SMICTSI · ATCSA · ICC · ISMICS
Scientific Programme
20–22 November 2026 · New Delhi
| Time | Title | Speaker | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMISCTSI/ ATCSA/ ISMICS PROGRAMME | |||
| DAY 1 (20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| Dr K.M. Cherian Hall - 6th Floor | |||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Duration |
| Breakfast Session | |||
| Anchor: Nirav Patel | |||
| Meet the Experts | |||
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Point 1 How Far can we push Minimal Invasive Cardiac Surgery. Point 2 One thing you would change in Cardiac Surgery Tomorrow Point 3 Rethinking Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery what can we simplify Point 4 What would Cardiac Surgery look like in Year 2035 Point 5 Can Minimally Invasive Surgery be "All -Comers Strategy” | Joseph Lamelas, Niv Ad | 60 Min |
| 9:00 AM - 9:05 AM | Welcome Address - Chairman Organizing Committee | Yugal K Mishra | 5 Min |
| DAY 1 (20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| 9:05 AM - 12:00 PM | SESSION B-1 Basics & Beyond Mitral Valve Surgery | ||
| Anchor: Husam H Balkhy, Adil Sadiq | |||
| Chairpersons: Karunakar Padhey, Dhiren Shah, Swapnil Karne | |||
| Panelists: M.M. Yusuf, Manish Hinduja, Harpreet Minhas, Ishant Singhla | |||
| Live case from Manipal Hospital, Dwarka Delhi---Robotic Assisted MVR with DV5 | |||
| Live case from Apollo Hospital Bengaluru --- Robotic Assisted AVR with DV5 | |||
| 9:05 AM - 9:15 AM Live Case Presentation Case Introduction | |||
| Robotic assisted Mitra Valve Surgery | Joerg Kempfert | ||
| 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM | Cannulation, Perfusion and Myocardial Preservation for Minimally Invasive and Robotic Mitral Valve Surgery | Joerg Kempfert | 12 + 3 Min |
| 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM | Endoscopic complex Mitral Valve repair techniques | Piroze M. Davierwala | 12 + 3 Min |
| 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM | No Scops, No Robots, - Mini Aortic and Mitral Procedure technique | Joseph Lamelas | 12 + 3 Min |
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Overcoming Adversities in Robotic Mitral Valve Surgery | Nirav Patel | 12 + 3 Min |
| 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Trans - Axillary DVR | Ahmed Ghazy | 12 + 3 Min |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | What to do if Complications happen in MICS/Robitic - Acces difficulty, Aortic Dissrection, Catastrophic Bleeding, Myocardiac Failure. | Sathyaki P Nambala | 12 + 3 Min |
| 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Endoscopic Tricuspid valve surgery | Tomas Holubec | 12 + 3 Min |
| Debate | |||
| 11:00 AM - 11:08 AM | Should All Mitral Valve Surgeries Be Performed Endoscopically? | Ram Prassath | 8 Min |
| 11:08 AM - 11:16 AM | Should All Mitral Valve Surgeries Be Performed Robotically? | Sahin Senay | 8 Min |
| 11:16 AM - 11:18 AM | Rebuttal - Ram Prassath | 2 Min | |
| 11:18 AM - 11:20 AM | Rebuttal - Sahin Senay | 2 Min | |
| 11:20 AM - 12:00 PM | Live Case Discussion | ||
| Anchor: Adil Sadiq, Piroze M. Davierwala | |||
| Chairpersons: Joseph Lamelas, Nirav Patel, Sathyaki P Nambala, Sahin Senay | |||
| DAY 1 (20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | SESSION B -2 Endoscopic & Robotic Mitral Valve Surgery | ||
| Anchor: Mohd Rehan Sayeed, Shiv Kumar Nair | |||
| Chairpersons: Ritwick Raj Bhuyan, Vaibhav Mishra, Namrata Gaur, C S Hiremath | |||
| Panelists: Gumiah Mahesh, Mukesh Goel, Dharmendra Kumar Srivastava, Swapnil Despande | |||
| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | Good and Bad of surgical ablation for Afib- what is the data? | Niv Ad | 12+3 Min |
| 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM | Redo endoscopic mitral valve surgery – Tips and tricks | Peyman Sardari Nia | 12+3 Min |
| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | Redo Robotic-Assisted Mitral Valve Surgery | Raghu M. G. | 12+3 Min |
| 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM | Lifetime Management After Mitral Valve Diseas | Chirag Doshi | 12+3 Min |
| LUNCH - (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM) | |||
| DAY 1 (20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| Live case: Telesurgery MVR with MantraAsana | |||
| 2:00 PM - 4:35 PM | SESSION B -3 Structural Heart | ||
| Anchor: Praveen Chandra, Sai Satish | |||
| Chairpersons: Vadim A Popov, Zainulabedin Hamdulay, Manik Chopra, Gumiah Mahesh | |||
| Panelists: Ajeet Bana, Ajay Kaul, Vikas Thakran, Nagendra Singh Chouhan | |||
| 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Transcatheter Valves: Where Do We Stand Today? | Vinayak Bapat | 12+3 Min |
| 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM | Update on TMVR- Newer Technologies | Gry Dahle | 12+3 Min |
| 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Transcatheter Valve in Valve - Simultaneous T-AVR, T-MVR | Ravinder Rao | 12+3 Min |
| 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM | TAVI - When Transfemoral is not possible - Transaxillary, Transcarotid, Direct Aortic and Transvenous | Manik Chopra | 12+3 Min |
| 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM | Lifetime Management of Aortic Valve Disease: What Should Be the Approach in a 50-Year-Old Patient? Index Procedure – SAVR or TAVR | Ranjit Deshpande | 12+3 Min |
| Debate | |||
| 3:15 PM - 3:23 PM | Surgery Is the First Choice for Bicuspid Aortic Valve | Kunal Sarkar | 8 Min |
| 3:23 PM - 3:31 PM | TAVI for Bicuspid Aortic Valve | Praveen Chandra | 8 Min |
| 3:31 PM - 3:33 PM | Rebuttal | Kunal Sarkar | 2 Min |
| 3:33 PM - 3:35 PM | Rebuttal | Praveen Chandra | 2 Min |
| 3:50 PM - 4:05 PM | M-TEER - For Primary Mitral Valve Pathology | Sai Satish | 12+3 Min |
| 3:35 PM - 3:50 PM | TAVI Explanation Techniques: The Modern-Day Truth – How I Do It | Vinayak Bapat | 12+3 Min |
| 4:05 PM - 4:20 PM | TAVI Catestophy - How Surgeons should manage it? | Budhaditya Chakraborty | 12+3 Min |
| 4:35 PM - 4:50 PM | Surgical Excellence Meets Cardiology Precision: Collaboration in the Modern Era | Yan Efrata Sembiring | 12+3 Min |
| 4:20 PM - 4:35 PM | Does the Heart Team really exists in India? | Sai Satish | 12+3 Min |
| DAY 1 (20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| SESSION B - 4 Invited Lectures | |||
| Moderator: Yugal K Mishra, Kenny Sin, Eugene Sim, | |||
| 4:50 PM - 5:05 PM | Robotic Cardiac Technology: Where Is It Heading? | Darla Hutton - Intutive | 15 Min |
| 5:05 PM - 5:20 PM | Evolution of Robotic Tehcnology Indian Contribution | Sudhir Srivastava | 15 Min |
| 5:20 PM - 5:35 PM | The Renaissance of Mitral Valve Repair | Theo Kofidas | 15 Min |
| 5:35 PM - 5:50 PM | Severe tricuspid regurgitation, when to replace and when to opt for TTVR | Denis Bouchard | 15 Min |
| 5:50 PM - 6:05 PM | Endoscopic Aortic Valve replacement considerations from a mixed Asian population | Theo Kofidas | 15 Min |
| 6:05 PM - 6:20 PM | Does the future belong to super specialists? | Kunal Sarkar | 15 Min |
| 20th - November Inauguration 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM | |||
| 8:00 PM onwards Band Performance by "Indian Ocean" followed by Gala Dinner | |||
| SMISCTSI/ ISMICS/ATCSA Final PROGRAMME | |||
| DAY 1 (20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| HALL - 404 - B, 4th Floor | |||
| 9:00 AM - 11:02 AM | SESSION 1- Redo Surgery | ||
| Anchor: Lalit Kapoor, Anubhav Gupta | |||
| Chairpersons: Narender Singh Jhajhria, Vikas Ahlawat, Sandeep Srivastav, Syed Asrar Ahmed Qadri | |||
| Moderator: Bijoy Rajbanshi, Hyuk Ahn, Nadzir Juanda, Punnarerk Thongcharoen | |||
| 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Redo cardiac surgery: Have they become safer | Basheer A Kareem | 10+5MIN |
| 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM | Advances in Redo Mitral Valve Surgery | Sethuratnam Rajan | 10+5MIN |
| 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM | “Redo Aortic Valve Surgery: How I Do It” | V V Bashi | 10+5MIN |
| 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM | Addressing small aortic root challenges in the Asian population—how ULTRA can offer solutions | Dhiren Shah | 10+5MIN |
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Redo Bentall Procedure | Anil Bhan | 10+5MIN |
| 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Redo AVR | Satyajit Bose | 10+5MIN |
| 10:30 AM - 10:38 AM | FROM SURGERY TO BALLOON- The Interventional Bridge in Post-Repair Restenosis - Extending Native Valve Lifespan to Defer Early Redo Valve Replacement | Ashiq Nihmathullah | 6+2 Min |
| 10:38 AM - 10:46 AM | Results among Rheumatic Mitral Valve Repair and Mitral Valve Replacement in Previous Mitral Valve Procedure | Sitichok Wachirasrisirikul | 6+2 Min |
| 10:46 AM - 10:54 AM | Double In Situ Needle Fenestration for Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair: Initial Experience in East Indonesia | Dzulfachri Kurniawan | 6+2 Min |
| 10:54 AM - 11:04 AM | One-Stage Bentall and Frozen Elephant Trunk Reconstruction for Extensive Acute Type A Aortic Dissection | Duong Ngo | 6+2 Min |
| DAY 1 (20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| 11:04 AM - 1:00 PM | SESSION 2 - Coronary | ||
| Anchor: T.S Mahant, Babha Nanda Das | |||
| Chairpersons: Keita Kikuchi, Vaibhav Mishra, Prateek Bhatnagar | |||
| Moderator: Sanjay Kumar, Harpreet Wasir, Adil Rizvi | |||
| 11:04 AM - 11:19 AM | Total Myocardial Revascularization with LIMA and RIMA as Inflow Grafts | Ramji Mehrotra | 10+5MIN |
| 11:19 AM - 11:34 AM | Robotic-Assisted Total Arterial Myocardial Revascularization | M.M. Yusuf | 10+5MIN |
| 11:34 AM - 11:49 AM | Results of Total arterialization OPCAB with Aortic non-touch technique in Chaophrayayommarat Hospital, Suphanburi, Thailand | Peerapat Kongmalai | 6+2 Min |
| 11:49 AM - 11:57 AM | Early Outcomes and Complete Revascularization in Dialysis-Dependent Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery | Md. Abir Tazim Chowdhury | 6+2 Min |
| 11:57 AM - 12:05 PM | Robotic assisted MICS CABG in Fuwai hospital in China-my 264 cases experience | Sheng Wang | 6+2 Min |
| 12:05 PM - 12:13 PM | Arterial First Strategy for Diffuse Coronary Artery Disease: Experience with OPCAB and Coronary Endarterectomy | Sandeep Shrivastava | 6+2 Min |
| 12:13 PM - 12:21 PM | Technique, Angiographic evaluation and long - term follow up of Multivessel LIMA RADIAI Y MICS | Manish Porwal | 10+5 Min |
| 12:21 PM - 12:28 PM | Developing a Robotic TECAB Program: From Vision to Implemantation | Lalitaditya Malik | 10+5MIN |
| 12:28 PM - 12:36 PM | Minimally Invasive CABG in Obese Patients | Ergun Demirsoy | 10+5MIN |
| 12:40 PM - 1:10 PM | J&J Panel Discussion Trasforming Patient Outcome in MICS Lessons from Global & India Experience | Bob Kiaii (Moderator) Panelist Husam Balkhy, Yugal K Mishra, Sushan Mukhopadhyah, Nagesh Ayasola | 30 Min |
| 1:10 PM - 1:50 PM Lunch | |||
| DAY 1 (20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | SESSION 3 - Mitral Robotic | ||
| Anchor: Bob Kiaii, Mohd Rehan Sayeed | |||
| Chairpersons: Ritwick Raj Bhuyan, Pankaj Maheshwari, Ramji Mehrotra, Sanjay Gupta | |||
| Moderator: Nagesh Ayasola, Sandeep Srivastav, Anubhav Gupta, Udgeath Dhir | |||
| 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Combined Robotic-Assisted MVR & Robotic MIDCAB- Operative Video | Nagesh Aysola | 10+5 MIN |
| 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM | Bilateral Mini- thoractomy for combined MIDCAB and Mitral Vlave Repair- Operative Video | Ergun Demirsoy | 10+5MIN |
| 2:30 PM - 2:38 PM | Short-Term Outcomes of Totally Endoscopic Robotic Mitral Valve Repair | Sheng Wang | 6+2 Min |
| 2:38 PM - 2:46 PM | Mid-term performance of Miltonia Bi-leaflet Mechanical Prosthetic Valve in Mitral Valve Replacement Surgery. | Nirupam Sekhar Chakraborty | 6+2 Min |
| 2:46 PM - 2:54 PM | Rheumatic Mitral Valve Repair: Surgical Technique and Clinical Outcomes in Our Cohort | Shipra Shrivastava | 6+2 Min |
| 2:54 PM - 3:02 PM | Total Chordal Preservation in Robotic Mitral Valve Replacement: An Evolving Indian Paradigm | Harish Badami | 6+2 Min |
| 3:02 PM - 3:10 PM | Safety and Durability of Totally Endoscopic Mitral Valve Surgery: A Single-Center Experience | Chakkraphun Jampates | 6+2 Min |
| 3:10 PM - 3:18 PM | Transition from Endoscopic Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair to Robotic Mitral Valve Repair: Key Steps and Clinical Considerations | Sheng Wang | 6+2 Min |
| 3:18 PM - 3:26 PM | Comparative outcomes of robotic versus non-robotic cardiac surgery during establishment of a Robotic Cardiac Surgery program: First 141 cases | Varun Bansal | 6+2 Min |
| 3:26 PM - 3:41 PM | Robotic-Assisted Mitral Valve Repair | Bob Kiaii | 10+5 MIN |
| 3:41 PM - 3:56 PM | Mitral Valve Replacement with the Mantra Robotic System | Nitin Kumar Rajput | 10+5 MIN |
| DAY 1 (20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | SESSION 4 - Techniques which are changing Cardiac Practice | ||
| Anchor: Ganesh K Mani, Amol Kumar Bhoje | |||
| Chairpersons: Harkant Singh, S. Thiagarajmurthy, S.S. Sidhu, Sandeep Singh | |||
| Moderator: Shailesh Jain, Anand Mishra, Vijay Gupta, Akhil Rustagi | |||
| 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM | How I do it Mitral Valve Replacement | Anubhav Gupta | 10+5MIN |
| 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM | TTFM: Evidence to date and the Edinburgh Experience | Vipin Zamvar | 10+5MIN |
| 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM | Robitic Assisted ASD closure | Sudarshan G Thimmaiah | 10+5MIN |
| 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM | AI in Cardiac Surgery Transforming Outcomes & Shaping future | Siva Muthukumar | 10+5MIN |
| 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM | Trans Axiliary Valve Replacements | S. Thiagarajmurthy | 10+5MIN |
| 5:15 PM - 5:30 PM | Small Incisions, Giant Leaps - Sri Lanka’s Journey from MICS to Robotic Cardiac Surgery | Rajistha Y De Silva | 10+5MIN |
| 5:30 PM - 5:45 PM | Homograft Banking Challenges of the region | Jacob Jamesraj | 10+5MIN |
| 5:45 PM - 6:00 PM | Sutureless AVR versus TAVR | Z S Meherwal | 10+5MIN |
| 6:00 PM - 6:10 PM | Robitic Assisted AVR with Percival Valve | Saurabh Varshney | 10 Min |
| International Coronary Congress - 2026 | |||
| Dr. David Taggart Hall 6th Floor | |||
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| 7:45 AM - 8:05 AM | Welcoming Remarks and Program Overview | ||
| Welcome to the Global Coronary | John D. Puskas | ||
| Operating Room | Gianluca Torregrossa | ||
| Torsten Doenst | |||
| Program Overview | |||
| How Today Will Change the Way You | John D. Puskas | ||
| Perform CABG | Gianluca Torregrossa | ||
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| 8:05 AM - 11:00 AM | Session 1: Live TECAB & Surgery-in-a-Box Videos | ||
| Live TECAB Case with Intuitive DV5 | |||
| Moderator | Nirav Patel | ||
| Operators | Gianluca Torregrossa, Husam Balkhy | ||
| Integrated Surgery-in-a-Box Videos | |||
| Moderator | John D. Puskas | ||
| Off-pump Sternotomy Anaortic CABG (MAG/TAR) | Hiroshi Niinami | ||
| Off-pump CABG: How I Teach It | Piroze Davierwala | ||
| CABG in Women in the UK | Rashmi Yadav | ||
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Special Lecture: Remembering Dr. David Taggart | ||
| Dr. David Taggart: The Man, The Surgeon, The Scientist | John D. Puskas | ||
| Working with Dr. David Taggart for 15 Years on the ART Trial | Marcus Flather | ||
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Session -2: Mechanistic Aspects of CABG | ||
| Moderators: Torsten Doenst, Lokeswara Rao Sajja | |||
| How CABG Works: The Physiology Behind Surgical Revascularization | Torsten Doenst | ||
| Rethinking Complete Revascularization in 2026: In the Era of Optimized Medical Therapy, Is BITA Enough? | Marcus Flather | ||
| Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls of Multi-arterial Grafting | John D. Puskas | ||
| Panel Discussion | |||
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | INDUSTRY SPONSORED LUNCH SYMPOSIA | ||
| 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Concurrent Session 3A: CABG and AF | ||
| Moderators: Kevin Hodges, Prasanna Simha Mohan Rao, | |||
| Keynote Lecture: Atrial Fibrillation in the CABG Patient: What We Know, What We Ignore, and What Must Change | Niv Ad | ||
| Simplifying AF Treatment During CABG: The Role of Non-Atriotomy Ablation | Gianluca Torregrossa | ||
| Gemini and Penditure: Expanding the Surgical Toolbox for AF in OPCAB | John D. Puskas | ||
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| Debate: Postoperative AF After CABG: To Anticoagulate or Not? | |||
| Pro: Postoperative AF Is Stroke Until Proven Otherwise: Why I Anticoagulate | Niv Ad | ||
| Con: Postoperative AF Is Not Chronic AF: Why Routine Anticoagulation Is Overtreatment | Torsten Doenst | ||
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Concurrent Session 3B: Ki-Bong Kim Abstract Award Session I – Contemporary CABG: Minimally Invasive, Robotic, and Off-Pump Approaches | ||
| Moderators: Maria Comanici, Shilpa Suresh, | |||
| Long-term Angiographic Patency and Modes of Graft Failure Following Robotic-assisted Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass: A 15-year Single-centre Experience Durr Al-Hakim, | Amit Sharma | ||
| Long-term Survival Following Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass of the Left Anterior Descending Artery Comparison with the Matched General Population Janusz Konstanty-Kalandyk, | Jacek Piatek, Przemyslaw Ptak, Piotr Sliwinski, Vladyslav Kyslyi | ||
| Bilateral Internal Mammary Artery Harvesting Using a Novel Double-docking Technique for Robotic-assisted Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Single-surgeon Experience of 513 Consecutive Patients | Meeranghani Mohamed Yusuf | ||
| In-hospital and Mid-term Results of MIDCAB Technology: The Experience of One Center Vadim Popov, | Kirill Kozyrin, Maksim Anishchenko, Egor Malyshenko, Natalia Popova, Amiran Revishvili A.V. Vishnevsky National Medical Research Center of Surgery, Moscow, Russian Federation | ||
| Hybrid Coronary Revascularization in a Contemporary Single- and Multivessel MIDCAB Program: Patient Selection, Coronary Complexity, and Early- to Mid-term Outcomes | Manuel J. Sanatnder, Sonja Dib, Mardus Aiyana, Daniel Todorov, Aschraf El Essawi, Bernd Danner, Bernd Niemann, Ingo Kutschka, A. Fawad Jebran | ||
| Women Undergoing RA-MIDCAB: Outcomes from a Contemporary Cohort Michele Dell'Aquila, | Rohit Ganduboina, Joshua Newman, Robert Kalimi, Alexander Iribarne, Frank Manetta, Nirav Patel | ||
| Is Off-pump CABG Associated with Reduced Postoperative Dialysis and In-hospital Mortality in Patients with Pre-existing Renal Dysfunction? An IPTW-adjusted Analysis Lokeswara R. Sajja | Lokeswara R. Sajja¹, Gopichand Mannam¹, Anishkaa Mandadi², Aditya Koppula³, Sriramulu Sompalli¹, Satya Bhaskara Raju Dandu¹ | ||
| Anaortic Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Octogenarians: 10-year Clinical Results Sotirios N. Prapas, | Konstantinos Katsavrias, Ioannis Linardakis, Antonio M. Calafiore, Styliani Papandreopoulou, Vassiliki (Vicky) Prapa, Fotini Ntanou | ||
| Time-varying Comparative Effectiveness of Off-pump Versus On-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: A 27-year Era-stratified Causal Survival Analysis Maria Comanici, | Amina Khalil, Nandor Marczin, Sunil Bhudia, Shahzad Raja | ||
| Off-pump Versus On-pump CABG and In-hospital Outcomes: An IPTW-adjusted Analysis of 17,527 Patients Across Sex and Diabetes Subgroups | Lokeswara R. Sajja¹, Gopichand Mannam¹, Anishkaa Mandadi², Aditya Koppula³, Sriramulu Sompalli¹, Satya Bhaskara Raju Dandu¹ | ||
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Concurrent Session 4A: Off-pump CABG | ||
| Moderators: Husam Balkhy, Gianluca Torregrossa | |||
| Keynote Lecture: Two Million Patients Later: What the STS Database Really Tells Us About Off-Pump CABG | John D. Puskas | ||
| Off-Pump CABG at Scale: Lessons from High-Volume Indian Practice | Anil R. Jain | ||
| OPCAB Bypass is a Differentiator in my Practice | Gianluca Torregrossa | ||
| Practicing Off-Pump in 2026: A Junior Surgeon’s Perspective | Hristo Kirov | ||
| Panel Discussion: What Will it Take to Safely Expand Adoption of OPCAB? | |||
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Concurrent Session 4B: Abstract Session II – Rhythm Management and Perioperative Strategies in CABG | ||
| Moderators: Hiroshi Niinami, Prateek Bhatnagar | |||
| Concomitant Surgical Ablation During CABG Using a Novel Bipolar Radiofrequency Clamp: Outcomes from the Multicenter TRAC-AF Registry | Gianluca Torregrossa | ||
| Temporal Trends and Predictors of Concomitant Surgical Atrial Fibrillation Ablation During Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A National Analysis | Maria Comanici | ||
| Study of Strategies for the Prevention of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation in the PULVAB RCT | Vadim Popov | ||
| Comparative Analysis of Surgical Treatment Strategies for Concomitant Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation During Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting | Vadim Popov | ||
| Combination of Minimally Invasive Coronary Bypass Surgery and the Epicardial Left Atrial Ablation | Pavel Shilenko, Sr. | ||
| Posterior Pericardiotomy During MIDCAB Surgery: Impact on Pericardial Effusion, Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation, and Early Outcomes | Fawad Jebran | ||
| Comparison of Left Atrial Appendage Exclusion Techniques During Maze Procedure and CABG | Vadim Popov | ||
| Ten-year Outcomes of Concomitant Radiofrequency Pulmonary Vein Ablation and CABG in Patients with Various Forms of Atrial Fibrillation | Mikhail Svetkin | ||
| Diagnostic Value of Perioperative Echocardiography for the Detection of Perioperative Myocardial Infarction After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting | Joseph Kletzer | ||
| Del Nido Cardioplegia Versus Blood Cardioplegia for Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: A Retrospective Propensity-score-matched Cohort Study | Kei Woldendorp | ||
| 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM Coffee Break | |||
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM | Concurrent Session 5A: Video Masterclass | ||
| Moderators: Hiroshi Niinami, Kevin Hodges | |||
| Coronary Endarterectomy: A Physiological Approach to Surgical Reconstruction | Shuichiro Takanashi | ||
| Coronary Stentectomy: When PCI Failure Becomes a Surgical Problem | John D. Puskas | ||
| Gastroepiploic Artery Grafting: Expanding the Arterial Toolbox in CABG | Hiroshi Niinami | ||
| Impella-Supported CABG: Extending the Boundaries of Beating-Heart Surgery | Maria Comanici | ||
| Avoiding the Re-Entry: Minimally Invasive Strategies for Redo Coronary Surgery | Piroze Davierwala | ||
| TECAB in South Korea: My First Off-pump BITA TECAB Case | Min-Seok Kim | ||
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM | Concurrent Session 5B: Abstract Session III - Conduits, Graft Configuration, and Quality Assessment | ||
| Moderators: Rashmi Yadav, Anil R. Jain | |||
| Multiple Versus Single Arterial Coronary Bypass Grafting: A 27-year Single-centre Analysis of Short-term Outcomes and Long-term Survival Using Propensity-matched Cohorts | Maria Comanici | ||
| Multiple Versus Single Arterial Coronary Bypass Grafting: A 27-year Causal Analysis of Lifetime Survival, Restricted Mean Survival Time, and Biological Age-equivalent Benefit | Maria Comanici | ||
| A Novel Technology for Minimally Invasive Radial Artery Harvesting During Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery | Fabrizio Rosati | ||
| Accessible Arterial Grafting: A Non-endoscopic Minimally Invasive Radial Artery Harvesting Technique for CABG | Nikita Konovalov | ||
| Skeletonized Versus Pedicled Left Internal Mammary Artery Harvesting in Diabetic Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | Tulio Caldonazo | ||
| Comparative Long-term Outcomes of Subclavian Artery Inflow CABG Versus Conventional CABG: Propensity-score Matched Analysis | Doosang Kim | ||
| Conduit Configuration Approaches for Enhanced Arterial Grafting in OPCAB | Sandeep Shrivastava | ||
| Early Graft Patency After Composite Versus Aortocoronary Bypass Grafting: Comparison Between Preoperative Computed Tomography-derived Fractional Flow Reserve and Intraoperative Transit-time Flow Measurement | Min-Seok Kim | ||
| Intraoperative TTFM on the Arrested Heart: Advantages for Assessing Internal Mammary Artery Graft Quality | Mojgan Laali | ||
| Comparisons of Medistim Transit-time Flow Measurements of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts Across Cardiopulmonary Bypass Phases | Shiv Verma | ||
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY) | |||
| 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | E-Poster Competition and Networking Reception | ||
| Judges: John D. Puskas, Gianluca Torregrossa, Rashmi Yadav | |||
| P1. Coronary No-reflow Beyond the Cath Lab: Can It Occur After CABG? | Mohamed Eraqi | ||
| P2. One Mammary, Three Coronary Territories: Is Limited Revascularization Always Enough for Unexpected Porcelain Aorta? | Aleksandar V. Milutinovic | ||
| Estimating the Capacity of the Left Internal Mammary Artery (LIMA) In Situ as a Composite Conduit with the Right Internal Mammary Artery (RIMA) to Provide Sufficient Blood Flow to Revascularize Both the Left and Right Coronary Systems During Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting | Vikram Pal Singh | ||
| P4. Off-pump CABG in a Patient with Dextrocardia, Situs Inversus Totalis, and Partial Large Bowel Malrotation | Naveen Pandarinathan | ||
| P5. Redo Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass for Limited Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy After Heart Transplant: A Case Report | Yoseb Lee | ||
| P6. Expanding Minimally Invasive Coronary Surgery: Right-sided Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Bypass | Danko Grujic | ||
| P7. Coronary Endarterectomy During Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: Tips, Tricks, and Technical Pearls | Surendra Patel | ||
| P8. Orthotopic Reconstruction of Left Main Coronary Aneurysm | Sandeep N. Bharadwaj | ||
| P9. Box Lesion Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation in Patients Undergoing CABG: How I Do It in 3 Minutes | Vasily Kaleda | ||
| P10. Left-sided MIDCAB for Distal Right Coronary Revascularization in Complex RCA Anatomy | Fawad Jebran | ||
| P11. Comparison of Vein Integrity in Endoscopic Versus Open Vein Harvesting Using the Same Patient as Case and Control: A Single-center Experience | Fabrizio Ceresa | ||
| P12. Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Requiring Coronary Stentectomy and Endarterectomy. | Masahito Minakawa | ||
| P13. Minimally Invasive Double-access Surgery as a Tactic for Combined Coronary Artery and Aortic Valve Disease in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease | Maksud Muradov | ||
| SMICTSI - ATCSA Thoracic Program | |||
| Hall – 403 / 4th Floor | |||
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY ) | |||
| 9:00 AM - 10:31 AM | Thoracic Session 1 | 9:00 AM - 10:31 AM (12 min presentation + 2 min discussion) | ||
| Chairpersons: Puja Khaitan, Balasubramanium KR, Ram Mohan, Sarvana Rajamainckam | |||
| Coordinator: Dr. Shaiwal Khandelwal | |||
| 9:00 AM - 9:14 AM | Minimally Invasive Surgery after Chemo-Immunotherapy | Antonio Ramos | |
| 9:14 AM - 9:28 AM | Subxiphoid Access for Anatomical Lung Resections- (Online) | Alan Sihoe (Virtual) | |
| 9:28 AM - 9:42 AM | Endobronchial Therapies for Early Lung Cancer- (Online) | Calvin Ng (Virtual) | |
| 9:42 AM - 9:56 AM | Sub Lobar Resections: Operative Tips, Tricks & Outcomes | Akif Turna | |
| 9:56 AM - 10:10 AM | Transsternal Approaches for Left main bronchial surgery | S. Bal | |
| 10:10 AM - 10:24 AM | Training for thoracic surgery in Asia: The ATEP success story | Jang Ming Lee | |
| 10:24 AM - 10:31 AM | Feasibility of Predicting Pathological Prognostic Factors and Selecting Sublobar Resection Procedures Using Lesion SUVmax in Small Lung Cancers | Katsuo Kojima | |
| ☕ MORNING BREAK • 10:31 AM - 11:00 AM (30 MINUTES) | |||
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY ) | |||
| 11:00 AM - 12:03 PM | Thoracic Session 2 | 11:00 AM - 12:03 PM (12 min presentation + 2 min discussion) | ||
| Chairpersons: Punnarek Thongchereon, Manjunath, George K., Jang Ming Lee | |||
| Coordinator: Narendra Agarwal | |||
| 11:00 AM - 11:14 AM | Management of Complications in Robotic Thoracic Surgery | Ali Zamir Khan | |
| 11:14 AM - 11:28 AM | Uniportal Robotic Thoracic Surgery | Akif Turna | |
| 11:28 AM - 11:42 AM | Extending indications for robotic chest surgery comes with requirement to avert disaster | Sudish Murthy | |
| 11:42 AM - 11:56 AM | ERAS | Ram Mohan Kandadai | |
| 11:56 AM - 12:03 PM | Airway or Aorta First? Surgical Prioritization in a Complex Mediastinal Trauma | Golam Mursalin | |
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY ) | |||
| 12:03 PM - 1:06 PM | Thoracic Session 3 | 12:03 PM - 1:06 PM (12 min presentation + 2 min discussion) | ||
| Chairpersons: Prof. Rajinder Parshad, Prof. Jang Ming Lee, Dr. Anil Kapoor, Dr. Mohit Joshi | |||
| Coordinator: Dr. Kamran Ali | |||
| 12:03 PM - 12:17 PM | AI in thoracic surgery - Thoracic surgery meets Silicon Valley | Punnarek Thongchareon | |
| 12:17 PM - 12:31 PM | Innovations - from table to market | Ali Zamir Khan | |
| 12:31 PM - 12:45 PM | Financial management for thoracic surgeons: Life after Retirement | Sanghoon Jheon | |
| 12:45 PM - 12:59 PM | Surgery for Pulmonary Aspergilloma | SK Jain | |
| 12:59 PM - 1:06 PM | Role of navigational bronchoscopy in management of lung cancer | Sucheit Walia | |
| LUNCH BREAK & NETWORKING • 1:06 PM - 2:00 PM | |||
| Thoracic Session 4 | 2:00 PM - 3:31 PM (12 min presentation + 2 min discussion) | |||
| Chairpersons: Prof. Antonio Ramos, Dr. Darlong LM, Dr. Abhishek Jain, Dr. Shubham Garg | |||
| Coordinator: Dr. Nikhil Rane | |||
| 2:00 PM - 2:14 PM | Innovations in Chest wall deformity surgery | Shyam Kolvekar | |
| 2:14 PM - 2:28 PM | Complex Chest wall & Sternal resections | Raman Deshpande | |
| 2:28 PM - 2:42 PM | The Impact of Single port MIE for ERAS after esophagectomy | Jang Ming Lee | |
| 2:42 PM - 2:56 PM | Management of Chest wall sinuses | Ravindra Dewan | |
| 2:56 PM - 3:10 PM | Aiming for a zero-leak robotic Ivor Lewis Esophagectomy: Anastomosis and operative techniques and pitfalls | Cos Bizakis | |
| 3:10 PM - 3:24 PM | Salvage esophagectomy - where are we now? | Puja Khaitan | |
| 3:24 PM - 3:31 PM | Mobilise first, reconstruct later: right thoracoscopic distal tracheobronchial and carinal release for complex left main bronchus reconstruction via left-sided approach | Gunalan Govindarajan | |
| ☕ AFTERNOON BREAK • 3:31 PM - 4:00 PM | |||
| Thoracic Session 5: Thoracic Oncology Tumor Board & Scientific Papers | |||
| Moderator: A Z Khan | |||
| Presenters: Dr. Suchiet Walia (Registrar, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, UK); Dr. Sumedha Mukherjee (Resident, Max Hospital Saket, India) | |||
| Panelists: Dr. Akif Turna, Dr. S. Bal, Dr. Raman Deshpande, Dr. Sarvana Rajamainckam, Dr. Sandeep Batra, Dr. Urmi Mukherjee, Dr. Kuldeep Sharma | |||
| 4:00 PM - 4:46 PM | Thoracic Oncology Tumor Board Case Discussions & Interactive Review | Panelists & Presenters | |
| 4:46 PM - 4:53 PM | CD55 functions as a metabolic-immune checkpoint by mediating complement-ferroptosis crosstalk in non-small cell lung cancer | Guangyao Shan | |
| 4:53 PM - 5:00 PM | A Thermo-Information Theoretic Model of Tumor–Host Interface Dynamics in Thoracic Surgery | T. Naveen Keerthi | |
| Thoracic Session 6: Invited Videos | 5:00 PM - 5:40 PM (6 min presentation + 2 min discussion) | |||
| Chairpersons: Cos Bizakis, Nikhil Rane, Rajat Saxena, Ranjan Sapkota, Shilpa Gandhi | |||
| Coordinator: Pallavi Purwar | |||
| 5:00 PM - 5:08 PM | Surgical Management of Carinal Tumours: A Challenging Case | George Karimundackal | |
| 5:08 PM - 5:16 PM | Complex airway reconstruction | Balasubramanium KR | |
| 5:16 PM - 5:24 PM | Big Lesion, Small Incisions: VATS Resection of a Giant Mediastinal Cyst | Roman Dutta | |
| 5:24 PM - 5:32 PM | Extended Thoracic Resections: Pushing the Boundaries of Resectability | Sarvana Rajamainckam | |
| 5:32 PM - 5:40 PM | From Crisis to Control: Managing Major Bleeding in VATS | Manjunath | |
| Thoracic Session 7: Invited Videos | 5:40 PM - 6:20 PM (6 min presentation + 2 min discussion) | |||
| Chairpersons: Ram Mohan, Pallavi Purwar, Ram Karan Choudhary, Sonali Mittal, Biswarup | |||
| Coordinator: Shilpa Gandhi | |||
| 5:40 PM - 5:48 PM | When Correction Gets Complicated: Challenges in Chest Wall Surgery | Darlong LM | |
| 5:48 PM - 5:56 PM | Non-Intubated VATS for Iatrogenic Bronchopleural Fistula | Amol Bhanushali | |
| 5:56 PM - 6:04 PM | Extended Mediastinoscopy: Expanding the Boundaries of Mediastinal Access | Shubham Garg | |
| 6:04 PM - 6:12 PM | Left Main Stem Bronchoplasty Using a Pericardial Patch: A Lung-Sparing Approach | Narendra Agarwal | |
| 6:12 PM - 6:20 PM | VATS Pneumonectomy: Technical Challenges and Surgical Strategies | Saraansh Bansal | |
| SMICTSI - ATCSA Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Program | |||
| Hall 402 - 4th Floor | |||
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY ) | |||
| Session - 1 Fontan | |||
| Chairperson:- Manisha Chakarborty, Niraj Awasthi , Sukhjeet Singh | |||
| 8:30 AM - 8:50 AM | Augmenting non-compliant pulmonary vasculature for Fontan | Gaurav Kumar | |
| 8:50 AM - 9:10 AM | Addressing venous anomalies in Fontan patients | Shingo Kasahara | |
| 9:10 AM - 9:30 AM | Fontan Circuits, Modifications & Flow dynamics | Sachin Talwar | |
| 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | Management of systemic outflow track obstruction after FONTAN OPERATION | B R. Jagganath | |
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY ) | |||
| Session - 2 Borderline LV | |||
| Chairperson:- Neeraj Aggarwal, Gaurav Garg, Subodh Satyarthy | |||
| 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM | Management of HLHS | Shunji Sano | |
| 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM | LV rehabilitation operations | Shu Chen Huang | |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Role of 3 D printing & 3D VR in planning of complex congenital surgery | Puneet Bhatla | |
| 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM | Glenn & Super Glen: Good or bad for LV growth? | Sunil Kaushal | |
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY ) | |||
| Session - 3 Neonatal Cardiac Surgery | |||
| Chairperson:-Munesh Tomar, Mily Roy, Jay Relan | |||
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Conduit-less approaches to Common Arterial Trunk | Sivakumar Sivalingam | |
| 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM | Managing Interrupted Arch & Severe LVOTO | Nyugen Ly Truong | |
| 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM | Managing recurrent stenosis in arch patients | Zohair Al Halees | |
| 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM | Role of the Yusui operation today | Raja Joshi | |
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY ) | |||
| Session - 4 Ebstein's + Dysplastic Tricuspid Vavle repair | |||
| Chairperson:- Smita Mishra. Gaurav Agarwal, Shyamveer Singh Khangarot | |||
| 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM | AATS Expert Consensus Document on Ebstein: What's New? | V Devagourou | |
| 2:20 PM - 2:40 PM | Cone repair for ebsteins anomaly in neonates and infants | Ashish Katewa | |
| 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM | Managing Ebstenoid valve with other congenital leisons. | Debashis Das | |
| 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM | Management of Adult Ebsteins. | Vijay Kumar Raju | |
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY ) | |||
| Session - 5 Anomalous Coronaries | |||
| Chairperson:-Dr S Radha krishnan Dr RamaKrishna, Dr.Vijay Agarwal | |||
| 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM | Surgery for AAOCA | Zohair Al Halees | |
| 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM | Assesment of Congenital Coronary anomalies Pre & Post Op | Vinitha Nair | |
| 4:20 PM - 4:40 PM | Takeuchi Repair: Still Meaningful? | Rajsekhar | |
| 4:40 PM - 5:00 PM | ALCAPA Repair Current Status & Strategy | Amit Mishra | |
| SMICTSI - ATCSA Final ERAS IN MINIMAL ACCESS CARDIAC SUGERY: Redefining Cardiac Care with Global Trends and Transforming Technologies | |||
| Hall 401 - 4th Floor | |||
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY ) | |||
| 8:30 AM - 8:40 AM | Program outline and expectations | Naresh K Aggarwal/Dharmesh Aggarwal | 10 Min |
| 8:40 AM - 9:00 AM | KEY NOTE - Minimal Access Cardiac Surgery - Introduction, Future and technology integration | Theo Kofidas | 20 Min |
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY ) | |||
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | SESSION 1 - CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN MACS | ||
| 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | ERAS in Cardiac Surgery: Principles, Evidence and Current Guidelines | Alexander J Gregory | 15 Min |
| 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM | Prehabilitation, Risk stratification and Patient Optimization Before Cardiac Surgery | Arun Maheshwari | 15 Min |
| 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM | GDT for ERAS- Haemodynamic goals & challenges in restricted access - PAC & TOE MICS CABG | Naresh K Aggarwal | 15 Min |
| 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM | One lung ventilation, lung isolation and lung protection strategies | Sunil Dhole | 15 Min |
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY ) | |||
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | SESSION 2 - MASTERING MACS CARE WITH ERAS | ||
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Fast-Track Anesthesia and Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERACS) | Yatin Mehta | 15 Min |
| 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Opioid-Sparing Cardiac Anesthesia: Myth or Reality? | Rajesh Chand | 15 Min |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Regional Analgesia for Cardiac ERAS: ESPB, SAPB and Paravertebral Blocks | Poonam Malhotra | 15 Min |
| 10:46 AM - 11:00 AM | What is new in analgesia - cold precision | TBA | 15 Min |
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY ) | |||
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | SESSION 3 - PERIOEPERATIVE CHALENGES IN MACS | ||
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Postoperative Ventilation, ICU Care and Early Extubation Protocols | Dibyendu Khan | 15 Min |
| 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | TTFM - Precision Grafting | Vipin Zamwar | 15 Min |
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | NIRS (NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY) - Cerebral oximetry and tissue oximetry in MACS ( limb ischemia) | Dheeraj Arora | 15 Min |
| 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Blood Conservation and Patient Blood Management in ERAS Pathways - Cell salvage | Alexander J Gregory | 15 Min |
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY ) | |||
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | SESSION 4- ECO GUIDANCE | ||
| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | TOE - THE GPS OF CARDIAC TEAM- Cannualtion, Cpb, de airing, complications | Monalisa Datta | 15 Min |
| 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM | 3D TEE assesment oF mitral valve repair | Madhav Swaminathan | 15 Min |
| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | High Resolution 3D TOE - Impact in MACS | Dharmesh Aggarwal | 15 Min |
| 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM | Continous RV pressure monitoring in cardaic surgery | Manos Spiridakis | 15 Min |
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY ) | |||
| 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | SESSION -5 | ||
| 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Robotic TECAB - Anesthesiologist Role | 15 Min | |
| 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM | Anesthetic consideration for Robotic cardiac surgery | Shradha Ayapan | 15 Min |
| 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM | "Enhanced Recovery in Robotic Cardiac Surgery: Are We Ready for 24-Hour Discharge?" | Dharmesh Aggarwal | 15 Min |
| 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM | From OR to Enhanced Recovery : Anesthesia strategies for Minimal Access Pediatric Cardiac surgery | Shreedhar Joshi | 15 Min |
| 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM | Managing Intraoperative Emergencies: Conversion to Sternotomy, Bleeding and Air Embolism | Ganapathy | 15 Min |
| 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM | PANEL Discussion - “Is ERAS the New Standard in Cardiac Anesthesia?” | ||
| Moderator: Deepak Tempe | |||
| Panelist: Amit Rastogi, Indira Malik, Minati Choudhury, Anand | |||
| DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY ) | |||
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | CHALLENGE THE EXPERTS— CASE PRESENTATION | ||
| 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM | Redo cardiac surgery - MACS impact | SANJAY GOEL | 15 Min |
| 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Updates in Transcatheter valve implantation | Chirojit Mukherjee | 15 Min |
| 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM | Evoque: Echocardiograhic guidance:New kid on the block? | Chirojit Mukherjee | 15 Min |
| 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM | TBD | TBA | 15 Min |
| 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Workshop - ONE LUNG ANESTHESIA | 60 Min | |
| Closing Remarks | Naresh K Aggarwal | ||
| DAY - 2 SATURDAY - 21 NOVEMBER | |||
| SMISCTSI/ ISMICS/ATCSA Final PROGRAMME | |||
| DAY 2 (21ST NOVEMBER Saturday) | |||
| Dr K.M. Cherian Hall - 6th Floor | |||
| Time | Title | Speaker | Duration |
| Breakfast Session How I Manage Complications | |||
| Anchor: Bob Kiaii | |||
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | When Robotic Surgery goes Wrong | Husam H Balkhy | 15 Min |
| Complication Unique to Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery - Prevention & Rescue | Nirav Patel | 15 Min | |
| Unanticipated disasters in Cardiac Surgery, how to think fast & Act | Adil Sadiq | 15 Min | |
| Myectomy gone wrong: Surgical complications failed Myectomy & Rescue Strategies | Praveen Verma | 15 Min | |
| DAY 2 (21ST NOVEMBER Saturday) | |||
| SESSION B -5 Minimally Invasive and Robotic Aortic Valve Surgery | |||
| Anchor: Vipin Zamvar, Arunkumar Ulganathan | |||
| Chairpersons: Bharat Dubey, Prasanna Simha, Sushan Mukhopadhyay, Vijay Grover | |||
| Panelists: Nitin Rajput, Ganesh Krishnan Iyer, Sethuratnam Rajan, Ramji Mehrotra | |||
| Live Case & Discussion | |||
| Endoscopic / Minimal Invasive / Robotic AVR | |||
| 9:00 AM - 9:10 AM | Case Introduction | 10 Min | |
| 9:10 AM - 9:25 AM | How to Become an Expert MICS-AVR Surgeon: A Step-by-Step Approach | Joseph Lamelas | 10+5 Min |
| 9:25 AM - 9:40 AM | Minimally Invasive AVR - How is it different from MICS-MVR? | Gopichand Mannam | 10+5 Min |
| 9:40 AM - 9:55 AM | Robotic AVR - Are we there? | Goya Raikar | 10+5 Min |
| 9:55 AM - 10:10 AM | Endoscopic AVR & Root widening | Joerg Kempfert | 10+5 Min |
| 10:10 AM - 10:25 AM | Minimally Invasive AVR and Sutureless Valve - The perfect marriage | Jose Chacko Periappuram | 10+5 Min |
| 10:25 AM - 10:40 AM | Aortic Valve Sparing operation | Surin Woragidpoonpol | 10+5 Min |
| 10:40 AM - 10:55 AM | Minimally Invasive AVR Versus TAVR- Competitors or Complementary therapies | Vinayak Bapat | 10+5 Min |
| 10:40 AM - 10:55 AM | Endoscopic Aortic Valve replacement considerations from a mixed Asian population | Theo Kofidas | 12+3 Min |
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Presidential Address | ||
| Anchor: Yugal K Mishra, Rajneesh Malhotra | |||
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | SMICTSI President - Redefining Cardiothoracic Care: Global Trends and Transformative Technologies | Yugal K Mishra | 15 Min |
| 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | ICC President - Advancing the State of the Art in Coronary Surgery | John D. Puskas | 15 Min |
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | ISMICS President - Digital Impact of Surgical Robots – Insights from Large Health System | Nirav Patel | 15 Min |
| 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM | ATCSA President - Lung Cancer Among Asians | Antonio B. Ramos | 15 Min |
| Honored Guest Lectures | |||
| 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | Use of Artificial Intelligence in Modern Day Warfare | Former Chief of Naval Sta ffAdmiral (Retd.) Dinesh Kumar Tripathi | 30 Min |
| 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM | Applications of Superconductivity in the Advancement of Cardiac Surgery | Amarnath Ray | 20 Min |
| Panel Discussion: Topic: Sustainability of Indian Healthcare Ecosystem - Current Perspectives & Future Directions | |||
| Anchor: Yugal K Mishra | |||
| Moderator: O.P. Yadava | |||
| Distinguished : Guest Faculties | |||
| 12:50 PM - 1:30 PM | Naresh Trehan | Chairman & Managing Director, Medanta Medicity | 40 Min |
| Dilip Jose | Managing Director & CEO Manipal Hospitals | ||
| B Bhaskar Rao | Managing Director KIMS Hospitals | ||
| Sudhir Srivastava | Founder,Chairman and CEO SS Innovations | ||
| Abhay Soi | Managing Director Max Healthcare | ||
| Ashutosh Raghuvanshi | Managing Director & CEO Fortis Hospitals | ||
| LUNCH (1:10 PM - 2:00 PM) | |||
| DAY 2 (21ST NOVEMBER Saturday) | |||
| 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | SESSION B - 6 Aorta & Arch Surgery | ||
| Anchor: Mohd Idhrees, Niranjan Hiremath | |||
| Chairpersons: Shiv Choudhary, Sanjay Kumar, Dinesh Mittal, Manish Porwal | |||
| Panelists: T.K. Jaykumar, Vivek Pillai, Amitabh Satsangi, Sameer Bhate | |||
| 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Minimally Invasive Ascending Aortic and Arch Surgery | Joseph Lamelas | 10+5 Min |
| 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM | Minimally Invasive Arch Replacement | Gopichand Mannam | 10+5 Min |
| 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM | Post Bentall Giant Pseudo-Aneurysm of coronary Surgery - Video | Anil Bhan | 10+5 Min |
| 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Open Arch Repair | Varun Shetty | 10+5 Min |
| 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM | Emerging Trends in Aortic Arch Surgery | Atanu Saha | 10+5 Min |
| 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM | Cannulation Strategies for Acute Aortic Dissection | Mohd Idhrees | 10+5 Min |
| 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM | Circulatory Arrest in Aortic Surgery | J-Ph Verhoye | 10+5 Min |
| 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM | Hybrid Arch Repair | Niranjan Hiremath | 10+5 Min |
| 3:45 PM - 4:00 PM | Open Conversion after Failed TEVAR | V V Bashi | 10+5 Min |
| DAY 2 (21ST NOVEMBER Saturday) | |||
| 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM | SESSION B -7 - Innovations, Emerging Technologies & Research | ||
| Anchor: Hermann Reichenspurner, O P Yadava, Pradeep Narayan | |||
| Chairpersons: Shiv Kumar Nair, Satyajit Bose, Jacob Jamesraj, Pankaj Kumar Gupta | |||
| Panelists: Suresh Joshi, Surinder Bazaz, Shantanu Pandey, Sanjeeth Peter | |||
| 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM | From ISMICS Consensus to Clinical Guidelines | Pradeep Narayan | 10+5 Min |
| 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Interim Analysis of Clinical Outcomes and Graft Patency in the PREDICT Trial | Lokeswara Sajja | 10+5 Min |
| 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM | STS database 8000 patients Analysis | Chandershekar | 10+5 Min |
| 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM | MIST trial - Update | Piroze M. Davierwala | 10+5 Min |
| 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM | Cardiac Surgery 2035: What Should the Operating Room Look Like? Robotics, AI, Digital Twins, Simulation, Telesurgery, Remote Monitoring and Precision Surgery | Eugene Sim | 10+5 Min |
| 5:15 PM - 5:30 PM | AI-Enabled Continuous Multimodal Surveillance in Post-Cardiac Surgery Patients: Beyond Hospital Walls | Rahul Chandola | 10+5 Min |
| 5:30 PM - 5:45 PM | From Art to Algorithms: the Era of Precision Surgery | Peyman Sardari Nia | 10+5 Min |
| 5:45 PM - 6:00 PM | Quality Metrics Beyond Mortality | Vivek Jawali | 10+5 Min |
| 6:00 PM - 6:15 PM | Heart Transplantation: Leveraging Innovation and Emerging Technologies to Achieve Superior Clinical Outcomes | Hermann Reichenspurner | 10+5 Min |
| 6:30 PM – Cultural Evening & Presidential Dinner | |||
| DAY 2 (21ST NOVEMBER Saturday) | |||
| SMISCTSI/ ISMICS/ATCSA Final PROGRAMME | |||
| Hall - 404 B - 4th Floor | |||
| 9:00 AM - 10:48 AM | SESSION -5 Lets Learn from the Masters | ||
| Anchor: Praveen Verma, Vijit Koshy Cherian | |||
| Chairpersons: Anbarsu Mohanraj, Sanjeev Malhotra, Adarsh Kopulla, Sethuratnam Rajan | |||
| Moderators: S.K Aggarwal, Raj Kumar Yadav, V.K Sharma, S.S Lohchab | |||
| 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Trans-Axillary Valve Surgery: How I Do It & Science behind cardiac surgery | Mohd Rehan Sayeed | 10+5MIN |
| 9:15 AM - 9:23 AM | Multiple rib fractures with persistent pain but osteoporosis - any novel solution? | Hari Kumar Sampath | 6+2 Min |
| 9:23 AM - 9:31 AM | A Nonlinear Hemodynamic–Topological Model for Predictive Optimization in Valvular Heart Surgery | T. Naveen Keerthi | 6+2 Min |
| 9:31 AM - 9:39 AM | Real-Time Quantitative Left Ventricular Filling Assessment During Mitral Valve Repair Using a Pressure-Assisted Continuous Flow System | Antonios Samothrakis | 6+2 Min |
| 9:39 AM - 9:47 AM | Patient-Specific CFD Modeling to Predict Embolic-Prone Retrograde Hemodynamics During Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Surgery | Mayank Singh | 6+2 Min |
| 9:47 AM - 9:55 AM | Robotic Assisted Minimally Invasive Off Pump CABG in Adults with Dextrocardia: Worlds 1st Case series | Milind Shah | 6+2 Min |
| 9:55 AM - 10:03 AM | How I did it: Trans-Aortic and Trans-Apical Septal Myectomy for Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy with Left Ventricular Aneurysm and Multivessel Coronary | Abdulrahman Aljualyi | 6+2 Min |
| 10:03 AM - 10:18 AM | How I do it Combined Mitral Aortic Valve Surgery | Denis Bouchard | 10+5MIN |
| 10:18 AM - 10:33 AM | Managing the Arch in Type A Dissection | Shiv Choudhary | 10+5MIN |
| 10:33 AM - 10:48 AM | Addressing the Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation: What Evidence Say? | Sanjeeth Peter | 10+5MIN |
| Plenary Sessions on 6th Floor Dr K.M. Cherian Hall | |||
| LUNCH - 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | |||
| DAY 2 (21ST NOVEMBER Saturday) | |||
| 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | SESSION -6 | ||
| Anchor: Denis Bouchard, Rajender Mathur | |||
| Chairpersons: Anirudh Mathur, Surendra Patel, Ratna Malika Kumar, Saurabh Juneja | |||
| Moderators: Abhay Kumar, Ashok Gupta, Sandeep Singh, Nirav Bansal | |||
| 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | CARDIAC SURGERY 2.0 — IT’S NOT DYING, IT’S TRANSFORMING THROUGH ROBOTIC & MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY | Ishant Singhla | 10+5MIN |
| 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM | Extending Surgical Success beyond discharge - Remote Cardiac Rehab beyond CABG | Rajneesh Malhotra | 10+5MIN |
| 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Blood conservation excellence in current cardiac surgery Era | Vivek Jawali | 10+5MIN |
| 2:45 PM - 2:53 PM | Elective On Pump CABG for Coronary Artery Disease with Severe LV Dysfunction, LVEF <30% | Swapnil Deshpande | 6+2 Min |
| 2:53 PM - 3:01 PM | Minimally Invasive CABG in a Patient with an AICD: Bridging Surgical Access and Device Safety | Karana Shekar | 6+2 Min |
| 3:01 PM - 3:09 PM | Combined Mitral Valve Surgery and Trans-Aortic Septal myectomy by Minimally Invasive Right Anterior Mini-Thoracotomy: A Single-Center Experience | Abdulrahman Aljualyi | 6+2 Min |
| 3:09 PM - 3:17 PM | MICROVASCULAR DISEASE AND SMALL CORONARIES, DO WOMEN GET A RAW DEAL IN CABG | Namrata Gaur | 6+2 Min |
| 3:17 PM - 3:25 PM | Four Hundred plus minimally access cardic surgery, experiance in Nepal | Anil Bhattarai | 6+2 Min |
| 3:25 PM - 3:40 PM | Concomitant Minimally Invasive Cardiac DVR + CABG | Arunkumar Ulganathan | 10+5MIN |
| 3:40 PM - 3:55 PM | Surgical Strategy in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy with very poor diffuse coronary targets | Sridhar L F | 10+5MIN |
| DAY 2 (21ST NOVEMBER Saturday) | |||
| 3:55 PM - 6:21 PM | SESSION -7 Innovation & Contemporary Cardiac Care | ||
| Anchor: Niv Ad, Bob Kiaii | |||
| Chairpersons: Vivek Kumar Gupta, Manish Porwal, Vijit Koshy Cherian, Kishan Magatapalli | |||
| Moderators: Jacob Jamesraj, Anand Deodhar, Satish Mathew, Sarju Ralhan | |||
| 3:55 PM - 4:10 PM | Minimally Invasive AVR Versus TAVR- Competitors or Complementary therapies | Vinayak Bapat | 10+5 Min |
| 4:10 PM - 4:25 PM | A New Technique for Aortic Root Enlargement -Talk | Harinder Singh Bedi | 10+5MIN |
| 4:25 PM - 4:37 PM | Surgical Nano PF ablation for afib | Niv Ad | 10+5MIN |
| 4:37 PM - 4:45 PM | Navigating the MICS Learning Curve: Practical Lessons from the Initial 150 Cases. | Sachin Sanagar | 6+2 Min |
| 4:45 PM - 4:53 PM | The axillary inflow as a reasionable option for MICSOPCAB | Nuttapon Arayawudhikul | 6+2 Min |
| 5:01 PM - 5:09 PM | An alternative way of cannulation in minimally invasive surgery for mitral valve surgery and atrial septal defect surgery | Abhay Choudhary | 6+2 Min |
| 5:09 PM - 5:17 PM | 10-year Surgical Outcomes of Aortic Valve Reconstruction Using Three Same-Sized Autologous Pericardial Leaflets | Akeo Tedoriya | 6+2 Min |
| 5:17 PM - 5:25 PM | Long term Result compare between Degenerative and Rheumatic Mitral surgery concomitant with RF ablation | Choosak Kasemsarn | 6+2 Min |
| 5:25 PM - 5:33 PM | MIDCAB As the Primary Approach for CABG -An Indian Single Centre Study | Sushan Mukhopadhyay | 6+2 Min |
| 5:33 PM - 5:41 PM | Intraoperative Hemoadsorption During Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Complex Cardiac Surgery: A Retrospective Comparative Cohort Study from Malaysia | Maheswaran Menon | 6+2 Min |
| 5:41 PM - 5:49 PM | A Proposed Ultrafiltration and Cardioplegia Scavenging Protocol for Single-Dose Crystalloid Cardioplegia in Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery | Jayantika Uniyal | 6+2 Min |
| 5:49 PM - 5:57 PM | On-Pump Beating-Heart Minimally Invasive Pulmonary Valve Replacement with Pulmonary Annular Augmentation via Left Anterior Minithoracotomy in an Adult: A Case Report | Prem Prakash | 6+2 Min |
| 5:57 PM - 6:05 PM | From Adoption to Maturity: The Learning Curve of Totally Endoscopic CABG (Non-Robotic) Across 180 Consecutive Cases | Sandip Sardar | 6+2 Min |
| 6:05 PM - 6:13 PM | When Mechanical Valves Turn Against the Heart: Prosthetic Valve Thrombosis in Low- and Middle-Income Countries—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | Barian Muchtar Pratama | 6+2 Min |
| 6:13 PM - 6:21 PM | Invasive fungal encephalitis with ventriculitis and obstructive hydrocephalus following orthotopic heart transplantation: A rare case report | Mallikarjuna Rao Nukala | 6+2 Min |
| 6:21 PM - 6:28 PM | Endoscopic Mitral Valve Surgery - Indian Experience | Sandip Sardar | 6+2 Min |
| 6:28 PM - 6:36 PM | Strentomy Scar: Still the Surgeons Badge of Honour Redefining DVR via MICS/RAT | Anuj Kumar | 6+2 Min |
| International Coronary Congress - 2026 | |||
| Dr. David Taggart Hall 6th Floor | |||
| DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY) | |||
| Session 6: Rapid Fire Abstract Session I – Technical Strategies and Innovation | |||
| Moderators: Piroze Davierwala, Lokeswara Rao Sajja | |||
| RF1. Does Pump Strategy Matter? Outcomes of Coronary Endarterectomy in On-pump and Off-pump CABG | Rohit Ganduboina | ||
| RF2. Coronary Endarterectomy in the Modern Era: A Five-year Single Operator Experience | Varun Arab | ||
| RF3. Complete Coronary Endarterectomy in Diffuse Coronary Artery Disease | Sandeep Shrivastava | ||
| RF4. Radial Extension of the LIMA: An Option for Arterial Grafting of the PDA | Shuddhadeb Ray | ||
| RF5. Effectiveness and Safety of Clampless Proximal Anastomotic Devices in CABG: A Systematic Review and Single-arm Meta-analysis with Indirect Comparison | Tulio Caldonazo | ||
| RF6. The Use of Right Internal Thoracic Artery in MICC-CABG | Shota Yamanaka | ||
| RF7. Minimal Invasive Myocardial Revascularization by Techniques MICSCAB in Patients with Multiple Coronary Artery Lesion | Maksud Muradov | ||
| RF8. From Early Experience to Routine Practice: Establishing Beating-heart MICS CABG in a Resource-limited Setting — 3.5 Years of Experience | Dzmitry Turliuk | ||
| RF9. Minimally Invasive Total Coronary Revascularization Through Left Anterior Thoracotomy: A Single-center Experience | Janusz Konstanty-Kalandyk | ||
| RF10. A Simplified Technique for Left Atrial Appendage Closure During Beating-heart Surgery | Adam El-Gamel | ||
| RF11. Long-term Outcomes and Predictors of Left Ventricular Reverse Remodeling After Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting | Noriko Ohyama | ||
| RF12. Early Angiographic Patency After On- and Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting | Hosam Fouad Aly Fawzy | ||
| RF13. Immediate Operating Room Extubation After MIDCAB: Feasibility, Workflow Impact, and Early Outcomes in an ERAS-oriented Minimally Invasive CABG Program | Fawad Jebran | ||
| RF15. Perioperative Impact of Contrast-enhanced Ultrasound to Evaluate Changes in Renal Function in Patients with Moderate Chronic Kidney Disease Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts (CABG): Preliminary Experience | Fabrizio Ceresa | ||
| DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY) | |||
| 8:05 AM - 10:45 AM | Session 7: Live TECAB with Mantra SSI and Surgery-in-a-Box Videos | ||
| Moderators: Gianluca Torregrossa, Husam Balkhy | |||
| Surgeons: Sudhir Srivastava | |||
| Integrated Surgery-in-a-Box Videos: | |||
| Moderators: John D. Puskas | |||
| Video Case: CABG for diffuse CAD with endarterectomy (ONCAB or OPCAB) | Shilpa Suresh | ||
| Video Case: On-pump CABG (BITA/complex/redo/low EF) | Prateek Bhatnagar | ||
| Video Case: OPCAB | Vijit Koshy Cherian | ||
| Coffee Break | |||
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Joint Presidential Addresses | |||
| Anchors: Yugal K Mishra, Rajneesh Malhotra | |||
| Redefining Cardiothoracic Care: Global Trends and Transformative Technologies | Yugal K. Mishra, SMICTSI President | 15 Min | |
| International Coronary Congress: Advancing the State of the Art in Coronary Surgery | John D. Puskas, ICC President | 15 Min | |
| Digital Impact of Surgical Robots – Insights from Large Health System | Nirav Patel, ISMICS President | 15 Min | |
| Lung Cancer Among Asians | Antonio B. Ramos, ATCSA President | 15 Min | |
| DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY) | |||
| 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Session 8: Lifetime Achievement Awards | ||
| ICC HALL 4th floor | |||
| The Early Days of Less Invasive CABG: What Made the First Pioneers Innovate? | Valavanur A. Subramanian | ||
| How I Launched a Successful Surgical Robotics Company | Sudhir Srivastava | ||
| DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY) | |||
| 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM | Session 9: Visions from the Giants | ||
| ICC HALL 4th floor | |||
| Moderators: John D. Puskas, Gianluca Torregrossa | |||
| The Future of Coronary Disease: Who Will Revascularize the Patient in 2036? | Patrick Myers | ||
| Scaling Coronary Care in the Developing World: Innovation, Access, and Reality | Naresh Trehan | ||
| Why CABG Still Wins: Understanding the Persistent Bias in PCI vs CABG Trials | Torsten Doenst | ||
| RECHARGE Trial: The Only Ongoing PCI vs CABG RCT | John D. Puskas | ||
| Coffee Break | |||
| DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY) | |||
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Session 10: CABG in Low EF: Operate, Support or Walk Away? | ||
| ICC HALL 4th floor | |||
| Moderators: Hristo Kirov, A.G.K. Gokhale | |||
| Keynote Lecture: Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation in CABG: Repair, Replace, or Leave It Alone? | Torsten Doenst | ||
| CAD with Low EF: When IABP, When Impella, When LVAD? | Hristo Kirov | ||
| Off-Pump CABG in Low EF: My Tips, Tricks, and Boundaries | John D. Puskas | ||
| Viability in Coronary Surgery: Excuse Not to Operate or Tool to Guide Strategy? | Marcus Flather | ||
| How Low Is Too Low? Impella and the New Boundaries of Surgical Revascularization | Patrick Myers | ||
| Discussion: CABG in Low EF: Who, When, and How Low Should We Go? | |||
| DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY) | |||
| 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Concurrent Session 11A: (Graft Assessment) Trust but Verify: Check the Graft | ||
| ICC HALL 4th floor | |||
| Moderators: Cristiano Spadaccio, Patrick Myers | |||
| Keynote Lecture: TTFM in 2026: What the Numbers Really Mean | Gry Dahle | ||
| Seeing the Graft: The Role of Indocyanine Green Angiography in CABG | Cristiano Spadaccio | ||
| Revise or Leave It Alone? Intraoperative Decision-Making in Graft Assessment | Nirav Patel | ||
| Challenging Grafts, Reassuring Flow: Lessons from Success and Failure in Difficult Anatomy | Tomas Holubec | ||
| DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY) | |||
| 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Concurrent Session 11B: Abstract Session IV – CABG Outcomes, Sex Disparities and Patient Risk | ||
| ICC Room 401-2, 4th floor | |||
| Moderators: Rashmi Yadav, Shilpa Suresh | |||
| 31. Women Undergoing CABG Are Less Likely to Receive Extensive Surgical Revascularization: Contemporary National Trends from the United States | Rohit Ganduboina | ||
| 32. Recovery Failure Following CABG for Left Main or LAD STEMI in Women: A National Analysis | Rohit Ganduboina | ||
| 33. Have Sex Disparities in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Improved Over the Last 25 Years? A National Analysis of 380,041 Patients | Maria Comanici | ||
| 36. Diagnosis-specific Readmissions Following CABG for Acute Myocardial Infarction: A National Analysis of Causes and Outcomes | Rohit Ganduboina | ||
| 37. Development Efficiency and Mortality After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A National Causal Inference Analysis | Tulio Caldonazo | ||
| 38. Prior PCI Impairs Left Ventricular Systolic Function Recovery After CABG and Increases Long-term Cardiac Death Risk: Predictors of EF Normalization in Patients with Preoperative EF <40% | Kohei Sumi | ||
| 39. Complete Revascularization and Long-term Survival After CABG: Differential Effects Across the Spectrum of LV Dysfunction | Joseph Kletzer | ||
| 40. Renal Artery Stenosis as a Risk Factor for Kidney and Cardiovascular Prognosis in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting | Jiawei Han | ||
| DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY) | |||
| 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Concurrent Session 12 A: Let Me Tell You a Story About My Worst CABG Case and What It Taught Me | ||
| ICC Room 401-2, 4th floor | |||
| Moderators: Torsten Doenst, Gianluca Torregrossa | |||
| Triple Ferrari Crash: When Total Arterial Revascularization Goes South | John D. Puskas | ||
| When the Plan Failed: Lessons from a Complex MICS CABG Crash | Piroze Davierwala | ||
| Pushing the Limits: When Innovation Meets Reality | Nirav Patel | ||
| What High-Volume Practice Teaches You About Failure | Rajneesh Malhotra | ||
| TECAB: Complications to Avoid | Husam Balkhy | ||
| DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY) | |||
| 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Concurrent Session 12B: Abstract Session V – Complex and High-Risk Coronary Revascularization | ||
| Moderators: Cristiano Spadaccio, Prateek Bhatnagar | |||
| 41. Coronary Endarterectomy During Surgical Revascularization: Ten-year Propensity-matched Outcomes in On-pump and Off-pump CABG | Michele Dell'Aquila | ||
| 42. Analysis of Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Coronary Endarterectomy Specimens: A Pilot Ambispective Observational Institutional Study | Amitabh Satsangi | ||
| 43. Impact of LAD Endarterectomy on Outcomes of OPCAB in Our Institute | Tomoya Uchimuro | ||
| 44. Coronary Endarterectomy in Patients with Reduced Left Ventricular Function: Early Outcomes and Resource Utilization from a 17-year Single-center Experience | Michele Dell'Aquila | ||
| 45. Long-term Outcomes of Early Graft Occlusion After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting with Coronary Endarterectomy and On-lay Patch Grafting | Ken Chen | ||
| 46. Surgical Escalation Following Thrombolytic Therapy in STEMI | Rohit Ganduboina | ||
| 47. Clinical Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Surgical Myocardial Revascularization Supported by Microaxial Flow Pump: A Single-centre Experience | Sharaf-Eldin Shehada | ||
| 48. Revascularization Strategy in Emergency Acute Coronary Syndrome with Aortic Stenosis: CABG+SAVR Versus PCI+TAVR | Michele Dell'Aquila | ||
| 49. Contemporary Revascularization Patterns and Outcomes in AMI-Cardiogenic Shock Supported with Mechanical Circulatory Support | Rohit Ganduboina | ||
| 50. Expanding the Boundaries of Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass (OPCAB): Outcomes in 2,500 High-risk Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction and Ischemic Cardiomyopathy | Deepak Puri | ||
| SMICTSI - ATCSA Final Thoracic Program | |||
| Hall - 403 4th Floor | |||
| DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY) | |||
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Thoracic Session 8: Lung Transplantation | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM (12 min presentation + 3 min discussion) | ||
| Moderator: Dr. Sandeep Attawar | |||
| Chairpersons: Dr. Mukesh Goel, Dr. Manjunath, Dr. Apar Jindal, Dr. Vijil Rahulan, Dr. Balasubramanium KR, Dr. Biswarup | |||
| Coordinator: Dr. Shaiwal Khandelwal | |||
| 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | When Should We Transplant? Getting the Timing Right | Vijil Rahulan | |
| 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM | ECMO and lung transplant: Bridge or burden | Apar Jindal | |
| 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM | Lung Transplantation in Kartagener’s syndrome | Balasubramaniam KR | |
| 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM | O ffPump lung transplant | Manjunath | |
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Lung tailoring | Mahesh BN | |
| 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Transport devices and EVLP (Online) | Keval Krishan | |
| DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY) | |||
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Thoracic Session 9: Scientific Abstracts | 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM (7 minutes per paper) | ||
| Chairpersons: AZ Khan, Akif Turna, Amol Bhanushali | |||
| Coordinator: Sonali Mittal | |||
| 10:30 AM - 10:37 AM | Multiple rib fractures with persistent pain but osteoporosis - any novel solution? | Hari Kumar Sampath | |
| 10:37 AM - 10:44 AM | Prognostic Value of Psoas Muscle Index and Sarcopenia in Predicting Long-Term Outcomes Following Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer | Yu An Cheng | |
| 10:44 AM - 10:51 AM | Intrapleural Fibrinolytic Therapies for Pleural Infection: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis with Comparison to Surgical Management | Erina Febriani Widiastari | |
| 10:51 AM - 10:58 AM | ICG Fluorescence for Thoracic Duct Identification in Complex Chylothorax: A Case Series | Debashish Panigrahi | |
| LUNCH SYMPOSIUM (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM) | |||
| DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY) | |||
| 2:00 PM - 3:31 PM | Thoracic Session 10 | 2:00 PM - 3:31 PM (12 min presentation + 2 min discussion) | ||
| Chairpersons: Antonio Ramos, Balasubramanium KR, Roman Dutta, Abhishek Jain | |||
| Coordinator: Mohit Rakhecha | |||
| 2:00 PM - 2:14 PM | Robotic resection of Locally advanced stage III thymic epithelial tumours | Abbas Abbas | |
| 2:14 PM - 2:28 PM | Minimally invasive management of mediastinal tumours | Rajinder Parshad | |
| 2:28 PM - 2:42 PM | Surgery for non-myasthenic thymoma: Extended Resections & Outcomes | Puja Khaitan | |
| 2:42 PM - 2:56 PM | Current Solutions for long segment tracheal stenosis | S. Bal | |
| 2:56 PM - 3:10 PM | Robotic Tracheal Resection: Planning & Execution of airway resection | Saravana Rajamanickam | |
| 3:10 PM - 3:24 PM | Endobronchial therapies for early lung cancer | Dr. Calvin Ng | |
| 3:24 PM - 3:31 PM | Current trends in management of neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy followed by surgery in stage 2-3a lung cancer | Abdul Razique | |
| AFTERNOON BREAK • 3:31 PM - 4:00 PM (30 MINUTES) | |||
| 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Thoracic Session 11 | 4:00 PM - 5:03 PM (12 min presentation + 2 min discussion) | ||
| Chairpersons: Cos Bizakis, Puja Khaitan, Rajinder Parshad, Ram Karan Choudhary | |||
| Coordinator: Amol Bhanushali | |||
| 4:00 PM - 4:14 PM | Beyond Sympathectomy: Robotic Sympathetic Nerve Reconstruction for ETS Reversal | Shaiwal Khandelwal | |
| 4:14 PM - 4:28 PM | Management of thoracic perioperative pain: Cryo-analgesia | Ram Mohan Kandadai | |
| 4:28 PM - 4:42 PM | Subxiphoid access for anatomical lung resections | Alan Sihoe | |
| 4:42 PM - 4:56 PM | Near Infra-Red imaging in Thoracic Surgery | Calvin Ng | |
| 4:56 PM - 5:03 PM | Uniportal Robotic-Assisted Right Upper Lobectomy With Bronchoplasty | Min Hsieh | |
| 5:03 PM - 5:50 PM | Thoracic Session 12: Invited Videos & Abstract | 5:03 PM - 5:50 PM (6 min presentation + 2 min discussion) | ||
| Chairpersons: Punnarek Thongchereon, Ravindra Dewan, Rajat Saxena, Biswarup, Pallavi Purwar | |||
| Coordinator: Roman Dutta | |||
| 5:03 PM - 5:11 PM | Uniportal VATS: Combined Right Upper Lobectomy and S5 Segmentectomy | Abhishek Jain | |
| 5:11 PM - 5:19 PM | Pleural Malignancies: Cytoreductive Surgery and the Evolving Role of HITOC | Sarvana Rajamainckam | |
| 5:19 PM - 5:27 PM | Complex Chest Wall Tumours: From Radical Resection to Reconstruction | Mohit Joshi | |
| 5:27 PM - 5:35 PM | Robotic repair of lung hernia | Ram Karan Choudhary | |
| 5:35 PM - 5:43 PM | To Decorticate or Not? Decision-Making in Empyema | Anil Kapoor | |
| 5:43 PM - 5:50 PM | Clinical Outcomes of Non-Intubated Thoracoscopic Surgery in Patients Younger and Older Than 65 Years: A Retrospective Comparative Study With Propensity Score | Sira Laohathai | |
| 5:50 PM - 6:30 PM | Thoracic Session 13: Invited Videos | 5:50 PM - 6:30 PM (6 min presentation + 2 min discussion) | ||
| Chairpersons: Akif Turna, SK Jain, Mohit Rakhecha, Narendra Agarwal, Sonali Mittal | |||
| Coordinator: Pallavi Purvar | |||
| 5:50 PM - 5:58 PM | Non-Intubated Tracheal Resection and Reconstruction | Ranjan Sapkota | |
| 5:58 PM - 6:06 PM | Donor Lung Retrieval: Surgical Techniques to Optimise Graft Quality | Kamran Ali | |
| 6:06 PM - 6:14 PM | Trauma beyond Flail Chest: Traumatic Failing Chest wall | Nikhil Rane | |
| 6:14 PM - 6:22 PM | Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: Expanding the Role of VATS in Surgical Management | Shilpa Gandhi | |
| 6:22 PM - 6:30 PM | VATS Pneumonectomy: Technical Challenges and Surgical Strategies | Saraansh Bansal | |
| Closing Remarks: A Z Khan | |||
| SMICTSI - ATCSA Final Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Program | |||
| Hall 402 - 4th Floor | |||
| DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER Saturday) | |||
| Session 5 TGA -1 | |||
| Chairperson:- Amit Mistri, Sushil Azad, Mahendra Narwaley | |||
| 8:30 AM - 8:50 AM | 50 years of Senning Operation & its role in today's practice | Krishna Iyer | |
| 9:10 AM - 9:30 AM | Managing Intrerarterial & Intramural coronaries | Hari Bipin Radhakrishnan Kattana | |
| 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | Management of CCTGA ; bivetricular options | Sivakumar Sivalingam | |
| 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM | Single ventirlce pathway in CCTGA | Chun Soo Park | |
| DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER Saturday) | |||
| Session 6 TGA -2 | |||
| Chairperson: Anita Saxena, Ashutosh Marwah, Aseem Srivastava | |||
| 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM | Open coronary transfer: nidus for reoperation? | Shu- Chien-Huang | |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | When & why: HTTSO | Shinichiro Oda | |
| 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM | Longtrerm Outcome in CC TGA | Takeshi Shinkawa | |
| 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | uASO in single ventricle with Transposition -worth it | Smruti Ranjan Mohanty | |
| Coffee Break | |||
| DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER Saturday) | |||
| Session 7 AVSD | |||
| Chairperson:-Milly Roy, Vikash Kholi, Muthu Jyothi | |||
| 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM | When to divert AVSD to SV pathway? | Kulbhusan Daggar | |
| 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM | Virtual cardiac dissection in planning for repair of AVSD with Conotruncal Abnormalities | Saurav Gupta | |
| 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM | Valve repair in complete AVSD | Shingo Kasahara | |
| 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM | Nightmares in AVSD repairs | Krishnan Ganapathy Subramaniam | |
| DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER Saturday) | |||
| Session 8 TOF & Variants | |||
| Chairperson:- Smita Mishra, Gaurav Agarwal, Himanshu Pratap | |||
| 2:20 PM - 2:40 PM | Nightmares with shunts | Anand Mishra | |
| 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM | Options for Coronary Crossing RVOT in TOF | K Shivaprakasha | |
| 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM | Nonprosthetic Options for RVOTO and Dilated Aortic roots in TOF | Pavel Teplov | |
| 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM | Approach to PA-VSD, MAPCA | K.S Murthy | |
| SMISCTSI/ ISMICS/ATCSA Final PROGRAMME | |||
| NURSING PROGRAM 21 November 2026, 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM | |||
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Beyond Opioids: ERACS, Multimodal Analgesia and Fascial Plane blocks in Cardiac Surgery | Himani V Bhatt | 60 Min |
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Common Postoperative Complications | Mekeleya Yimen | 60 Min |
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Nurse Driven success in Enhanced Recovery After Coronary Bypass Graft Surgery | Natalie Fiol | 60 Min |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | The Acute Nurse Practitioner Role in Enhanced Recovery after Cardiothoracic Surgery: From Preoperative Optimization to ICU Recovery | Miranda Horieti | 30 Min |
| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Presentation | Imeplla | 30 Min |
| 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | Hands on | Imeplla | 30 Min |
| Physician Assistant Program / 21 November 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | |||
| 8:00 AM - 8:10 AM | Welcome and Opening Remarks | ||
| 8:10 AM - 8:40 AM | Endoscopic Vessel Harvesting, Outcomes. | Dr Nitin Kumar Rajput & Team | |
| 8:40 AM - 9:10 AM | Conduit Preservation and Harvesting Techniques: What Matters Most? | Dr Nitin Kumar Rajput & Team | |
| 9:10 AM - 9:20 AM | Discussion and Audience Q&A | ||
| 9:20 AM - 9:50 AM | Adaptation role of physician assistant in minimal invasive & robotic surgery | Ms Ashwini | |
| 9:50 AM - 10:00 AM | Discussion and Audience Q&A | ||
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Coffee and tea break | ||
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Beyond the operating room: why India needs dedicated EVH training | Mr Tanmay | |
| 11:00 AM - 11:10 AM | Discussion and Audience Q&A | ||
| 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM | Wound care and prevention on EVH | Mr Boopathy | |
| 11:40 AM - 11:50 AM | Discussion and Audience Q&A | ||
| 11:50 AM - 12:00 PM | Closing Remarks | ||
| DAY 3 (22TH NOVEMBER SUNDAY) | |||
| Hall 404 B - 4th Floor | |||
| 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM | SESSION B -8 Heart Failure & Transplant | ||
| Anchor: Hermann Reichenspurner, Manoj Durairaj | |||
| Chairpersons: Dhiren Shah, Mukesh Goel, Milind Hote, Ritwick Raj Bhuyan | |||
| Panelists: Z.S. Meharwal, Mrithyunjaya V Kalmath, Sameer Kumar, Sujay Shad | |||
| 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Assessing the Heart for Right Heart Failure- Diagnosis and Management | Aditi Singvi | 10+5 Min |
| 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM | Temporary MCS Escalation Strategies – IABP, Impella, ECMO & LVAD | K. R. Balakrishnan | 10+5 Min |
| 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM | ECMO in Cardiogenic Shock - Who Benefits? | Yatin Mehta | 10+5 Min |
| 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM | Heart Transplantation – State of the art | Hermann Reichenspurner | 10+5 Min |
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Redo heart transplantation | Jose Chacko Periappuram | 10+5 Min |
| 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Heart Transplantation in the Era of Donor Shortage | K. R. Balakrishnan | 10+5 Min |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Contemporary Management of Primary Graft Dysfunction (PGD) | Julius Punnen | 10+5 Min |
| 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Lifetime Management of Advanced Heart Failure in a 50-Year-Old Patient: LVAD → HTx or HTx →HTx? | Dhiren Shah | 10+5 Min |
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Lung Transplantation: Current Status and Challenges in India | Sandeep Attawar | 10+5 Min |
| 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | DCD after Cardiac Death | Rashmi Nedadur | 10+5 Min |
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Echocardiography-Guided Beating-Heart Atrial Septostomy for Left Ventricular Venting During Veno-Arterial ECMO in Cardiac Surgery: A Technique Applicable to Minimally Invasive Procedures. | Calixte de la Bourdonnaye | 10+5 Min |
| DAY 3 (22TH NOVEMBER SUNDAY) | |||
| 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM | SESSION B -9 Arrhythmia Surgery & Allied Science | ||
| Anchor: Praveen Verma, Niv Ad | |||
| Chairpersons: MD Dixit, Prasanna Simha, Manoj Luthra, Yogesh Niwariya | |||
| Panelists: Sudhir Adalti, Manoj Daga, Akhilesh Pandey, Alok K. Sharma | |||
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | "Beyond Rhythm Control: Left Atrial Appendage Management in Totally Thoracoscopic AF Surgery" | Vadim Popov | 10+5 Min |
| 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM | The First Valve Matters Most: Redefining Surgical Valve Choice in the Era of Lifetime Management | Torsten Doenat | 10+5 Min |
| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | Redo Robotic Mitral Valve Surgery: Clinical Outcomes, Technical Feasibility, and Future Horizons | M M Yusuf | 10+5 Min |
| 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM | HOCM – Surgical Procedure: A Step-by-Step Approach Is the Key to Success | Praveen Verma | 10+5 Min |
| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | Robotic septal myectomy LIB | Husam H Balkhy | 10+5 Min |
| 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM | Endoscopic Cardiac surgery for septal defect | Tomas Holubec | 10+5 Min |
| 1:00 PM Onwards – Valedictory Session, Followed by Lunch | |||
| International Coronary Congress - 2026 | |||
| Hall - 404 A - 4th Floor | |||
| DAY 3 (22nd NOVEMBER SUNDAY) | |||
| 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM | Session 13: Rapid Fire Abstract Session II – Clinical Outcomes and Patient Management | ||
| Moderators: Hristo Kirov, Anil R. Jain | |||
| RF16. Midterm Outcomes of Cardiac Rehabilitation After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction | Min-Seok Kim | ||
| RF17. Surgical Site Infections Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Prospective Observational Study from a Tertiary Cardiac Surgery Center | Pradeep Zechariah | ||
| RF18. Short-term and Long-term Results of the Maze V Procedure for the Treatment of AF During CABG | Vadim Popov | ||
| RF19. Concomitant Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery and Epicardial Box Lesion Ablation | Pavel Shilenko, Sr | ||
| RF20. Evaluation of the Efficacy of Isolated Ablation of the Pulmonary Veins in CABG | Vadim Popov | ||
| RF21. Bilateral Mammary Artery in Women for Surgical Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease: A Retrospective Study | Mikhail Fomenko | ||
| RF22. Outcomes and Predictors of Mortality Following CABG for Acute Myocardial Infarction in Young Adults: A National Analysis | Anishkaa Mandadi | ||
| RF23. Perioperative Trade-offs of On-pump Beating vs. Off-pump CABG in Patients with Reduced Ejection Fraction | Hirotaro Sugiyama | ||
| RF24. Coronary Involvement and Concomitant Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for Risk Stratification After Acute Type A Aortic Dissection Repair | Chen Chen | ||
| RF25. Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) in Patients with Markedly Elevated Preoperative HgbA1c (>10%): Comparison of Actual Versus STS Predicted Outcomes | Louis Samuels | ||
| RF26. Using Bilateral Internal Mammary Artery in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting | Mikhail Fomenko | ||
| RF27. Influence of Coronary Graft Number on Long-term Clinical Outcomes After Complete Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting | Alessia Miraglia | ||
| RF28. Temporal Trends and Predictive Value of the Triglyceride-glucose-body Mass Index for Long-term Outcomes in Young Adults Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting | Heng Zhang | ||
| RF29. Temporal Trends and Geographic Variation in AMI Mortality Associated with Cardiogenic Shock: A CDC WONDER Analysis | Anishkaa Mandadi | ||
| RF30. Temporal, Demographic, and Geographic Variation in AMI Mortality Associated with Heart Failure: A CDC WONDER Analysis, 1999–2024 | Anishkaa Mandadi | ||
| DAY 3 (22nd NOVEMBER SUNDAY) | |||
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Session 14: Hybrid Revascularization: CABG + PCI - Collaboration, Competition, or Compromise? | ||
| Moderators: Nirav Patel, M. M. Yusuf | |||
| When PCI Should Lead: Selecting the Right Lesions for Hybrid Revascularization | Atul Mathur | ||
| LITA-LAD and Beyond: Where Surgery Defines the Success of Hybrid | Nirav Patel | ||
| Making the Heart Team Work: Real-World Models for Hybrid Revascularization | Husam Balkhy | ||
| When Hybrid Fails: Lessons from Incomplete or Misguided Revascularization | Gianluca Torregrossa | ||
| Discussion: Hybrid Revascularization: Ideal Strategy or Compromise? | |||
| 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM Coffee Break | |||
| DAY 3 (22nd NOVEMBER SUNDAY) | |||
| 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Session 15: Minimally Invasive CABG: Beyond Sternotomy - Are We Ready to Redefine Coronary Surgery? | ||
| Moderators: Gianluca Torregrossa, Nirav Patel, Husam Balkhy | |||
| Keynote Lecture: Can Less Invasive Be Equally Durable? Insights from the MIST Trial | Piroze Davierwala | ||
| Minimally Invasive CABG with Three Arterial Grafts: Expanding the Limits of Completeness | Keita Kikuchi | ||
| My Experience in Minimally Invasive BITA CABG Surgery | Sathyaki Nambala | ||
| Robotic TECAB Without an EndoWrist Stabilizer: Lessons from 100 Cases | Gianluca Torregrossa | ||
| Robotic CABG with SSI Mantra: Expanding Access in High-Volume Practice | Sudhir Srivastava | ||
| Operating with the Future: Robotic CABG on the DV5 Platform | Husam Balkhy | ||
| Discussion: Minimally Invasive CABG: Evolution or Paradigm Shift? | |||
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Coffee Break | |||
| DAY 3 (22nd NOVEMBER SUNDAY) | |||
| 11:15 AM - 1:00 PM | Session 16: Literature Update: Hot Topics You Need to Know About CABG and PCI in 2026 | ||
| Moderators: Naresh Trehan, Patrick Myers, John D. Puskas | |||
| Can Imaging-Guided PCI Close the Gap with CABG? | Marcus Flather | ||
| Left Main and Multivessel Disease: Has the Pendulum Really Shifted? | John D. Puskas | ||
| The 3 Most Important CABG Papers of 2025-2026 | Torsten Doenst | ||
| Panel Discussion: Thought Leaders Predict What 2027 Will Bring for Coronary Care | |||
| 1:00 PM Closing Remarks: John D. Puskas, Gianluca Torregrossa | |||