2008 Program & Abstracts

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MONDAY, MAY 12, 2008
7:30 am		Business Session (Members Only)
7:45 am		PLENARY SCIENTIFIC SESSION (8 minutes presentation, 12 minutes discussion) Ballroom 20 A-C, San Diego Convention Center Moderators: D. Craig Miller, Irving L. Kron 1. Are Stentless Valves Hemodynamically Superior to Stented Valves? Long-term Follow-Up of a Randomized Trial Gideon Cohen, Brandon Zagorski, George T. Christakis, Campbell D. Joyner, Jeri Sever, Stephen E. Fremes, Fuad Moussa, Randi Feder-Elituv, Bernard S. Goldman Cardiovascular Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada. 2. Weathering the Storm: How Can Thoracic Surgery Training Programs Meet The New Challenges in the Era of Emerging Non- Invasive Technologies? Sunil M. Prasad1, Malek G. Massad1, Edgar G. Chedrawy1, Norman J. Snow1, Joannie T. Yeh1, Himalaya Lele1, Ahmed Tarakji1, Hersh S. Maniar2, William A. Gay2 1. University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA. 2. Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA. 3. Phase II trial of Extrapleural Pneumonectomy with Phase II trial of Extrapleural Pneumonectomy with Intraoperative Intrathoracic/Intraperitoneal Heated Cisplatin for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Tamara R. Tilleman1, William G. Richards1, Lambros Zellos1, Bruce E. Johnson2, Michael T. Jaklitsch1, Christopher T. Ducko1, Jordan Mueller1, Raphael Bueno1, David J. Sugarbaker1 1. Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. 2. Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA. 4. Brain Maturation is Delayed in Infants with Complex Congenital Heart Defects Daniel J. Licht, David M. Shera, Robert R. Clancy, Gil Wernovsky, Lisa M. Montenegro, Susan C. Nicolson, J. W. Gaynor, Arastoo Vossough Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
9:05 am		AWARD PRESENTATIONS Ballroom 20 A-C, San Diego Convention Center
9:15 am		INTERMISSION — VISIT EXHIBITS Exhibit Hall G-H, San Diego Convention Center
10:00 am		BASIC SCIENCE LECTURE Ballroom 20 A-C, San Diego Convention Center The Link Between Engineering, Biomechanics, and Cardiovascular Physiology and Disease Matts Karlsson, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Modeling and Simulation Head of School of Mechanical Engineering Linköping University Linköping, Sweden Introduced By: D. Craig Miller
10:40 am		SCIENTIFIC SESSION Moderators: Thomas L. Spray, Irving L. Kron 5. Off-pump vs. On-pump CABG in patients with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction: A randomized, double blind study Khalil Fattouch, Giuseppe Bianco, Roberta Sampognaro, Egle Corrado, Pietro Dioguradi, Gaetano Panzarella, Giovanni Ruvolo Cardiac Surgery, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy. 6. Predictors of Major Morbidity and Mortality after Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer: An STS General Thoracic Surgery Database Risk Adjustment Model Cameron D. Wright1, Mark S. Allen2, Joshua D. Grab3, John C. Kucharczuk4 1. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. 2. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. 3. Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA. 4. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
11:25 am		PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Anti-Memoirs of Rocinante D. Craig Miller Stanford, California Introduced by: Thomas L. Spray
12:15 pm		ADJOURN FOR LUNCH — VISIT EXHIBITS Exhibit Hall, San Diego Convention Center CARDIOTHORACIC RESIDENTS’ LUNCHEON San Diego Convention Center
MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 12, 2008
2:00 pm		SIMULTANEOUS SCIENTIFIC SESSION — ADULT CARDIAC SURGERY (8 minutes presentation, 12 minutes discussion) Ballroom 20 A-C, San Diego Convention Center Moderators: Christopher M. Feindel, John S. Ikonomidis 7. Effects of Mild Hypothermia And Rewarming on Renal Injury Following Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Munir Boodhwani, Fraser D. Rubens, Denise Wozny, Howard J. Nathan University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada. 8. Minimally Invasive Bipolar Radiofrequency Ablation of Lone Atrial Fibrillation: Early Multicenter Results Erik AK Beyer1, Richard Lee3, B-Khanh Lam2 1. Scott and White Clinic, Temple, TX, USA. 2. University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada. 3. Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. Counterpoint: Richard J. Shemin Open Discussion 9. Valve-Sparing versus Valve Replacement Techniques for Aortic Root Operations in Marfan Patients: Interim Analysis of Early Outcome Joseph S. Coselli1, Thoralf M. Sundt2, D. Craig Miller3, Joseph E. Bavaria4, Scott A. LeMaire1, Heidi M. Connolly2, Harry C. Dietz5, Dianna M. Milewicz6, Laura C. Palmero1, Xing Li Wang1, Irina V. Volguina1 1. Baylor College of Medicine and The Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX, USA. 2. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. 3. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. 4. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 5. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA. 6. University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA.
3:10 pm		INTERMISSION — VISIT EXHIBITS Exhibit Hall, San Diego Convention Center
3:45 pm		SIMULTANEOUS SCIENTIFIC SESSION — ADULT CARDIAC SURGERY Ballroom 20 A-C, San Diego Convention Center Moderators: Christopher M. Feindel, John S. Ikonomidis 10. Effects of on- and off-pump coronary artery surgery on graft patency, survival and quality of life: long term follow-up of two randomised controlled trials Gianni D. Angelini, Lucy Culliford, David Smith, Mark Hamilton, Gavin Murphy, Raimondo Ascione, Andreas Baumbach, Barney Reeves Bristol Heart Institute, Bristol, United Kingdom. 11. Mitral valve surgery for functional mitral regurgitation. Should moderate-or-more tricuspid regurgitation be treated? A propensity score analysis Antonio M. Calafiore1, Sabina Gallina2, Angela L. Iaco’1, Marco Contini1, Antonio Bivona1, Massimo Gagliardi1, Paolo Bosco1, Michele Di Mauro1 1. Cardiac Surgery, University of Catania, Catania, Italy. 2. University of Chieti-Dept of Cardiology, Chieti, Italy. Counterpoint: Andrew S. Wechsler Open Discussion 12. Decision-making in Surgical Management of Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Dustin Y. Yoon, Nicholas G. Smedira, Edward R. Nowicki, Katherine J. Hoercher, Jeevanantham Rajeswaran, Eugene H. Blackstone Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. 13. Repair oriented functional classification of aortic insufficiency: impact on surgical techniques and outcomes Laurent de Kerchove, David Glineur, Alain Poncelet, Jean Rubay, Parla Astarci, Robert Verhelst, Philippe Noirhomme, Gébrine El Khoury Université Catholique de Louvain, Cliniques St-Luc, Brussels, Belgium.
5:15 pm		ADJOURN
MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 12, 2008
2:00 pm		SIMULTANEOUS SCIENTIFIC SESSION — GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY (8 minutes presentation, 12 minutes discussion) Room 25, San Diego Convention Center Moderators: James D. Luketich, Robert J. Cerfolio 14. Decreased Operative Mortality for Esophageal Cancer Resection at Hospitals with Thoracic Training Programs: Should Esophagectomies Only be Performed by Thoracic Surgeons? Robert A. Meguid, Eric C. Weiss, Stephen M. Cattaneo, Marc S. Sussman, Malcolm V. Brock, Stephen C. Yang Division of Thoracic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. 15. Should Lung Transplantation Be Performed Using Donation after Cardiac Death? The U.S. Experience David P. Mason, Lucy Thuita, Joan M. Alster, Sudish C. Murthy, Marie M. Budev, Atul C. Mehta, Gosta B. Pettersson, Eugene H. Blackstone Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. 16. Long-Term Survival with Surgical Management for Superior Sulcus Tumors with Vertebral Resection William D. Bolton1, David C. Rice1, Adam Goodyear1, Arlene M. Correa1, Jeremy Erasmus1, Ziya Gokaslan2, Wayne Hofstetter1, Ritsuko Komaki1, Reza Mehran1, Katherine Pisters1, Jack A. Roth1, Stephen G. Swisher1, Ara A. Vaporciyan1, Garrett L. Walsh1, Jason Weaver1, Laurence Rhines1 1. Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. 2. The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. 17. Thoracoscopic Versus Open Segmentectomy for Stage I Non- Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC): 221 Consecutive Cases Matthew J. Schuchert, Brian L. Pettiford, Ghulam Abbas, Omar Awais, Arman Kilic, Robert Jack, James R. Landreneau, Joshua P. Landreneau, James D. Luketich, Rodney J. Landreneau Heart, Lung and Esophageal Surgery Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 18. A thoracic surgery clinic dedicated to solitary pulmonary nodules- too many scans and too little pathology? Nirmal K. Veeramachaneni, Traves D. Crabtree, Daniel Kreisel, Jennifer B. Zoole, Joanne Musick, Nicole G. Taylor, Alexander S. Krupnick, G Alexander Patterson, Bryan F. Meyers Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
3:40 pm		INTERMISSION – VISIT EXHIBITS Exhibit Hall, San Diego Convention Center
4:15 pm		SIMULTANEOUS SCIENTIFIC SESSION — GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY Room 25, San Diego Convention Center Moderators: James D. Luketich, Robert J. Cerfolio 19. Clinical Characteristics, Biological Behavior, and Survival after Esophagectomy are similar for Adenocarcinoma of the Gastroesophageal Junction and the Distal Esophagus Jessica M. Leers, Steven R. DeMeester, Nadia Chan, Shahin Ayazi, Arzu Oezcelik, Emmanuele Abate, Farazaneh Bank, John Lipham, Jeffrey A. Hagen, Tom R. DeMeester Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 20. Impact of Tumor Length and Submucosal Involvement on the Long-Term Survival of pT1 Early Stage Esophageal Adenocarcinoma William D. Bolton, Wayne Hofstetter, Ashleigh Francis, Arlene M. Correa, Jaffer A. Ajani, Banoop Bhutani, Jeremy Erasmus, Ritsuko Komaki, Dipen Maru, Reza Mehran, David C. Rice, Jack A. Roth, Ara A. Vaporciyan, Garrett L. Walsh, Stephen G. Swisher Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. 21. Clinical Stage IA Lung Cancer by CT and PET Scan: The Persistent Problem of Understaging Brendon M. Stiles, Paul C. Lee, Elliot L. Servais, Jeffrey L. Port, Subroto Paul, Danish Meherally, Nasser K. Altorki Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA. Counterpoint: Robert Cerfolio Open Discussion
5:25 pm		ADJOURN
MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 12, 2008
2:00 pm		SIMULTANEOUS SCIENTIFIC SESSION — CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE (8 minutes presentation, 12 minutes discussion) Room 28 A-C, San Diego Convention Center Moderators: Joseph A. Dearani, Vaughn A. Starnes 22. Antegrade Cerebral Perfusion Improves Neurologic Outcomes with Aortic Arch Surgery in Neonates. Invited Pro: James S. Tweddell Invited Con: Marshall Jacobs Open Discussion 23. Biventricular Repair in Heterotaxy Syndrome Frank Pigula, Hong-Gook Lim, Emile Bacha, Audrey Marshall, John Mayer, Francis Fynn-Thompson, Pedro Del Nido Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA. 24. Early EEG Background Prediction of Seizures and Short-Term Outcome Measures Following Infant Heart Surgery Sandy Cho1, Noah Cook2, Michael Badzioch3, J William Gaynor2, Gail Jarvik3, Sarah Tabbutt2, Susan Nicolson2, Gil Wernovsky2, Thomas Spray2, Robert Clancy2 1. George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA. 2. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 3. University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA. 25. Analysis of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration MAUDE Database for Adverse Events Involving Amplatzer™ Septal Occluder Devices and Comparison to STS Congenital Cardiac Surgery Database Daniel J. Dibardino, Doff B. McElhinney, Aditya K. Kaza, John E. Mayer Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
3:30 pm		INTERMISSION – VISIT EXHIBITS Exhibit Hall, San Diego Convention Center
4:05 pm		SIMULTANEOUS SCIENTIFIC SESSION — CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE Room 28 A-C, San Diego Convention Center Moderators: Joseph A. Dearani, Vaughn A. Starnes 26. Surgical treatment for patients with late systemic right ventricular failure following Mustard/Senning procedures for d-TGA Stephan Thelitz, Sunil P. Malhotra, Edwin Petrossian, Nicole Tselentis, Frandics P. Chan, Norman Silverman, Vadiyala M. Reddy, Frank L. Hanley Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. 27. Rate of reoperation has not changed during 30 years of surgery for transposition of the great arteries - Long-term results of 913 patients at a single center Jürgen Hörer, Julie Cleuziou, Christian Schreiber, Zsolt Prodan, Manfred Vogt, Klaus Holper, Rüdiger Lange German Heart Center Munich at the Technical University, Munich, Germany. 28. Double Root Translocation — A true-meaning anatomic repair for anomalies of ventriculoarterial connection with pulmonary outflow tract obstruction Sheng Shou Hu, Zhigang Liu, Shou Jun Li The National Cardiovascular Institute and Fu Wai Hospital Beijing, Beijing, China.
5:05 pm		ADJOURN