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Preliminary Scientific Program
Program format
The format for this year's meeting will consist of “how I do it” videos. Invited faculty presentations will comprise most of the curriculum, with the remainder based on accepted abstracts. Additionally, submitted short video and PowerPoint presentations will be available on a network of 30 computers distributed throughout the exhibit area, using a "Presentation on Demand" system developed especially for the Aortic Symposium Series.
Topics for Discussion Include:
- Ascending, Arch, Descending, Thoracoabdominal Aorta
- Natural History
- Indications for Aneurysm Surgery
- Non-size Indications for Aortic Replacement
- Long term follow-up
- Marfan’s, Connective Tissue and Familial Syndromes
- Imaging
- Aortic Dissection
- Penetrating Ulcer
- Intramural Hematoma
- Malperfusion in Type B
- IRAD, INSTEAD
- Bicuspid Aortic Valve
- Classification
- Valve Sparing Technique
- Surgical Techniques
- Minimum Access
- Perfusion and Cannulation Techniques
- Root Replacement with Composite Grafts
- Valve-sparing Root Replacement
- Arch Replacement – Single and 2 Stage Approaches
- Elephant Trunk Procedure
- Thoracoabdominal Replacement
- Endovascular Stents
- Arch, Descending and Thoracoabdominal
- Combined Surgical/Endovascular Stenting
- “Fixed Elephant Trunk” Procedures
- De-branching Strategies
- In Acute Type B Dissection
- In Acute Type A Dissection
- Complications of Endografts
- Cerebral and Spinal Cord Protection
- Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest
- Moderate Hypothermia for Arch Replacement
- Selective Antegrade and Retrograde Cerebral Perfusion
- Sensory and Motor Evoked Potentials
