|
Postgraduate Course – Atrial Fibrillation
< Back to Annual Meeting Page
WEDNESDAY, 16 JUNE 2010
13.00 – 17.00 Postgraduate Course – Atrial Fibrillation
Chair: Mark La Meir, MD; University Hospital Brussels, Belgium – University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands
Co-Chair: Nicolas Doll, MD; Sana Heartsurgery, Stuttgart, Germany
| 13.00 - 15.00 |
|
What you should learn from your EP
Moderator: Mark La Meir, MD; University Hospital Brussels, Belgium – University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands |
| 13.05 - 13.25 |
|
Catheter ablation in long standing persistent AF: strategies and endpoint relevant to surgeons
Claudio Muneretto, MD; University of Brescia Medical School, Brescia, Italy |
| 13.25 - 13.45 |
|
AF : from cellular electrophysiology to hybrid strategies for ablation
Laurent Pison, MD; University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands |
| 13.45 - 14.05 |
|
Sequential and Hybrid Thoracoscopic Epicardial and Endocardial Atrial Fibrillation Ablation
Gorav Ailawadi, MD; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA |
| 14.05 - 14.25 |
|
Hybrid AF: Back to the future
Mark La Meir, MD; Free University of Brussels, Belgium – University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands |
| 14.25 - 15.00 |
|
Discussion
|
| 15.00 – 15.15 |
|
Break
|
| 15.15 – 17.00 |
|
Bringing AF surgery to the next level
Moderator: Nicolas Doll, MD; Sana Heartsurgery, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 15.15 - 15.35 |
|
Endoscopic Mitral Valve Repair in Combination with Endocardial or Epicardial Ablation - Technical Considerations and Results
Ralf Krakor, MD; Heart Hospital Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany |
| 15.35 - 15.55 |
|
Do we have to prove it, or just do it?
Nicolas Doll, MD; Sana Heartsurgery, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 15.55 - 16.15 |
|
Lone AF versus concomitant AF
Jerry Braun, MD; University Medical Center Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 16.15 – 16.35 |
|
Time to deal with an old Problem: The Left Atrial Appendage
Sacha Salzberg, MD; University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland |
| 16.35 – 17.00 |
|
Discussion
|
|
The official publication of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery...
