Scientific Programme | SMICTSI ATCSA ICC ISMICS 2026
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Scientific Programme

20–22 November 2026 · New Delhi

Time Title Speaker Duration
SMISCTSI/ ATCSA/ ISMICS PROGRAMME
DAY 1 (20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
Dr K.M. Cherian Hall - 6th Floor
Time Title Speaker Duration
Breakfast Session
Anchor: Nirav Patel
Meet the Experts
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Point 1 How Far can we push Minimal Invasive Cardiac Surgery.
Point 2 One thing you would change in Cardiac Surgery Tomorrow
Point 3 Rethinking Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery what can we simplify.
Point 4 What would Cardiac Surgery look like in Year 2035.
Point 5 Can Minimally Invasive Surgery be "All -Comers Strategy"		 Joseph Lamelas, Niv Ad 60 Min
9:00 AM – 9:05 AM Welcome Address - Chairman Organizing Committee Yugal K Mishra 5 Min
DAY 1 (20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
9:05 AM – 12:00 PM SESSION B-1 Basics & Beyond Mitral Valve Surgery
Anchor: Husam H Balkhy, Adil Sadiq
Chairpersons: Karunakar Padhey, Dhiren Shah, Swapnil Karne
Panelists: M.M. Yusuf, Manish Hinduja, Harpreet Minhas, Ishant Singhla
Live case from Manipal Hospital, Dwarka Delhi---Robotic Assisted MVR with DV5
Live case from Apollo Hospital Bengaluru --- Robotic Assisted AVR with DV5
9:05 AM – 9:15 AM Live Case Presentation Case Introduction
Robotic assisted Mitra Valve Surgery Joerg Kempfert
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM Endoscopic complex Mitral Valve repair techniques Piroze M. Davierwala 12 + 3 Min
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM No Scope, No Robots, - Mini Aortic and Mitral Procedure technique Joseph Lamelas 12 + 3 Min
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM Overcoming Adversities in Robotic Mitral Valve Surgery Nirav Patel 12 + 3 Min
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Trans - Axillary DVR Ahmed Ghazy 12 + 3 Min
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM Endoscopic Tricuspid valve surgery Tomas Holubec 12 + 3 Min
10:30 – 10:45 Mitral Lifetime Management : The first Operation Matters Most Anbarasu Mohanraj 12 + 3 Min
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM Global Horizons in Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery: Integrating Asian Clinical Expertise into Universal Practise Avenilo L Aventura 12 + 3 Min
Debate
11:00 AM – 11:08 AM Should All Mitral Valve Surgeries Be Performed Endoscopically? Ram Prassath 8 Min
11:08 AM – 11:16 AM Should All Mitral Valve Surgeries Be Performed Robotically? Sahin Senay 8 Min
11:16 AM – 11:18 AM Rebuttal - Ram Prassath 2 Min
11:18 AM – 11:20 AM Rebuttal - Sahin Senay 2 Min
Live Case Discussion - 11:20 AM – 12:00 PM
Anchor: Adil Sadiq, Piroze M. Davierwala
Chairpersons: Joseph Lamelas, Nirav Patel, Sathyaki P Nambala, Sahin Senay
DAY 1 (20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM SESSION B -2 Endoscopic & Robotic Mitral Valve Surgery
Anchor: Mohd Rehan Sayeed, Shiv Kumar Nair
Chairpersons: Ritwick Raj Bhuyan, Vaibhav Mishra, Namrata Gaur, C S Hiremath
Panelists: Gumiah Mahesh, Mukesh Goel, Dharmendra Kumar Srivastava, Swapnil Despande
12:00 PM – 12:15 PM Good and Bad of surgical ablation for Afib- what is the data? Niv Ad 12+3 Min
12:15 PM – 12:30 PM Redo endoscopic mitral valve surgery – Tips and tricks Peyman Sardari Nia 12+3 Min
12:30 PM – 12:45 PM Redo Robotic-Assisted Mitral Valve Surgery Raghu M. G. 12+3 Min
12:45 PM – 1:00 PM Lifetime Management After Mitral Valve Disease Chirag Doshi 12+3 Min
DAY 1 (20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
LUNCH Symposium 20th November 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
New Horizons in Cardiac Surgery: Evidence, Innovation & Outcomes
Introductory Address Prof. Pieter Kappetein
Advancing Coronary Care
From the Lancet to Clinical Practice: Long - Term Outcomes of MICS CABG from the MIST Trail Sathyaki Nambala
Beyond OPCAB: The role of LAA Management towards More Complete Cardiac Care Hiroshi Tsuneyoshi
Evolving Aortic Valve Care
SAVR & TAVR: A cardiologist Perspective Ravinder Rao
Avalus Ultra: The value of the future Sahin Senay
Discussion
Live case 1: Telesurgery MVR with MantraAsana from the Conference Venue to Manipal Hospital Jaipur
Live Case 2: TAVR from Manipal Hospital, Dwarka New Delhi
2:00 PM – 4:35 PM SESSION B -3 Structural Heart
Anchor: Praveen Chandra, Sai Satish
Chairpersons: Vadim A Popov, Zainulabedin Hamdulay, Manik Chopra, Gumiah Mahesh
Panelists: Ajeet Bana, Ajay Kaul, Vikas Thakran, Nagendra Singh Chouhan
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Transcatheter Valves: Where Do We Stand Today? Vinayak Bapat 12+3 Min
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM Update on TMVR- Newer Technologies Gry Dahle 12+3 Min
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM If I Knew I would treat this patient in the future, which valve would I choose today ? Ravinder Rao 12+3 Min
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM TAVI - When Transfemoral is not possible - Transaxillary, Transcarotid, Direct Aortic and Transvenous Manik Chopra 12+3 Min
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Lifetime Management of Aortic Valve Disease: What Should Be the Approach in a 50-Year-Old Patient? Index Procedure – SAVR or TAVR Ranjit Deshpande 12+3 Min
Debate
3:15 PM – 3:23 PM Surgery Is the First Choice for Bicuspid Aortic Valve Kunal Sarkar 8 Min
3:23 PM – 3:31 PM TAVI for Bicuspid Aortic Valve Praveen Chandra 8 Min
3:31 PM – 3:33 PM Rebuttal Kunal Sarkar 2 Min
3:33 PM – 3:35 PM Rebuttal Praveen Chandra 2 Min
3:35 PM – 4:05 PM M-TEER - For Primary Mitral Valve Pathology Sai Satish 12+3 Min
4:05 PM – 4:20 PM TAVI Explanation Techniques: The Modern-Day Truth – How I Do It Vinayak Bapat 12+3 Min
4:20 PM – 4:35 PM TAVI catastrophe - How Surgeons should manage it? Budhaditya Chakraborty 12+3 Min
4:35 PM – 4:50 PM Surgical Excellence Meets Cardiology Precision: Collaboration in the Modern Era Yan Efrata Sembiring 12+3 Min
4:50 PM – 5:05 PM Does the Heart Team really exists in India? Sai Satish 12+3 Min
DAY 1 (20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
SESSION B - 4 Invited Lectures
Moderator: Yugal K Mishra, Kenny Sin, Eugene Sim
5:05 PM – 5:20 PM Robotic Cardiac Technology: Where Is It Heading? Darla Hutton 15 Min
5:20 PM – 5:35 PM Evolution of Robotic Technology Indian Contribution Sudhir Srivastava 15 Min
5:35 PM – 5:50 PM The Renaissance of Mitral Valve Repair Theo Kofidas 15 Min
5:50 PM– 6:05 PM Severe tricuspid regurgitation, when to replace and when to opt for TTVR Denis Bouchard 15 Min
6:05 PM – 6:20 PM Endoscopic Aortic Valve replacement considerations from a mixed Asian population Theo Kofidas 15 Min
6:20 PM – 6:35 PM Does the future belong to super specialists? Kunal Sarkar 15 Min
20th - November Inauguration 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
8:30 onwards Band Performance by "Indian Ocean" followed by Dinner
SMISCTSI/ ISMICS/ATCSA Final PROGRAMME
DAY 1 (20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
HALL - 404 - B, 4th Floor
9:00 AM – 11:02 AM SESSION 1- Redo Surgery
Anchor: Lalit Kapoor, Anubhav Gupta
Chairpersons: Ajit Pradhan, Vikas Ahlawat, Sandeep Srivastav, Syed Asrar Ahmed Qadri
Moderator: Bijoy Rajbanshi, Hyuk Ahn, Nadzir Juanda, Punnarerk Thongcharoen
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM Redo cardiac surgery: Have they become safer Basheer A Kareem 12+3 MIN
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM Advances in Redo Mitral Valve Surgery Sethuratnam Rajan 12+3 MIN
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM “Redo Aortic Valve Surgery: How I Do It” V V Bashi 12+3 MIN
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM Redo Bentall Procedure Anil Bhan 12+3 MIN
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Redo Robotic Mitral Valve Surgery: Clinical Outcomes, Technical Feasibility, and Future Horizons M M Yusuf 12+3 MIN
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM REDO AVR Satyajit Bose 12+3 MIN
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM Addressing small aortic root challenges in the Asian population—how ULTRA can offer solutions Dhiren Shah 12+3 MIN
10:45 AM – 10:53 AM FROM SURGERY TO BALLOON- The Interventional Bridge in Post-Repair Restenosis - Extending Native Valve Lifespan to Defer Early Redo Valve Replacement Ashiq Nihmathullah 6+2 Min
10:53 AM – 11:01 AM 6+2 Min
11:08 AM – 10:23 AM 6+2 Min
DAY 1 (20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
10:55 AM – 1:00 AM SESSION 2 - Coronary
Anchor: T.S Mahant, Babha Nanda Das
Chairpersons: Keita Kikuchi, Vaibhav Mishra, Prateek Bhatnagar
Moderator: Sanjay Kumar, Harpreet Wasir, Adil Rizvi
11:00 AM – 11:12 AM Total Myocardial Revascularization with LIMA and RIMA as Inflow Grafts Ramji Mehrotra 10+2 MIN
11:12 AM – 11:24 AM Early Experience with Robotic Assisted CABG using the DV5 Chenghon Yap 10+2 MIN
11:24 AM – 11:36 AM Robotic-Assisted Total Arterial Myocardial Revascularization M.M. Yusuf 10+2 MIN
11:36 AM – 11:44 AM Results of Total arterialization OPCAB with Aortic non-touch technique in Chaophrayayommarat Hospital, Suphanburi, Thailand Peerapat Kongmalai 6+2 Min
11:44 AM – 11:52 AM Early Outcomes and Complete Revascularization in Dialysis-Dependent Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Md. Abir Tazim Chowdhury 6+2 Min
11:52 AM – 12:00 PM Robotic assisted MICS CABG in Fuwai hospital in China-my 264 cases experience Sheng Wang 6+2 Min
12:00 PM – 12:08 PM Arterial First Strategy for Diffuse Coronary Artery Disease: Experience with OPCAB and Coronary Endarterectomy Sandeep Shrivastava 6+2 Min
12:08 PM – 12:20 PM Technique, Angiographic evaluation and long - term follow up of Multivessel LIMA RADIAL Y MICS Manish Porwal 10+2 Min
12:20 PM – 12:32 PM Developing a Robotic TECAB Program: From Vision to Implementation Lalitaditya Malik 10+2 MIN
12:32 PM – 12:44 PM Minimally Invasive CABG in Obese Patients Ergun Demirsoy 10+2 MIN
12:45 PM – 1:10 PM J&J Panel Discussion Transforming Patient Outcome in MICS Lessons from Global & India Experience Bob Kiaii (Moderator) Panelist Husam Balkhy, Yugal K Mishra, Sushan Mukhopadhyah, Nagesh Ayasola 25 Min
1:10 PM – 2:00 PM Lunch
DAY 1 (20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY) Hall 404 B
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM SESSION 3 - Mitral Robotic
Anchor: Bob Kiaii, Mohd Rehan Sayeed
Chairpersons: Ritwick Raj Bhuyan, Pankaj Maheshwari, Ramji Mehrotra, Sanjay Gupta
Moderator: Nagesh Ayasola, Sandeep Srivastav, Anubhav Gupta, Udgeath Dhir
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Combined Robotic-Assisted MVR & Robotic MIDCAB- Operative Video Nagesh Aysola 10+5 MIN
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM Bilateral Mini- thoracotomy for combined MIDCAB and Mitral Valve Repair- Operative Video Ergun Demirsoy 10+5 MIN
2:30 PM – 2:38 PM Short-Term Outcomes of Totally Endoscopic Robotic Mitral Valve Repair Sheng Wang 6+2 Min
2:38 PM – 2:46 PM Mid-term performance of Miltonia Bi-leaflet Mechanical Prosthetic Valve in Mitral Valve Replacement Surgery. Nirupam Sekhar Chakraborty 6+2 Min
2:46 PM – 2:54 PM Rheumatic Mitral Valve Repair: Surgical Technique and Clinical Outcomes in Our Cohort Shipra Shrivastava 6+2 Min
2:54 PM – 3:02 PM Total Chordal Preservation in Robotic Mitral Valve Replacement: An Evolving Indian Paradigm Harish Badami 6+2 Min
3:02 PM – 3:10 PM Safety and Durability of Totally Endoscopic Mitral Valve Surgery: A Single-Center Experience Chakkraphun Jampates 6+2 Min
3:10 AM – 3:18 AM Transition from Endoscopic Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair to Robotic Mitral Valve Repair: Key Steps and Clinical Considerations Sheng Wang 6+2 Min
3:18 AM – 3:26 AM Comparative outcomes of robotic versus non-robotic cardiac surgery during establishment of a Robotic Cardiac Surgery program: First 141 cases Varun Bansal 6+2 Min
3:26 AM – 3:41 AM Robotic-Assisted Mitral Valve Repair Bob Kiaii 12+3 MIN
3:41 PM - 4:06 PM Mitral Valve Replacement with the Mantra Robotic System Nitin Kumar Rajput 12+3 MIN
DAY 1 (20TH NOVEMBER FRIDAY) Hall 404 B
4:06 AM – 6:00 AM SESSION 4 - Techniques which are Changing Cardiac Practice
Anchor: Ganesh K Mani, Amol Kumar Bhoje
Chairpersons: Harkant Singh, S. Thiagarajmurthy, S.S. Sidhu, Sandeep Singh
Moderator: Shailesh Jain, Anand Mishra, Vijay Gupta, Akhil Rustagi
4:06 PM – 4:21 PM How I do it Mitral Valve Replacement Anubhav Gupta 12+3 MIN
4:21 PM – 4:36 PM TTFM: Evidence to date and the Edinburgh Experience Vipin Zamvar 12+3 MIN
4:36 PM– 4:51 PM Robotic Assisted ASD closure Sudarshan G Thimmaiah 12+3 MIN
4:51 PM – 5:06 PM AI in Cardiac Surgery Transforming Outcomes & Shaping future Siva Muthukumar 12+3 MIN
5:06 PM – 5:21 PM Trans Axilliary Valve Replacements S. Thiagarajmurthy 12+3 MIN
5:21 PM – 5:36 PM Small Incisions, Giant Leaps - Sri Lanka’s Journey from MICS to Robotic Cardiac Surgery Rajistha Y De Silva 12+3 MIN
5:36 PM – 5:51 PM Homograft Banking Challenges of the region Jacob Jamesraj 12+3 MIN
5:51 PM – 6:06 PM Sutureless AVR versus TAVR Z S Meherwal 12+3 MIN
6:06 PM – 6:16 PM Robotic AVR with Perceval (Operative Video) Saurabh Varshney 10 Min
International Coronary Congress - 2026
Dr. David Taggart Hall 6th Floor
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
7:45 AM – 8:05 AM Welcoming Remarks and Program Overview
Welcome to the Global Coronary Operating Room John D. Puskas
Gianluca Torregrossa
Torsten Doenst
Program Overview
How Today Will Change the Way You Perform CABG John D. Puskas
Gianluca Torregrossa
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
8:05 AM – 11:00 AM Session 1: Live TECAB & Surgery-in-a-Box Videos
Live TECAB Case with Intuitive DV5
Moderator Nirav Patel
Operators Gianluca Torregrossa, Husam Balkhy
Integrated Surgery-in-a-Box Videos
Moderator John D. Puskas
Off-pump Sternotomy Anaortic CABG (MAG/TAR) Hiroshi Niinami
Off-pump CABG: How I Teach It Piroze Davierwala
CABG in Women in the UK Rashmi Yadav
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Special Lecture: Remembering Dr. David Taggart
Dr. David Taggart: The Man, The Surgeon, The Scientist John D. Puskas
Working with Dr. David Taggart for 15 Years on the ART Trial Marcus Flather
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Session -2: Mechanistic Aspects of CABG
Moderators: Torsten Doenst, Lokeswara Rao Sajja
How CABG Works: The Physiology Behind Surgical Revascularization Torsten Doenst
Rethinking Complete Revascularization in 2026: In the Era of Optimized Medical Therapy, Is BITA Enough? Marcus Flather
Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls of Multi-arterial Grafting John D. Puskas
Panel Discussion
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM INDUSTRY SPONSORED LUNCH SYMPOSIA
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Concurrent Session 3A: CABG and AF
Moderators: Kevin Hodges, Prasanna Simha Mohan Rao,
Keynote Lecture: Atrial Fibrillation in the CABG Patient: What We Know, What We Ignore, and What Must Change Niv Ad
Simplifying AF Treatment During CABG: The Role of Non-Atriotomy Ablation Gianluca Torregrossa
Gemini and Penditure: Expanding the Surgical Toolbox for AF in OPCAB John D. Puskas
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
Debate: Postoperative AF After CABG: To Anticoagulate or Not?
Pro: Postoperative AF Is Stroke Until Proven Otherwise: Why I Anticoagulate Niv Ad
Con: Postoperative AF Is Not Chronic AF: Why Routine Anticoagulation Is Overtreatment Torsten Doenst
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Concurrent Session 3B: Ki-Bong Kim Abstract Award Session I – Contemporary CABG: Minimally Invasive, Robotic, and Off-Pump Approaches
Moderators: Maria Comanici, Shilpa Suresh,
Long-term Angiographic Patency and Modes of Graft Failure Following Robotic-assisted Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass: A 15-year Single-centre Experience Durr Al-Hakim, Amit Sharma
Long-term Survival Following Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass of the Left Anterior Descending Artery Comparison with the Matched General Population Janusz Konstanty-Kalandyk, Jacek Piatek, Przemyslaw Ptak, Piotr Sliwinski, Vladyslav Kyslyi
Bilateral Internal Mammary Artery Harvesting Using a Novel Double-docking Technique for Robotic-assisted Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Single-surgeon Experience of 513 Consecutive Patients Meeranghani Mohamed Yusuf
In-hospital and Mid-term Results of MIDCAB Technology: The Experience of One Center Vadim Popov, Kirill Kozyrin, Maksim Anishchenko, Egor Malyshenko, Natalia Popova, Amiran Revishvili A.V. Vishnevsky National Medical Research Center of Surgery, Moscow, Russian Federation
Hybrid Coronary Revascularization in a Contemporary Single- and Multivessel MIDCAB Program: Patient Selection, Coronary Complexity, and Early- to Mid-term Outcomes Manuel J. Sanatnder, Sonja Dib, Mardus Aiyana, Daniel Todorov, Aschraf El Essawi, Bernd Danner, Bernd Niemann, Ingo Kutschka, A. Fawad Jebran
Women Undergoing RA-MIDCAB: Outcomes from a Contemporary Cohort Michele Dell'Aquila, Rohit Ganduboina, Joshua Newman, Robert Kalimi, Alexander Iribarne, Frank Manetta, Nirav Patel
Is Off-pump CABG Associated with Reduced Postoperative Dialysis and In-hospital Mortality in Patients with Pre-existing Renal Dysfunction? An IPTW-adjusted Analysis Lokeswara R. Sajja Lokeswara R. Sajja¹, Gopichand Mannam¹, Anishkaa Mandadi², Aditya Koppula³, Sriramulu Sompalli¹, Satya Bhaskara Raju Dandu¹
Anaortic Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Octogenarians: 10-year Clinical Results Sotirios N. Prapas, Konstantinos Katsavrias, Ioannis Linardakis, Antonio M. Calafiore, Styliani Papandreopoulou, Vassiliki (Vicky) Prapa, Fotini Ntanou
Time-varying Comparative Effectiveness of Off-pump Versus On-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: A 27-year Era-stratified Causal Survival Analysis Maria Comanici, Amina Khalil, Nandor Marczin, Sunil Bhudia, Shahzad Raja
Off-pump Versus On-pump CABG and In-hospital Outcomes: An IPTW-adjusted Analysis of 17,527 Patients Across Sex and Diabetes Subgroups Lokeswara R. Sajja¹, Gopichand Mannam¹, Anishkaa Mandadi², Aditya Koppula³, Sriramulu Sompalli¹, Satya Bhaskara Raju Dandu¹
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Concurrent Session 4A: Off-pump CABG
Moderators: Husam Balkhy, Gianluca Torregrossa
Keynote Lecture: Two Million Patients Later: What the STS Database Really Tells Us About Off-Pump CABG John D. Puskas
Off-Pump CABG at Scale: Lessons from High-Volume Indian Practice Anil R. Jain
OPCAB Bypass is a Differentiator in my Practice Gianluca Torregrossa
Practicing Off-Pump in 2026: A Junior Surgeon’s Perspective Hristo Kirov
Panel Discussion: What Will it Take to Safely Expand Adoption of OPCAB?
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Concurrent Session 4B: Abstract Session II – Rhythm Management and Perioperative Strategies in CABG
Moderators: Hiroshi Niinami, Prateek Bhatnagar
Concomitant Surgical Ablation During CABG Using a Novel Bipolar Radiofrequency Clamp: Outcomes from the Multicenter TRAC-AF Registry Gianluca Torregrossa
Temporal Trends and Predictors of Concomitant Surgical Atrial Fibrillation Ablation During Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A National Analysis Maria Comanici
Study of Strategies for the Prevention of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation in the PULVAB RCT Vadim Popov
Comparative Analysis of Surgical Treatment Strategies for Concomitant Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation During Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Vadim Popov
Combination of Minimally Invasive Coronary Bypass Surgery and the Epicardial Left Atrial Ablation Pavel Shilenko, Sr.
Posterior Pericardiotomy During MIDCAB Surgery: Impact on Pericardial Effusion, Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation, and Early Outcomes Fawad Jebran
Comparison of Left Atrial Appendage Exclusion Techniques During Maze Procedure and CABG Vadim Popov
Ten-year Outcomes of Concomitant Radiofrequency Pulmonary Vein Ablation and CABG in Patients with Various Forms of Atrial Fibrillation Mikhail Svetkin
Diagnostic Value of Perioperative Echocardiography for the Detection of Perioperative Myocardial Infarction After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Joseph Kletzer
Del Nido Cardioplegia Versus Blood Cardioplegia for Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: A Retrospective Propensity-score-matched Cohort Study Kei Woldendorp
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM Coffee Break
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
4:45 PM – 6:00 PM Concurrent Session 5A: Video Masterclass
Moderators: Hiroshi Niinami, Kevin Hodges
Coronary Endarterectomy: A Physiological Approach to Surgical Reconstruction Shuichiro Takanashi
Coronary Stentectomy: When PCI Failure Becomes a Surgical Problem John D. Puskas
Gastroepiploic Artery Grafting: Expanding the Arterial Toolbox in CABG Hiroshi Niinami
Impella-Supported CABG: Extending the Boundaries of Beating-Heart Surgery Maria Comanici
Avoiding the Re-Entry: Minimally Invasive Strategies for Redo Coronary Surgery Piroze Davierwala
TECAB in South Korea: My First Off-pump BITA TECAB Case Min-Seok Kim
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
4:45 PM – 6:00 PM Concurrent Session 5B: Abstract Session III - Conduits, Graft Configuration, and Quality Assessment
Moderators: Rashmi Yadav, Anil R. Jain
Multiple Versus Single Arterial Coronary Bypass Grafting: A 27-year Single-centre Analysis of Short-term Outcomes and Long-term Survival Using Propensity-matched Cohorts Maria Comanici
Multiple Versus Single Arterial Coronary Bypass Grafting: A 27-year Causal Analysis of Lifetime Survival, Restricted Mean Survival Time, and Biological Age-equivalent Benefit Maria Comanici
A Novel Technology for Minimally Invasive Radial Artery Harvesting During Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Fabrizio Rosati
Accessible Arterial Grafting: A Non-endoscopic Minimally Invasive Radial Artery Harvesting Technique for CABG Nikita Konovalov
Skeletonized Versus Pedicled Left Internal Mammary Artery Harvesting in Diabetic Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Tulio Caldonazo
Comparative Long-term Outcomes of Subclavian Artery Inflow CABG Versus Conventional CABG: Propensity-score Matched Analysis Doosang Kim
Conduit Configuration Approaches for Enhanced Arterial Grafting in OPCAB Sandeep Shrivastava
Early Graft Patency After Composite Versus Aortocoronary Bypass Grafting: Comparison Between Preoperative Computed Tomography-derived Fractional Flow Reserve and Intraoperative Transit-time Flow Measurement Min-Seok Kim
Intraoperative TTFM on the Arrested Heart: Advantages for Assessing Internal Mammary Artery Graft Quality Mojgan Laali
Comparisons of Medistim Transit-time Flow Measurements of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts Across Cardiopulmonary Bypass Phases Shiv Verma
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY)
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM E-Poster Competition and Networking Reception
Judges: John D. Puskas, Gianluca Torregrossa, Rashmi Yadav
P1. Coronary No-reflow Beyond the Cath Lab: Can It Occur After CABG? Mohamed Eraqi
P2. One Mammary, Three Coronary Territories: Is Limited Revascularization Always Enough for Unexpected Porcelain Aorta? Aleksandar V. Milutinovic
Estimating the Capacity of the Left Internal Mammary Artery (LIMA) In Situ as a Composite Conduit with the Right Internal Mammary Artery (RIMA) to Provide Sufficient Blood Flow to Revascularize Both the Left and Right Coronary Systems During Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Vikram Pal Singh
P4. Off-pump CABG in a Patient with Dextrocardia, Situs Inversus Totalis, and Partial Large Bowel Malrotation Naveen Pandarinathan
P5. Redo Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass for Limited Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy After Heart Transplant: A Case Report Yoseb Lee
P6. Expanding Minimally Invasive Coronary Surgery: Right-sided Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Bypass Danko Grujic
P7. Coronary Endarterectomy During Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: Tips, Tricks, and Technical Pearls Surendra Patel
P8. Orthotopic Reconstruction of Left Main Coronary Aneurysm Sandeep N. Bharadwaj
P9. Box Lesion Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation in Patients Undergoing CABG: How I Do It in 3 Minutes Vasily Kaleda
P10. Left-sided MIDCAB for Distal Right Coronary Revascularization in Complex RCA Anatomy Fawad Jebran
P11. Comparison of Vein Integrity in Endoscopic Versus Open Vein Harvesting Using the Same Patient as Case and Control: A Single-center Experience Fabrizio Ceresa
P12. Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Requiring Coronary Stentectomy and Endarterectomy. Masahito Minakawa
P13. Minimally Invasive Double-access Surgery as a Tactic for Combined Coronary Artery and Aortic Valve Disease in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease Maksud Muradov
SMICTSI - ATCSA Thoracic Program
Hall – 403 / 4th Floor
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY )
9:00 AM – 10:31 AM Thoracic Session 1 | 9:00 AM – 10:31 AM (12 min presentation + 2 min discussion)
Chairpersons: Puja Khaitan, Balasubramanium KR, Ram Mohan, Sarvana Rajamainckam
Coordinator: Dr. Shaiwal Khandelwal
9:00 AM – 9:14 AM Minimally Invasive Surgery after Chemo-Immunotherapy Antonio Ramos
9:14 AM – 9:28 AM Subxiphoid Access for Anatomical Lung Resections- (Online) Alan Sihoe (Virtual)
9:28 AM – 9:42 AM Endobronchial Therapies for Early Lung Cancer- (Online) Calvin Ng (Virtual)
9:42 AM – 9:56 AM Sub Lobar Resections: Operative Tips, Tricks & Outcomes Akif Turna
9:56 AM – 10:10 AM Transsternal Approaches for Left main bronchial surgery S. Bal
10:10 AM – 10:24 AM Training for thoracic surgery in Asia: The ATEP success story Jang Ming Lee
10:24 AM – 10:31 AM Feasibility of Predicting Pathological Prognostic Factors and Selecting Sublobar Resection Procedures Using Lesion SUVmax in Small Lung Cancers Katsuo Kojima
MORNING BREAK • 10:31 AM – 11:00 AM (30 MINUTES)
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY )
11:00 AM – 12:03 PM Thoracic Session 2 | 11:00 AM – 12:03 PM (12 min presentation + 2 min discussion)
Chairpersons: Punnarek Thongchereon, Manjunath, George K., Jang Ming Lee
Coordinator: Narendra Agarwal
11:00 AM – 11:14 AM Management of Complications in Robotic Thoracic Surgery Ali Zamir Khan
11:14 AM – 11:28 AM Uniportal Robotic Thoracic Surgery Akif Turna
11:28 AM – 11:42 AM Extending indications for robotic chest surgery comes with requirement to avert disaster
11:42 AM – 11:56 AM ERAS Ram Mohan Kandadai
11:56 AM – 12:03 PM Airway or Aorta First? Surgical Prioritization in a Complex Mediastinal Trauma Golam Mursalin
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY )
12:03 PM – 1:06 PM Thoracic Session 3 | 12:03 PM – 1:06 PM (12 min presentation + 2 min discussion)
Chairpersons: Prof. Rajinder Parshad, Prof. Jang Ming Lee, Dr. Anil Kapoor, Dr. Mohit Joshi
Coordinator: Dr. Kamran Ali
12:03 PM – 12:17 PM AI in thoracic surgery - Thoracic surgery meets Silicon Valley Punnarek Thongchareon
12:17 PM – 12:31 PM Innovations - from table to market Ali Zamir Khan
12:31 PM – 12:45 PM Financial management for thoracic surgeons: Life after Retirement Sanghoon Jheon
12:45 PM – 12:59 PM Surgery for Pulmonary Aspergilloma SK Jain
12:59 PM – 1:06 PM Role of navigational bronchoscopy in management of lung cancer Sucheit Walia
1:06 PM – 2:00 PM LUNCH BREAK & NETWORKING
Thoracic Session 4 | 2:00 PM – 3:31 PM (12 min presentation + 2 min discussion)
Chairpersons: Antonio Ramos, Darlong LM, Abhishek Jain, Shubham Garg
Coordinator: Nikhil Rane
2:00 PM – 2:14 PM Innovations in Chest wall deformity surgery Shyam Kolvekar
2:14 PM – 2:28 PM Complex Chest wall & Sternal resections Raman Deshpande
2:28 PM – 2:42 PM The Impact of Single port MIE for ERAS after esophagectomy Jang Ming Lee
2:42 PM – 2:56 PM Management of Chest wall sinuses Ravindra Dewan
2:56 PM – 3:10 PM Aiming for a zero-leak robotic Ivor Lewis Esophagectomy: Anastomosis and operative techniques and pitfalls Cos Bizakis
3:10 PM – 3:24 PM Salvage esophagectomy - where are we now? Puja Khaitan
3:24 PM – 3:31 PM Mobilise first, reconstruct later: right thoracoscopic distal tracheobronchial and carinal release for complex left main bronchus reconstruction via left-sided approach Gunalan Govindarajan
AFTERNOON BREAK • 3:31 PM – 4:00 PM
Thoracic Session 5: Thoracic Oncology Tumor Board & Scientific Papers
Moderator: A Z Khan
Presenters: Suchiet Walia (Registrar, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, UK); Sumedha Mukherjee (Resident, Max Hospital Saket, India)
Panelists: Akif Turna, S. Bal, Raman Deshpande, Sarvana Rajamainckam, Sandeep Batra, Urmi Mukherjee, Kuldeep Sharma
4:00 PM – 4:46 PM Thoracic Oncology Tumor Board Case Discussions & Interactive Review Panelists & Presenters
4:46 PM – 4:53 PM CD55 functions as a metabolic-immune checkpoint by mediating complement-ferroptosis crosstalk in non-small cell lung cancer Guangyao Shan
4:53 PM – 5:00 PM A Thermo-Information Theoretic Model of Tumor–Host Interface Dynamics in Thoracic Surgery T. Naveen Keerthi
Thoracic Session 6: Invited Videos | 5:00 PM – 5:40 PM (6 min presentation + 2 min discussion)
Chairpersons: Cos Bizakis, Nikhil Rane, Rajat Saxena, Ranjan Sapkota, Shilpa Gandhi
Coordinator: Pallavi Purwar
5:00 PM – 5:08 PM Surgical Management of Carinal Tumours: A Challenging Case George Karimundackal
5:08 PM – 5:16 PM Complex airway reconstruction Balasubramanium KR
5:16 PM – 5:24 PM Big Lesion, Small Incisions: VATS Resection of a Giant Mediastinal Cyst Roman Dutta
5:24 PM – 5:32 PM Extended Thoracic Resections: Pushing the Boundaries of Resectability Sarvana Rajamainckam
5:32 PM – 5:40 PM From Crisis to Control: Managing Major Bleeding in VATS Manjunath
Thoracic Session 7: Invited Videos | 5:40 PM – 6:20 PM (6 min presentation + 2 min discussion)
Chairpersons: Ram Mohan, Pallavi Purwar, Ram Karan Choudhary, Sonali Mittal, Biswarup
Coordinator: Shilpa Gandhi
5:40 PM – 5:48 PM When Correction Gets Complicated: Challenges in Chest Wall Surgery Darlong LM
5:48 PM – 5:56 PM Non-Intubated VATS for Iatrogenic Bronchopleural Fistula Amol Bhanushali
5:56 PM – 6:04 PM Extended Mediastinoscopy: Expanding the Boundaries of Mediastinal Access Shubham Garg
6:04 PM – 6:12 PM Left Main Stem Bronchoplasty Using a Pericardial Patch: A Lung-Sparing Approach Narendra Agarwal
6:12 PM – 6:20 PM VATS Pneumonectomy: Technical Challenges and Surgical Strategies Saraansh Bansal
SMICTSI - ATCSA Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Program
Hall 402 - 4th Floor
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY )
Session - 1 Fontan
Chairperson:- Manisha Chakarborty, Niraj Awasthi, Sukhjeet Singh
8:30 AM – 8:50 AM Augmenting non-compliant pulmonary vasculature for Fontan Gaurav Kumar
8:50 AM – 9:10 AM Addressing venous anomalies in Fontan patients Shingo Kasahara
9:10 AM – 9:30 AM Fontan Circuits, Modifications & Flow dynamics Sachin Talwar
9:30 AM – 9:50 AM Management of systemic outflow track obstruction after FONTAN OPERATION B R. Jagganath
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY )
Session - 2 Borderline LV
Chairperson:- Neeraj Aggarwal, Gaurav Garg, Subodh Satyarthy
9:50 AM – 10:10 AM Management of HLHS Shunji Sano
10:10 AM – 10:30 AM LV rehabilitation operations Shu Chen Huang
10:30 AM – 10:50 AM Role of 3 D printing & 3D VR in planning of complex congenital surgery Puneet Bhatla
10:50 AM – 11:10 AM Glenn & Super Glen: Good or bad for LV growth? Sunil Kaushal
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY )
Session - 3 Neonatal Cardiac Surgery
Chairperson:-Munesh Tomar, Mily Roy, Jay Relan
11:30 AM – 11:50 AM Conduit-less approaches to Common Arterial Trunk Sivakumar Sivalingam
11:50 AM – 12:10 PM Managing Interrupted Arch & Severe LVOTO Nyugen Ly Truong
12:10 PM – 12:30 PM Managing recurrent stenosis in arch patients Zohair Al Halees
12:30 PM – 12:50 PM Role of the Yusui operation today Raja Joshi
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY )
Session - 4 Ebstein's + Dysplastic Tricuspid Vavle repair
Chairperson:- Smita Mishra. Gaurav Agarwal, Shyamveer Singh Khangarot
2:00 PM – 2:20 PM AATS Expert Consensus Document on Ebstein: What's New? V Devagourou
2:20 PM – 2:40 PM Cone repair for ebsteins anomaly in neonates and infants Ashish Katewa
2:40 PM – 3:00 PM Managing Ebstenoid valve with other congenital leisons. Debashis Das
3:00 PM – 3:20 PM Management of Adult Ebsteins. Vijay Kumar Raju
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY )
Session - 5 Anomalous Coronaries
Chairperson:-Radha krishnan RamaKrishna, Vijay Agarwal
3:40 PM – 4:00 PM Surgery for AAOCA Zohair Al Halees
4:00 PM – 4:20 PM Assesment of Congenital Coronary anomalies Pre & Post Op Vinitha Nair
4:20 PM – 4:40 PM Takeuchi Repair: Still Meaningful? Rajsekhar
4:40 PM – 5:00 PM ALCAPA Repair Current Status & Strategy Amit Mishra
SMICTSI - ATCSA Final ERAS IN MINIMAL ACCESS CARDIAC SUGERY: Redefining Cardiac Care with Global Trends and Transforming Technologies
Hall 401 - 4th Floor
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY )
8:30 AM – 8:40 AM Program outline and expectations Naresh K Aggarwal/Dharmesh Aggarwal 10 Min
8:40 AM – 9:00 AM KEY NOTE - Minimal Access Cardiac Surgery - Introduction, Future and technology integration Theo Kofidas 20 Min
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY )
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM SESSION 1 - CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN MACS Chairperson - Jasvinder Kaur
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM ERAS in Cardiac Surgery: Principles, Evidence and Current Guidelines Alexander J Gregory 15 Min
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM Prehabilitation, Risk stratification and Patient Optimization Before Cardiac Surgery Arun Maheshwari 15 Min
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM One lung ventilation, lung isolation and lung protection strategies Sunil Dhole 15 Min
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM GDT for ERAS- Haemodynamic goals & challenges in restricted access - PAC & TOE MICS CABG Bhupesh Kumar 15 Min
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY )
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM SESSION 2 - MASTERING MACS CARE WITH ERAS Chairperson - Ashutosh Sharma
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Fast-Track Anesthesia and Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERACS) Yatin Mehta 15 Min
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM Opioid-Sparing Cardiac Anesthesia: Myth or Reality? Rajesh Chand 15 Min
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM Regional Analgesia for Cardiac ERAS: ESPB, SAPB and Paravertebral Blocks Poonam Malhotra 15 Min
10:46 AM – 11:00 AM What is new in analgesia - cold precision Shyam Kolvekar 15 Min
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY )
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM SESSION 3 - PERIOEPERATIVE CHALENGES IN MACS Chairpersons - Dharmesh Agrawal, Indra Malik
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM Postoperative Ventilation, ICU Care and Early Extubation Protocols Dibyendu Khan 15 Min
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM TTFM - Precision Grafting Vipin Zamwar 15 Min
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM NIRS (NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY) - Cerebral oximetry and tissue oximetry in MACS ( limb ischemia) Dheeraj Arora 15 Min
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM Blood Conservation and Patient Blood Management in ERAS Pathways - Cell salvage Arun Subramaniam Alexander J Gregory 15 Min
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY )
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM SESSION 4- ECO GUIDANCE Chairperson: Chirojit Mukherji
12:00 PM – 12:15 PM TOE - THE GPS OF CARDIAC TEAM- Cannualtion, CPB, de airing, complications Monalisa Datta 15 Min
12:15 PM – 12:30 PM 3D TEE assesment oF mitral valve repair Madhav Swaminathan 15 Min
12:30 PM – 12:45 PM High Resolution 3D TOE - Impact in MACS Dharmesh Agarwal 15 Min
12:45 PM – 1:00 PM Continous RV pressure monitoring in cardaic surgery Manos Spiridakis 15 Min
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY )
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM SESSION -5 | Chairperson: Naresh Aggarwal, Sanjay Goel
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Robotic TECAB - Anesthesiologist Role 15 Min
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM Anesthetic consideration for Robotic cardiac surgery Shradha Ayapan 15 Min
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM "Enhanced Recovery in Robotic Cardiac Surgery: Are We Ready for 24-Hour Discharge?" Dharmesh Aggarwal 15 Min
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM From OR to Enhanced Recovery : Anesthesia strategies for Minimal Access Pediatric Cardiac surgery Shreedhar Joshi 15 Min
3:00 PM– 3:15 PM Managing Intraoperative Emergencies: Conversion to Sternotomy, Bleeding and Air Embolism Ganapathy 15 Min
3:15 PM – 4:00 PM PANEL Discussion - “Is ERAS the New Standard in Cardiac Anesthesia?”
Moderator: Deepak Tempe
Panelist: Amit Rastogi, Indira Malik, Minati Choudhury, Anand
DAY 1 (20th NOVEMBER FRIDAY )
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CHALLENGE in MACS | Chairperson: Alex Gregory, G S Ramesh
4:00 PM – 4:15 PM Updates in Transcatheter valve implantation Chirojit Mukherjee 15 Min
4:15 PM – 4:30 PM Evoque: Echocardiograhic guidance:New kid on the block? Chirojit Mukherjee 15 Min
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM Redo cardiac surgery - MACS impact Bhuvnesh Kansara 15 Min
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM Role of Cytosorb Hemoadsorption in cardiac Surgery Patient Rohit Bhatia 15 Min
5:00 PM– 6:00 PM Workshop - ONE LUNG ANESTHESIA 60 Min
Moderators Jasbir Khanuja/ Naresh K Aggarwal, Amit Prakash, Mukesh Samplay, Rakesh Solanki
Closing Remarks
DAY - 2 SATURDAY - 21 NOVEMBER
SMISCTSI/ ISMICS/ATCSA Final PROGRAMME
DAY 2 (21ST NOVEMBER Saturday)
Dr K.M. Cherian Hall - 6th Floor
Time Title Speaker Duration
Breakfast Session How I Manage Complications
Anchor: Bob Kiaii
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM When Robotic Surgery goes Wrong Husam H Balkhy 15 Min
Complications Unique to Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery - Prevention & Rescue Nirav Patel 15 Min
Unanticipated disasters in Cardiac Surgery, how to think fast & Act Adil Sadiq 15 Min
Myectomy gone wrong: Surgical complications failed Myectomy & Rescue Strategies Praveen Verma 15 Min
DAY 2 (21ST NOVEMBER Saturday)
SESSION B -5 Minimally Invasive and Robotic Assisted Aortic Valve Surgery
Anchor: Vipin Zamvar, Arunkumar Ulganathan
Chairpersons: Bharat Dubey, Prasanna Simha, Sushan Mukhopadhyay, Vijay Grover
Panelists: Nitin Rajput, Ganesh Krishnan Iyer, Sethuratnam Rajan, Ramji Mehrotra
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM How to Become an Expert MICS-AVR Surgeon: A Step-by-Step Approach Joseph Lamelas 12+3 Min
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM Minimally Invasive AVR - How is it different from MICS-MVR? Gopichand Mannam 12+3 Min
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM Robotic AVR - Are we there? Goya Raikar 12+3 Min
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM Endoscopic AVR & Root widening Joerg Kempfert 12+3 Min
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Minimally Invasive AVR and Sutureless Valve - The perfect marriage Jose Chacko Periappuram 12+3 Min
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM Aortic Valve Sparing operation Surin Woragidpoonpol 12+3 Min
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM Minimally Invasive AVR Versus TAVR- Competitors or Complementary therapies Vinayak Bapat 12+3 Min
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM Endoscopic Aortic Valve replacement considerations from a mixed Asian population Theo Kofidas 12+3 Min
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Presidential Address
Anchor: Yugal K Mishra, Rajneesh Malhotra
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM SMICTSI President - Redefining Cardiothoracic Care: Global Trends and Transformative Technologies Yugal K Mishra 15 Min
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM ICC President - Advancing the State of the Art in Coronary Surgery John D. Puskas 15 Min
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM ISMICS President - Digital Impact of Surgical Robots – Insights from Large Health System Nirav Patel 15 Min
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM ATCSA President - Lung Cancer Among Asians Antonio B. Ramos 15 Min
Honored Guest Lectures
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Use of Artificial Intelligence in Modern Day Warfare Former Chief of Naval Staff Admiral (Retd.) Dinesh Kumar Tripathi 30 Min
12:30 PM – 12:50 PM Applications of Superconductivity in the Advancement of Cardiac Surgery Amarnath Ray 20 Min
Panel Discussion: Topic: Sustainability of Indian Healthcare Ecosystem - Current Perspectives & Future Directions
Anchor: Yugal K Mishra
Moderator: O.P. Yadava
Distinguished Penalists
12:50 PM – 1:30 PM Naresh Trehan Chairman & Managing Director, Medanta The Medicity 40 Min
Ashutosh Raghuvanshi Managing Director & CEO Fortis Healthcare
Abhay Soi Managing Director Max Healthcare
B Bhaskar Rao Managing Director KIMS Hospitals
Sudhir Srivastava Founder,Chairman and CEO SS Innovations
LUNCH (1:10 PM -2:00 PM)
DAY 2 (21ST NOVEMBER Saturday)
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM SESSION B - 6 Aorta & Arch Surgery
Anchor: Mohd Idhrees, Niranjan Hiremath
Chairpersons: Shiv Choudhary, Sanjay Kumar, Dinesh Mittal, Manish Porwal
Panelists: T.K. Jaykumar, Vivek Pillai, Amitabh Satsangi, Sameer Bhate
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Minimally Invasive Ascending Aortic and Arch Surgery Joseph Lamelas 12 + 3 Min
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM Minimally Invasive Arch Replacement Gopichand Mannam 12 + 3 Min
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM Post Bentall Giant Pseudo-Aneurysm of coronary Surgery - Video Anil Bhan 12 + 3 Min
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM Open Arch Repair Varun Shetty 12 + 3 Min
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM Emerging Trends in Aortic Arch Surgery Atanu Saha 12 + 3 Min
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Cannulation Strategies for Acute Aortic Dissection Mohd Idhrees 12 + 3 Min
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM Circulatory Arrest in Aortic Surgery J-Ph Verhoye 12 + 3 Min
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM Hybrid Arch Repair Niranjan Hiremath 12 + 3 Min
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM Open Conversion after Failed TEVAR V V Bashi 12 + 3 Min
DAY 2 (21ST NOVEMBER Saturday)
4:00 PM – 6:30 PM SESSION B -7 - Innovations, Emerging Technologies & Research
Anchor: Hermann Reichenspurner, O P Yadava, Pradeep Narayan
Chairpersons: Shiv Kumar Nair, Chenghon Yap, Jacob Jamesraj, Pankaj Kumar Gupta
Panelists: Suresh Joshi, Surinder Bazaz, Shantanu Pandey, Sanjeeth Peter
4:00 PM – 4:15 PM From ISMICS Consensus to Clinical Guidelines Pradeep Narayan 12 + 3 Min
4:15 PM – 4:30 PM Interim Analysis of Clinical Outcomes and Graft Patency in the PREDICT Trial Lokeswara Sajja 12 + 3 Min
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM STS database 8000 patients Analysis Chandershekar 12 + 3 Min
4:45 PM– 5:00 PM MIST trial - Update Piroze M. Davierwala 12 + 3 Min
5:00 PM – 5:15 PM Cardiac Surgery 2035: What Should the Operating Room Look Like? Robotics, AI, Digital Twins, Simulation, Telesurgery, Remote Monitoring and Precision Surgery Eugene Sim 12 + 3 Min
5:15 PM – 5:30 PM AI-Enabled Continuous Multimodal Surveillance in Post-Cardiac Surgery Patients: Beyond Hospital Walls Rahul Chandola 12 + 3 Min
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM From Art to Algorithms: the Era of Precision Surgery Peyman Sardari Nia 12 + 3 Min
5:45 PM – 6:00 PM Quality Metrics Beyond Mortality Vivek Jawali 12 + 3 Min
6:00 PM – 6:15 PM A new Era of Durability Confidence It is time to rethink what matters to patients John D. Puskas 12 + 3 Min
6:15 PM – 6:30 PM Heart Transplantation: Leveraging Innovation and Emerging Technologies to Achieve Superior Clinical Outcomes Hermann Reichenspurner 12 + 3 Min
6:30 PM – Presidential Dinner Hosted by SMICTSI President
DAY 2 (21ST NOVEMBER Saturday)
SMISCTSI/ ISMICS/ATCSA Final PROGRAMME
Hall - 404 B - 4th Floor
9:00 AM – 10:48 AM SESSION -5 Lets Learn from the Masters
Anchor: Praveen Verma, Vijit Koshy Cherian
Chairpersons: Anbarsu Mohanraj, Sanjeev Malhotra, Adarsh Kopulla, Sethuratnam Rajan
Moderators: Jatin Yadav, Raj Kumar Yadav, S.S Lohchab
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM Trans-Axillary Valve Surgery: How I Do It & Science behind cardiac surgery Mohd Rehan Sayeed 12 + 3 MIn
9:15 AM – 9:23 AM Multiple rib fractures with persistent pain but osteoporosis - any novel solution? Hari Kumar Sampath 6+2 Min
9:23 AM – 9:31 AM A Nonlinear Hemodynamic–Topological Model for Predictive Optimization in Valvular Heart Surgery T. Naveen Keerthi 6+2 Min
9:31 AM – 9:39 AM Real-Time Quantitative Left Ventricular Filling Assessment During Mitral Valve Repair Using a Pressure-Assisted Continuous Flow System Antonios Samothrakis 6+2 Min
9:39 AM – 9:47 AM Patient-Specific CFD Modeling to Predict Embolic-Prone Retrograde Hemodynamics During Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Surgery Mayank Singh 6+2 Min
9:47 AM – 9:55 AM Robotic Assisted Minimally Invasive Off Pump CABG in Adults with Dextrocardia: Worlds 1st Case series Milind Shah 6+2 Min
9:55 AM – 10:03 AM How I did it: Trans-Aortic and Trans-Apical Septal Myectomy for Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy with Left Ventricular Aneurysm and Multivessel Coronary Abdulrahman Aljualyi 6+2 Min
10:03 AM – 10:18 AM How I do it Combined Mitral Aortic Valve Surgery Denis Bouchard 12 + 3 Min
10:18 AM – 10:33 AM Managing the Arch in Type A Dissection Shiv Choudhary 12 + 3 Min
10:33 AM – 10:48 AM Addressing the Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation: What Evidence Say? Sanjeeth Peter 12 + 3 Min
Plenary Sessions on 6th Floor Dr K.M. Cherian Hall
LUNCH - 1:30 AM – 2:00 AM
DAY 2 (21ST NOVEMBER Saturday)
2:00 PM– 4:00 PM SESSION -6
Anchor: Denis Bouchard, Rajender Mathur
Chairpersons: Anirudh Mathur, Surendra Patel, Ratna Malika Kumar, Saurabh Juneja
Moderators: Abhay Kumar, Ashok Gupta, Sandeep Singh, Nirav Bansal
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM CARDIAC SURGERY 2.0 — IT’S NOT DYING, IT’S TRANSFORMING THROUGH ROBOTIC & MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY Ishant Singhla 12 + 3 Min
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM Extending Surgical Success beyond discharge - Remote Cardiac Rehab beyond CABG Rajneesh Malhotra 12 + 3 Min
2:30 PM– 2:45 PM Blood conservation excellence in current cardiac surgery Era Vivek Jawali 12 + 3 Min
2:45 PM – 2:53 PM Elective On Pump CABG for Coronary Artery Disease with Severe LV Dysfunction, LVEF <30% Swapnil Deshpande 6+2 Min
2:53 PM – 3:01 PM Minimally Invasive CABG in a Patient with an AICD: Bridging Surgical Access and Device Safety Karan Shekar 6+2 Min
3:01 PM – 3:09 PM Combined Mitral Valve Surgery and Trans-Aortic Septal myectomy by Minimally Invasive Right Anterior Mini-Thoracotomy: A Single-Center Experience Abdulrahman Aljualyi 6+2 Min
3:09 PM– 3:17 PM MICROVASCULAR DISEASE AND SMALL CORONARIES, DO WOMEN GET A RAW DEAL IN CABG Namrata Gaur 6+2 Min
3:17 PM – 3:25 PM Four Hundred plus minimally access cardic surgery, experiance in Nepal Anil Bhattarai 6+2 Min
3:25 PM– 3:40 PM Concomitant Minimally Invasive Cardiac DVR + CABG Arunkumar Ulganathan 12 + 3 Min
3:40 PM – 3:55 PM Surgical Strategy in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy with very poor diffuse coronary targets Sridhar L F 12 + 3 Min
DAY 2 (21ST NOVEMBER Saturday)
3:55 PM – 6:21 PM SESSION -7 Innovation & Contemporary Cardiac Care
Anchor: Niv Ad, Bob Kiaii
Chairpersons: Vivek Kumar Gupta, Manish Porwal, Vijit Koshy Cherian, Kishan Magatapalli
Moderators: Jacob Jamesraj, Anand Deodhar, Satish Mathew, Sarju Ralhan
3:55 PM – 4:10 PM Minimally Invasive AVR Versus TAVR- Competitors or Complementary therapies Vinayak Bapat 12 + 3
4:10 PM – 4:25 PM A New Technique for Aortic Root Enlargement -Talk Harinder Singh Bedi 12 + 3
4:25 PM – 4:37 PM Surgical Nano PF ablation for afib Niv Ad 12 + 3
4:37 PM – 4:45 PM Navigating the MICS Learning Curve: Practical Lessons from the Initial 150 Cases. Sachin Sanagar 6+2 Min
4:45 PM – 4:53 PM The axillary inflow as a reasionable option for MICSOPCAB Nuttapon Arayawudhikul 6+2 Min
5:01 PM– 5:09 PM An alternative way of cannulation in minimally invasive surgery for mitral valve surgery and atrial septal defect surgery Abhay Choudhary 6+2 Min
5:09 PM – 5:17 PM 10-year Surgical Outcomes of Aortic Valve Reconstruction Using Three Same-Sized Autologous Pericardial Leaflets Takeo Tedoriya 6+2 Min
5:17 PM – 5:25 PM Long term Result compare between Degenerative and Rheumatic Mitral surgery concomitant with RF ablation Choosak Kasemsarn 6+2 Min
5:25 PM – 5:33 PM MIDCAB As the Primary Approach for CABG -An Indian Single Centre Study Sushan Mukhopadhyay 6+2 Min
5:33 PM – 5:41 PM Intraoperative Hemoadsorption During Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Complex Cardiac Surgery: A Retrospective Comparative Cohort Study from Malaysia Maheswaran Menon 6+2 Min
5:41 PM – 5:49 PM A Proposed Ultrafiltration and Cardioplegia Scavenging Protocol for Single-Dose Crystalloid Cardioplegia in Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Jayantika Uniyal 6+2 Min
5:49 PM – 5:57 PM On-Pump Beating-Heart Minimally Invasive Pulmonary Valve Replacement with Pulmonary Annular Augmentation via Left Anterior Minithoracotomy in an Adult: A Case Report Prem Prakash 6+2 Min
5:57 PM – 6:05 PM From Adoption to Maturity: The Learning Curve of Totally Endoscopic CABG (Non-Robotic) Across 180 Consecutive Cases Sandip Sardar 6+2 Min
6:05 PM– 6:13 PM When Mechanical Valves Turn Against the Heart: Prosthetic Valve Thrombosis in Low- and Middle-Income Countries—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Barian Muchtar Pratama 6+2 Min
6:13 PM – 6:21 PM Invasive fungal encephalitis with ventriculitis and obstructive hydrocephalus following orthotopic heart transplantation: A rare case report Mallikarjuna Rao Nukala 6+2 Min
6:21 PM – 6:28 PM Endoscopic Mitral Valve Surgery - Indian Experience Sandip Sardar 6+2 Min
6:28 PM – 6:36 PM Strentomy Scar: Still the Surgeons Badge of Honour Redefining DVR via MICS/RAT Anuj Kumar 6+2 Min
International Coronary Congress - 2026
Dr. David Taggart Hall 6th Floor
DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY)
Session 6: Rapid Fire Abstract Session I – Technical Strategies and Innovation
Moderators: Piroze Davierwala, Lokeswara Rao Sajja
RF1. Does Pump Strategy Matter? Outcomes of Coronary Endarterectomy in On-pump and Off-pump CABG Rohit Ganduboina
RF2. Coronary Endarterectomy in the Modern Era: A Five-year Single Operator Experience Varun Arab
RF3. Complete Coronary Endarterectomy in Diffuse Coronary Artery Disease Sandeep Shrivastava
RF4. Radial Extension of the LIMA: An Option for Arterial Grafting of the PDA Shuddhadeb Ray
RF5. Effectiveness and Safety of Clampless Proximal Anastomotic Devices in CABG: A Systematic Review and Single-arm Meta-analysis with Indirect Comparison Tulio Caldonazo
RF6. The Use of Right Internal Thoracic Artery in MICC-CABG Shota Yamanaka
RF7. Minimal Invasive Myocardial Revascularization by Techniques MICSCAB in Patients with Multiple Coronary Artery Lesion Maksud Muradov
RF8. From Early Experience to Routine Practice: Establishing Beating-heart MICS CABG in a Resource-limited Setting — 3.5 Years of Experience Dzmitry Turliuk
RF9. Minimally Invasive Total Coronary Revascularization Through Left Anterior Thoracotomy: A Single-center Experience Janusz Konstanty-Kalandyk
RF10. A Simplified Technique for Left Atrial Appendage Closure During Beating-heart Surgery Adam El-Gamel
RF11. Long-term Outcomes and Predictors of Left Ventricular Reverse Remodeling After Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Noriko Ohyama
RF12. Early Angiographic Patency After On- and Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Hosam Fouad Aly Fawzy
RF13. Immediate Operating Room Extubation After MIDCAB: Feasibility, Workflow Impact, and Early Outcomes in an ERAS-oriented Minimally Invasive CABG Program Fawad Jebran
RF15. Perioperative Impact of Contrast-enhanced Ultrasound to Evaluate Changes in Renal Function in Patients with Moderate Chronic Kidney Disease Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts (CABG): Preliminary Experience Fabrizio Ceresa
DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY)
8:05 AM – 10:45 AM Session 7: Live TECAB with Mantra SSI and Surgery-in-a-Box Videos
Moderators: Gianluca Torregrossa, Husam Balkhy
Surgeons: Sudhir Srivastava
Integrated Surgery-in-a-Box Videos:
Moderators: John D. Puskas
Video Case: CABG for diffuse CAD with endarterectomy (ONCAB or OPCAB) Shilpa Suresh
Video Case: On-pump CABG (BITA/complex/redo/low EF) Prateek Bhatnagar
Video Case: OPCAB Vijit Koshy Cherian
Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Joint Presidential Addresses
Anchors: Yugal K Mishra, Rajneesh Malhotra
Redefining Cardiothoracic Care: Global Trends and Transformative Technologies Yugal K. Mishra, SMICTSI President 15 Min
International Coronary Congress: Advancing the State of the Art in Coronary Surgery John D. Puskas, ICC President 15 Min
Digital Impact of Surgical Robots – Insights from Large Health System Nirav Patel, ISMICS President 15 Min
Lung Cancer Among Asians Antonio B. Ramos, ATCSA President 15 Min
DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY)
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Session 8: Lifetime Achievement Awards
ICC HALL 4th floor
The Early Days of Less Invasive CABG: What Made the First Pioneers Innovate? Valavanur A. Subramanian
How I Launched a Successful Surgical Robotics Company Sudhir Srivastava
DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY)
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM Session 9: Visions from the Giants
ICC HALL 4th floor
Moderators: John D. Puskas, Gianluca Torregrossa
The Future of Coronary Disease: Who Will Revascularize the Patient in 2036? Patrick Myers
Scaling Coronary Care in the Developing World: Innovation, Access, and Reality Naresh Trehan
Why CABG Still Wins: Understanding the Persistent Bias in PCI vs CABG Trials Torsten Doenst
RECHARGE Trial: The Only Ongoing PCI vs CABG RCT John D. Puskas
Coffee Break
DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY)
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Session 10: CABG in Low EF: Operate, Support or Walk Away?
ICC HALL 4th floor
Moderators: Hristo Kirov, A.G.K. Gokhale
Keynote Lecture: Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation in CABG: Repair, Replace, or Leave It Alone? Torsten Doenst
CAD with Low EF: When IABP, When Impella, When LVAD? Hristo Kirov
Off-Pump CABG in Low EF: My Tips, Tricks, and Boundaries John D. Puskas
Viability in Coronary Surgery: Excuse Not to Operate or Tool to Guide Strategy? Marcus Flather
How Low Is Too Low? Impella and the New Boundaries of Surgical Revascularization Patrick Myers
Discussion: CABG in Low EF: Who, When, and How Low Should We Go?
DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY)
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Concurrent Session 11A: (Graft Assessment) Trust but Verify: Check the Graft
ICC HALL 4th floor
Moderators: Cristiano Spadaccio, Patrick Myers
Keynote Lecture: TTFM in 2026: What the Numbers Really Mean Gry Dahle
Seeing the Graft: The Role of Indocyanine Green Angiography in CABG Cristiano Spadaccio
Revise or Leave It Alone? Intraoperative Decision-Making in Graft Assessment Nirav Patel
Challenging Grafts, Reassuring Flow: Lessons from Success and Failure in Difficult Anatomy Tomas Holubec
DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY)
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Concurrent Session 11B: Abstract Session IV – CABG Outcomes, Sex Disparities and Patient Risk
ICC Room 401-2, 4th floor
Moderators: Rashmi Yadav, Shilpa Suresh
31. Women Undergoing CABG Are Less Likely to Receive Extensive Surgical Revascularization: Contemporary National Trends from the United States Rohit Ganduboina
32. Recovery Failure Following CABG for Left Main or LAD STEMI in Women: A National Analysis Rohit Ganduboina
33. Have Sex Disparities in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Improved Over the Last 25 Years? A National Analysis of 380,041 Patients Maria Comanici
36. Diagnosis-specific Readmissions Following CABG for Acute Myocardial Infarction: A National Analysis of Causes and Outcomes Rohit Ganduboina
37. Development Efficiency and Mortality After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A National Causal Inference Analysis Tulio Caldonazo
38. Prior PCI Impairs Left Ventricular Systolic Function Recovery After CABG and Increases Long-term Cardiac Death Risk: Predictors of EF Normalization in Patients with Preoperative EF <40% Kohei Sumi
39. Complete Revascularization and Long-term Survival After CABG: Differential Effects Across the Spectrum of LV Dysfunction Joseph Kletzer
40. Renal Artery Stenosis as a Risk Factor for Kidney and Cardiovascular Prognosis in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Jiawei Han
DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY)
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Concurrent Session 12 A: Let Me Tell You a Story About My Worst CABG Case and What It Taught Me
ICC Room 401-2, 4th floor
Moderators: Torsten Doenst, Gianluca Torregrossa
Triple Ferrari Crash: When Total Arterial Revascularization Goes South John D. Puskas
When the Plan Failed: Lessons from a Complex MICS CABG Crash Piroze Davierwala
Pushing the Limits: When Innovation Meets Reality Nirav Patel
What High-Volume Practice Teaches You About Failure Rajneesh Malhotra
TECAB: Complications to Avoid Husam Balkhy
DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY)
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Concurrent Session 12B: Abstract Session V – Complex and High-Risk Coronary Revascularization
Moderators: Cristiano Spadaccio, Prateek Bhatnagar
41. Coronary Endarterectomy During Surgical Revascularization: Ten-year Propensity-matched Outcomes in On-pump and Off-pump CABG Michele Dell'Aquila
42. Analysis of Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Coronary Endarterectomy Specimens: A Pilot Ambispective Observational Institutional Study Amitabh Satsangi
43. Impact of LAD Endarterectomy on Outcomes of OPCAB in Our Institute Tomoya Uchimuro
44. Coronary Endarterectomy in Patients with Reduced Left Ventricular Function: Early Outcomes and Resource Utilization from a 17-year Single-center Experience Michele Dell'Aquila
45. Long-term Outcomes of Early Graft Occlusion After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting with Coronary Endarterectomy and On-lay Patch Grafting Ken Chen
46. Surgical Escalation Following Thrombolytic Therapy in STEMI Rohit Ganduboina
47. Clinical Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Surgical Myocardial Revascularization Supported by Microaxial Flow Pump: A Single-centre Experience Sharaf-Eldin Shehada
48. Revascularization Strategy in Emergency Acute Coronary Syndrome with Aortic Stenosis: CABG+SAVR Versus PCI+TAVR Michele Dell'Aquila
49. Contemporary Revascularization Patterns and Outcomes in AMI-Cardiogenic Shock Supported with Mechanical Circulatory Support Rohit Ganduboina
50. Expanding the Boundaries of Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass (OPCAB): Outcomes in 2,500 High-risk Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction and Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Deepak Puri
SMICTSI - ATCSA Final Thoracic Program
Hall - 403 4th Floor
DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY)
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Thoracic Session 8: Lung Transplantation | 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM (12 min presentation + 3 min discussion)
Moderator: Dr. Sandeep Attawar
Chairpersons: Dr. Mukesh Goel, Dr. Manjunath, Dr. Apar Jindal, Dr. Vijil Rahulan, Dr. Balasubramanium KR, Dr. Biswarup
Coordinator: Dr. Shaiwal Khandelwal
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM When Should We Transplant? Getting the Timing Right Vijil Rahulan
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM ECMO and lung transplant: Bridge or burden Apar Jindal
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM Lung Transplantation in Kartagener’s syndrome Balasubramaniam KR
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM Off Pump lung transplant Manjunath
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Lung tailoring Mahesh BN
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM Transport devices and EVLP (Online) Keval Krishan
DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY)
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Thoracic Session 9: Scientific Abstracts | 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM (7 minutes per paper)
Chairpersons: A Z Khan, Akif Turna, Amol Bhanushali
Coordinator: Sonali Mittal
10:30 AM – 10:37 AM Multiple rib fractures with persistent pain but osteoporosis - any novel solution? Hari Kumar Sampath
10:37 AM – 10:44 AM Prognostic Value of Psoas Muscle Index and Sarcopenia in Predicting Long-Term Outcomes Following Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer Yu An Cheng
10:44 AM – 10:51 AM Intrapleural Fibrinolytic Therapies for Pleural Infection: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis with Comparison to Surgical Management Erina Febriani Widiastari
10:51 AM – 10:58 AM ICG Fluorescence for Thoracic Duct Identification in Complex Chylothorax: A Case Series Debashish Panigrahi
LUNCH SYMPOSIUM (1:00 AM – 2:00 AM)
DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER SATURDAY)
2:00 PM – 3:31 PM Thoracic Session 10 | 2:00 PM – 3:31 PM (12 min presentation + 2 min discussion)
Chairpersons: Antonio Ramos, Balasubramanium KR, Roman Dutta, Abhishek Jain
Coordinator: Mohit Rakhecha
2:00 PM – 2:14 PM Robotic resection of Locally advanced stage III thymic epithelial tumours Abbas Abbas
2:14 PM – 2:28 PM Minimally invasive management of mediastinal tumours Rajinder Parshad
2:28 PM – 2:42 PM Surgery for non-myasthenic thymoma: Extended Resections & Outcomes Puja Khaitan
2:42 PM – 2:56 PM Current Solutions for long segment tracheal stenosis S. Bal
2:56 PM – 3:10 PM Robotic Tracheal Resection: Planning & Execution of airway resection Saravana Rajamanickam
3:10 PM – 3:24 PM Endobronchial therapies for early lung cancer Calvin Ng
3:24 PM – 3:31 PM Current trends in management of neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy followed by surgery in stage 2-3a lung cancer Abdul Razique
AFTERNOON BREAK • 3:31 AM – 4:00 AM (30 MINUTES)
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Thoracic Session 11 | 4:00 – 5:03 (12 min presentation + 2 min discussion)
Chairpersons: Cos Bizakis, Puja Khaitan, Rajinder Parshad, Ram Karan Choudhary
Coordinator: Amol Bhanushali
4:00 PM – 4:14 PM Beyond Sympathectomy: Robotic Sympathetic Nerve Reconstruction for ETS Reversal Shaiwal Khandelwal
4:14 PM– 4:28 PM Management of thoracic perioperative pain: Cryo-analgesia Ram Mohan Kandadai
4:28 PM– 4:42 PM Subxiphoid access for anatomical lung resections Alan Sihoe
4:42 PM – 4:56 PM Near Infra-Red imaging in Thoracic Surgery Calvin Ng
4:56 PM – 5:03 PM Uniportal Robotic-Assisted Right Upper Lobectomy With Bronchoplasty Min Hsieh
5:03 PM – 5:50 PM Thoracic Session 12: Invited Videos & Abstract | 5:03 – 5:50 (6 min presentation + 2 min discussion)
Chairpersons: Punnarek Thongchereon, Ravindra Dewan, Rajat Saxena, Biswarup, Pallavi Purwar
Coordinator: Roman Dutta
5:03 PM – 5:11 PM Uniportal VATS: Combined Right Upper Lobectomy and S5 Segmentectomy Abhishek Jain
5:11 PM – 5:19 PM Pleural Malignancies: Cytoreductive Surgery and the Evolving Role of HITOC Sarvana Rajamainckam
5:19 PM – 5:27 PM Complex Chest Wall Tumours: From Radical Resection to Reconstruction Mohit Joshi
5:27 PM – 5:35 PM Robotic repair of lung hernia Ram Karan Choudhary
5:35 PM – 5:43 PM To Decorticate or Not? Decision-Making in Empyema Anil Kapoor
5:43 PM – 5:50 PM Clinical Outcomes of Non-Intubated Thoracoscopic Surgery in Patients Younger and Older Than 65 Years: A Retrospective Comparative Study With Propensity Score Sira Laohathai
5:50 PM – 6:30 PM Thoracic Session 13: Invited Videos | 5:50 – 6:30 (6 min presentation + 2 min discussion)
Chairpersons: Akif Turna, SK Jain, Mohit Rakhecha, Narendra Agarwal, Sonali Mittal
Coordinator: Pallavi Purvar
5:50 PM – 5:58 PM Non-Intubated Tracheal Resection and Reconstruction Ranjan Sapkota
5:58 PM – 6:06 PM Donor Lung Retrieval: Surgical Techniques to Optimise Graft Quality Kamran Ali
6:06 PM – 6:14 PM Trauma beyond Flail Chest: Traumatic Failing Chest wall Nikhil Rane
6:14 PM – 6:22 PM Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: Expanding the Role of VATS in Surgical Management Shilpa Gandhi
6:22 PM – 6:30 PM VATS Pneumonectomy: Technical Challenges and Surgical Strategies Saraansh Bansal
Closing Remarks: A Z Khan
SMICTSI - ATCSA Final Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Program
Hall 402 - 4th Floor
DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER Saturday)
Session 6 TGA -1
Chairperson:- Amit Mistri, Sushil Azad, Mahendra Narwaley
8:30 AM – 8:50 AM 50 years of Senning Operation & its role in today's practice Krishna Iyer
9:10 AM – 9:30 AM Managing Intrerarterial & Intramural coronaries Hari Bipin Radhakrishnan Kattana
9:30 AM – 9:50 AM Management of CCTGA ; bivetricular options Sivakumar Sivalingam
9:50 AM – 10:10 AM Single ventirlce pathway in CCTGA Chun Soo Park
DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER Saturday)
Session 7 TGA -2
Chairperson: Anita Saxena, Ashutosh Marwah, Aseem Srivastava
10:10 AM – 10:30 AM Open coronary transfer: nidus for reoperation? Shu- Chien-Huang
10:30 AM – 10:50 AM When & why: HTTSO Shinichiro Oda
10:50 AM – 11:10 AM Longtrerm Outcome in CC TGA Takeshi Shinkawa
11:10 AM – 11:30 AM uASO in single ventricle with Transposition -worth it Smruti Ranjan Mohanty
Coffee Break
DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER Saturday)
Session 8 AVSD
Chairperson:-Milly Roy, Vikash Kholi, Muthu Jyothi
11:50 AM – 12:10 PM When to divert AVSD to SV pathway? Kulbhusan Dagar
12:10 PM – 12:30 PM Virtual cardiac dissection in planning for repair of AVSD with Conotruncal Abnormalities Saurav Gupta
12:30 PM – 12:50 PM Valve repair in complete AVSD Shingo Kasahara
2:00 PM – 2:20 PM Nightmares in AVSD repairs Krishnan Ganapathy Subramaniam
DAY 2 (21st NOVEMBER Saturday)
Session 9 TOF & Variants
Chairperson:- Smita Mishra, Gaurav Agarwal, Himanshu Pratap
2:20 AM – 2:40 AM Nightmares with shunts Anand Mishra
2:40 AM – 3:00 AM Options for Coronary Crossing RVOT in TOF K Shivaprakasha
3:00 AM – 3:20 AM Nonprosthetic Options for RVOTO and Dilated Aortic roots in TOF Pavel Teplov
3:20 AM – 3:40 AM Approach to PA-VSD, MAPCA K.S Murthy
SMISCTSI/ ISMICS/ATCSA Final PROGRAMME
DAY 3 (22TH NOVEMBER Sunday)
Hall 404 B - 4th Floor
9:00 AM – 11:30 AM SESSION B -8 Heart Failure & Transplant
Anchor: Hermann Reichenspurner, Manoj Durairaj
Chairpersons: Dhiren Shah, Mukesh Goel, Milind Hote, Ritwick Raj Bhuyan
Panelists: Z.S. Meharwal, Mrithyunjaya V Kalmath, Sameer Kumar, Sujay Shad
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM Assessing the Heart for Right Heart Failure- Diagnosis and Management Sameer Shrivastava 12 + 3 Min
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM Temporary MCS Escalation Strategies – IABP, Impella, ECMO & LVAD K. R. Balakrishnan 12 + 3 Min
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM ECMO in Cardiogenic Shock - Who Benefits? Yatin Mehta 12 + 3 Min
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM Heart Transplantation – State of the art Hermann Reichenspurner 12 + 3 Min
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Heart Transplantation in the Era of Donor Shortage K. R. Balakrishnan 12 + 3 Min
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM Contemporary Management of Primary Graft Dysfunction (PGD) Julius Punnen 12 + 3 Min
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM Lifetime Management of Advanced Heart Failure in a 50-Year-Old Patient: LVAD ? HTx or HTx ?HTx? Dhiren Shah 12 + 3 Min
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM Lung Transplantation: Current Status and Challenges in India Sandeep Attawar 12 + 3 Min
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM DCD after Cardiac Death Rashmi Nedadur 12 + 3 Min
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM Echocardiography-Guided Beating-Heart Atrial Septostomy for Left Ventricular Venting During Veno-Arterial ECMO in Cardiac Surgery: A Technique Applicable to Minimally Invasive Procedures. Calixte de la Bourdonnaye 12 + 3 Min
DAY 3 (22TH NOVEMBER Sunday)
11:30 AM – 1:10 PM SESSION B-9 Arrhythmia Surgery & Allied Science
Anchor: Praveen Verma, Niv Ad
Chairpersons: MD Dixit, Prasanna Simha, Manoj Luthra, Yogesh Niwariya
Panelists: Sudhir Adalti, Manoj Daga, Akhilesh Pandey, Alok K. Sharma
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM "Beyond Rhythm Control: Left Atrial Appendage Management in Totally Thoracoscopic AF Surgery" Vadim Popov 12 + 3 Min
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM The First Valve Matters Most: Redefining Surgical Valve Choice in the Era of Lifetime Management Torsten Doenat 12 + 3 Min
12:00 PM – 12:15 PM TBA TBA 12 + 3 Min
12:15 PM – 12:30 PM HOCM – Surgical Procedure: A Step-by-Step Approach Is the Key to Success Praveen Verma 12 + 3 Min
12:30 PM – 12:45 PM Robotic septal myectomy LIB Husam H Balkhy 12 + 3 Min
12:45 PM – 1:00 PM Endoscopic Cardiac surgery for septal defect Tomas Holubec 12 + 3 Min
1:00 PM – 1:08 PM Double In Situ Needle Fenestration for Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair: Initial Experience in East Indonesia Dzulfachri Kurniawan 6+2 Min
1:10 Onwards – Valedictory Session, Followed by Lunch
International Coronary Congress - 2026
Hall - 404 A - 4th Floor
DAY 3 (22nd NOVEMBER SUNDAY)
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Session 13: Rapid Fire Abstract Session II – Clinical Outcomes and Patient Management
Moderators: Hristo Kirov, Anil R. Jain
RF16. Midterm Outcomes of Cardiac Rehabilitation After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction Min-Seok Kim
RF17. Surgical Site Infections Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Prospective Observational Study from a Tertiary Cardiac Surgery Center Pradeep Zechariah
RF18. Short-term and Long-term Results of the Maze V Procedure for the Treatment of AF During CABG Vadim Popov
RF19. Concomitant Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery and Epicardial Box Lesion Ablation Pavel Shilenko, Sr
RF20. Evaluation of the Efficacy of Isolated Ablation of the Pulmonary Veins in CABG Vadim Popov
RF21. Bilateral Mammary Artery in Women for Surgical Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease: A Retrospective Study Mikhail Fomenko
RF22. Outcomes and Predictors of Mortality Following CABG for Acute Myocardial Infarction in Young Adults: A National Analysis Anishkaa Mandadi
RF23. Perioperative Trade-offs of On-pump Beating vs. Off-pump CABG in Patients with Reduced Ejection Fraction Hirotaro Sugiyama
RF24. Coronary Involvement and Concomitant Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for Risk Stratification After Acute Type A Aortic Dissection Repair Chen Chen
RF25. Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) in Patients with Markedly Elevated Preoperative HgbA1c (>10%): Comparison of Actual Versus STS Predicted Outcomes Louis Samuels
RF26. Using Bilateral Internal Mammary Artery in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Mikhail Fomenko
RF27. Influence of Coronary Graft Number on Long-term Clinical Outcomes After Complete Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Alessia Miraglia
RF28. Temporal Trends and Predictive Value of the Triglyceride-glucose-body Mass Index for Long-term Outcomes in Young Adults Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Heng Zhang
RF29. Temporal Trends and Geographic Variation in AMI Mortality Associated with Cardiogenic Shock: A CDC WONDER Analysis Anishkaa Mandadi
RF30. Temporal, Demographic, and Geographic Variation in AMI Mortality Associated with Heart Failure: A CDC WONDER Analysis, 1999–2024 Anishkaa Mandadi
DAY 3 (22nd NOVEMBER SUNDAY)
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Session 14: Hybrid Revascularization: CABG + PCI - Collaboration, Competition, or Compromise?
Moderators: Nirav Patel, M. M. Yusuf
When PCI Should Lead: Selecting the Right Lesions for Hybrid Revascularization Atul Mathur
LITA-LAD and Beyond: Where Surgery Defines the Success of Hybrid Nirav Patel
Making the Heart Team Work: Real-World Models for Hybrid Revascularization Husam Balkhy
When Hybrid Fails: Lessons from Incomplete or Misguided Revascularization Gianluca Torregrossa
Discussion: Hybrid Revascularization: Ideal Strategy or Compromise?
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM Coffee Break
DAY 3 (22nd NOVEMBER SUNDAY)
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Session 15: Minimally Invasive CABG: Beyond Sternotomy - Are We Ready to Redefine Coronary Surgery?
Moderators: Gianluca Torregrossa, Nirav Patel, Husam Balkhy
Keynote Lecture: Can Less Invasive Be Equally Durable? Insights from the MIST Trial Piroze Davierwala
Minimally Invasive CABG with Three Arterial Grafts: Expanding the Limits of Completeness Keita Kikuchi
My Experience in Minimally Invasive BITA CABG Surgery Sathyaki Nambala
Robotic TECAB Without an EndoWrist Stabilizer: Lessons from 100 Cases Gianluca Torregrossa
Robotic CABG with SSI Mantra: Expanding Access in High-Volume Practice Sudhir Srivastava
Operating with the Future: Robotic CABG on the DV5 Platform Husam Balkhy
Discussion: Minimally Invasive CABG: Evolution or Paradigm Shift?
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM Coffee Break
DAY 3 (22nd NOVEMBER SUNDAY)
11:15 AM – 1:00 PM Session 16: Literature Update: Hot Topics You Need to Know About CABG and PCI in 2026
Moderators: Naresh Trehan, Patrick Myers, John D. Puskas
Can Imaging-Guided PCI Close the Gap with CABG? Marcus Flather
Left Main and Multivessel Disease: Has the Pendulum Really Shifted? John D. Puskas
The 3 Most Important CABG Papers of 2025-2026 Torsten Doenst
Panel Discussion: Thought Leaders Predict What 2027 Will Bring for Coronary Care
13:00 Closing Remarks: John D. Puskas, Gianluca Torregrossa
NURSING PROGRAM 20 November 2026, 8:00 AM – 1:00 AM
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Beyond Opioids: ERACS, Multimodal Analgesia and Fascial Plane blocks in Cardiac Surgery Himani V Bhatt 60 Min
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Common Postoperative Complications Mekeleya Yimen 60 Min
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Nurse Driven success in Enhanced Recovery After Coronary Bypass Graft Surgery Natalie Fiol 60 Min
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM The Acute Nurse Practitioner Role in Enhanced Recovery after Cardiothoracic Surgery: From Preoperative Optimization to ICU Recovery Miranda Horieti 30 Min
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Presentation Imeplla 30 Min
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Hands on Imeplla 30 Min
Physician Assistant Program / 21 November 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
8:00 AM – 8:10 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:10 AM – 8:40 AM Endoscopic Vessel Harvesting, Outcomes. Nitin Kumar Rajput & Team
8:40 AM – 9:10 AM Conduit Preservation and Harvesting Techniques: What Matters Most? Nitin Kumar Rajput & Team
9:10 AM – 9:20 AM Discussion and Audience Q&A
9:20 AM – 9:50 AM Adaptation role of physician assistant in minimal invasive & robotic surgery Ms Ashwini
9:50 AM – 10:00 AM Discussion and Audience Q&A
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Coffee and tea break
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Beyond the operating room: why India needs dedicated EVH training Mr Tanmay
11:00 AM – 11:10 AM Discussion and Audience Q&A
11:10 AM – 11:40 AM Wound care and prevention on EVH Mr Boopathy
11:40 AM – 12:10 PM The EVH Learning Curve , From Technique to consistent conduit Quality Ashwini Manjunath 30 Min
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM Discussion and Audience Q&A
12:20 PM – 12:30 PM Closing Remarks
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM - PERFUSIONIST (DAY-3)
NOVEMBER 22 2026 (SUNDAY)
HALL : 402 4TH FLOOR CONVENTION BUILDING YASHOBHOOMI IICC
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM - REGISTRATION
TIME TITLE SPEAKER DURATION
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Reimagining Neuroprotection: Bridging evidence,innovation and clinical practice Mr. Sam Immanuel 27+3min
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09:30am - 10:30am - Inauguration and Tea
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM The Robotic Perfusionist:From Conventional CPB to precision perfusion Mr.Senthil kumaran Dhanakotti 27+3 min
11:00 AM – 11:20 AM Minimally invasive LV unloading during VA-ECMO Mr.Deblal Pandit 17+03min
11:20 AM – 11:40 AM Advanced Perfusion strategies and extra corporeal designs for optimizing outcomes in minimally invasive cardiac surgery Mr. Mukul Chauhan 17+03min
CHAIRPERSON : 1 …………… 2 ……………………
11:40 AM – 12:00 PM Perfusionist led blood conservation protocols in minimally invasive cardiac surgery Mrs Ritu Airan 17+03min
12:00 PM – 12:20 PM Perfusion management in high risk Redo-Ventral aortic reconstruction using tailored dual site arterial inflow Ms Pragya Tiwari 17+03min
CHAIRPERSON : 1 ………………… 2 ………………………………………
12:20 PM – 12:40 PM Beyond Dual cannulation: A case based experience with double lumen VV-ECMO Ms Ayushi Wadhwa 17+03min
12:40 PM – 1:00 PM From LVAD top BiVAD:A Perfusion strategy for LVAD implantation with centrimag RV support Mr Pawan Kumar 17+03min
LUNCH- 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
2:00 PM – 2:20 PM THE IMPORTANCE OF DE-AIRING THE HEART DURING CARDIAC SURGERY TO REDUCE THE POCD AND NEUROLOGICAL PROBLEM DR.DINESH MAITI 17+03min
2:20 PM – 2:40 PM JAPANESE PROPRITERY TECHNOLOGY FOR MANAGING ORGAN DYSFUNCTION AND INFLAMMATOTRY STATES IN CARDIAC SURGERY PATIENT MR.ZAVED SIDDQUI 17+03min
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2:45 PM – 3:45 PM - Quiz By Rajesh Yadav
03:45 VOTE OF THANKS
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM - TEA