorable case and lessons learned

Nishith Patel (Waikato)

9:00 am

Aortic dissection: Modern anaesthetic strategies - its not just the bleeding!

Gemma Duncan (QLD)

9:10 am

Open thoracotomy for descending aortic surgeries in contemporary era – A single centre experience.

Natasha Jeenah (QLD)

John Doty (United States of America)

9:20 am

Staged Hybrid Total Aortic Reconstruction with Thoracic Branched Endograft (TBE) for Pacific Islanders with Heritable Thoracic Aortic Disease

Yattheesh Thanalingam (Aotearoa New Zealand)

9:30 am

Coagulopathy and false lumen thrombosis in type A aortic dissection

10:00 am - 10:30 am - 09 November 2024

MORNING TEA WITH INDUSTRY

Catering - Default - Laguna Lilypond Terrace

10:30 am - 12:00 pm - 09 November 2024

SESSION 6 - CHALLENGING SCENARIOS IN THORACIC SURGERY

Scientific Session - Default - Ballroom 1

10:30 am

Thymomas: technical considerations for the terrible cases

Yin-Kai Chao (Taiwan)

10:45 am

Should we fix an isolated rib fracture?

Julian Gooi (VIC)

11:00 am

The challenging mediastinal case - is robotic better?

Levi Bassin (NSW)

11:15 am

Tracheo-oseophageal fistulas: when to fix and how

Julian Gooi (VIC)

Sanjay Dutta (New South Wales)

11:30 am

Single versus bilateral lung transplantation for interstitial lung disease. Two lungs are not always better than one.

11:40 am

COVE Study - Phase I study of VATS fissure completion prior to Endobronchial Valve Insertion for severe COPD patients with Collateral Ventilation (COVE)

Adrienne Lui (VIC)

10:30 am - 12:00 pm - 09 November 2024

SESSION 6A - CHALLENGING TOPICS IN HEART FAILURE: MECHANICAL ASSIST AND TRANSPLANT

Scientific Session - Default - Ballroom 3 - Ballroom 2

10:30 am

Out of Hospital Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (ECPR)

Brian Plunkett

10:40 am

ECMO: does flow matter

John Fraser (QLD)

10:50 am

Impella to the rescue: current strategy, indications and outcomes

Anson Cheung (Canada)

Amy Fiedler (United States of America)

11:05 am

Heart Transplantation in 2024 and Beyond: Expanded Donor Criteria, DCD Donation, and Normothermic Regional Perfusion

11:20 am

Update on Bivacor TAH

Paul Jansz (NSW)

Sam Emmanuel (New South Wales)

11:30 am

Running Hot and Cold: Pushing The Boundaries in Heart Transplantation

Yashutosh Joshi (NSW)

11:40 am

The Cardiobionic Ventrii Ventricular Assist Device

11:50 am

Minimally invasive surgery with comprised Left Ventricular Function

Utz Kappert (Germany), Manuel Wilbring (Germany)

11:00 am - 12:00 pm - 09 November 2024

TA TRIAL INVESTIGATOR MEETING

Scientific Session - Default - Laguna 2

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm - 09 November 2024

LUNCH WITH INDUSTRY

Catering - Default - Laguna Lilypond Terrace

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm - 09 November 2024

CORCYM MASTERCLASS: THE BENEFITS OF PERCEVAL PLUS SUTURELESS VALVE IN MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY – CASE STUDIES AND DISCUSSION

Masterclass - Default - Ballroom 1

12:15 pm

Intro to MICLAT approach

12:22 pm

Case Study and Discussion

12:40 pm

How to start a MICLAT Program in your Hospital

Borut Gersak, Thorsten Hanke (Germany), Simon Moten (VIC), Paul Jansz (NSW), Trevor Fayers (United Arab Emirates), Aubrey Almeida (VIC)

12:50 pm

Panel Discussion

1:25 pm - 3:00 pm - 09 November 2024

SESSION 7 - IT’S NEVER "JUST THE AORTIC VALVE": TAVI, TRICKS AND TRADITIONS

Scientific Session - Default - Ballroom 1

1:25 pm

Lifetime Management of Edwards Valves

David Bellas

Kendra Grubb (United States of America)

1:30 pm

Overcoming prosthesis-patient mismatch with transcatheter aortic valve replacement

1:45 pm

Australian TAVI Update: the truth hurts?

Jayme Bennetts (SA)

1:55 pm

The coming tsunami: explant TAVI surgery 101- techniques

Anson Cheung (Canada)

Trevor Fayers (United Arab Emirates)

2:10 pm

Mechanical AVR in the TAVI era - the renaissance approaches?

2:20 pm

Bicuspid Aortic Stenosis - the last bastion of the Surgical AVR or the new TAVI frontier?

Christopher Smith (QLD)

2:30 pm

Early Clinical Outcome of Perceval Aortic Valve Implantation in Townsville, Australia

Pouya Nezafati (NSW)

2:40 pm

Outcomes of mechanical aortic valve replacement in Queensland patients younger than 20 years of age.

Siddharth Amboli (QLD)

2:50 pm

INSPIRIS RESILIA Aortic Valve Replacement: A Single Centre’s Experience

Abbey Knox (SA)

Paula Ugalde Figueroa (MA)

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - 09 November 2024

SESSION 7A - SURGERY IN LOCALLY ADVANCED AND METASTATIC SETTINGS

Scientific Session - Default - Ballroom 3 - Ballroom 2

1:30 pm

What is resectable disease?

1:45 pm

Surgical management of giant thoracic tumours

Tristan Yan (NSW)

1:55 pm

Surgery for N2 disease

Simon Knight (VIC)

Michael Harden (Australia)

2:05 pm

Chest wall reconstruction - endless possibilities or reality bites?

2:15 pm

A Retrospective Case Series evaluating Efficacy of Single Port Thoracoscopic Lobectomy in Patients with Severely Compromised Lung Function (Predicted Postoperative Diffusing Capacity of the Lung for Carbon Monoxide % < 40%)

Jyotindra Singh (NSW)

2:25 pm

A Comparison of Three-port and Four-port da Vinci Robot-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery for Lung Cancer: A Retrospective Study

Chen Yang (China)

2:35 pm

Case Series of Robotic VATS procedures

Michael Jacoub (NSW)

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm - 09 November 2024

AFTERNOON TEA WITH INDUSTRY

Catering - Default - Laguna Lilypond Terrace

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm - 09 November 2024

SURGERY FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE MEETING

Business Meeting - Default - Laguna 2

3:00 pm

ACHD - Who, where and when

Prem Venugopal (QLD)

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm - 09 November 2024

SESSION 8 - CONGENITAL - AORTIC VALVE DISEASE. IT'S MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY.

Scientific Session - Default - Ballroom 1

3:30 pm

What it takes to become a ROSS surgeon

Peter Skillington (VIC)

3:45 pm

PPM and young patients: Is it the surgeon or the patient

Homayoun Jalali (QLD)

Conal Austin (United Kingdom (Great Britain))

4:00 pm

ROSS PEARS: new trick up your sleeve

Chris Baird (United States of America)

4:15 pm

Aortic Valve repair: The Boston way

4:30 pm

Outcomes of Isolated Tricuspid Valve Surgery: One Centre’s 11-year Experience

4:40 pm

Survival and post-discharge morbidity in patients requiring post-cardiotomy extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in Queensland: a retrospective cohort study

Lachlan Crawford (QLD)

4:50 pm

Redo Coarctation Repairs: One Institution's Technique

Sanjay Dutta (New South Wales)

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm - 09 November 2024

SESSION 8A - WHERE THE CORONARY MEETS THE LUNG POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Scientific Session - Default - Ballroom 3 - Ballroom 2

3:30 pm

Time of lung transplantation does not impact short and long-term patient outcomes (but may impact surgeon wellbeing!)

3:35 pm

Spiltmilk: Management and prevention of chylothorax

Claudia Villanueva (NSW)

3:40 pm

Novel 3D Printed Model of Pulmonary Broncho-Vascular Anatomy

Victor Shahen (VIC)

3:45 pm

VV-ECMO for the Repair of an Unusual Case of Massive Tracheo-Broncho-Oesophageal Fistula

Aaron Adonopulos (NSW)

3:50 pm

A Case of Adenocarcinoma in an Intralobar Bronchopulmonary Sequestration with Skip N2 Metastasis

Robert Grant (NSW)

3:55 pm

Primary benign cutaneous pecoma of the thoracic wall

Robert Alzul (NSW)

4:00 pm

Acute Spontaenous Massive Haemothorax in a Jehovah’s Witness with beta-thalassemia and thoracic extramedullary haematopoiesis: a management conundrum

Amy Bennett (WA)

Fiona Doig (Aotearoa New Zealand)

4:05 pm

Constrictive Pericarditis post lung transplantation: Suspect and succeed

Louis Fiander (Aotearoa New Zealand)

4:10 pm

Eggshell Pericardiectomy: a rare case of idiopathic calcified constrictive pericarditis.

Thanut Jansirirat (Thailand)

4:15 pm

Cardiac function and mortality of stem cell therapy in coronary artery disease patients who underwent coronary artery bypass graft and had no heart failure: a meta-analysis

4:20 pm

Assessment of graft patency and measurement of regional myocardial temperature changes using a more advanced Infrared Camera

Madhu Ravisankar (SA)

4:25 pm

Comparison of Patient-Reported Outcomes Between Endoscopic Vein Harvesting Without Dedicated Surgical Assistants and Open Vein Harvesting in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Victor Shahen (VIC)

4:30 pm

Del Nido Cardioplegia versus Blood Cardioplegia in Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: a Retrospective Observational Study

Pouya Nezafati (NSW)

Christopher Siderakis (QLD)

4:35 pm

Occurrence of Saphenous Vein Graft Failure Increases Risk of Postoperative Non-ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

Niveditha Yalamarthi (QLD)

4:40 pm

Improving CABG Outcomes: The True Cost of Saphenous Vein Site Infections at a Large Australian Centre

4:45 pm

Radial Artery Conduit Use after Transradial Catheterisation

Yantong Wang (VIC)

4:50 pm

Adequacy of lymph node dissection during surgical resection of lung cancer at Northern Health

Mathew Muir (VIC)

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm - 09 November 2024

SESSION 8B - HEART RULES POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Scientific Session - Default - Laguna 2

3:30 pm

Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Decannulation Strategies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

3:35 pm

Concomitant Epicardial Left Atrial Appendage Closure using Two Methods During Cardiac Surgery: Mid-term Outcome

Pouya Nezafati (NSW)

3:40 pm

Incidental Aortic Aneurysms: A Multi-disciplinary Approach

3:45 pm

Atrial Fibrillation Surgery in Australia; are we doing enough?

Frazer Kirk (QLD)

Sam Emmanuel (New South Wales)

3:50 pm

Short-term surgical outcomes of Octogenarian Patients post cardiac surgery from 2013-2023 in a single South Australian centre

3:55 pm

Carcinoid Heart Disease : 20 years' experience in largest cardio thoracic Centre In australia

Vinod Sharma (QLD)

4:00 pm

Hospital Volume and Outcomes of Septal Myectomy for Treatment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Yantong Wang (VIC)

4:05 pm

Results of the CLIP-II Cryopreserved vs. Liquid Platelets phase III randomised controlled trial (NCT03991481)

Julian Smith (VIC)

4:10 pm

MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve Replacement: A Single Centre’s Experience

Molly Gilfillan (SA)

4:15 pm

Del Nido Cardioplegia Outcomes: A Propensity Matched Registry Study

Abbey Knox (SA)

Louis Fiander (Aotearoa New Zealand)

4:20 pm

Short and Long-Term Outcomes of Personalised and Non-Personalised Aortic Support: A Single Centre Experience

Jarrod Jolliffe (Victoria)

4:25 pm

Mid-Term Haemodynamic Outcomes In patients suffering Thrombocytopaenia post Perceval Valve Implantation: A Case-Control Matched Retrospective Cohort Study

4:30 pm

Measured strut neochords for repair of ischaemic mitral incompetence: An ovine study

Dominic Ng (NSW)