Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) CSI Focus Conference 2018

Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) CSI Focus Conference is organized bycme4u GmbH Congresses, Meetings and Education and will be held during Jun 27 - 30, 2018 at Congress Center Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

The target audience for this medical event is adult and pediatric interventional cardiologists as well as cardiothoracic surgeons and colleagues of other specialities who are interested in these topics.

Conference Description:
CSI Frankfurt will provide a deep dive into major topics in catheter-based therapy of congenital, structural and valvar heart disease. Join us for 4 days of lectures by leading experts in the fi eld, live case transmissions, step-by-step demonstrations, hands-on simulator training, debates, and discussion rounds. On the fi rst day of the conference we will run a number of focus workshops including Imaging, Innovation and other hot topics of the year.

Conference Topics:
Congenital Heart Intervention:
• Atrial and ventricular septal defect closure
• Coarctation and pulmonary artery stenosis stenting
• Patent arterial duct closure
• Pulmonary arteriovenous fi stula closure
• Catheter interventions in infants
• Fetal interventions
• Interventions in adult congenital heart defects

Structural Heart Intervention:
• Patent foramen ovale closure
• Post-myocardial infarction ventricular septal defect closure
• Left atrial appendage closure
• When to close patent foramen ovale to prevent paradoxical embolism
• How to treat heart failure by interventional techniques

Valvar Heart Intervention:
• Paravalvar leak closure
• Valvoplasty 
• Transcatheter mitral valve repair 
• Transcatheter tricuspid valve repair
• TAVI in aortic stenosis and insuffi ciency
• Mitral valve implantation
• Pulmonary valve implantation
• Tricuspid valve implantation

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.