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Preliminary Program (subject to change)

Poster Session

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TARGET AUDIENCEThe primary target audience is comprised of cardiac and thoracicsurgeons who perform minimally invasive procedures, takingadvantage of new techniques and technology available. Programdirectors and fellows of cardiac and thoracic training programs areexpressly invited to attend to gain exposure to the latest ideas andhear the research supporting or negating various techniques andapproaches. Allied health professionals working in minimally invasivetheatres are also encouraged to attend.

LEARNING OBJECTIVESThe ISMICS 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting is designed to offer 3and one-half days of comprehensive educational experiences in thefields of minimally invasive cardiac and thoracic surgery and relatedsciences with an emphasis on innovative techniques andtechnologies. The Society brings together the leading cardiac andthoracic surgeons and scientists in the world to freely and openlydiscuss their latest clinical and research findings.

CME: AMA PRA CATEGORY 1 CREDITS™AMA PRA Category 1 Credit tm will be available for this educationalactivity.

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Expert Consensus StatementAtrial Fibrillation

Niv Ad, MDIHVI, Falls Church, Virginia

Case Reports SessionModerators: Cliff Choong, MD

Monash University, Victoria, AustraliaVinod Thourani, MDEmory University School of Medicine Atlanta, Georgia

Special Invited TalksWho Will Own Percutaneous Valves in 10 Years?

Michael Mack, MDCardiothoracic Surgery Associates of North TexasDallas, Texas

Barriers to InnovationPaul T. Sergeant, Prof., MDUniversity Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium

Minimally Invasive Approaches to Adult CongenitalHeart Disease

Emile Bacha, MD, Children’s HospitalBoston, Massachusetts

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Scientific Program ChairsA. Marc Gillinov, MD, Cleveland, OhioDaniel L. Miller, MD, Atlanta, GeorgiaPia Myken, MD, PhD, Goteborg, Sweden

PresidentJohn D. Puskas, MD, Atlanta, Georgia

President-ElectAnno Diegeler, MD, Bad Neustadt, Germany

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Technical ChallengesPitfalls and Disasters

Chair: Valavanur A. Subramanian, MDCo-Chairs: Hermann Reichenspurner, MD, PhD

University Hospital EppendorfHamburg, GermanyPatrick Nataf, MDCentre Cardiologique du Nord, St. Denis, France

Current Controversies Limited Resection For Stage 1A Lung Cancer

Robotic Mitral Surgery – Added Value Or Added Cost?

Moderated Poster CompetitionThe Moderated Poster Competition will feature a 2-round judgingprocess. Posters will be divided into topic groups withapproximately the same number of posters in each group. Authorsmust attend the entire session to be considered for the BestModerated Poster Award.First Round: Authors give a timed, 3-minute presentation;

then respond to questions posed by otherauthors andattendees in their topic group.Topic groups run concurrently until all postershave been presented. The authors andattendees of each group will score allposters in that group. Based on the peerscoring, a winner will be named for each topicgroup, who then proceeds to the Final Round.

Final Round: Finalists will make their presentations to allmeetingattendees in the main ScientificSession Hall, using PowerPoint slides. Thetopic moderators from the First Round willscore the Final Round presentations todetermine the Best Moderated PosterPresentation. The winner will be announcedduring the Friday Evening Annual Reception.

This preliminary program is subject to change.

For the latest program schedule

and full-text abstracts, please visit www.ismics.org.


2009 Postgraduate CoursesBased on a needs assessment of ISMICS membership conducted inJanuary, and feedback from the 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting,ISMICS has developed five postgraduate courses; including one full-day concurrent courses as well as four half-day concurrent courses.

FULL DAY COURSEAdvances in Minimally Invasive Thoracic SurgeryChair: Kemp H. Kernstine, MD, PhD

City of Hope National Medical CenterDuarte, California

HALF DAY COURSESSurgical Treatment of Atrial FibrillationChair: Ralph J. Damiano, MD

Washington University School of MedicineSt. Louis, Missouri

Endovascular Aortic TherapiesChair: Grayson H. Wheatley, MD

Arizona Heart Institute, Phoenix, Arizona

Percutaneous ValvesChair: Volkmar Falk, MD, PhD

University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Minimally Invasive Valve SurgeryChair: W. Randolph Chitwood, Jr., MD

Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina

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ISMICS2009 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY 3 June07.00 – 08.00 Continental Breakfast

for all Postgraduate Registrants

08.00 – 12.00 Postgraduate Course –Endovascular Aortic Therapies

Chair: Grayson H. Wheatley III, MDArizona Heart Institute, Phoenix, Arizona

08.00 - 09.10 Getting Started With EndovascularTechnologies

08.00 - 08.12 Endovascular CredentialingFrancois Dagenais, MD; Laval University, Québec, PQ, Canada

08.12 - 08.24 Building the Endovascular TeamGrayson H. Wheatley III, MD; Arizona Heart Institute,Phoenix, Arizona

08.24 – 08.36 Setting-up a Hybrid Operating RoomMichael Dake, MD; Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

08.36 – 08.48 Developing the Endovascular Center of ExcellenceBarry Katzen, MD; Baptist Medical Center, Miami, Florida

08.48 – 09.00 Discussion

09.00 – 09.10 Break

09.10 – 10.22 Current Perspectives on Thoracic AorticEndografting

09.10 – 09.22 Overview of FDA-Approved Thoracic Stent GraftsJ. Michael Tuchek, MD; Loyola University Medical Center,Maywood, Illinois

09.22 – 09.34 Case Selection and Procedural Techniques forThoracic Endovascular Aneurysm RepairFrancois Dagenais, MD; Laval University, Québec, PQ, Canada

09.34 – 09.46 Endovascular Repair of Acute Type B AorticDissectionsWilson Y. Szeto, MD; Hospital of the University ofPennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

09.46 – 09.58 Endovascular Repair of ThoracoabdominalAortic Aneurysms

09.58 – 10.10 Post-Operative Surveillance of Thoracic AorticStent-GraftsMichael Dake, MD; Stanford University, Palo Alto, California


10.22 – 10.34 Break

10.34 – 12.00 Future Directions in Thoracic AorticEndografting

10.34 – 10.46 Endovascular Repair of the Complex AorticPathologiesBarry Katzen, MD; Baptist Medical Center, Miami, Florida

10.46 – 10.58 Hybrid Aortic Procedures10.58 – 11.10 Preventing Complications Associated Thoracic

Aortic Endografting ProceduresWilson Y. Szeto, MD; Hospital of the University ofPennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

11.10 – 11.22 Endovascular Therapy for Chronic DistalDissectionJ. Michael Tuchek, MD; Loyola University Medical Center,Maywood, Illinois

11.22 – 11.34 Endovascular Repair of the Aortic ArchGrayson H. Wheatley III, MD; Arizona Heart Institute,Phoenix, Arizona


13.00 – 17.00 Postgraduate Course –Atrial Fibrillation

Chair: Ralph J. Damiano, Jr., MDWashington University School of Medicine,St. Louis, Missouri

13.00 – 13.30 Invited Lecture: The Science of Atrial FibrillationAblation: Myths and realitiesRichard P. Schuessler, PhD; Washington University Schoolof Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

13.30 – 15.00 Concomitant Ablation StrategiesModerator: Harold G. Roberts, Jr., MD; South Florida CVSurgical, Plantation, Florida

13.30 – 13.50 Patients with Mitral Valve Disease13.50 – 14.10 Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

Nicholas Doll, MD; Heart Center, University of Leipzig, Leipzig,Germany

14.10 – 14.30 Patients with Aortic Valve DiseaseRalph J. Damiano, Jr., MD; Washington University School ofMedicine, St. Louis, Missouri


15.00 – 15.15 Break

15.15 – 17.00 Lone Atrial Fibrillation Surgical TechniquesModerator: Ralph J. Damiano, Jr., MD; Washington UniversitySchool of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

15.15 – 15.35 Cox-Maze ProcedureNiv Ad, MD; IHVI, Falls Church, Virginia

15.35 – 15.55 Thoracoscopic Left Atrial AblationJames Edgerton, MD; CSANT, Plano, Texas

15.55 – 16.15 Pericardioscopic Biatrial AblationAndy Kiser, MD; First Health Moore Regional Hospital,Pinehurst, North Carolina

16.15 – 16.35 Thoracoscopic Box LesionRichard Lee, MD


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ISMICS2009 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM08.00 – 12.00 Postgraduate Course –

Minimally Invasive Valve SurgeryChair: W. Randolph Chitwood, Jr., MDBrody School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina

08.00 - 08:05 WelcomeW. Randolph Chitwood, Jr., MD; Brody School of Medicine,Greenville, North Carolina

08.05 – 09.05 Mitral Valve Session

08.05 - 08.20 Right Mini-thoracotomy for Valve RepairsVolkmar Falk, MD; University of Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

08.20 - 08.35 Robotic Mitral Valve RepairTomislav Mihaljevic, MD; Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

08.35 - 09.05 Questions and Answers

09.05 – 10.00 Special Topics Session

09.05 - 09.20 Mitral/Tricuspid Repair: Do both or the MV alone?Clark Hargrove, MD; University Pennsylvania,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

09.20 - 09.35 Combined MV Repair and Atrial Fibrillation AblationEvelio Rodriguez, MD; East Carolina University,Greenville, South Carolina

09.35 - 09.50 Establishing a Robotic Cardiac Surgery ProgramWiley Nifong, MD; East Carolina University,Greenville, South Carolina

10.00 – 10.30 Break

10.30 – 12.00 Aortic Valve Session

10.30 – 10.45 Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve ReplacementRichard Shemin, MD; University of California, Los Angeles,California

10.45 – 11.00 Robotic Aortic Valve Replacement

11.00 – 12.00 Panel DiscussionAll Presenters

13.00 – 17.00 Postgraduate Course –Percutaneous Valves

Chairs: Volkmar Falk, MD, PhD; University ofZürich, Zürich, SwitzerlandMichael Mack, MD; CT Surgery Associates ofNorthern Texas, Dallas, Texas

Patient Screening / Frailty / ScoringTodd Dewey, MD; Medical City Dallas Hospital, Dallas TexasSkills Required / Specific TrainingMathew R. Williams, MD; Columbia University Medical Center,New York, New YorkTechnical Steps + Results Transfemoral

Technical Steps + Results TransapicalThomas Walther, MD; University Leipzig Herzzentrum, LeipzigGermany

Panel: Best Case / Worst Case ScenariosMathew R. Williams, MD; Columbia University Medical Center,New York, New YorkTodd Dewey, MD; Medical City Dallas Hospital, Dallas, TexasFrancesco Maisano, MD; San Raffaele Hospital, Segrate, ItalyJohn Webb, MD; St. Paul’s Hospital; Vancouver BritishColumbiaChristian Detter, MD; University Heart Center Hamburg,Hamburg GermanyThomas Walther, MD; University Leipzig Herzzentrum; LeipzigGermanyDiscussion / Q&A

08.00 – 15.00 Postgraduate Course-Advances in Minimally InvasiveThoracic Surgery

Chair: Kemp H. Kernstine, MD, PhD; City of HopeNational Medical Center, Duarte, California, USA

08.00 – 08.40 Staging the MediastinumModerator: Robert Cameron, MD; University of CaliforniaLos Angeles, California

08.00 – 08.15 EBUS, EUS to Stage the Mediastinum & EvaluateEsophageal and Mediastinal TumorsMark Krasnik, MD; Gentofte University Hospital, Denmark

08.15 – 08.20 Discussion08.20 – 08.35 TEMLA/Transcervical RUL, Mediastinoscopy,

VAMLA, VATS StagingMasahiro Tsuboi, MD, PhD, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo,Japan


08.40 – 10.00 Surgical Treatment

08.40 – 08.55 VATS Lobectomy/Segmentectomy/Sleeve,/PneumonectomyScott Swanson, MD; Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston,Massachusetts



ISMICS2009 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM09.00 – 09.15 Robotic Lobectomy/Segmentectomy/Sleeve/

PneumonectomyBernard Park, MD; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,New York, New York

09.15 – 09.20 Discussion09.20 – 09.35 Current Status and Techniques of Brachytherapy

for Unresectable Lesions, Current Status andTechniques of RadioFrequency Ablation (RFA)for Unresectable LesionsChrish Fernando, MD; Boston Medical Center,Boston, Massachusetts

09.35 – 09.40 Discussion09.40 – 09.55 Current Status of Gamma Knife, SBRT

Richard Whyte, MD; Stanford University Medical Center,Stanford, California


10.00 – 10.10 Break

10.10 – 11.30 Mediastinal TreatmentModerator: Joseph Shrager, MD; Stanford UniversitySchool of Medicine, Stanford, California

10.10 – 10.25 Transcervical Thymectomy10.25 – 10.30 Discussion10.30 – 10.45 VATS Thymectomy and Other Mediastinal

MassesAnthony Yim, MD; The Chinese University of Hong Kong,Hong Kong, China

10.45 – 10.50 Discussion10.50 – 11.05 Robotic Thymectomy and Other Mediastinal

MassesJens Rückert, MD; Stadspital Wald, Zurich, Switzerland

11.05 – 11.10 Discussion11.10 – 11.25 Minimally Invasive Sympathectomy

Daniel Miller, MD; Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta, Georgia


11.30 – 11.40 Break

11.40 – 12:20 Treatment for EmphysemaModerator: Todd Demmy, MD; Roswell Park Cancer Institute,Buffalo, New York

11.40 – 11.55 VATS Treatment for Emphysema11.55 – 12.00 Discussion12.00 – 12.15 Valve Technologies for the Treatment of

EmphysemaCliff Choong, MD; Monash University, Victoria, Australia


12.20 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 14.50 Esophagus

13.30 – 13.45 Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy: CurrentStatus and Future ProspectsJames Luketich, MD; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


13.50 – 14.05 Robotic Esophagectomy: Current Status andFuture ProspectsKemp H. Kernstine, MD; City of Hope National MedicalCenter, Duarte, California

14.05 – 14.10 Discussion14.10 – 14.25 Current Use of Stents, Cryotherapy, Esophageal

Mucosal Resection and BarrXXThomas Watson, MD; University of Rochester Medical Center,Rochester, New York

14.25 – 14.30 Discussion14.30 – 14.45 Transoral Anti-Reflux Procedures

Blair Jobe, MD; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


15.00 -17.00 Postgraduate Course-Advances in Minimally InvasiveThoracic Surgery: Hands-On SkillsSession

Video-Assisted Thorascopic Surgery,Highlighting VATS LobectomyLeaders: Daniel Miller, MD, Todd Demmy, MD, ScottSwanson,MD, James Luketich, MD, Anthony Yim, MDEndobronchial Techniques – Flexible and RigidBronchoscopyLeaders: Marcin Zielinski, MD, Cliff Choong, MD,Mark Krasnik, MD, Joseph Shrager, MDEndoEsophageal TechniquesLeaders:Thomas Watson, MD, Blair Jobe, MDRadio Frequency Ablation Techniques (RFA)Leaders: Richard Whyte, MD, Chrish Fernando, MDRobotic SurgeryLeaders: Kemp H. Kernstine, MD, Bernard Park, MD,Jens Rückert, MD, Robert Cameron, MD

17.00-19.00 Exhibition Hall Open

14.00-19.00 Poster Viewing

17.00-19.00 Welcome Reception in Exhibition Hall

19.00-22.00 ISMICS Board of Directors Meeting,Working Dinner

19.00-21.00 Case Reports Session (Working Supper)Moderators: Cliff Choong, MD, MonashUniversity, Victoria, AustraliaVinod Thourani, MD, Emory University School ofMedicine, Atlanta, Georgia

CR 1 Thorascopic Resection of a Giant Pericardial Cyst: ACase ReportRiny A. Karras, Tricia L. Roesch, Gavin L. Henry. St. Agnes Healthcare, Baltimore,MarylandCR 2 An Alternative, Minimally Invasive Approach To The RepairOf Large Epiphrenic Esophageal DiverticulaArman Kilic, Sebastien Gilbert. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania


ISMICS2009 PRELIMINARY PROGRAMCR 3 Value of VATS in the Treatment of Traumatic DiaphragmaticRupture with Herniated Stomach in an OctogenarianMoheb A. Rashid,Department of Surgery, Örnsköldsvik Hospital, Örnsköldsvik,Sweden, and Scandinavian Cardiovascular Surgery Center, Gothenburg, SwedenCR 4 Successful Transcatheter Double Valve ImplantationsVia Left Ventricular Apex: A Case ReportAnson Cheung, Christopher Thompson, Jean Bernard Masson, John Webb. M,St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, CanadaCR 5 Left Atrial Myxoma. Extraction by Robotic and VacuumAssistanceJulio Gutierrez de Loma, Jose F. Valderrama Marcos , Jose M. Melero Tejedor,Sergio Gonzalez Gonzalez, Hospital Regional Universitario Carlos Haya, Malaga,SpainCR 6 Symptomatic Giant False Aneurysm of Saphenous VeinGraft After Coronary RevascularisationSanjay Kumar , Phillip H Kay. Yorkshire Heart Centre,Leeds General Infirmary,Great George Street,Leeds, United KingdomCR 7 Repair of Coronary Artery To Pulmonary Artery Fistula onBeating HeartHarpreet Wasir, Vijay Kohli, Rasjneesh Malhotra, Ramesh Bapna, Suriender Bazaz,Yatin Mehta, Naresh Trehan. Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, IndiaCR 8 Awake Minimally Invasive Coronary Surgery andPercutaneous Coronary Revascularization: A New One DayHybrid ProcedureMauro Del Giglio, Andrea Dell’Amore , Simone Calvi, Harvitt Sokoli, Andrea Zuffi,Mauro Lamarra. Villa Maria Cecila Hospital, Cotignola, Lugo (RA), Italy

THURSDAY 4 June06.30-08.00 Posters Available For Viewing

06.30 – 07.50 BREAKFAST SYMPOSIA

07.30 – 08.30 Continental Breakfast in Exhibition Hall

07.30 – 11.00 Exhibition Hall Hours14.00 – 18.00

08.00 – 08.15 Opening & Welcome Remarks

08.15 – 09.25 Session 1: Valve – TranscatheterTherapiesModerators: Thomas Walther, MD, UniversityLeipzig Heart Centre, Leizpig, GermanyWilliam Cohn, MD, Texas Heart Institute,Houston, Texas

1 Transapical Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (AVR)Shows Similar Safety and Efficacy Compared to TransfemoralAVRHendrik Treede1, Olaf Franzen1, Jochen Schofer2, Thomas Meinertz1, Maciej Kubik1, Stephan Baldus1, Hermann Reichenspurner1. 1University Heart Center Hamburg,Hamburg, Germany, 2University Cardiovascular Center Hamburg, Hamburg,Germany.2 Transapical Mitral Valved Stent Implantation: An Off-PumpTechniqueGeorg Lutter1, René Quaden1, Kenji Iino1, Niloo Edwards2, Jochen Cremer1, LucianLozonschi2. 1School of Medicine, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 2Dept. ofCardiothoracic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison,Wisconsin.

3 Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement: Emerging tractabilityfor Sufficient Intra-Cardiac Resection of the Aortic ValveRene Bombien Quaden1, Lucian Lozonschi2, Max Feucker1, Claudia Lesche 3,Ralf Brinkmann4, Jochen Cremer1, Georg Lutter1. 1University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 2 University of Wisconsin, CardiothoracicSurgery, Madison, Wisconsin, 3Institute of Microtechnology, University ofBraunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, 4Institute for Biomedical Optics, Universityof Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.4 Successful Series of Minimally Invasive Valve-in-a-ValveTranscatheter Aortic Valve Implantations in Patients withDegenerated BioprosthesesHendrik Treede1, Jochen Schofer2, Olaf Franzen1, Thomas Meinertz1,Maciej Kubik1,Hermann Reichenspurner1, 1University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg,Germany, 2University Cardiovascular Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.MP 1 Percutaneous Endoscopic Transapical Aortic ValveImplantationMichael W. Chu1, Joerg Kempfert2, Johannes Blumenstein2, Tobias Kobilke2,Volkmar Falk2, Friedrich W. Mohr2, Thomas Walther2. 1University of WesternOntario, London, ON, Canada, 2Herzzentrum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.V 1 Alternative Approaches for Transcatheter Aortic ValveImplantationDomenico Mazzitelli, Sabine Bleiziffer, Hendrik Ruge, Andrea Hutter, Anke Opitz,Christian Schreiber, Paul Libera, Peter Tassani-Prell, Robert Bauernschmitt,Ruediger Lange. German Heart Center Munich, Munich, Germany.

09.25 – 10.10 Coffee Break

10.10 – 11.10 Session 2: Valve – Minimally InvasiveApproaches, Technologies & TechniquesModerator: Francesco Maisano, MD; IstitutoScientifico San Raffaele, Italy

5 Clinical Results of Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery:Endoclamp versus External Aortic Clamp TechniquesFabio Ius, Enzo Mazzaro, Vincenzo Tursi, Giorgio Guzzi, Enrico Spagna, LuigiVetrugno, Flavio Bassi, Ugolino Livi. University Hospital Udine, Udine, Italy.6 Upper Mini Sternotomy as First Choice Approach for AorticValve Replacement Following Previous Cardiac SurgeryProcedurePasquale Totaro , Giuseppe Zattera, Francesco Pagani, Simone Carlini, VincenzoCianci, Carlo Pellegrini, Andrea Maria D’Armini, Mario Viganò. IRCCS FoundationSan Matteo, Pavia, Italy.7 Redo Endoscopic Mitral/Tricuspid Valve Surgery, Evolution tothe Standard ApproachFrank Van Praet, Ivan Degrieck, Filip Casselman, Hugo Vanermen, OLV Clinic,Aalst, Belgium.MP 2 Awake “Trans-apical Aortic Valve Implantation—Is it aFeasible Approach?”Chirojit Mukherjee, Thomas Walther, Michael Andrew Borger, Gerhard Schuler,Volkmar Falk, Friedrich Wilhelm Mohr, Joerg Ender. Leipzig Heartcenter,Leipzig,Saxony, Germany.MP 3 3D Roadmap to Minimal Aortic Valve SurgeryGernot Brockmann , Domenico Mazzitelli, Robert Bauernschmitt, Ruediger Lange.German Heart Centre, Munich, Germany.MP 4 A New Medtentia Ring for Mitral AnnuloplastyKalervo A. Werkkala1, Jarmo Simpanen1, Wierup Per2 . 1 Helsinki University,Helsinki, Finland, 2 Skejby Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.V 2 On-pump Beating Mitral Valve Plasty Without Aortic CrossClampHirokuni Arai , Naoto Miyagi, Tomohiko Ushiyama, Fusahiko Itoh, Takeshi Someya,Eiki Nagaoka, Kiyotoshi Oishi, Naoki Kurashima. Tokyo Medical & DentalUniversity, Tokyo, Japan.


ISMICS2009 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM11.10 – 11.30 Invited Talk

Who Will Own Percutaneous Valves in10 Years?Moderators: Michael Mack, MD; CardiothoracicSurgery Associates of North Texas, Dallas, Texas

11.30 – 14.00 ISMICS International Fellows and ResidentsLuncheon – Trainees to Consultants†

Session Director: Francis D. Ferdinand, MDThe Lankenau Hospital, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania

11.30 – 13.00 LUNCH SYMPOSIA

11.30– 14.00 Posters Available For Viewing

13.00 – 13.40 Late Breaking News

13.40 – 14.40 CONCURRENT SESSION 3:Revascularization TechnologiesModerators: Anthony DeSouza, MD; RoyalBrompton Hospital, London, EnglandHoward Song, MD; Oregon Health and ScienceUniversity, Portland, Oregon

8 Automated Distal Anastomosis with Flex-A Device in BeatingHeart Totally Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass. Initial Clinicaland Angiographic Experience in 35 PatientsSudhir Srivastava, Zoila Reyna Barrera, Shaune Quismund, Valluvan Jeevanadam,University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.9 The Multi-Suction Heart Positioner TENTACLES Equipped withEpicardiac Sensors for Prediction of Ischemic Change andHemodynamic Instability During OPCABNaoto Miyagi, Kiyotoshi Oishi, Eiki Nagaoka, Tomohiro Ushiyama, Takeshi Someya,Fusahiko Ito, Hirokuni Arai. Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.10 One Year Followup of Combined Autologous Bone MarrowDerived Progenitor Cell Therapy and Transmyocardial LaserRevascularization for Diffuse Nongraftable Coronary Artery DiseaseNaresh Trehan, Rajneesh Malhotra, Surindra Bazaz, Vijay Kohli, Ramesh Bapna,Sanjay Mittal, Yatin Mehta. Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Sarita Vihar , MathuraRoad, New Delhi, India.MP 5 In-Hospital Morbidity and Mortality is Improved inOctogenarian Patients Undergoing Off-Pump Coronary ArteryBypass Grafting Compared to On-Pump Coronary Artery BypassGraftingVinod H. Thourani1, Michael Halkos1, Patrick Kilgo2, Omar M. Lattouf1, Robert A.Guyton1 , John D. Puskas1. 1Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia,USA, 2 Emory University School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia.MP 6 External Saphenous Vein Support: eSVS TM Utilizing anNitinol Mesh - First Clinical ResultsUwe Klima, Chin Siang Ong, Felix Woitek, Theodorus Kofidis, Chuen Neng Lee.National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.MP 7 A Prospective Randomized Comparison of Cerebral EmboliGeneration During Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Graftingwith a Clampless Device Versus Partial Clamping of theAscending AortaShady M. Eldaif1, Vinod Thourani2, John D. Puskas 2. 1Emory University Divisionof Cardiothoracic Surgery, Clinical Research, Atlanta, Georgia, 2Emory UniversityCrawford Long Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia.

13.40 – 14.40 CONCURRENT SESSION 4: ThoracicModerator: Bernard Park, MD; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

11 Robotic Video Assisted Anatomic Lobectomy: 180Consecutive Cases at One InstitutionFarid Gharagozloo, Marc Margolis, Barbara Tempesta, Eric Strother, AndrewNasseri, Farzad Najam. George Washington University Medical Center,Washington, DC.12 Single-Port Anterior VATS: A Five-Year ExperienceJoseph M. Arcidi, MD1, Richard E. Davis, MD2, Mohamed Sellami, MD3, EugeneA. Rapaport, MD3. 1 UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts,2Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, 3Good SamaritanHospital, Los Angeles, California.13 EEA Stapler Use for Transoral Anastomosis in MinimallyInvasive EsophagectomyBernadette U. Laxa, Kristi H. Harold, Dawn E. Jaroszewski. Mayo Clinic Arizona,Phoenix, Arizona.14 VATS Management of Mediastinal TumorsBradley G. Leshnower, Seth D. Force, Daniel L. Miller. Emory University School ofMedicine, Atlanta, Georgia.15 VATS Lobectomy: Assisting during your Consultant’sLearning Curve Reduces Trainees Learning Curve SignificantlyAli Zamir Khan, Khalid Amer. Southampton General Hospital, Southampton,United Kingdom.


15.40 – 17.00 CONCURRENT SESSION 5: Aorta andImage-Guided TherapiesModerators: Alex Marmureanu, MD; CaliforniaHeart and Lung Surgery Center, Los Angeles, CaliforniaFrancis Ferdinand, MD; The Lankenau Hospital,Wynnewood, Pennsylvania

16 Nephro-protective Measures in Thoracic Endovascular AorticRepair: Intravascular Ultrasound and Pressure Sac MonitoringDevice are Safe and Feasible!Ali Khoynezhad. University of Nebrasksa Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska.17 Outcome of Patients Suffering from Acute Type B AorticDissection: A Retrospective Single Center Analysis of 134PatientsJens Garbade1, Moritz Jenniches1, Michael A. Borger1, Dirk Scheinert2, MatthiasGutberlet3, Thomas Walther1, Volkmar Falk1, Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohr1. 1

Herzzentrum Leipzig, Klinik für Herzchirurgie, Leipzig, Germany, 2HerzzentrumLeipzig, Klinik für Angiologie, Leipzig, Germany, 3Herzzentrum Leipzig, Klinik fürRadiologie, Leipzig, Germany.18 Real-time 3D CT Image Guidance and Tool Navigation Usingan Electromagnetic Tracking System for Minimally InvasiveEpicardial InterventionsTakeyoshi Ota1,David Schwartzman2, Takenori Yokota1, Constantinos Nikou3,Branislav Jaramaz,4, Marco A. Zenati1.1Division of Cardiac Surgery, University ofPittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2Cardiovascular Institute, University ofPittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 3Blue Belt Technologies, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,4The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.19 A Novel Cardioport for Beating-Heart Image-GuidedIntracardiac SurgeryNikolay V. Vasilyev1, Mitsuhiro Kawata1,Ivan Melnychenko1, Christopher M.DiBiasio2, Keith V. Durand 2, Alexander H. Slocum2, Pedro J. del Nido1. 1Children’sHospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Cambridge, Massachusetts.


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ISMICS2009 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM20 Transapical Aortic Valve Replacement MRI Guidance vs.Fluoroscopic/echocardiographic Guidance Real-time MRI GuidedTransapical Aortic Valve ReplacementKeith A. Horvath, Dumitru Mazilu, Ming Li. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,Maryland. Keith A. Horvath, Michael Guttman, Dumitru Mazilu, Ming Li. NationalInstitutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.MP 8 Role of Somatosensory Evoked Potential Monitoring inThoracic and Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm RepairPanagiotis Hountis, Malavika Bandari, George Alba, Christopher Garcia,Athanasios Plestis, Valavanur Subramanian, Konstadinos Plestis. Lenox HillHospital, New York, New York.MP 9 Robot-Assisted Vascular Aortoiliac Procedures, 125 Cases.Petr Stadler. Na Homolce Hospital, Praha 5, Czech Republic.V 3 Percutaneous Treatment of an Anastomotic Psuedoaneurysmof the Ascending AortaGrayson H. Wheatley, III, Robert Strumpf. Arizona Heart Institute, Phoenix, Arizona.

15.45 – 17.00 CONCURRENT SESSION 6: ThoracicVideo SessionModerators: Thomas Watson, MD; University ofRochester Medical Center, Rochester, New YorkKemp Kernstine, MD; City of Hope NationalMedical Center, Duarte, California

V 4 Thoracoscopic Right Upper Lobectomy with BronchoplastyChumy Nwogu, Sai Yendamuri, Todd Demmy. Roswell Park Cancer Institute, SUNY,Buffalo, New York.V 5 Enhancement of Minimal Invasive Thoracic Surgery: RoboticAssisted Pulmonary LobectomyKenneth A. Lee. Brown Educational Center for Robotics, Annapolis, Maryland.V 6 Transdiaphragmatic Minimally Invasive Lobectomy isFeasible in a Pig, is NOTES Next?Urs von Holzen, Poornima Rao, Walter Scott, Abraham Lebenthal. Fox ChaseCancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.V 7 Bimanual Robotic Decortication of the LungFaisal Al-Mufarrej, Farid Gharagzoloo, Marc Margolis, Eric Strother, BarbaraTempesta. Washington Institute Of Thoracic And Cardiovascular Surgery,Washington, DC.V 8 Video Assisted Diaphragmatic PlicationDavid L. Joyce, Joseph Shrager. Stanford, Palo Alto, California.V 9 Routine Systematic Nodal Dissection as Part of VATSLobectomy For Lung CancerKhalid Amer, Ali Zamir Khan. Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UnitedKingdom.

17.00 – 18.00 Exhibition Hall Reception

16.30 – 17.00 Posters Available For Viewing

17.00 – 18.00 Poster Competition: Round 1Chief Moderators: Rex DeLisle Stanbridge, MD;St. Mary’s Hospital, London, EnglandRobert Cameron, MD; UCLA Medical Center,Los Angeles, California

Aortic ValveMitral and Tricuspid ValveRevascularization Co-Morbidity and ResultsRevascularization Graft TechnologyAtrial Fibrillation and GeneralImage Guided and Unusual ApproachesThoracic

18.00 -19.30 Technical Challenges: Pitfalls andDisastersChair: Valavanur A. Subramanian, MD,Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, New YorkCo-Chairs: Hermann Reichenspurner, MD, PhD;University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, GermanyPatrick Nataf, MD; Centre Cardiologique du Nord,Saint Denis, France

FRIDAY 5 June06.30 – 07.50 BREAKFAST SYMPOSIA

07.00-08.30 Continental Breakfast in Exhibition Hall

07.00-10.30 Exhibition Hall Hours13.30-16.00

08.00-09.15 CONCURRENT SESSION 7: ThoracicModerators: Daniel Miller, MD; Emory UniversitySchool of Medicine, Atlanta, GeorgiaArjun Pennathur, MD; University of PittsburghMedical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

21 Thoracoscopic Left Upper Lobectomy versus ApicalTrisegmentectomy: A Retrospective StudyEdward Hong, Ali Mahtabifard, Clark Fuller, Robert McKenna. Cedars Sinai MedicalCenter, Los Angeles, California.22 Toward a Simulation and an Assessment Method for thePractice of Rigid BronchoscopyAlberto L. de Hoyos, MD, Lawrence Salud, MS, Carla Pugh, MD, PhD.Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.23 Is Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy Appropriate in aCommunity Based Hospital?Megan McNally, Emmanuel Daon, Kimberly M. Brown, B. Todd Moore, Keith Allen.MidAmerica Heart and Lung Surgeons, Kansas City, Missouri.24 The Impact of Minimal and Limited Anterior ThoracotomyIncisions in Lung Transplantation SurgeryHartmuth B. Bittner, Christian Binner, Sven Lehmann, Friedrich W. Mohr.Heartcenter Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.25 You Can Perform any Kind of Segmentectomy Easily with aButterfly NeedleMitsuhiro Kamiyoshihara, Takashi Ibe. Maebashi Red Cross Hospital, Maebashi,Japan.

THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY1O

ISMICS2009 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM08.00- 09.15 CONCURRENT SESSION 8: Arrhythmia

Moderator: Stefano Benussi, MD; San RaffaeleUniversity, Milan, Italy

26 Sympathetic and Vagal Heart Innervation Dynamic Profile inLong-term Follow-up After Surgical Ablation of Atrial FibrillationGrzegorz Suwalski 1, Piotr Suwalski 2, Jurij M. Kalisnik 3, Anna Witkowska 1 , PiotrHendzel 1, Kazimierz B. Suwalski 2. 1 Military Intitute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland,2 Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 3 University Medical CentreLjubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.Expert Debate – Atrial FibrillationRalph J. Damiano, Jr., MD; Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis,Missouri and James Edgerton, MD; CSANT, Plano, Texas.

8 minutes each with 2 minutes for rebuttal27 The Effect of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation and the Cox MazeProcedure on Left Atrial FunctionDoosang Kim1, Kiwoong Kim2, Yong-Ho Lee2, Eun-Bo Shim3. 1Seoul VeteransHospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2 KRISS, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, 3KangwonNational University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea.28 Minimally Invasive Cryomaze III Procedure Performed WithoutAortic ClampingNiv Ad, Linda Henry, Sharon Hunt. Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church,Virginia.MP 10 Endoscopic Left Atrial Appendage Resection withPolyglycolic-acid-felt-buttressed StaplerToshiya Ohtsuka, Mikio Ninomiya, Takahiro Nonaka. Tokyo Metropolitan FuchuHospital, Tokyo, Japan.MP 11 Epicardial Ultrasonic Atrial Fibrillation Ablation DuringCoronary Artery Surgery Does not Increase STS Risk ScoresMark Groh, Oliver A. Binns, Harry G. Burton, III, Stephen W. Ely, Alan M. Johnson,Susan E. Sutherland, Gerard L. Champsaur. Asheville Cardiovascular & ThoracicSurgeons PA, Asheville, North Carolina.MP 12 Regardless of Surgical Access, a Comprehensive, BiatrialLesion Pattern Enables Treatment of Long-Standing PersistentAtrial FibrillationAndy C. Kiser1, Gerhard Wimmer-Greinecker2, Michael Knault3, WolfgangHarringer4, Krzysztof Bartus5, Boguslaw Kapelak5, Jerzy Sadowski5.1FirstHealthArrhythmia Center, Pinehurst, North Carolina, 2Flinik fur Herz-Thorax-Chirurgie,Bad Bevensen, Germany, 3Herzzentrum Dresden GmbH Universitatsklinik,Dresden, Germany, 4Dept. of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery KlinikumBraunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, 5Jagiellonian University, Department ofCardiovascular Surgery and Transplantology, Krakow, Poland.


10.00 – 10.30 Consensus Statement:Atrial Fibrillation

Niv Ad, MDIHVI, Falls Church, Virginia

10.30 – 11.15 Presidential Address

11:15 – 12.00 Keynote Speaker

12.00 – 13.30 LUNCH SYMPOSIA

13.30 – 14.30 SESSION 9: RevascularizationOutcomes & StrategiesModerators: Pia Myken, MD; SahigrenskaHospital, Goteborg, SwedenKeith B. Allen, MD; Mid-American Heart & LungSurgeons, Kansas City, Missouri

MP 13 Endoscopic Vein Harvesting is a Strong IndependentPredictor of Vein Graft Failure and Worse Long-term ClinicalOutcomes in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass GraftSurgeryRenato D. Lopes1, Gail E. Hafley1, Keith B. Allen2, T. Bruce Ferguson3, Eric D.Peterson1 , Robert A. Harrington1, Rajendra H. Mehta1 , Nicholas T. Kouchoukos4,C. Michael Gibson5, John A. Alexander1. 1Duke Clinical Research Institute, DukeUniversity Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 2Mid America Heart and LungSurgeons, Kansas City, Missouri, 3East Carolina University, Greenville, NorthCarolina, 4Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, 5PERFUSEAngiographic Laboratory, Boston, Massachusetts.MP 14 Patency of Endoscopically Harvested Radial Artery GraftsKamellia Dimitrova, Darryl Hoffman, Charles Geller, Bill Dienstag, Bertram Cohen,Robert Tranbaugh. Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York.MP 15 Heparin Administration Prior to Endoscopic Vein HarvestLimits Clot Retention and Improves Graft PatencyRobert Poston, Pranjal Desai. Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.MP 16 Long Term Patency Evaluation of the Cardica C-Port DistalAnastomotic Device in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: InitialExperiencein 91 Grafts.Husam H. Balkhy, L Samuel Wann, Susan E. Arnsdorf, Kimberly Maciolek. TheWisconsin Heart Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Discussion

MP 17 Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass is Associated withLower Risk of Post-Operative Renal Failure at All Levels ofPredicted Risk of Renal FailureJohn D. Puskas1, Vinod Thourani1, Pat Kilgo2, William Cooper1, ThomasVassiliades, Jr.1, JD Vega 1, Cullen Morris1, Ed Chen1, BJ Schmotzer2, HishamZayat1, Robert Guyton1, Omar Lattouf1. 1 Emory University Division of CardiothoracicSurgery, Clinical Research, Atlanta, Georgia, 2 Emory University, Rollins Schoolof Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia.MP 18 Short and Mid-Term Clinical Outcome Following SingleVessel LAD Revascularization with MIDCAB versus DESDavid Glineur, MD, Mounir Boodhwani, Philippe Noirhomme, Laurent Dekerchove,Spiridon Papadatos, Gebrine El Khoury, Pierre Yves Etienne. CliniquesUniversitaire St Luc, Brussels, Belgium.MP 19 MIDCAB for Repoperative Coronary BypassNirav C. Patel1, Didier Loulmet1, Joan Jennings2, Valavanur A. Subramanian2.1Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, New York, 2Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NewYork.MP 20 Prognostic Value of Preoperative QT Interval for Predictionof Long Term Mortality after Isolated Off Pump Coronary ArteryBypass GraftingTakeshi Kinoshita , S. Hosoba, N. Takashima, A Funjino, O. Nishimura, N.Hiramatsu, A. Kambara, K. Matsubayashi, Tohru Asai. Shiga University of MedicalScience, Otsu, Japan.Discussion

14:30 – 15.15 Coffee Break


ISMICS2009 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM15.15 – 16.10 SESSION 10: Heart Failure & Assist

Devices

29 Resizable LV Endoventricular Patch Plasty in the Enlarged PigHeart - A Pilot StudyWillemijn Huijgen, Paul F. Grundeman, Tycho I.G. Van der Spoel, Cees Verlaan,Maringa Emons, Merel Schurink, Lex A. Van Herwerden, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht,Netherlands.30 Expanding the Horizons of Minimally Invasive CardiacSurgery: Left Ventricle Endoplasty Through Left Mini-thoracotomy and Port Access TechniquePasquale Totaro, Alessia Alloni, Barbara Cattadori, Cristian Monterosso, MatteoPozzi, Marco Luigi Aiello, Andrea Maria D’Armini, Mario Viganò. IRCCS FoundationSan Matteo, Pavia, Italy.31 Low Incidence of Thromboembolic Events in Patients onVeno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation WithoutSystemic AnticoagulationYoan Lamarche, Annemarie Kaan, Bryan Chow, Anson Cheung. St. Paul’s Hospital,Vancouver, BC, Canada.MP 21 The Hybrid Cardiac Synchronization Therapy for theCardiomyopathy Heart Failure with Micro-invasive ThoracoscopyTechniquesHaibo Zhang. Beiijing Anzhen Hospital, Beijing, China.V 10 A New Approach for Postinfarction VSD Repair without LeftVentricular IncisionTohru Asai . Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan.

16.10 – 16.30 State of the Art Lecture – Mini VADSBart P. Meyns, MD; University HospitalGasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium

16.30 – 17.15 Poster Competition FinalsModerators: Rex DeLisleStanbridge, MD;St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, EnglandRobert Cameron, MD; UCLA Medical Center,Los Angeles, CAJohn L. Knight, MD; Flinders Medical Center,Bedford Park, Australia

18.30 – 20.30 Attendee Reception at the Carnelian Room

22.00 – 23.30 President’s Nightcap

SATURDAY 6 June07.30 – 08.30 Continental Breakfast

08.00 – 08:30 ISMICS Member Business Meeting

08.30 – 10:30 SESSION 11: Other InnovativeTechnologies & Techniques/Pediatrics and CongenitalModerators: Paul Grundeman, MD; UniversityHospital Utrecht, Utrecht, NetherlandsJames D. Fonger, MD; Columbia, South Carolina

32 Sutureless Aortic Valve Replacement via Partial SternotomySven Martens, Anja Ploss, Sami Sirat, Andreas Zierer, Anton Moritz, Mirko Doss.JWGoethe University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.33 The Feasibility of Introducing and Positioning a MechanicalAortic Valve through the Left Ventricular Apex via the UniversalCardiac Introducer (UCI), using only Ultrasound Image-guidancein the Off-pump, Beating Pig HeartGerard M. Guiraudon1, Daniel Bainbridge2, Terrence M. Peters1, Douglas L. Jones1.1CSTAR LHSC LHRI RRI Schulich Medical School, UWO, London, ON, Canada,2CSTAR LHSC LHRI, London, ON, Canada.MP 22 Inframammary Mini Thoracotomy Approach to the MitralValve in Women with Breast ImplantsAlexis E. Shafii, Jang W. Su, Mark Hendrickson, Tomislav Mihaljevic, A MarcGillinov. Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.MP 23 Factors Influencing Blood Transfusion Requirements inRobotic Totally Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting onthe Arrested HeartJohannes Bonatti1, Thomas Schachner2, Nikolaos Bonaros2, DominikWiedemann2, Felix Weidinger2, Christian Kolbitsch2, Hans Knotzer2, BerndtStalzer2,Guy Friedrich2, Guenther Laufer2, Bartley Griffith1. 1University ofMaryland, Baltimore, Maryland, 2Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.MP 24 Direct Endoscopic Guided Mitral Valve Repair in theBeating Heart: Acute Animal StudyTetsuya Horai, Hideyuki Fumoto, Tohru Takaseya, Akira Shiose, Yoko Arakawa,Santosh Rao, Raymond Dessoffy, Kiyotaka Fukamachi, Tomislav Mihaljevic.Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.V 11 Technique for Robot Assisted Internal Thoracic ArteryHarvesting: The Sliding Fascia TechniqueNorihiko Ishikawa1, Go Watanabe1, Shigeyuki Tomita1, Teruaki Ushijima2, ShojiroYamaguchi1, Yujiro Kikuchi3, H iroki Kato1.1Kanazawa University, Kanazawa,Japan,2Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan,3Tokyo Medical University,Kanazawa, Japan.V 12 Left Atrial Myxoma. Extraction by Robotic and VacuumAssistanceSusumu Manabe, Toshihiro Fukui, Tomoki Shimokawa, Shuichiro Takanashi.Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan.

09:30-09.45 Coffee Break

SESSION 11 Continued: Pediatric/Congenital

34 Beating-Heart Mitral Valve Suture Annuloplasty under Real-Time 3-D Echocardiography Guidance: A Feasibility StudyMitsuhiro Kawata, Douglas P. Perrin, Pedro J. delNido, Nikolay V. Vasilyev.Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

MP 25 Perventricular Device Closure of Muscular VentricularSep-tal Defects on Beating Hearts: One-year Results in ElevenChildrenChangping Gan, Qi An, Ke Lin, Hong Tang, Haibo Song, Raphael C. Lui, KaiyuTao, Zhongyun Zhuang, Yingkang Shi. West China Hospital, Sichuan University,Chengdu, China.

INVITED TALK: Minimally Invasive Approaches toAdult Congenital Heart Disease

Emile Bacha, MD; Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

10.30-11.00 CONTROVERSY: Limited Resection ForStage 1A Lung Cancer

11.00-11.30 CONTROVERSY: Robotic Mitral Surgery –Added Value Or Added Cost?

11.30 ADJOURN


ISMICS POSTER SESSION

Topic 1: Aortic Valve

P1 Partial Sternotomy is a Reliable Approach for MinimallyInvasive Aortic Valve ReplacementAhmad Zeeshan, MD, Jessica Howard, BA, Patrick Moeller, Rohinton Morris,MD, Wilson Y. Szeto, MD, W. Clark Hargrove III, MD. University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia, PA, USA.

P2 Quality Of Life After Aortic Valve Replacement: ComparisonOf The Minimally Invasive Versus Conventional AccessHardy Baumbach , Jessica H. Burger, Marc Albert, Ragi Nagib, Martin Mädge,Alexander Blehm, Adrian Ursulescu, Ulrich F.W. Franke. Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany.

P3 Is Transthoracic Minimally Invasive Aortic ValveReplacement Too Time-Consuming for the Busy CardiacSurgeon?Mark J. Cunningham , Christopher E. Berberian, Vaughn A. Starnes. Universityof Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

P4 Minimally Invasive Ross Procedure through Partial UpperSternotomyUlrich FW Franke , Marc Albert, Michael Benzinger, Hardy Baumbach, MatthiasHansen, Ragi Nagib, Adrian Ursulescu. Robert Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart,Germany.

P5 Feasibility of a Custom Made Retrieval Modification inMinimally InvasiveTransapical Aortic Valve ImplantationJoerg Kempfert, Johannes Blumenstein, Volkmar Falk, Sven Lehmann, DenisMerk, Sergey Leontyev, Friedrich Mohr, Thomas Walther. Heartcenter UniversityLeipzig, Leipzig, Germany.

P6 WITHDRAWN

P7 Mini Re-Sternotomy Approach in Patients with PreviousPatent Coronary By-pass Graftings on Beating HeartMauro Del Giglio, Andrea Dell’Amore , Simone Calvi, Diego Magnano, MarcoPagliaro, Alberto Tripodi, Filippo Polato, Mauro Lamarra, Villa Maria CecilaHospital, Cotignola, Lugo (RA), Italy.

P8 Complex Aortic Valve Surgery for Endocarditis Using theBeating-Heart TechniqueMarco Ricci , Maria R. Suarez, Anthony L. Panos, Francisco IB Macedo, MichaelBrown, Julia Alba, Tomas A. Salerno. University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA.

Topic 2: Mitral and Tricuspid Valve

P9 Bail-out Alfieri-Plasty in Mitral Valve Repair - Does it Workin the Long Run?Joerg Seeburger , Volkmar Falk, Michael A. Borger, Jurgen Passage, ThomasWalther, Friedrich W. Mohr. Heartcenter Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.

P10 Early Results of Edge-to-Edge Alfieri Mitral Repair via RightMini-Thoracotomy in 68 Consecutive PatientsDonald Glower. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.

P11 Percutaneous Cannulation of the Femoral Vessels forCardiopulmonary Bypass in Minimally Invasive Mitral ValveRepairDomenico Mazzitelli, Thomas Guenther, Christian Noebauer, Ralf Guenzinger,Ruediger Lange. German Heart Center Munich, Munich, Germany.

P12 A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Robotic Mitral Valve Repair inAustraliaJonathan K. Kam, Aubrey A. Almeida. Julian A. Smith. Monash Medical Centre,Melbourne, Australia.

P13 Robotic-assisted versus Median Sternotomy approach forMitral Valve Repair: A single institution reviewCastigliano Bhamidipati, Renganaden Sooppan, Muhammad Sarwar,Karikehalli Dilip, Charles Lutz. State University of New York Upstate MedicalUniversity, Syracuse, NY, USA.

P14 Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Procedures Utilizing theMitraXs Intra-Atrial RetractorMichael G. Moront , Michael L. Kuehne, Donald Crescenzo, William Rachwal,Timothy McCoy. The Toledo Hospital, Toledo, OH, USA.

P15 Comparison of Mini-Thoracotomy and Sternotomy in 304Consecutive Tricuspid Valve OperationsTeng C. Lee , Donald D. Glower. Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

P16 Thoracoscopic And Robotic Tricuspid Valve AnnuloplastyWith An Absorbable Ring; Initial ExperienceAristotelis Panos1, Patrick O. Myers2, Afksendiyos Kalangos2 . 1 GenevaUniversity Hospital and Medical School; Hygeia Hospital, Geneva and Athens,Switzerland, 2Geneva University Hospital and Medical School, Geneva,Switzerland.

Topic 3: Revascularization Co-Morbidityand Results

P17 Prognostic Impact of Chronic Kidney Disease on LongTerm Survival after Isolated Off Pump Coronary Artery BypassGraftingTakeshi Kinoshita , Tohru Asai. Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu,Japan.

P18 Safety and Efficacy of the Off-Pump Coronary ArteryBypass for the Patients with Left Main Stem StenosisIgor V. Zhbanov, Anatoliy V. Molochkov, Vadim A. Perevertov, Pavel A. Shilenko,Boris V. Shabalkin. Petrovskiy National Research Centre of Surgery, Moscow,Russian Federation.

P19 Gender Differences in Outcome After Coronary ArteryBypass are Reduced By Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypassgrafting: A Propensity-matched AnalysisZile S. Meharwal , Naveen Saraf, Sathiakar P. Collison, Sanjiv Malhotra, AbhayChoudhary, Ashok Gupta. Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, NewDelhi, India.

P20 Off Pump CABG Causes Less Renal Compromise inMultivessel CABGKunal Sarka, Emannuel Rupert, Mrinalendu Das, Saha Atanu. RasindranathTagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Kolkata, India.



P21 No Influence of Obesity on Operative Times andPerioperative Outcome of Patients Undergoing TotallyEndoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass SurgeryDominik Wiedemann1, Thomas Schachner1, Nikolaos Bonaros1, JohannNagiller1, Felix Weidinger1,Christian Kolbitsch2, Guy Friedrich3, Günther Laufer1,Johannes Bonatti4. 1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Innsbruck MedicalUniversity, Innsbruck, Austria,2Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive CareMedicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria,3 Department ofCardiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria,4Department ofSurgery/Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore,MD, USA.

P22 Does the Delay of Intra Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP)Insertion in the Coronary Artery Disease Patient Contribute toHeightened Risk of Operative Mortality?Omar M. Lattouf. Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

P23 Unconventional Grafting Sequence in Off Pump CoronaryBy-pass SurgeryAlex Zapolanski, Mariano E. Brizzio , Richard E. Shaw, Jason S. Sperling.The Valley-Columbia Heart Center, Ridgewood, NJ, USA.

P24 Intra-operative Need for Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A thing of the Past?Zile S. Meherwal , Sathiakar P. Collison, Ashok Gupta, Abhay Choudhary,Naveen Saraf. Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi, India.

Topic 4: Revascularization GraftTechnology

P25 Intermediate-term Patency of the Saphenous Vein Graftand Radial Artery after Off-pump Coronary Bypass Grafting:The Influence of Clampless DeviceYuzo Katayama,Sr., Hiroshi Seki, Susumu Manabe, Toshihiro Fukui, TomokiShimokawa, Shuichiro Takanashi. Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan.

P26 One Year Patency of Single Radial Artery (SRA) BypassedLateral Wall of the Left Ventricle (LWLV)Kit V. Arom, MD, PhD, Permyos R. Sakulrach, MD, PhD. Bangkok HeartHospital, Bangkok, Thailand.

P27 Angiographic Outcome of Composite Grafting in Off-pumpCoronary Artery Bypass SurgerySusumu Manabe, Toshihiro Fukui, Tomoki Shimokawa, Shuichiro Takanashi.Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan.

P28 Cardica C-port Distal Anastomotic System FacilitatesSternal Sparing Primary and Reoperative Minimally InvasiveDirect Coronary Artery Bypass (MIDCAB)Nirav Patel, Valavanur A. Subramanian . Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY,USA.

P29 Robotic Port Only Beating Heart Coronary Artery BypassGrafting Using a Facilitated Anastomotic Device: EarlyExperience in 30 PatientsHusam H. Balkhy , L Samuel Wann, Susan E. Arnsdorf. The Wisconsin HeartHospital, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

P30 Multi vessel off-pump myocardial revascularization througha mini-thoracotomy approach; the initial 50 patents.Massimo Lemma1, Guido Gelpi1, Monica Contino1, Andrea Mangini1, Giusepped’Arrigo2, Carlo Antona1. 1Luigi Sacco Hospital, Milan, Italy, 2 Cannizzaro Hospital,Catania, Italy.

P31 Off Pump Complete Arterial Revascularization: ARetrospective, Single Center Study Of No-Touch Tecnique(Opcab No-Touch)Massimo A. Mariani, Jan G. Grandjean, Sara C. Arrigoni, Gianclaudio Mecozzi,Fabiano Porta, Wouter B. Halbersma.Thoraxcentrum Twente, Enschede,Netherlands.

P32 Effects of the Status of Ventricular Myocardium on theIntraoperative and Angiographic Bypass Flow in Total ArterialCoronary Artery Bypass GraftingHiroyuki Nakajima, Junjiro Kobayashi, Koichi Toda, Yutaka Iba, YusukeShimahara, Tomoyuki Fujita, Soichiro Kitamura. National CardiovascularCenter, Osaka, Japan.

Topic 5: Atrial Fibrillation and General

P33 Prediction of Atrial Fibrillation from Preoperative NonlinearR-R Interval Dynamics in Patients undergoing Beating-HeartMyocardial RevascularizationJurij M. Kalisnik1, Piotr Suwalski2, Jus Ksela3, Viktor Avbelj4 , Gaj Vidmar5,Gregorz Suwalski2, Borut Gersak1 . 1University Medical Centre Ljubljana,Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2Medical University of Warszaw, Warszaw, Poland,3University Clinical Centre Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia, 4Josef Stefan Institute,Ljubljana, Slovenia, 5Institute for Rehabilitation, Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana,Slovenia.

P34 The Risk of Major Adverse Cardiac and CerebrovascularEvent and Hospitalization After Surgical Ablation of AtrialFibrillation- Results from Prospective RegistryPiotr Suwalski1, Grzegorz Suwalski2, Anna Witkowska2, Piotr Hendzel2,Kazimierz B. Suwalski 1 . 1 Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland,2Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland.

P35 Minimally Invasive Cryo-Maze for Concomitant AtrialFibrillation: Mid-Term Results using Cardionet Home MonitoringTestingLouis-Mathieu Stevens, David Frazier, Alan Kypson, Curtis Anderson, EvelioRodriguez, Walter Randolph Chitwood. East Carolina Heart Institute,Winterville, NC, USA.

P36 Are There Any Predictors for the Success Rate ofConcomitant Atrial Ablation in Cardiac Surgical Patients?Florian M. Wagner , Teymur Ahmadzade, Susanne Hinze, Stefan Willems,Hermann Reichenspurner. University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg,Germany.

P37 Clinical Evaluation of the Paracardioscopic Approach forStand Alone AFKrzysztof Bartus1, Krzysztof Wrobel1, Boguslaw Kapelak1, Andy C. Kiser2, JerzySadowski 1. 1Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 2Division of CardiothoracicSurgery, FirstHealth, Pinehurst, NC, USA.



P38 Posterior Pericardiotomy Decreases the Incidence andDuration of Atrial Fibrillation After Coronary Artery BypassGraftingJason S. Sperling1, Alex J. Zapolanski1, Mariano E. Brizzio1, Eric H. Bronstein2,Bruce P. Mindich1 . 1Valley-Columbia Heart Center, Ridgewood, NJ, USA, 2St.Joseph’s Medical Center, Patterson, NJ, USA.

P39 Eight-Year Experience with Minimally Invasive CardiacSurgeryAlexander Iribarne , Anna Karpenko, Tariq Naseem, Faisal H. Cheema, Sang-Woo Pak, Berhane Worku, Craig R. Smith, Mehmet C. Oz, Michael Argenziano.Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.

P40 The Clinical Analysis of Robotic Heart Surgery(135 cases)Changqing Gao , Ming Yang, Gang Wang. PLA General Hospital, Beijing,China.

Topic 6: Imaging and Unusual Approaches

P41 Follow-up of Coronary Bypass Grafts by Low-dose DualSource ComputertomographyAndre Plass, Naim Azemai, Lotus Desbiolles, Paul Stolzmann, Hatem Alkadhi,Juerg Gruenenfelder. University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

P42 Surgical Cartographic Navigation System for EndoscopicBypass GraftingStephan Jacobs , Volkmar Falk. Heartcenter Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.

P43 Hybrid Coronary Revascularisation is Feasible and SafeSamer A. Nashef, Catherine Sudarshan, Arun Ariyaratnam, Sarah C. Clarke,Peter M. Schofield. Papworth, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

P44 Low-dose Heparin Anticoagulation Reduces Blood Lossand Transfusion Requirements in Off-pump Coronary ArteryBypass GraftingFaraz Kerendi, Altaf Panjwani, Suzanne Osborne, Michael Stempek, PatrickKilgo, John Puskas, Thomas Vassiliades, Edward Chen, Cullen Morris, RobertA. Guyton, Vinod H. Thourani. Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta,GA, USA.

P45 Laryngeal Mask Anesthesia during Off Pump CABGMasao Takahashi, MD, PhD , Toshihiro Ishikawa, MD, PhD, Kazuyoshi Hatada,MD. Hiratsuka Kyosai Hospital, Hiratsuka, Japan.

P46 Cardiac MRI Analysis of Right Ventricular Function inValvular Heart DiseaseGregory Trachiotis 1 , Ali Nasur2 , Michael Greenberg2 . 1 George WashingtonUniversity/Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA, 2 VeteransAffairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.

P47 Completely Endoscopic Removal of Dislocated Atrial SeptalClosure Devices - Experience with 5 PatientsNikolaos E. Bonaros1, Thomas Schachner1, Dominik Wiedemann1, SilvanaMueller1, Thomas Bartel1, Apollonia Daburger2, Otmar Pachinger1,GuentherLaufer1, Johannes Bonatti3 . 1Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria,2University Hospital Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, 3University of Maryland,Baltimore, MD, USA.

P48 Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization UpregulatesEndogenous Vasculogenic Signals and Limits Myocardial ScarPavan Atluri, Ryan C. McCormick, Carine Laporte, George P. Liao, CorinnaPanlilio, William Hiesinger, Jeffrey E. Cohen, Patrick A. Gerety, John R.Frederick, J Raymond Fitzpatrick, Tao Jin, Rebecca D. Levit, Maximilian J.Smith, Y Joseph Woo. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Topic 7: Thoracic

P49 VATS Lobectomy in a Community Based Private PracticeSettingWilliam R. Mayfield , Ward V. Houck, Theresa Luu. WellStar Health System,Marietta, GA, USA.

P50 Chest CT Guided Video-assisted ThorascopicDebridement(VATD) in the Treatment of ComplicatedParapneumonic Effusions or EmpyemasYoon Cheol Shin . Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

P51 Routine Systematic Nodal Dissection As Part Of VatsLobectomy For Lung CancerKhalid Amer, Hunaid Vohra, Ali Zamir Khan. Southampton General Hospital,Southampton, United Kingdom.

P52 VATS Lobectomy For Early Lung Cancer: The SouthamptonExperienceKhalid Amer, Hunaid Vohra, Ali Zamir Khan. Southampton General Hospital,Southampton, United Kingdom.

P53 Recurrence Rate of Primary Spontaneous Pneumothoraxis Equivalent after Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery inComparison to Open ThoracotomyFlorian Gebauer, Jusuff Kaifi, Dr., Jakob R. Izbicki, Prof.. Department of General,Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf,Hamburg, Germany.

P54 Robotic Assisted Thorascopic Surgery (RATS): The NextEvolution in Minimal Invasive Thoracic SurgeryKenneth A. Lee. Brown Educational Center for Robotics, Annapolis, MD, USA.

P55 The Technique for Subpleural Infusion of Local Anestheticfor Pain Control after Robotic SurgeryBarbara Tempesta , Farid Gharagozloo, Marc Margolis, Eric Strother.Washington Institute Of Thoracic And Cardiovascular Surgery, Washington,DC, USA.

P56 Improved Surgical Drainage with Active Tube Clearance ina Model of Acute HemothoraxAkira Shiose1, Hideyuki Fumoto1,Tohru Takaseya1, Yoko Arakawa1, TetsuyaHorai1, Santosh Rao1, Dessoffy Ray1, Larry Kramer1, Shanaz Shalli1, EdwardM. Boyle 2 , A. Marc Gillinov 3, Kiyotaka Fukamachi1 . 1Department of BiomedicalEngineering, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA,2 Clear Catheter Systems, Bend, OR, USA, 3Department of Thoracic andCardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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D57 Long Term Result of Left Anterior Descending CoronaryArtery Endarterectomy by HydrodissectionSanjay Kumar, R Unnikrishnan Nair. Yorkshire Heart Centre,Leeds GeneralInfirmary, Great George Street,Leeds, United Kingdom.

D58 The Effect of Bypass Flow and Intermediate-term Patencyof Arterial Grafts in Asymptomatic PatientsYusuke Shimahara, Junjiro Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Nakajima, Koichi Toda,Tomoyuki Fujita, Yutaka Iba, Toshikatsu Yagihara. National CardiovascularCenter, Japan, Suita, Osaka, Japan.

D59 Result of All Arterial OPCAB Emphasized on Poor LeftVentricular FunctionPermyos R. Sakulrach, Kit V. Arom. Bangkok Heart Hospital, Bangkok,Thailand.

D60 Minimally Invasive Direct Mitral Valve Surgery in 150 CasesMohammad Nezafati, Mohammad Abbasi, Hadi Javan. Imam Reza Hospital,Mashhad, Iran, Islamic Republic of.

D61 Clinical Impacts of Retrograde Autologous Priming; Whatis the Most Favorable Situation?Kyung-Hwan Kim, Jun Sung Kim, Hyoung Woo Chang, Dong eop Jeong, HoYoung Hwang. Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

D62 Assisted Venous Drainage (AVD) on CardiopulmonaryBypass (CPB) for Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement(AVR): Necessary, Useful or Desirable?Paul Vaughan, Archandalos Kurowicki, Pankaj Kumar. Morriston Hospital,Swansea, United Kingdom.

D63 Sustion Bioglue Application For Suture Line ReinforcementIn Patients With Acute Aortic DissectionAnguseva N. Tanja, Sr., Zan Kostadin Mitre. Special Hospital of Cardiosurgery,Skopje, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of.

D64 First European Expericence in Percuteneous Treatmentof Mitral Regurgitation with The MitraClip SystemOlaf Franzen1, Hendrik Treede1, Stephan Baldus1, Jochen Schofer2 , BaholliLoant1, Angelika Costard-Jäckle1, Thomas Meinertz1, HermannReichenspurner1. 1University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany,2Hamburg University Cardiovascular Center, Hamburg, Germany.

D65 Successful Treatment of a Patient with EisenmengerSyndrome by a Surgical - Interventional Procedure: The Wholeis More Than the Sum of its PartsAnguseva N. Tanja, Sr.1, Zan K. Mitrev1, Dietmar Schranz2. 1Special Hospitalof Cardiosurgery, Skopje, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of,2Pediatric Heart Center;-Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.

D66 Minimally Invasive Aortic Root and Aortic ArchReplacementMichael G. Moront , Michael Kuehne, William Rachwal, Donald Crescenzo,Timothy McCoy. The Toledo Hospital, Toledo, OH, USA.

D67 Aortic Valve Sparing and Repairing with Separate PatchesRemodelling Technique in Root PatologiesMiroslaw Bitner, Ryszard Jaszews. Marek Maciejewski. Medical University ofLodz, Lodz, Poland.

D68 Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Belsey Fundoplasty forGastroesophageal Reflux Disease - A Video PresentationFarid Gharagozloo1, Marc Margolis1, Faisal Al-Mufarrej 2, Eric Strother2, BarbaraTempesta1. 1Washington Institute Of Thoracic And Cardiovascular Surgery,Washington, DC, USA, 2The George Washington University Hospital,Washington, DC, USA.

D69 A Comparitive Study of Thoracoscopic Assisted and OpenEsophagectomiesSudheer Othiyil Vayoth , Supriya Sharma, Sudhindran Surendran, Puneet Dhar.Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, India.

D70 “T3 Only” Sympathicotomy is an Adequte Procedure forThe Treatment of Primary Palmar HyperhidrosisKutsal Turhan, Sr. , Ali Ozdil, Ufuk Cagirici, Alpaslan Cakan. Ege University,Faculty Of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey.

D71 Robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Lobectomy for EarlyStage Lung Cancer: Report of 150 consecutive CasesFarid Gharagozloo, Marc Margolis, Barbara Tempesta, Eric Strother, AndrewNasseri, Farzad Najam. George Washington University Medical Center,Washington, DC, USA.

D72 MEMO 3D semiregid anuloplasty Ring for Mitral ValveRepair: One Year Clinical ExperienceSteffen Bargenda , Julie Haeggqwist, Esther Palmer, Detlef Roser, AlexanderHorke, Joachim-Gerd Rein. Sana Herzchirurgische Klinik, Stuttgart, Germany.

D73 Outcomes of Minimally Invasive Approach for Aortic ValveReplacementAlejandro Vazquez , Sergio J. Canovas, Vanesa Estevez, Aritz Garcia, FernandoHornero, Oscar Gil, Rafael Garcia-Fuster, Elio Martin, Juan B. Martinez-Leon.Consorcio Hospital General Universitario Valencia, Valencia, Spain.

D74 Influence of Patient Selection Criteria and Surgical Volumeon Mid-Term Outcome of Off-Pump Coronary Artery SurgeryMarco Agostini1, Vincenzo Di Gregorio1, Carlo Fino1, Pierfederico Torchio2,Marco Bertora1, Elisa Lugli1, Claudio Grossi1. 1Division of Cardiac Surgery,A.O. S. Croce e Carle, Cuneo, Italy, 2Department of Medical Statistics, Universitàdegli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy.

D75 Evolution of the Minimally Invasive MAZE ProcedureChadwick W. Stouffer, Thomas M. Beaver. University of Florida, Gainesville,FL, USA.

D76 Effect of Risk-Adjusted Diabetes on Long-Term Outcomeof Bilateral Internal Thoracic Artery GraftingAya Mohr1, Gideon Uretzky1, Dmitry Pevni1, Benjamin Medalion2, Amir Kramer1,Nachum Nesher1, Itzhak Shapira1, Rephael Mohr1.1Tel Aviv Sourasky MedicalCenter, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2Rabin Medical Center - Beilinson Campus, Petah Tikva,Israel.


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D77 Off-Pump versus On-pump Total Arterial CoronaryRevascularization with Bilateral Internal Thoracic Artery BypassGrafts: A Comparison of Early OutcomesMarc Albert1, Adrian Ursulescu1, Ragi Nagib1, Alexander Blehm1, MartinMaedge1, Matthias Hansen2, Gerhard Klein2, Ulrich FW Frank 1. 1Departmentfor Cardiovascular Surgery, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany,2Department for Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Robert-Bosch-Hospital,Stuttgart, Germany.

D78 Robot-assisted Heller Myotomy for Achalasia - A VideoPresentationBarbara Tempesta1,Farid Gharagozloo1, Marc Margolis1, Faisal Al-Mufarrej 2,Eric Strother2.1Washington Institute of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery,Washington, DC, USA, 2The George Washington University Hospital,Washington, DC, USA.

D79 Evaluation of a New Atrial Retractor for Minimally InvasiveMitral Valve Repair in a Porcine ModelEric Bean1, Guillaume Chanoit 2, Shaphan Jernigan3, Gil Bolotin4, JasonOsborne5, Gregory Buckner1. 1Department of Mechanical and AerospaceEngineering, NCSU, Raleigh, NC, USA, 2College of Veterinary Medicine,NCSU, Raleigh, NC, USA, 3Department of Mechanical and AerospaceEngineering,NCSU, Raleigh, NC, USA, 4Academic Hospital Maastricht,Maastricht, Netherlands, 5Department of Statistics, NCSU, Raleigh, NC, USA.

D80 Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery vs ConventionalCoronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Comparison of Outcomesand CostSaif Usman, Chitradeep De, William Molloy, Joseph T. McGinn, Jr. StatenIsland University Hospital, Staten Island, NY, USA.

D81 Acute Feasibility Study of a Novel Device for the Treatmentof Mitral Regurgitation in a Normal Canine ModelTohru Takaseya1, Hideyuki Fumoto1, Yoko Arakawa1, Santosh Rao1, AkiraShiose1, Roberto M. Saraiva2, Margaret Park2 , Raymond Dessoffy1, LarryKramer1, Mark Juravic3, Pierluca Lombardi3, Kiyotaka Fukamachi1. 1Departmentof Biomedical Engineering, Leaner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic,Cleveland, OH, USA,2Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart & VascularInstitute,Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA, 3MAQUET Cardiovascular LLC,San Jose, CA, USA.

D82 Duplex Scanning Before Endoscopic Vein HarvestTechniqueKazuyoshi Hatada, Toshihiro Ishikawa, Masao Takahashi. Hiratsuka KyosaiHeart Center, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan.

D83 Completely Endoscopic Removal of Dislocated AtrialSeptal Closure Devices - Experience with 5 PatientsNikolaos E. Bonaros1, Thomas Schachner1, Dominik Wiedemann1, SilvanaMueller1, Thomas Bartel1, Apollonia Daburger2, Otmar Pachinger1, GuentherLaufer1, Johannes Bonatti3. 1Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria,2University Hospital Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, 3University of Maryland,Baltimore, USA.

D84 Success of the Team Work: Early Results of a WorkingGroup on High Risk Patients with Aortic Valve StenosisMustafa Cikirikcioglu, Marco Roffi, Christophe Ellenberger, Erman Pektok,Pierre-Frederic Keller, Patrick O. Myers, Thomas Theologou, Francois Mach,Marc Licker, Afksendiyos Kalangos. University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva,Switzerland.

D85 Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting UsingThe Inferior J-Shaped Ministernotomy: Different ClinicalApplicationsMauro Del Giglio, Andrea Dell’Amore, Simone Calvi, Tommaso M. Aquino,Diego Magnano, Marco Pagliaro, Mauro Lamarra. Villa Maria Cecila Hospital,Cotignola, Lugo (RA), Italy.

D86 Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Resection of LargeIntrathoracic MassesAlberto L. de Hoyos, Alice Lin, Abraham Pathak, Jennifer Decker, Matthew G.Blum, Eric Hart, Jyoti Patel, Anjana Yeldandi. Northwestern University FeinbergSchool of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.

HOTEL INFORMATIONISMICS 2009 will be held at the Westin St. Francis, San Francisco,California USA. The Westin St. Francis, San Francisco’s storied pastcombines with its stylish present, creating an experience that is uniqueand revitalizing. As the only lodging destination located on UnionSquare, the Westin San Francisco hotel literally places you in themiddle of the action. Simply step outside, hop aboard one of the trolleycars pulling in, and enjoy a breathtaking ride to China Town, Alcatraz,or Fisherman´s Wharf. Or set off on foot for the Financial District or thesteep avenues of Nob Hill.

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MEETING REGISTRATION INFORMATIONRegistration fees have been set to provide as much flexibility aspossible; each postgraduate course and the Annual Scientific Meetingmay be booked separately, or the combined registration which includesa discount.

Postgraduate Course fee includes:Each postgraduate course is accompanied by a continental breakfastand/or lunch and a dedicated exhibit area relevant to the course topics.A postgraduate course registration also provides you with access to themain Exhibition Hall and the Welcome Reception held WednesdayEvening.

Annual Scientific Meeting fee includes:Scientific Session (4-6 June), Exhibition Hall Access, Symposia, WelcomeReception of 3 June, Exhibition Hall Reception on 4 June, AttendeeReception at the Carnelian Room on 5 June followed by the President’sNightcap, as well as daily continental breakfast & beverage service.

Guests/spouses:must be registered to attend any functions and are asked to wear theirconference badges. Registrants in this category are not eligible forCME credits.

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CANCELLATION POLICYCancellations cannot be made via the online website, but must bemade in writing with the ISMICS Administrative Offices. Please directyour correspondence to: ISMICS, 900 Cummings Center, Suite 221-U,Beverly, MA 01915 USA. You may also email your correspondence to:[email protected].

If written notice of cancellation is received at the ISMICS AdministrativeOffices on or before 22 May 2009, the registration fee, less a $50 USDadministrative fee, will be refunded after the meeting.

No refunds will be issued for cancellations received after 22 May 2009.Fees cannot be reduced for partial attendance.

NETWORKING AND SOCIAL EVENTSPlease note: for security reasons, badges will be required for entry toall social events.

Wednesday 3 June (17.30 – 19.00)Welcome Reception

This is the night to catch up with friends and colleagues; start yourevening off at the ISMICS Welcome Reception, After the WelcomeReception treat yourself to a fine dining experience at one of the manyrestaurants, located in the downtown San Francisco area.

Thursday 4 June (16.00 – 18.00)Exhibit Hall Reception

Check out the latest technologies & devices while visiting with thisyear’s exhibiting companies. The Exhibit Hall Reception will showcasethe latest products from the 2009 meeting exhibitors. This receptionwill allow for attendees to test drive these new products & devices in acasual setting.

Friday 5 June (18.30 – 20.30)Attendee Reception

Enjoy spectacular views of San Francisco at this year’s AttendeeReception at the Carnelian Room. Soaring 52 stories over one of theworld’s most exciting cities, the Carnelian Room offers sweeping viewsof the San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz, the Transamerica Pyramid and theGolden Gate Bridge. Go from the reception to dinner one of the manygreat local restaurants—be sure to make your dinner plans well inadvance.

BREAKFAST AND LUNCH SYMPOSIALATE BREAKING NEWSBreakfast and Lunch Symposia and Late Breaking News are not partof the ISMICS scientific program and are not eligible for CME credits.


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