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Valve repair has emerged as a pivotal aspect of pediatric heart surgery, with a wide variety of surgical techniques that can be used in the pediatric age group. Hosted by the Children’s National Heart Center, the Congenital Heart Valve Repair Symposium focuses on the surgical and diagnostic techniques involved in heart valve repairs.
About the Symposium
This event is open to not only cardiac surgeons but also to all team members involved in pediatric heart valve repair, including echocardiographers, cardiologists, nurses, physician assistants, and more. Attendees will also have the chance to earn Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits.
Session Information
This symposium centers on the surgical and diagnostic techniques of heart valve repairs. It comprises six sessions, with expert speakers and helpful discussions with an active audience. All techniques will be centered around individual video case presentations.
Topics include: the balance between aortic valve repair and Ross, late AV valve reoperation, mitral valve, and MRI techniques.
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At the Congenital Heart Valve Repair Symposium, you will gain valuable insight from our experts about the latest heart valve techniques. We look forward to connecting with you.
Event Details
Date & Time:
October 19, 2024
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Location:
Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus
7144 13th Place, NW Washington, D.C. 20012
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Registration, breakfast and meeting
9:00 – 9:10 a.m.
Introduction and opening remarks by Yves d’Udekem, M.D., Ph.D.
9:10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Session I: Aortic Valves
- Sub Commissural Annuloplasty
- Reconstruction of the Commissure
- Bicuspid and Unicommisural Valve Repair
Partial Aortic Annuloplasty - Neonatal Repair
- Supra-aortic Valve Stenosis and Aortic Valve Dysplasia
- Ross Inclusion Technique: Tips and Tricks
- When to do a Ross, when to do a Repair
The Balance between Aortic Valve Repair and Ross: Partial Annuloplasty Talk Yves d’Udekem, M.D., Ph.D.
Session II: Truncal Valves
- Tricuspidization of the Qaudricuspid Valve
- Bicuspidization of the Truncal Valve
- Unusual repairs
Session III: Tricuspid Valves
- PAIVS and Tricuspid Valve Dysplasia
- Hammock Tricuspid Valve
- The Ebstein Fallot Disease
- What Annuloplasty?
12:30 – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch and meeting break
1:15 – 2:00 p.m.
Guest Speaker - Gébrine El Khoury, M.D.
2:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Session IV: Mitral Valves
- Chordal Shortening and Replacement
- Papillary Muscle Resection
- Mitral Hammock Valve
- Single Papillary Muscle and Funnel Mitral Valve
- Mitral Valve Dysplasia and ALCAPA
- The Neonatal and Infant Mitral Valve Repair
- The Difficult Redo Mitral Valve Replacement in Pediatrics
Session V: Common AV Valves
- Second Run AV Valve
- Late Failure of Left AV Valve
- Left AV Valve Dysplasia
- Common AV Valve in Single Ventricle and the Bridge Technique
- Prophylactic Common AV Valve Repair?
Session VI: Pulmonary Valves
- Atrial Appendage Reconstruction
- Composite Live RVPA conduit
- Redo Mechanical Valve Replacement: Pitfalls and Solutions
Meet the Heart Valve Repair Symposium Speakers
Yves d'Udekem, MD, PhD
- Division Chief, Cardiac Surgery
- Co-Director, Children's National Heart Center
Yves d'Udekem, MD, PhD
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Yue-Hin Loke, MD
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Can Yerebakan, MD
- Associate Chief, Cardiac Surgery
- Director, HLHS Hybrid Program
- Program Director, Cardiovascular Surgery Fellowship
Can Yerebakan, MD
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Meet Our Guest Speaker
As a pioneer of aortic valvuloplasty, Gébrine El Khoury, M.D., made his career as head of Sant-Luc Hospital Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Department and Professor at the University Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Brussels, Belgium. His innovations have profoundly influenced the techniques of valve repair in, not only adults but in the pediatric field as well.
Learn more about Dr. El Khoury’s techniques at the Heart Valve Repair Symposium this October.
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