Partnership to strengthen north-south development
Join Us in Accra, Ghana for the
Pan-African Cardiothoracic Surgery Summit
8-11th March 2025
Learning Objectives
To learn techniques for valve for repair.in congenital valve disease and replacement in complex pathologies
To learn techniques for endovascular repair.
To learn and experience interventional cardiac surgery procedures: valve repair and replacement for congenital heart disease, coronary revascularisation strategies: coronary artery bypass grafting or percutaneous coronary interventions.
Applying risk prediction models for clinical decisions, treatment strategies in congenital and acquired heart surgery for better outcomes.
Basics in generative artificial intelligence and its application in cardiovascular healthcare.
Preliminary Programminary Program at a Glance ROOM 1 Sat. 8th March 08:00 -12:00 pm Hands-on Simulation in Surgical Training 12:00 -13:00 pm Industry Lunch Symposia 13:00 - 17:00 pm Hands-on Simulation in Surgical Training Sun. 9th March 08:00 -12:00 pm Thoracic surgery 12:00 -13:00 pm Industry Lunch Symposia 13:00 - 17:00 pm Thoracic surgery Monday 10th March 8-17 hr. Congenital Heart Surg Congenital cardiovascular emergencies Critical aortic stenosis, TGG Neo-Aortic Valve (Ozaki) vs. Pumonary autograft (Ross) and Early Repair vs Waiting Under Close Clinical Observation 12:00 -13:00 pm Industry Lunch Symposia 13:00-17:00 pm RVOT Obstructions (PS,ToF,TA) PDA, Coarctation - Tuesday 11th March 8-17 hr. Congenital Heart Surg Shunt Lesions ASD II Sinus venosus defects TAVR/PAVR Atrioventricular Septal Defect (AVSD) 12:00 -13:00 pm Industry Lunch Symposia 13:00-17:00 pm Truncus arteriosus DORV TGA Congenital heart surgery in adults: 17:30 pm Closing Ceremony | ROOM 2
Sat. 8th March 08:00 -12:00 pm Artificial
Intelligence in cardiovasc. medicine Risk prediction models for clinical decisions, treatment strategies and
better outcomes
12:00 -13:00 pm Industry Lunch Symposia 13:00
- 17:00 pm Artificial Intelligence in cardiovascular surgery: Risk
prediction models for clinical decisions, treatment strategies and better
outcomes Sun. 9th March 08:00 -12:00 pm Video sessions Standard perfusion techniques: Perfusion
techniques in minimally invasive cardiac surgery, Myocardial protection strategies 12:00 -13:00 pm Industry
Lunch Symposia 13:00 - 17:00 pm Cardiac anesthesiology & cerebro-respiratory monitring
Advanced cardiovasc. imaging:
Echo, CT Scan, MRI in guiding surgical decision-making Monday, 10th
March 8-17 hr. 8:00 -12:00 pm ACVB Grafting Harvesting skeletonized single and
bilateral ITA, RA, GEA, Saphenous
vein techniques for sequential I, T and Y grafts, .
12:00 -13:00 pm Industry Lunch Symposia 13:00-17:00 pm Obstructive coronary artery disease and CABG surgery
incl HIV patients Tuesday, 11th
March 08-12:00 pm Multivessel disease: LM disease,
Diabetes CAD, CABG outcomes in
women, Arterial grafting in women vs men, Technical challenges and benefits, 12:00 -13:00 pm Industry Lunch Symposia 13:00-17:00 pm Evidence basis for arterial grafts in CABG
Degenerative thoracic
aortic disease (dissections and aneurysms) 17:30 pm Closing Ceremony | ROOM 3 Sat. 8th March 08:00 -12:00 pm Cardiovascular perfusion symposium Meet the industries 12:00 -13:00 pm Industry Lunch Symposia 13:00 - 17:00 pm Cardiovasc Intensive care Nursing symposium . Docs/Patients Dialogue Sun. 9th March 08:00 -12:00 pm Meet the MOH/Policy makers African Countries with Heart Centres 12:00 -13:00 pm Industry Lunch Symposia 13:00 - 17:00 pm Cardiothoracic Surgeons Alliance: Meeting (Heads of Departments Cardiothoracic Centres & Presidents of Sub-regional Societies and PASCAR Surgical Unit in Africa Monday, 10th March 8-17 hr. 8:00 -12:00 pm Aortic & Valve Surgery Frontiers in surgery of rheumatic aortic and mitral valve disease 12:00 - 13:00 pm Industry Lunch Symposia 13:00-17:00 pm Concommitant tricuspid annuloplasty and surgery of rheumatic vs degenerative mitral valve disease, Tuesday, 11th March 8:00-12:00 pm Management of infective endocarditis of the aortic and a-v valves 12:00 - 13:00 pm Industry Lunch Symposia 13:00-17:00 pm Degenerative thoracic aortic disease (dissections and aneurysms) 17:30 pm Closing Ceremony |
Outline of the Scientific Program
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Congenital heart surgery:
The challenges
- Critical aortic stenosis, TGA in Neonates, Children
- Neo-Aortic Valve (Ozaki) vs. Pumonary autograft (Ross)
and Early - - Repair vs Waiting Under Close Clinical Observation
- Atrioventricular Septal Defect (AVSD)
- RVOT Obsructions (PS, ToF, TA)
- Shunt lesions
- PDA, Coarctation
- Congenital heart surgery in adolescents and adults:
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Rheumatic Aortic and Mitral
Valve Disease and Concommitant Tricuspid Regurge
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Management of infective
endocarditis of the aortic and a-v valves
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Degenerative thoracic
aortic disease (dissections and aneurysma)
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Obstructive coronary
artery disease. (CABG surgery: Harvesting skeletonized single and bilateral
ITA, RA, GEA, SV.
Techniques for Sequential I, T and Y Grafts
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Risk prediction models
for clinical decisions, treatment strategies and better outcomes
Breakout Sessions
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Basics in generative
artificial intelligence and its application in cardiovascular healthcare.
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Hands- on simulation in
cardiac surgery training (Master Class Advances in congenital heart surgery,
valve surgery, aortic surgery CABG surgery,
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Perfusion techniques in
standard and minimally invasive setting
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Ante-/retrograde
myocardial protection strategies
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Utilizing advanced
imaging in guiding surgical decision-making
Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging: Echocardiography, CT
Scan, MRI.
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Cardiovascular
Intensive Care Nursing Symposium: Master class cardiovascular intensive care nursing