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Adult Cardiac

Coronary Conundrums!

Friday, January 24, 2025
9:45am – 11:45am PT
Location: 403B

    Moderator(s)

  • Sigrid Sandner, MD

    Associate Professor
    Medical University Vienna
    Medical University Vienna
    Vienna, Austria

  • HelenMari Merritt, DO

    Cardiothoracic Surgeon
    Methodist Physician's Clinic
    Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Presentations:

  • 9:45am – 9:50am PT
    Annals Academy: Top 10 Questions in Adult Cardiac Surgery

    Invited Speaker: Pedro Catarino, MD – Department of Cardiac Surgery, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

  • 9:50am – 10:00am PT
    Impact of Prior Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Lesions on Long-term Outcomes after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: An Analysis over Two Decades

    Presenting Author: Go Yamashita, MD (he/him/his) – Kurashiki central hospital

  • 10:00am – 10:08am PT
    MAG: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? Do Not Discount Vein Grafts

    Invited Speaker: Dhaval Trivedi, MD (he/him/his) – Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center

  • 10:08am – 10:16am PT
    Moderate MR in a Patient Undergoing CABG: What To Do?

    Invited Speaker: Jennifer Lawton, MD (she/her/hers) – Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

  • 10:16am – 10:40am PT
    Panel Discussion
  • 10:40am – 10:50am PT
    Surgeon Frequency for Multiarterial Grafting and 19-Year Outcomes After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Over One Million Medicare Beneficiaries

    Presenting Author: Justin Michael Schaffer, MD – Baylor Scott and White - The Heart Hospital, Plano

  • 10:50am – 10:58am PT
    Using Bilateral IMAs: 1 Million CABGs Later; Lessons Learned

    Invited Speaker: Joseph F. Sabik, III, MD (he/him/his) – University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University

  • 10:58am – 11:06am PT
    What Have I Learned From Post CABG Cath? Technical Pearls

    Invited Speaker: Marc Ruel, MD, MPH – University of Ottawa Heart Institute

  • 11:06am – 11:16am PT
    Post-Infarction Ventricular Septal Defect: An STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Analysis of Outcomes Over Time

    Presenting Author: Benjamin D. Seadler, MD – Medical College of Wisconsin

  • 11:16am – 11:24am PT
    CABG in 2035: How to Evolve From Sternotomy CABG to MIDCAB to TECAB

    Invited Speaker: Johannes Bonatti, MD (he/him/his) – UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute

  • 11:24am – 11:45am PT
    Panel Discussion