April 26th 2012, Thursday
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Symposium – ETHICON Olipa – Hotel President |
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| Why has OPCAB Failed in So Many Centers? | P. Sergeant, Leuven, Belgium | |
| Cardiovascular Needles Technologies: What’s new? | L. Storme, Bruxelles, Belgium | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Symposium – SHIMADZU Tajan – Hotel President |
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| Cardiology Break-Throughs | ||
| Complex Coronary Interventions With the CORACTO Stent; Clinical Cases | G.Sianos, Thessaloniki, Greece | |
| Take a Real Time Stent View | H. Sawada, Japan | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Symposium – ABBOTT VASCULAR Asimon – Hotel Lacroma - TBC |
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| To be announced | TBA | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Symposium – HANSEN Bokar – Hotel Lacroma - TBC |
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| Magellan™ Robotic Catheter Platform | ||
| Overview of Preclinical and clinical Work with Flexible Robotic Technology | C. Riga and C. Bicknell, London, UK | |
| Overview of the NorthStar Robotic Catheter Architecture Demonstration of the Magellan Robotic System (booth 1L) |
F. Macnamara and R. Michel, Hansen Medical |
April 27th 2012, Friday
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Lunch Symposium – CORMATRIX Asimon – Hotel Lacroma |
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| CorMatrix Bioscaffold For Cardiac Tissue Repair | M. Gerdisch, Indianapolis, USA | |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Lunch Symposium – NOVARTIS Ruda – Hotel President |
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| Everolimus - Unmet Needs in Heart Transplantation | A. Zuckermann, Vienna, Austria | |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Lunch Symposium – SORIN Olipa – Hotel President |
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| Perceval S: your way to MICS | ||
| Moderator: B. Geršak (Slovenia) | ||
| Perceval S Clinical Experience | M. Shrestha, Hannover, Germany | |
| Sutureless Valves: The Right Minithoracotomy Approach | M. Solinas, Massa, Italy | |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Lunch Symposium – MEDTRONIC 1 – ENABLE Elafiti 3 – Hotel Lacroma |
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| The ENABLE Sutureles Technology - What Is the Future of AVR? | L. Englberger, Bern, Switzerland | |
| Our Experience in Sutureless Aortic Valve Implantation | O. E. Dapunt, Oldenburg, Germany | |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Lunch Symposium – MEDTRONIC 2 – EVAR/TEVAR Elafiti 4 – Hotel Lacroma |
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| Updates in Endovascular Aortic Therapies | ||
| Moderator: L. Davidovic (Serbia) | ||
| Endovascular Treatment of Challenging AAA Cases: Early Experiences with Endurant II | G. Wozniak, Bottrop, Germany | |
| EVAR in Patients with Ruptured Infrarenal AAA | J. Mašković, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| Endovascular Treatment of Thorcic Aortic Aneurysms: Serbian Bi-Centric Study | Đ. Radak, Belgrade, Serbia |
To apply for Lunch Symposium, please register at: escvs2012@escvs2012.org





