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Wednesday / 28 May 2025
Hall 1
08:00 – 15:40UPDATE COURSE
16:00 – 17:30OPENING CEREMONY &
MANNHEIMER LECTURE
We Want Progress, But We’re Resistant to Change – Gil Wernovsky, USA
17:30 – 19:00

WELCOME RECEPTION

Location: Exhibition & Posters’ Area and Foyers

08:00 – 15:40Nursing and Allied Health Professionals Education Day
16:00 – 17:30 
17:30 – 19:00

WELCOME RECEPTION

Location: Exhibition & Posters’ Area and Foyers

08:00 – 15:40 
16:00 – 17:30 
17:30 – 19:00

WELCOME RECEPTION
Location: Exhibition & Posters’ Area and Foyers

08:00 – 15:40 
16:00 – 17:30 
17:30 – 19:00

WELCOME RECEPTION
Location: Exhibition & Posters’ Area and Foyers

08:00 – 15:40 
16:00 – 17:30 
17:30 – 19:00

WELCOME RECEPTION
Location: Exhibition & Posters’ Area and Foyers

08:00 – 15:40 
16:00 – 17:30 
17:30 – 19:00

WELCOME RECEPTION
Location: Exhibition & Posters’ Area and Foyers

08:00 – 15:40
16:00 – 17:30
17:30 – 19:00

WELCOME RECEPTION
Location: Exhibition & Posters’ Area and Foyers

Hall 1
09:00 – 11:00 AEPC GENERAL ASSEMBLY
11:00 – 11:30 BREAK
11:30 – 13:00

Joint WG: Interventional Cardiology & Paediatric Cardiovascular Intensive Care & Congenital Heart Surgery
Percutaneous Therapies to Treat Advanced Heart Failure
Chairs: Gianfranco Butera, Italy & Zdenka Reinhardt, UK
Heart failure in CHD burden and medical treatments – Karin Tran Lundmark, Sweden
Surgical options: ECMO, VAD, artifical heart(s), heart transplantation – Antonio Amodeo, Italy
Atrial septal defect creation in HF – Gareth Morgan, USA
Percutaneous mechanical support (Impella) in acute HF – Kira Kuschnerus, Germany
Role of Cardiomems – Federico Larraya, Spain

13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 16:00

Separate WG: Hamburg LOC

Treatment options for the Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome – end of the road or new horizons?

Chairs: Gil Wernovsky, USA & Nora Lang, Germany

Should the Norwood procedure be abandoned in the Neonate? – Gil Wernovsky, USA
The Norwood Procedure – Tomasz Mroczek, Poland
The Nonsurgical Stage I – Experience with Pulmonary Flow Restrictors – Dietmar Schranz, Germany
The hybrid procedure and challenges in postoperative care – TBA

16:00 – 16:30 BREAK
16:30 – 18:00

Joint WG: Pulmonary Hypertension, Heart Failure and Transplantation & Cardiac Imaging & Task force on clinical drug trials

Home Monitoring for PH and HF

Chairs: Estelle Naumburg, Sweden & Maurice Beghetti, Switzerland

Remote pulmonary artery pressure monitoring in children with heart failure including Fontan – Damien Bonnet, France
Remote pulmonary artery pressure monitoring in children with PH – Julie Wacker, Switzerland
Exercise monitoring in children with HF or PH: Role of actigraphy – Rolf Berger, The Netherlands
Remote monitoring as clinical trial endpoint in HF and PH ? – Michal Odermarsky, Sweden

20:00 JUNIOR MEMBERS PARTY
NURSING & ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS RECEPTION
09:00 – 11:00 
11:00 – 11:30BREAK
11:30 – 13:00

Joint WG: Cardiovascular Morphology & Cardiac Imaging & Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Functionally Univentricular Hearts and Borderline Ventricles

Chairs: Inga Voges, Germany & Lucile Houyel, France

Nomenclature and classification of functionally univentricular hearts – Matthias Sigler, Germany
Morphology of functionally univentricular hearts and borderline ventricles – Annalisa Angelini, Italy
Imaging-morphology correlations of functionally univentricular hearts and borderline ventricles – Seda Tierney, USA
Long-term follow up of Fontan patients – Paolo Ferrero, Italy

13:00 – 14:30INDUSTRY SESSION
14:30 – 16:00

Joint WG: Interventional Cardiology & Paediatric Cardiovascular Intensive Care

ECMO and interventions

Chairs: Nik Haas, Germany & Gianfranco Butera, Italy

Percutaneous ECMO –technique, indications and contraindications – TBA
If the cannula doesn’t sit – percutaneous techniques to resolve – Robert-Jan Houmes, The Netherlands
Electrophsiology on ECMO – easy? – Eric Rosenthal, UK
VA ECMO and the atrial septum – to vent or not to vent? To stent or not to stent? – TBA

16:00 – 16:30BREAK
16:30 – 18:00

Joint WG: Cardiac Imaging & Fetal Cardiology & Interventional Cardiology

What’s New for Tetralogy of Fallot. A Journey Through Each Stage of Life

Chairs: Almudena Ortiz, Spain & Nathaniel Barber, Australia

Foetal diagnosis and red flags that you should not miss – Laura Vazquez, UK
Neonatal and early life, proper imaging assessment and early follow up is important. – Maraisa Spada, UK
Imaging assessment in adolescent life and changes that should ring a bell. – Idoia Grange, UK
Adulthood in TOF patients, need for re-intervention and how to make it right. – María Toledano, Spain

20:00JUNIOR MEMBERS PARTY
NURSING & ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS RECEPTION
09:00 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30 BREAK
11:30 – 13:00 Separate WG: Cardiac Dysrhythmias and Electrophysiology Is There a Place for EP Testing in CHD Patient Before Intervention/Surgery: In Whom, When and How ? Chairs: Joachim Hebe, Germany & Joachim Photiadis, Germany Tetralogy of Fallot – Katja Zeppenfield, The Netherlands Ebstein anomaly – John Triedman, USA Pre-Fontan physiology – Thomas Kriebel, Germany through the eyes of a surgeon – Mark Hazekamp, The Netherlands
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 16:00 Separate WG:Cardiac Imaging Unbalanced AVSD: How to Ameliorate Risk Stratification Chairs: Tara Bharucha, UK & Carolyn Altman, USA Unbalanced AVSD: Definition and risk assessment – Meryl Cohen, USA 3D echo assessemnt of uAVSD – Owen Miller, UK Intra-operative assessement of uAVSD – Craig Fleishman, USA Follow up of uAVSD undergoing biventricular repair – Giovanni Di Salvo, Italy
16:00 – 16:30 BREAK
16:30 – 18:00 Joint WG: Cardiac Imaging & Congenital Heart Surgery & Interventional Cardiology Imaging and Management of Lymphatic Disorders in Congenital Heart Disease Chairs: Nora Lang, Germany & Vibeke Hjortal, Denmark Where are we in Europe with lymphatic interventions for CHD? – Colin McMahon, Ireland How best to image patients with lymphatic disorders with CHD – Inga Voges, Germany Potential registry and algorithm for management of lymphatic disorders in Europe – Sanam Saifi, Denmark Lymphatic interventional procedures should be offered at every centre v. specialist centres – Petru Liuba, Sweden
20:00 JUNIOR MEMBERS PARTY NURSING & ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS RECEPTION
09:00 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30 BREAK
11:30 – 13:00 Joint WG: Pulmonary Hypertension, Heart Failure and Transplantation & Adult Congenital Heart Disease Heart Failure and Fontan Circulation Chairs: Jaspal Dua, UK & Alexander van de Bruaene, Belgium Burden of Fontan Circulation and Failing Fontan Phenotypes – Milind Chaudhari, UK Transcatheter Interventions for Fontan Failure – Massimo Chessa, Italy Cardiac Transplantation for failing Fontan: A realistic option? – David Crossland, UK Mechanical support strategies for Fontan Failure – Where are we at present? – Magalie Ladouceur, Switzerland
13:00 – 14:30 Separate WG: Genetics, Basic Science and Myocardial Disease Precision Medicine: An emerging subspeciality in the management of rare cardiac diseases Chairs: Georgia Sarquella Brugada, Spain & Anwar Baban, Italy Novel therapeutic approaches in cardiomyopathies: what can we learn from adult cohorts? – Juan Pablo Kaski, UK Personalized approach in Channelopathies: Genetic Profiling and Risk Stratification – Georgia Sarquella Brugada, Spain Update on MEK inhibition in RASopathic cardiomyopathy – Cordula Wolf, Germany From multisystemic diseases to potentially missed cardiac diseases – Anwar Baban, Italy Emerging Biomarkers for Early Detection of Cardiomyopathies. – Diala Khraiche, France
14:30 – 16:00 JSPCCS-AEPC Joint session Comprehensive Genetics in Pediatric Cardiology Chairs: Sergio Laranjo, Portugal & Hiroyuki Yamagishi, Japan Genetic background and recent proposed diagnostic criteria for mitochondrial cardiomyopathy – Atsuhito Takeda, Japan Understanding the ethnic differences of genetic backgrounds in cardiomyopathies and inherited arrhythmias to prevent sudden cardiac death – Seiko Ohno, Japan Genetics of syndromic congenital heart disease – Anwar Baban, Italy Second-hits in severe phenotypes in inherited cardiac diseases – Georgia Sarquella-Brugada, Spain
16:00 – 16:30 BREAK
16:30 – 18:00 Separate WG: Cardiac Dysrhythmias and Electrophysiology Concerns in Management of Channelopathies Chairs: Arthur Wilde, The Netherlands & Mitchell Cohen, USA Malignant LQT syndrome in neonates: how to treat – Nico Blom, The Netherlands Brugada syndrome in pre-pubertal age: really at risk? – Cecilia Gonzalez, Canada CPVT in adolescents: any role for ICD? – Christian Van der Werf, The Netherlands Short QT syndrome: what to do? – Andrea Mazzanti, Italy
20:00 JUNIOR MEMBERS PARTY NURSING & ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS RECEPTION
09:00 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30 BREAK
11:30 – 13:00 Advances in Diagnosis and Management of Complex Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA) Chairs: Eva Sames-Dolzer, Austria & Hitendu Dave, Switzerland Embryology and Morphology of Complex Transposition of the Great Arteries: Decoding the Anatomy – Andrew Cook, UK Innovations in Prenatal Diagnosis of Complex Transposition: The Role of Fetal Echocardiography and Genetic Testing – Trisha Vigneswaran, UK Postoperative Outcomes and Long-Term Management in Complex TGA: Cardiovascular and Neurodevelopmental Perspectives – Michael Hübler, Germany Surgical Strategies for Complex Transposition of the Great Arteries: From Arterial Switch to Double-Switch Procedures – Pedro Del Nido, USA
13:00 – 14:30 Separate WG: Junior Council Basic Knowledge in Pediatric Cardiology Chairs: Guilherme Lourenço, Portugal & Sara Moscatelli, UK Keep calm and find your approach to the scary ECG – Andrea Bueno Gomez, Spain How to check and program a PM and ICD in emegerncy situations – Cristina Raimondo, Italy Neonatal and fetal arrhythmias in practice: No ear, just follow the lines – Silvia Garibaldi, Italy What happens in the EP lab: real life cases – Andrea Greco, Spain
14:30 – 16:00 Separate WG: Cardiovascular Morphology Hands on Morphology of Functional Univentricular Hearts Chairs: Annalisa Angelini, Italy & Bjarke Jensen, The Netherlands Tutors: Robert Anderson, UK Lucile Houyel, France Monique Jongbloed, The Netherlands Matthias Sigler, Germany Roelof-Jan Oostra, The Netherlands
16:00 – 16:30 BREAK
16:30 – 18:00 Abstract Sessions Pulmonary Hypertension, Heart Failure and Transplantation WG
20:00 JUNIOR MEMBERS PARTY NURSING & ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS RECEPTION
09:00 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30 BREAK
11:30 – 13:00 Abstract Sessions Congenital Heart Surgery WG
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 16:00 Abstract Sessions Sports Cardiology, Physical Activity and Prevention WG
16:00 – 16:30 BREAK
16:30 – 18:00 Flash Talks Session
20:00 JUNIOR MEMBERS PARTY NURSING & ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS RECEPTION
09:00 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30 BREAK
11:30 – 13:00 Nursing & Neurodevelopment Abstract Sessions
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 16:00 Abstract Sessions Cardiac Dysrhythmias and Electrophysiology WG
16:00 – 16:30 BREAK
16:30 – 18:00 Separate WG: Nursing and Allied Health Professionals Heartfelt Nutrition: Optimizing Care for Children and Adults with Congenital Heart Disease Chairs: Amanda Potterton, UK & Lynda Shaughnessy, UK Impact of nutrition on neurodevelopmental outcomes in youth with CHD – Johanna Calderon, France NEC: to feed or not to feed? – Adam James, Ireland Challenges and barriers to optimizing nutrition in children with CHD – Brittany Rothman, UK Nutritional management in ICU care – Lyvonne Tume, UK
20:00 JUNIOR MEMBERS PARTY NURSING & ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS RECEPTION
Hall 1
09:00 – 10:30 Abstract Sessions Cardiac imaging WG
10:30 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 – 11:30 Hausdorf Lecture Chairs: Thomas Krasemann, The Netherlands & Sir Shakeel Qureshi, UK Hybrid is philosophy – Dietmar Schranz, Germany
11:30 – 13:00 Joint WG: Cardiac Imaging & Congenital Heart Surgery Artificial intelligence, Virtual Reality and Cardiac Modeling Chairs: Gerald Greil, USA & Caner Salih, USA Deep learning in CMR imaging: New perspectives – Vivek Muthurangu, UK Deep learning in echocardiography: Where are we standing? – Luc Mertens, Canada Cardiac Modeling to plan surgical procedures – Marie Schafstedde, Germany Virtual reality: A surgeons view – Daniel Zimpfer, Austria
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 16:00 Separate WG: Cardiac Imaging New Technologies for Advanced Echocardiographic Ventricular Function Evaluation in Children Chairs: Craig Fleishman, USA & Kai Thorsten Laser, Germany How to increase accuracy and reproducibility of ventricular function evaluation by echo: 2D, 3D, strain – Piers Barker, USA 3D and artificial intelligence for automatic assessment of the ventricles – Diala Khraiche, France Diastolic function in neonates, infants and children: What is feasible and What is not – Massimiliano Cantinotti, Italy Echo vs MRI: how to Interpret different data – Carolyn Altman, USA
16:00 – 16:30 BREAK
16:30 – 18:00 Separate WG: Cardiac Imaging Understanding CCTGA and How to Route Your Patient Through Life Chairs: Owen Miller, UK & Francesca Raimondi, Italy CCTGA explained and stratified – Matthias Sigler, Germany The Ebstenoid valve: echo and CMR evaluation of valve composition and function – Inga Voges, Germany Serial CMR, ready for clinical guidance of the double switch? – Rebecca Beroukhim, USA The imaging perspective of the adult cardiologist: what can we learn for today’s patients? – Alexander van de Bruaene, Belgium
20:00 ANNUAL MEETING DINNER
09:00 – 10:30Abstract Sessions
Interventional Cardiology WG
10:30 – 11:00BREAK
11:00 – 11:30 
11:30 – 13:00

Congenital Vascular Rings and Slings – Diagnostic and Therapeutic Advances

Chairs: Mark Hazekamp, the Netherlands & Daniel Biermann, Germany

Embryology and Anatomy of Congenital Vascular Rings and Slings: A Comprehensive Overview – Monique Jongbloed, The Netherlands
Diagnostic Approaches in Congenital Vascular Rings and Slings: Imaging and Beyond – Johannes Steinweg, Germany
Clinical Manifestations and Surgical Management of Vascular Rings: A Multidisciplinary Perspective – Tsvetomir Loukanov, Germany
Long-Term Outcomes and Postoperative Care in Congenital Vascular Rings and Slings – Trisha Vigneswaran, UK

13:00 – 14:30INDUSTRY SESSION
14:30 – 16:00

Surgical Innovations in the Treatment of Congenital Heart Disease

Chairs: Boulos Asfour, Germany & Luc Mertens, Canada

Minimally Invasive Approaches in Congenital Heart Surgery: Advancing Techniques and Outcomes – Vladimiro Vida, Italy
Hybrid Procedures in Congenital Heart Disease: The Intersection of Cardiac Surgery and Interventional Cardiology – Hakan Akintürk, Germany
3D Printing and Personalized Surgical Planning for Complex Congenital Heart Defects – Christoph Haller, Canada
Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering: Future Directions in Congenital Heart Surgery – Daniel Biermann, Germany

16:00 – 16:30BREAK
16:30 – 18:00

Joint WG: Interventional Cardiology & Cardiac Imaging

Better interventions with Less Radiation – Now and in the Future

Chairs: Peter Ewert, Germany & Gianfranco Butera, Italy

Planning of complex interventions in the modern era – do we still need angios? –Mari Nieves Velasco Forte, UK
Interventions with echo guidance only – from ASD occlusions to premie PDA closures? – Stanimir Georgiev, Germany
Catheterisation in the MR suite – is this the future? – Gianfranco Butera, Italy
Virtual reality imaging before interventions – really useful or just fancy? – Natasha Stephenson, UK

20:00ANNUAL MEETING DINNER
09:00 – 10:30Abstract Sessions
Fetal Cardiology WG
10:30 – 11:00BREAK
11:00 – 11:30 
11:30 – 13:00

Joint WG: Genetics, Basic Science and Myocardial Disease & Congenital Heart Surgery & Cardiac Imaging

Joint Session on Updated Guidelines: Aorta

Chairs: Laura Muino-Mosquera, Belgium & Ruth Heying, Belgium

What’s new in aorta guidelines? – Laura Muino-Mosquera, Belgium
How to use imaging results for clinical management in paediatric patients with aortopathy – Thomas Mir, Germany
Extra-aortic imaging in patients with aortopathy: when to perform? – Anna Sabaté, Spain
New surgical perspective for aortic disease – Filip Rega, Belgium

13:00 – 14:30LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 16:00

Joint WG: Fetal Cardiology & Congenital Heart Surgery & Interventional Cardiology

Prematurity and Congenital Heart Disease: What’s Known and Why it’s Important?

Chairs: Sophie Duignan, Ireland & Hitendu Dave, Switzerland

Balancing the risks and benefits of early delivery in CHD – Anna Seale, UK
Prematurity and CHD: The Interventionalist’s Perspective – Thomas Krasemann, The Netherlands
Prematurity and CHD: The Congenital Heart Disease Surgeon’s Perspective – Hitendu Dave, Switzerland
Prematurity and CHD: The Neurodevelopmental Perspective – Gil Wernovsky, USA

16:00 – 16:30BREAK
16:30 – 18:00

Separate WG: Cardiac Dysrhythmias and Electrophysiology

ECG Quiz

Juha-Matti Happonen, Finland & Joachim Hebe, Germany & Fabrizio Drago, Italy

20:00ANNUAL MEETING DINNER
09:00 – 10:30Abstract Sessions
Genetics, Basic Science and Myocardial Disease WG
10:30 – 11:00BREAK
11:00 – 11:30 
11:30 – 13:00

Joint WG: Paediatric Cardiovascular Intensive Care & Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Challenges in intensive Care in ACHD

Chairs: Paolo Ferrero, Italy & Nicole Sekarski, Switzerland

Pro: Adults with CHD need to be treated in a pediatric CICU – Joan Sanchez de Toledo, Spain
Contra: Adults with CHD need to be treated in pediatric CICU – David Mayhew, UK
Postoperative Arythmias : what to expect and how to anticipate – Mathieu Le Bloa, Switzerland
Pregnancy in ACHD: what to expect and how to anticipate – Jaspal Dua, UK

13:00 – 14:30

Separate WG: Interventional Cardiolog

Juniors Meet Seniors

Chairs: Thomas Krasemann, The Netherlands & Enrico Piccinelli, Italy

14:30 – 16:00

Separate WG: Cardiovascular Morphology

Meet the Morphologist

Chairs: Matthias Sigler, Germany & Nikola Topuzov, Poland

Comments and explantations following a case presentation – Robert Anderson, UK
Comments and explantations following a case presentation – Annalisa Angelini, Italy
Comments and explantations following a case presentation – Lucile Houyel, France
Comments and explantations following a case presentation – Monique Jongbloed, The Netherlands

16:00 – 16:30BREAK
16:30 – 18:00

Joint Session with Canadian Society

Joint session Canadian Pediatric Cardiology Association (CPCA) – AEPC
Management Decisions in Borderline Left Ventricle

Chairs: Luc Mertens, Canada & Nico Blom, the Netherlands

Panelists: Luc Mertens, Canada & Christopher Haller, Canada & Michael Hübler, Germany

State of the art lecture: Management decisions in borderline left ventricle – Christopher Haller, Canada

Case presentations: Borderline Left ventricle by Junior Members

Case 1 Critical Aortic Stenosis – Karel Koubský, Czech Republic
Case 2 Unbalanced AVSD – Christopher Spence, Canada
Case 3 Double outlet right ventricle (DORV) – Ana-Maria Hodea, Romania

20:00ANNUAL MEETING DINNER
09:00 – 10:30 Flash Talks Session
16:00 – 16:30 BREAK
10:30 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 13:00 Young Investigator Award Session
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 16:00 Joint WG: Sports Cardiology, Physical Activity and Prevention & Cardiac Dysrhythmias and Electrophysiology Common and Challenging Arrhythmias in Children in the Sports Setting – Joint Insights From the Electrophysiologist and the Sports Cardiologist Chairs: Fabrizio Drago, Italy & Guido Pieles, UK Short QT syndrome – Maria Miszczak-Knecht, Poland & Cecilia Gonzalez, Canada Brugada Syndrome – Georgia Sarquella Brugada, Spain & Roman Gebauer, Germany WPW/ AET/ JET – Fabrizio Drago, Italy & Ugo Giordano, Italy VT in Cardiomyopathies – Thomas Kriebel, Germany & Guido Pieles, UK
16:00 – 16:30 BREAK
16:30 – 18:00 Abstract Sessions Cardiovascular Morphology WG
20:00 ANNUAL MEETING DINNER
09:00 – 10:30 Flash Talks Session
10:30 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 13:00 Separate WG: Pulmonary Hypertension, Heart Failure and Transplantation Ethical and Challenging Issues in Heart Failure and Transplant Care Chairs: Colin McMahon, Ireland & Thomas Moller, Norway What criteria should we use to decline listing for cardiac transplantation? – Hakan Wåhlander, Sweden Where are we in paediatric heart failure when it comes to ARNi, SGLT2i and ivabradine? – Joe Rossano, USA When should we stop VAD/MCS support? – Hannes Sallmon, Germany Is listing with high antibody status realistic in current era? – Zdenka Reinhardt, UK
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 16:00 Joint WG: Pulmonary Hypertension, Heart Failure and Transplantation & Paediatric Cardiovascular Intensive Care AI in the ICU – A tool to Guide Treatment of Critical Cardiovascular Conditions Chairs: Nicole Sekarski, Switzerland & Georg Hansmann, Germany Clinical Decision-Support Systems for Detection of Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, Sepsis, and Septic Shock in Critically Ill Patients – Thomas Jack, Germany heart failure and cardiac arrest – can AI predict this lethal combination? – Ricardo Munoz, USA Beyond Conventional Hemodynamic Monitoring-Monitoring to Improve Our Understanding of Disease Process and Interventions – Mjaye Mazwi, USA Digital twins are the future of cardiac ICU care? Pro and Con – Christian Schroder, Germany Digital twins are the future of cardiac ICU care? Pro and Con – Michael Kim, USA
16:00 – 16:30 BREAK
16:30 – 18:00 Abstract Sessions Adult Congenital Heart Disease WG
20:00 ANNUAL MEETING DINNER
09:00 – 10:30 Joint WG: Neurodevelopment and Psycho-Social Care & Pulmonary Hypertension, Heart Failure and Transplantation & Nursing and Allied Health Professionals Eligibility and Timing for Heart or Heart-Lung Transplantation: Navigating Complexities in the Heart Transplantation Journey Chairs: Adam James, Ireland & Julie Wacker, Switzerland Organisation of heart transplantation in Europe – Colin McMahon, Ireland Heart transplantation in children with comorbidity: how do we decide – Hakan Wåhlander, Sweden Preparing patients and families for heart transplantation & Bridge to transplant from a psychosocial point of view – TBA The patient/parent perspectives – Mattias Van Heetvelde, Belgium
10:30 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 13:00 Joint WG: Nursing and Allied Health Professionals & Neurodevelopment and Psycho-Social Care Health Disparities Encountered by Patients with CHD Chairs: Eva Goossens, Belgium & Edward Callus, Italy Challenges faced when providing CHD care in a multicultural context – Katya De Groote, Belgium Does environment impact the health of patients with CHD? – Regina Bökenkamp, The Netherlands Money Matters: Addressing Financial Inequities in Congenital Heart Disease Care – Amy Verstappen, USA Interactive audience panel discussion – Edward Callus, Italy
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30 – 16:00 Separate WG: Nursing and Allied Health Professionals Florence Nightingale Lecture We’ve come a long way but… ’Bringing visibility to the invisibility of heart disease in children and young people’ – Jo Wray, UK
16:00 – 16:30 BREAK
16:30 – 18:00 Flash Talks Session
20:00 ANNUAL MEETING DINNER
Hall 1
09:00 – 10:30 Separate WG: Hamburg LOC “Presidents Session”: Fontan Failure and Therapeutic Options Chairs: Daniel Zimpfer, Austria & Rainer Kozlik-Feldmann, Germany Ventricle failure vs. subpulmonary failure – Marc Gewillig, Belgium Advanced heart failure management and listing for HTX – Zdenka Reinhardt, UK Bridging to listing: New assist strategies – Francois Roubertie, France The Fontan Mini-Pump: Aspects for the future – Michael Hübler, Germany
10:30 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 – 12:30 Joint WG: Cardiac Imaging & Congenital Heart Surgery How to Manage Uncertainty in Decision-Making of CHD Chairs: Hitendu Dave, Switzerland & Massimiliano Cantinotti, Italy Pitfalls, heuristics and biases in decision-making & AI support – Colin McMahon, Ireland Optimal timing and imaging indications for treatment of subaortic stenosis – Tal Geva, USA When to operate on VSD with and without aortic cusp prolapse – Yiu-fai Cheung, Hong Kong When are surgeries too high risk? – ethical decisions on high risk surgeries – Jeffrey Jacobs, USA
12:30 – 13:30 KEYNOTE LECTURE & AWARD & CLOSING Speaker: Meryl Cohen, USA
09:00 – 10:30 Joint WG: Cardiovascular Morphology & Cardiac Dysrhythmias and Electrophysiology & Fetal Cardiology Heterotaxy – A Spectrum of Challenges Chairs: Monique Jongbloed, The Netherlands & Agnieszka Grzyb, Poland Development of laterality – Sigolène Meilhac, France Morphology of cardiac laterality defects – Robert Anderson, UK Heart rhythm and conduction abnormalities in heterotaxy – Jan Till, UK Extracardiac abnormalities in heterotaxy – Adam Kolesnik, Poland
10:30 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 – 12:30 Separate WG: Cardiac Imaging Imaging Debate: Ideal Assessment of a Patient with Complex CHD Chairs: Emanuela Valsangiacomo Buechel, Switzerland & Heynric Grotenhuis, The Netherlands Echocardiography is enough for heterotaxy and complex CHD: con – Owen Miller, UK Echocardiography is enough for heterotaxy and complex CHD: pro – Ulrike Herberg, Germany 3D printing and virtual reality for surgical decision making: pro – Gerald Greil, USA 3D printing and virtual reality for surgical decision making: con – Francesca Raimondi, Italy
12:30 – 13:30  
09:00 – 10:30 Joint WG: Cardiac Imaging & American Society of Echocardiography Advance 3D and 4D Echocardiography of Valve Defects in Children Chairs: Carolyn Altman, USA & Massimiliano Cantinotti, Italy 3D echo assessment of pediatric TV defects – Pei-Ni Jone, USA 3D echo assessment of pediatric MV defects – John Simpson, UK Interventional echo guidance for valve therapy (PVR, TAVR, etc) – Craig Fleishman, USA Fusion imaging the evaluation of VA valve defects – Israel Valverde, Canada
10:30 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 – 12:30 Failures and Successes in the Cathlab Chairs: Shakeel Qureshi, UK & Thomas Krasemann, The Netherlands
12:30 – 13:30
09:00 – 10:30 Separate WG: Adult Congenital Heart Disease Adult Patients with Complex Congenital Heart Disease: Learning by Cases Chairs: Pierpaolo Bassareo, Ireland & Paolo Ferrero, Italy Adult patient with Pulmonary hypertension and ongoing left to right shunt. Shall we repair? – Giulia Guglielmi, UK Adult and elderly patient with Ebstein anomaly. When repair is still an option? – Irene Ferrari, Germany Advanced heart failure in complex CHD: Is this a good substrate for heart transplant? – Jolanda Sabatino, Italy Improving outcomes for transplantation in failing Fontan – Barbara Cardoso, UK
10:30 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 – 12:30 Separate WG: Cardiac Dysrhythmias and Electrophysiology Arrhythmic Nightmares Chairs: Fabrizio Drago, Italy & Ferran Roses-Noguer, Spain Device – Roman Gebauer, Germany EP LAB – Ulrich Krause, Germany ICU – Massimo Stefano Silvetti, Italy Outpatient Clinic – Laszlo Kornyei, Hungary
12:30 – 13:30  
09:00 – 10:30 Separate WG: Education Committee Entrustable Professional Activities- Do We Need a Structural Training? Pro – Con Chairs: Dimpna Albert-Brotons, Saudi Arabia & Ornella Milanesi, Italy EPAs – practical impact – Merja Kallio, Finland Constructive feed-back – how does it improve training? – Enrico Piccinelli, Italy Structural training – PRO – Skaiste Sendzikaite, Lithuania Structural training – CON – TBA (Shakeel Qureshi, UK)
10:30 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 – 12:30 Separate WG: Sports Cardiology, Physical Activity and Prevention The Paediatric Athletes in the Spotlight – Introducing the First Ever EAPC/AEPC and the FIFA Paediatric Cardiac Screening Recommendations Chairs: Guido Pieles, UK & Elena Cavarretta, Italy The FIFA medical programme on athlete cardiac safety and well being –TBA (Christian Schmied, Switzerland) Introducing the FIFA U17 cardiac screening recommendations – Guido Pieles, UK Paediatric sports cardiology – a much needed specialty requiring its own guidelines ? – Peter Fritsch, Austria Introducing the EAPC/AEPC paediatric athlete cardiac screening recommendations – Elena Cavarretta, Italy
12:30 – 13:30
09:00 – 10:30 Abstract Sessions General Cardiology & Education WG
10:30 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 – 12:30 Separate WG: Paediatric Cardiovascular Intensive Care Hot Topics in Pediatric Intensive Care Units: State of the Art Chairs: Joan Sanchez de Toledo, Spain & Nicole Sekarski, Switzerland AI in the Intensive Care Unit: state of the art – Ricardo Munoz, USA Benchmarking and Transparency – Andrew Taylor, UK Place of new anticoagulants in ICU – Oliver Karam, USA Nutrition in the ICU: to feed ot not to feed – Ségolène Bernheim, France
12:30 – 13:30  
09:00 – 10:30 Abstract Sessions Paediatric Cardiovascular Intensive Care WG
10:30 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 – 12:30 Joint WG: Nursing and Allied Health Professionals & Adult Congenital Heart Disease Bridging the Gap: Transitional Programs for CHD Patients with Neurodevelopmental Challenges Chairs: Alexander van de Bruaene, Belgium & Eva Goossens, Belgium Developing personalized transition plans addressing cardiac and neurodevelopmental needs – Wendy Devals, Belgium Common neurodevelopmental challenges faced by CHD patients in the transition to adulthood – Jaspal Dua, UK Addressing neurodevelopmental and educational challenges in adolescents with complex CHD – Beatrice Latal, Switzerland Future directions and research opportunities in the field – Eva Goossens, Belgium
12:30 – 13:30