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- Newsletter - Afroecho 2011, Joint PASCAR/AHS Echo Workshop & 8th African Heart Seminar (AHS)
- Challenges of cardio-thoracic surgery in the developing world - October 27-31, 2012, Barcelona, Spain
- PASCaTS Global Forum Sponsored at the 93rd AATS meeting in Minneapolis, May 4-8, 2013
- Post WHS Echo Course at the German Heart Institute Berlin - October 22nd, 2013
- 29th EACTS Annual Meeting 3-7 October 2015 in Amsterdam
- PASCaTS Forum 2016 in Cape Town, South Africa
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- Afro Echo Course 2019
- AfroValve Repair Camp 2019
- EACTS/PASCaTS Session2019
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Preliminary Program
History > AfroValve Repair Camp 2019
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AfroValve Repair Camp, Ghana
Master Class Rheumatic Mitral Valve Repair
Course in West Africa, 14 -15 September 2019
Preliminary Program
Echo features of pure rheumatic mitral stenosis: Dr. Nana Akyaa Yao, Paediatric Cardiologist, KTH, Accra
Anatomy & pathomorphology of rheumatic mitral valve stenosis. The surgeon’s view:
Prof. Dr. Charles Yankah, DHZB, Berlin
Coffee/Tea Break
Wetlab
Mentor: Prof. Charles Yankah
Demonstrations of the normal mitral valve apparatus
Demonstration of pig’s mitral valve and the possible structural changes.
Demonstration of transatrial approach to the mitral valve via the left atrial appendage (auricle)
Trainees (Hands-on training)
Day 1: Hands-on practice on pig heart under tutorial guidance for pure juvenile rheumatic mitral stenosis:
Transatrial approach to the mitral valve
Commissurotomy/valvotomy techniques
Papillary muscle splitting techniques
Resection of secondary chordae
Day 2: (Repair techniques for complex cases)
Posterior leaflet plication techniques
Triangular leaflet resection techniques
Quadrangular leaflet resection techniques