Preliminary Program
FEBRUARY 10-12, 2011
CCT solaci mappa
Live Practical Demonstrations and state of the Art Symposia

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM - THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11th, 2011

MAIN HALL LEONARDO
8.15 - 8.20

Welcome and Opening Address
Chairman: Martin B. Leon
Co-chairman: Carlo Di Mario

8.20-10.00

LIVE CASES from Milan, Italy
St. Raffaele Hospital

Commentators:
Antonio Bartorelli, Ted Feldman, Eulogio Garcia, Miodrag Ostojic, Corrado Tamburino

Operators:
Antonio Colombo, Mauro Carlino, Alaide Chieffo, Azeem Latib, Francesco Maisano, Matteo Montorfano

Guest Operators:
Gary Mintz, Jeffrey W. Moses

On-line factoids relevant to the cases presented:
Cosmo Godino, Alfonso Ielasi, Marco Mussardo


10.00-10.30
Coffee break

10.30-12.15

LIVE CASES from Essen, Germany
International Heart Center

Commentators:
Alexandre Abizaid, Alfredo Galassi, Horst Sievert, Alan Yeung

Operators:
Eberhard Grube, Christoph Naber

Guest operators:
Lutz Buellesfeld, Greg W. Stone, Marco Wainstein

On-line factoids relevant to the cases presented:
Cosmo Godino, Alfonso Ielasi, Marco Mussardo


12.45-14.15
Working Lunch

12.45 - 14.15 Lunch Symposium - ROOM MICHELANGELO

ADVANCES IN TAVI 2011 (PART 1)
Chairmen: Gerhard Schuler, Alan Yeung

- Recent evolution and innovation in Edwards SAPIEN XT valve family and delivery systems
Alec Vahanian
- Global clinical update on the Edwards TAVI registries and PARTNER IDE trial
Martyn Thomas
- Global update on CoreValve registries outside US
Stephan Windecker
- Update on US pivotal Medtronic-CoreValve trial
Jeffrey Popma
- How to make TAVI safer? New valves and the use of ancillary devices
Alexandre Abizaid

12.45 - 14.15 Lunch Symposium - ROOM TIZIANO

NEW DES: A NEW STEP FORWARD? (PART 1)
Chairmen: Ian Meredith, Ron Waksman

- Procedural challenges in complex PCI
TBA
- New CID polymer free reservoirs and bio inducer DES
Alexandre Abizaid
- The NEXT trial: first clinical experience with the new CID DES technology
TBA
- Nobori stent: real life clinical outcomes
Gian Battista Danzi
- Advancing safety beyond surface-coated stents
Jean Fajadet

12.45 - 14.15 Lunch Symposium - ROOM GIOTTO

UPDATE ON PERCUTANEOUS MITRAL VALVE THERAPY
Chairmen: Ted Feldman, Horst Sievert, Gian Paolo Ussia

- The European experience with mitral valve
Olaf Franzen
- Ventricular reshaping with GDS® Accucinch system
TBA
- Percutaneous mitral valve therapy: update on clinical results and real life experience
Ted Feldman
- An update on Mitralign First in Man Study
Karl Heinz Kuck

MAIN HALL LEONARDO
Chairman: Martin B. Leon
Co-chairman: Carlo Di Mario

14.30-16.30

LIVE CASES from Milan, Italy
St. Raffaele Hospital

Commentators:
Barry Katzen, Sebastiano Marra, Ghada Mikhail, Bernhard Reimers, Goran Stankovic, Martyn Thomas

Operators:
Antonio Colombo, Mauro Carlino, Alaide Chieffo, Azeem Latib, Francesco Maisano, Matteo Montorfano

Guest Operators:
Gary Mintz, Jeffrey W. Moses

On-line factoids relevant to the cases presented:
Cosmo Godino, Alfonso Ielasi, Marco Mussardo


16.30 - 17.00 Coffee break

17.00 - 18.30

LIVE CASES from Essen, Germany
International Heart Center

Commentators:
David Antoniucci, Robert M. Bersin, Carlo Briguori, Expedito Ribeiro, Joachim Schofer

Operators:
Eberhard Grube, Christoph Naber

Guest operators:
Lutz Buellesfeld, Gregg W. Stone, Marco Wainstein

On-line factoids relevant to the cases presented:
Cosmo Godino, Alfonso Ielasi, Marco Mussardo


18.45 - 20.30
Evening Symposia

18.45 - 20.30 Evening Symposium - ROOM MICHELANGELO



HIGHLIGHTS FROM TCT
Chairmen: Martin B. Leon, Gregg W. Stone

Program will be posted after TCT 2010



18.45 - 20.45 Evening Symposium - ROOM TIZIANO


HOW TO OPTIMIZE PRIMARY ANGIOPLASTY
endorsed by Centro per la Lotta contro l’Infarto - Fondazione ONLUS

Chairmen: Francesco Prati, Francesco Versaci

- Reduction of thrombus burden by aspiration or mechanical thrombectomy
David Antoniucci
- Reduction of thrombus with local coronary infusion of IIb/IIIa inhibitors
Francesco Prati
- The ideal stent surface for AMI
Ron Waksman
- The impact of intracoronary imaging modalities
TBA
- Still a role for upstream drug strategy?
Dariusz Dudek
- Optimization of platelet inhibition with the tienopyridine
Marco Valgimigli
- Stent choice in primary percutaneous coronary intervention
Edoardo Camenzind


18.45 - 20.45 Evening Symposium - ROOM GIOTTO

PCI FROM RADIAL APPROACH

Chairmen: Giulio Guagliumi, Thierry Lefevre

- Radial approach challenge for coronary interventions
Orazio Valsecchi
- Radial approach in challenging cases
TBA

Program still in progress