Friday March 27, 2015
     
08:00   Welcome coffee in the exhibition hall 
     
08:30   Opening Ceremony
Patrizio Lancellotti, Khalil Fattouch, Gilbert Habib, José Luis Zamorano,
Raphael Rosenhek
     
08:45
  Controversy in infective endocarditis: prophylaxis is no longer needed
Patrizio Lancellotti, Gilbert Habib
08:45   Pro, Bernard Prendergast  
09:00   Contra, Bernard Iung  
09:15   Round table discussion with experts panel, Pilar Tornos, Isidre Vilacosta,
José Luis Zamorano
     
09:30

09:30
  Keynote lecture
José Luis Zamorano, Luc Piérard
Why is mitral regurgitation so important in heart failure? And how do we fix it?
Robert Dion  
     
10:00   Coffee break in the exhibition hall
     
10:30


  Symposium: Ascending aorta dilation and aortic valve disease.
Controversial issues in clinical practice

Giuseppe Speziale
10:30   Follow-up of ascending aorta diameter by multimodality imaging.
Which test and when? Arturo Evangelista  
10:50   Comparison of aortic growth rate in bicuspid aortic valve, Marfan syndrome and degenerative aortopathy, Agnès Pasquet  
11:10   Prophylactic aorta surgery at 45-55mm Which risk factors?
Alessandro Della Corte
 
11:30   Surgical strategies in different conditions, Giovanni La Canna  
11:50   Round table discussion with experts panel, Pilar Tornos, Khalil Fattouch,
Raphael Rosenhek
     
12:00   Lunch break in the exhibition hall
     
13:00

  Symposium: How to manage anticoagulant therapy in valve disease
Bernard Iung
13:00   After valve replacement, Bernard Iung  
13:15   In infective endocarditis, Bernard Prendergast  
13:30   Before and during pregnancy, Bernard Iung  
13:45   Is there a place for new anticoagulants in prosthetic valves?
Patrizio Lancellotti  
14:00   Round table discussion with experts panel, Bernard Cosyns, Philippe Kolh,
Cécile Oury
     
14:30

  Symposium: What to do when prosthetic valves go wrong,
Philippe Pibarot, Emile Ferrari
14:30   Patient-prosthesis mismatch or prosthetic valve stenosis – which is it?
Philippe Pibarot   
14:45   Valve-in-valve intervention for degenerating bioprosthesis, Giovanni La Canna  
15:00   Percutaneous closure of paravalvular leaks, José Luis Zamorano   
15:15   Valve thrombosis – how to choose the least worst treatment option,
Bernard Cosyns   
15:30   Round table discussion with experts panel, Julien Magne, José Luis Zamorano
     
15:45   Coffee break in the exhibition hall     ePoster competition
in the exhibition hall
Jury:
Raphael Rosenhek
José Luis Zamorano
       
16:15


  Pulmonary hypertension (PHT) in valvular heart disease
Bernard Prendergast, Philippe Pibarot
 
16:15   PHT in primary MR, Catherine Szymanski   
16:35   PHT in aortic stenosis, Thierry Le Tourneau 
16:55   Exercise PHT in valvular heart disease,
Julien Magne   
17:15   PHT following surgery for valvular heart disease,
Rocio Hinojar 
 
     
17:45

  Case presentations: challenges in heart valve diseases
Victoria Delgado, Erwan Donal, Jacques Gauthier
17:45   A high-risk patient with aortic stenosis: how far should we go?
Bernard Prendergast   
18:00   An asymptomatic patient with severe mitral regurgitation,
Raphael Rosenhek   
18:15   A patient with high gradient on a prosthetic valve, Bernard Cosyns   
18:30   A difficult diagnosis of infective endocarditis, Gilbert Habib   
18:45   Round table discussion: The youth challenging the experts, Julien Magne,
Raluca Dulgheru
     
19:00   End of the sessions