The 3rd Heart Valve Summit of the Israel Heart Society
in Collaboration with the Israel Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery
October 29, 2014, Sheraton Tel Aviv
Preliminary Agenda

Organizing Committee:

Amit Segev, Dan Gilon, Ronen Durst, Ronen Beeri, Gil Bolotin, Ehud Raanani
08:00 - 08:45 Registration
08:45 - 09:00 Greetings
Yoseph Rozenman – President, Israel Heart Society
Gil Bolotin – Chair, Israel Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
Session I: General Concepts in Valvular Diseases
Chairs: Dan Gilon, Gil Bolotin, Yoram Agmon
09:00 - 09:20 Cardiac Remodeling and Functional Mitral Regurgitation - A Moving Target
Ronen Beeri, Jerusalem, Israel
09:20 - 09:40 What is New in Recently Published Guidelines for the Treatment of Valvular Diseases
Sagit Ben-Zekry, Tel Hashomer, Israel
09:40 - 10:00 Mitral Valve Replacement Versus Repair – The View of the Echocardiographist
Robert Levine, Boston, MA, USA
10:00 - 10:20 Challenges of Treating Tricuspid Regurgitation
Yaron Shapira, Petach Tikva, Israel
10:20 - 10:40 Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation in Valvular Patients
Niv Ad, Washington, DC, USA
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Session II: The Aortic Valve
Chairs: Ariel Finkelstein, Ehud Raanani, Chaim Lotan
Debate: What is the Optimal Solution for an Octogenarian with Severe Aortic Stenosis and No Significant Co-morbidities
11:00 - 11:20 TAVI Should be the Treatment of Choice
Ran Kornowski, Petach-Tikva, Israel
11:20 - 11:40 Minimal Invasive Suture-less AVR
Niv Ad, Washington, DC, USA
11:40 - 12:00 The Significance of Procedural Complications in TAVI vs. sAVR
Amit Segev, Tel Hashomer, Israel
The Next Generation Trans-catheter Aortic Valves
12:00 - 12:20 Current Experience with Sapien-3 Valve (Sponsored by Edwards)
Ulrich Schäfer, Hamburg, Germany
12:20 - 12:40 The New Generation of Trans-Catheter Valves – Evolute R (Sponsored by Medtronic)
Eberhard Grube, Siegburg, Germany
12:40 - 13:00 Coffee Break
Sessions III: The Mitral Valve
Chairs: Victor Guetta, Gideon Sahar, Mark Gilinov
13:00 - 13:20 Robotic and Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair
Mark Gilinov,Cleveland, OH, USA
13:20 - 13:40 Clinical Update from TMVI Programs
Shmuel Banai, Tel Aviv, Israel
13:40 - 14:00 Pitfalls in the Echocardiographic Assessment in Candidates for Mitral Clip
(sponsored by Abbot Vascular)
Adi Butnaru, Jerusalem, Israel
14:00 - 14:15

The On-X Valve: Reducing the Burden of Anticoagulation
Mark Gilinov, Cleveland, OH, USA
14:15 Lunch

Participation is with no charge, but requires an early registration

before October 27, 2014.
Sponsored by:



For additional information please visit: http://www.israel-heart.org.il/
Conference Secretariat: 
Paragon Israel (Dan Knassim) 
Tel/Fax: 972-3-5767739 | secretariat@israelheart.com