Program
| 14th International Joint Meeting on Cardiovascular Diseases | June 5, 2026 | |
| from 08:00 | Setup of exhibition |
| 09:00 | Welcome and Introduction Stephan Ensminger, Lübeck, Germany |
| Session I: Structural Heart Disease Chairs: Stephan Ensminger (Lübeck, Germany) & Xiaocheng Liu (Tanjin, China) | |
| 09:15 | MICLAT-AVR - the new standard in Aortic valve surgery Jan Gummert, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany |
| 09:30 | Our institutional valve surgery programme Masatoshi Hata, Osaka, Japan |
| 09:45 | Mid- and Long-term outcomes of aortic valve repair. Yutaka Okita, Osaka, Japan |
| 10:00 | Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease - Lifetime Management as the new challenge Maximilian Scherner, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 10:15 | Aortic valve leaflet reconstruction surgery with three same-sized pericardial leaflets guided by 3D virtual reality imaging analysis Takeo Tedoriya, Tokio, Japan |
| 10:30 | Results of Mitral valve surgery in a large Mitral valve program Nobuyuki Furukawa, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| Session II: Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation Chairs: Jan Gummert (Bad Oeynhausen, Germany) & Takeo Tedoriya (Tokio, Japan) | |
| 11:15 | Short-Term MCS to durable LVAD Buntaro Fujita, Lübeck, Germany |
| 11:30 | HeartCon: Pioneering VAD Development in China Xiaocheng Liu, Tianjin, China |
| 11:45 | Donor Heart Perfusion - comparison of different techniques Sabina Günther, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany |
| 12:00 | Heart Transplantation in Germany: How to achieve good results in times of organ shortage? Udo Boeken, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 12:15 | Telemedicine in Heart Failure Basil Alkhlout, Karlsburg, Germany |
12:30 13:00 | Lab tour Lunch |
| Session III: Structural Heart Disease and Coronary Artery Disease Chairs: Artur Lichtenberg (Düsseldorf, Germany) & Kazutomo Minami (Tokio, Japan) | |
| 13:30 | Achieving Sub-1% Mortality in Acute Type A Aortic Dissection: Our Surgical Strategy Tomohiko Sakamoto, Osaka, Japan |
| 13:45 | Modern concepts in minimally invasive heart valve surgery Hug Aubin, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 14:00 | Interventional treatment of Mitral- and Tricuspid Valves – Perspectives and Limitations Christian Frerker, Lübeck, Germany |
| 14:15 | Surgical strategy for aortic root abscesses Kenji Okada, Hyogo, Japan |
| 14:30 | Results in coronary surgery in octogenarians Kazufumi Omori, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany |
| 14:45 | Coffee Break |
| Session IV: Miscellaneus Chairs: Wolfgang Motz (Karlsburg, Germany) & Qin Yang (Tanjin, China) | |
| 15:30 | Double aortic cannulation in arch repair of neonates and small infants Shuhua Luo, Sichuan, China |
| 15:45 | The Role of Rehabilitation Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease Bernhard Schwaab, Timmendorfer Strand, Germany |
| 16:00 | Longterm – Survival for Pediatric Patients after ROSS-Operations Nina Pommert, Lübeck, Germany |
| 16:15 | Management of Primary Cardiac Paragangiomas: Experience from TICH Qi Miao, Tanjin, China |
| 16:30 | Transepicardial Injection of Human iPSC-derived Cardiomyocytes (HiCM-188) for the Treatment of Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease Qin Yang, Tanjin, China |
| 16:45 | Stem Cell-derived Biological Ventricular Assist Tissue in Heart Failure Stephan Ensminger, Lübeck, Germany |
| 17:00 | Wrap up and Farewell |