State-of-the-art presentations on what’s new in the highly active area of aortic valve therapies, including transcatheter aortic valve replacement, opened Saturday’s Adult Cardiac Skills and Decision Making Course.
As an... »
Many patients treated for congenital heart disease need repeated interventions and operations over the course of their lifetime. With the increased number of procedures comes increased complexity and often worse outcomes.... »
In Saturday’s Allied Health Symposium, Gorav Ailawadi, MD, of the University of Virginia, discussed the revolutionary effect of percutaneous aortic valve therapy. He reviewed the Partner I trial in the United States, and then... »
The General Thoracic Skills Course, held on Saturday, chaired by Stephen D. Cassivi, MD, of the Mayo Clinic, was designed to present new operations and techniques and how to perform them safely.
Subsessions were grouped by... »
By bringing the physician inventors on the stage with industry, the new "Working with Industry" course held on Saturday afternoon was designed to help those surgeons interested in translating their innovative ideas to... »
Saturday’s AATS Congenital Skills and Decision-Making Course, chaired by Carl L. Backer, MD, of Children’s Memorial Hospital, provided a full day’s focus on tips and techniques for performing many of the most important congenital... »
Sunday’s AATS/STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Symposium opened with presentations examining the complex issues involved in mitral valve repair. This included a debate on whether minimally invasive or open trans-sternal techniques were... »
Juggling the demands of academia while maintaining a clinical surgical practice can be daunting, but Saturday morning’s "Developing the Academic Surgeon" session showed how it was not only possible, but... »
7:30 a.m. – 7:45 a.m. Annual Business Meeting (AATS Members Only)
7:45 a.m. Plenary Scientific Session
9:05 a.m. Award Presentations
10:00 a.m. Basic Science Lecture: "Update on Surgical-Pathologic Correlates of... »
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