Interventional Cardiology Course

We are pleased to present a specially designed course dedicated to current topics in interventional cardiology, featuring a prestigious group of speakers who are engaged in similar courses around the world.

Emmanouil Brilakis, Salvatore Brugaletta, Shao-Liang Chen, Javier Escaned, Thomas Johnson, Jens Flensted Lassen, Yves Louvard, Vladimir Dzavik, Petr Kala, Sunao Nakamura, Huay Cheem Tan, Gerald Werner, and others will present contemporary standards and key directions of development in interventional cardiology to the regional audience.

Course will be held on both days of the SINEGY 2024 congress in the Interventional Cardiology room.

Course Programme:

Course in Interventional Cardiology - Day 01
Course in Interventional Cardiology Day - 02

Time	Session
08:00-09:00	SINERGY bifurcation clinic part I – Pitfalls of provisional stenting Facilitators: Yves Louvard (Paris, FR), Shao-Liang Chen (Nanjing, CN), Huay Cheem Tan (Singapore, SG), Jens Flensted Lassen (Odense, DK), Goran Stanković (Belgrade, RS) Bench operator: Dejan Milašinović (Belgrade, RS) My journey in bifurcation PCI and road ahead (8 min.) Yves Louvard (Paris, FR) The role of image guidance in Left main PCI (8 min.) Huay Cheem Tan (Singapore, SG) /online The DCB-BIF trial (8 min.) Shao-Liang Chen (Nanjing, CN) A joint educational project between SINERGY and Terumo Learning Edge
09:00-10:00	SINERGY bifurcation clinic part II – Pitfalls of two stent bifurcation PCI Facilitators: Yves Louvard (Paris, FR), Sunao Nakamura (Tokyo, JP), Thomas Johnson (Bristol, UK), Vladimir Dzavik (Toronto, CA), Jens Flensted Lassen (Odense, DK) Bench operator: Zlatko Mehmedbegović (Belgrade, RS) How to approach a calcified lesion in LM trunk bifurcation area (8 min.) Sunao Nakamura (Tokyo, JP) When to plan an upfront 2-stent strategy in LM and bifurcation PCI (8 min.) Vladimir Dzavik (Toronto, CA) What have we learned from the OCTOBER trial (8 min.) Thomas Johnson (Bristol, UK) A joint educational project between SINERGY and Terumo Learning Edge
10:10-11:00	Contemporary options in the functional evaluation of coronary stenosis Chairpersons: Branko Beleslin (Belgrade, RS), Milan Dobrić (Belgrade, RS), Daniel Aradi (Balatonfured, HU), Želimir Antonić (Belgrade, RS) Panelists: Svetlana Apostolović (Niš, RS), Milovan Petrović (Novi Sad, RS), Igor Ivanov (Novi Sad, RS), Dejan Milašinović (Belgrade, RS), Mila Kovačević (Novi Sad, RS), Oliver Radmili (Belgrade, RS) Measurement of absolute coronary blood flow: A huge step closer to PET? (10 min.) Milorad Tešić (Belgrade, RS) Angiography-based functional indices of coronary stenosis: Back to the future? (10 min.) Srđan Aleksandrić (Belgrade, RS) CT-FFR: All in one? (10 min.) Radosav Vidaković (Belgrade, RS) Discussion (15 min.)
11:10-12:20	LIVE case transmission from Arendal, Norway Complex PCI with HoloLens proctoring Chairperson: Thomas Johnson (Bristol, UK), Lampros Michalis (Ioannina, GR), Leo Finci (Geneva, CH), Zlatko Mehmedbegović (Belgrade, RS) Operator: Slobodan Ćalić (Arendal, NO) Panelists: Dragan Sagić (Belgrade, RS), Dalibor Dragišić (Belgrade, RS), Zoran Stajić (Belgrade, RS), Stefan Juričić (Belgrade, RS), Miodrag Srećković (Kragujevac, RS), Jahn Otto Naesgaard Andersen (Oslo, NO), Đorđe Marinković (Belgrade, RS) Keynote lecture: My 40-Years in Interventional Cardiology: “Pearls” of Complications Leo Finci (Geneva, CH)
12:30-13:30	LIVE educational case transmission from University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany Mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) Chairpersons: : Andreas Baumbach (London, UK), Danijela Trifunović Zamaklar (Belgrade, RS), Ivan Stojanović (Belgrade, RS), Svetozar Putnik (Belgrade,RS) Panelists: Shuichiro Takanashi (Tokyo, JP), Igor Tomas (Novi Sad, RS), Miroslav Bikicki (Novi Sad, RS), Nemanja Đenić (Belgrade, RS), Mihajlo Farkić (Belgrade, RS), Mila Kovačević (Novi Sad, RS), Marko Banović (Beograd, RS) Operator: Philipp Lurz (Mainz, DE) Keynote lecture: How I plan my Mitral intervention (8 min.) Philipp Lurz (Mainz, DE) Keynote lecture: Focus on papillary muscle and chordae anomalies in mitral valve repair (8 min.) Shuichiro Takanashi (Tokyo, JP)
13:30-14:00	RUČAK / Lunch break
14:00-14:30	Friends & Legends in interventional cardiology: an educational tradition at SINERGY Chairpersons: Gerald Werner (Darmstadt, DE), Emmanouil Brilakis (Minneapolis, US), Jens Flensted Lassen (Odense, DK), Siniša Stojković (Belgrade, RS), Goran Stanković (Belgrade, RS) CT-guided PCI (10 min. + 5 min. discussion) Emmanouil Brilakis (Minneapolis, US) Managing the radiation risk for patient and operator in complex PCI (10 min. + 5 min. discussion) Gerald Werner (Darmstadt, DE)
14:30-15:15	Otvaranje kongresa / Welcome ceremony PLENARY ROOM Predsedavajući / Chairpersons: Milika Ašanin (Belgrade, RS), Lazar Davidović (Belgrade, RS), Goran Stanković (Belgrade, RS) Dobrodošli na SINERGIJU 2024 / Welcome to SINERGY 2024 Inauguraciono predavanje za sticanje zvanja Profesor po pozivu na Medicinskom fakultetu, Univerziteta u Beogradu / Inaugural lecture for the title Invited lecturer at Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade My journey in coronary artery disease evaluation and treatment (10 min.) Profesor po pozivu / Invited lecturer Eugenio Picano (Pisa, IT)
15:20-16:30	Intracoronary imaging during complex PCI Chairpersons: Thomas Johnson (Bristol, UK), Salvatore Brugaletta (Barcelona, ES), Petr Kala (Brno, CZ), Satoru Mitomo (Tokyo, JP) Panelists: Daniel Aradi (Balatonfured, HU), Hrvoje Jurin (Zagreb, HR), Milenko Čanković (Novi Sad, RS), Dario Jelić (Belgrade, RS), Bojan Maričić (Niš, RS), Vladimir Zdravković (Kragujevac, RS), Ivica Obradović (Valjevo, RS), Srđan Bošković (Belgrade, RS) Imaging in left main & bifurcations (8 min. + 4 min. discussion) Thomas Johnson (Bristol, UK) Intracoronary imaging in stent failure (8 min. + 4 min. discussion) Salvatore Brugaletta (Barcelona, ES) Intravascular imaging in calcified coronary artery disease (8 min. + 4 min. discussion) Petr Kala (Brno, CZ) Intravascular imaging in acute coronary syndrome (8 min. + 4 min. discussion) Satoru Mitomo (Tokyo, JP) Long-term imaging follow-up after angio-guided LM primary PCI (8 min. + 4 min. discussion) Zlatko Mehmedbegović (Belgrade, RS)
16:35-17:15	Regional cases: learning with neighbors Part 1: Image guided complex PCI Chairpersons: Satoru Mitomo (Tokyo, JP), Yves Louvard (Paris, FR), Georgios Triantis (Athens, GR), Ali Nazmi Calik (Istanbul, TR) Panelists: Vladimir Mitov (Zaječar, RS), Vladimir Ivanović (Novi Sad), Marko Stanković (Valjevo, RS), Katica Mraković (Užice, RS), Vladimir Dedović (Belgrade, RS), Predrag Đuran (Belgrade, RS), Mirko Čolić (Belgrade, RS), Srđan Aleksandrić (Belgrade, RS) Case 1 (5 min. + 5 min. discussion) Marin Postu (Bucharest, RO) Case 2 (5 min. + 5 min. discussion) Anass Maaroufi (Graz, AT) Case 3 – IVUS guided distal LM restenosis PCI (5 min. + 5 min. discussion) Nikola Mladenović (Novi Sad, RS) Case 4 -Mechanical barrier for prevention of dislodged stent embolization in saphenous vein graft (5 min. + 5 min. discussion) Petros Kalogeras (Ioannina, GR)
17:15-19:00	LIVE cases transmission University Clinical Center of Serbia CTO PCI: a case in point Chairpersons: Javier Escaned (Madrid, ES), Jens Flensted Lassen (Odense, DK), Siniša Stojković (Belgrade, RS), Lampros Michalis (Ioannina, GR) Panelists: Josef Kroupa (Prague, CZ), Dragan Debeljački (Novi Sad, RS), Nenad Božinović (Niš, RS), Mladen Tasić (Belgrade, RS), Muamer Bačevac (Novi Pazar, RS), Gabrijela Stojković (Leskovac, RS), Bojan Ilisić (Belgrade, RS), Milivoje Cerović (Belgrade, RS) Operators: Gerald Werner (Darmstadt, DE), Sunao Nakamura (Tokyo, JP), Vladimir Dedović (Belgrade, RS), Stefan Juričić (Belgrade, RS) Lectures during LIVE transmission: Case 1: Subacute stent thrombosis following primary PCI Zoran Jović (Belgrade, RS) Case 2: Imaging in complex PCI Kosta Krupniković (Belgrade, RS)

Time	Session
08:00-09:00	LIVE Case Image-guided LM stenting Nanjing First Hospital Chairpersons: Yves Louvard (Paris, FR), Shao-Liang Chen (Nanjing, CN), Vladimir Dzavik (Toronto, CA), Goran Stanković (Belgrade, RS) Panelists: Olivera Mićić (Užice, RS), Ivan Ilić (Belgrade, RS), Milorad Živković (Belgrade, RS), Radosav Romanović (Belgrade, RS), Milan Živković (Niš, RS), Vladimir Dedović (Belgrade, RS), Zoran Jović (Belgrade, RS) Operators: Fei Ye (Nanjing, CN), Junjie Zhang (Nanjing, CN) The ULTIMATE-DAPT trial (8 min.) Shao-Liang Chen (Nanjing, CN) Managing the radiation risk for patient and operator in complex PCI (10 min. + 5 min. discussion) Gerald Werner (Darmstadt, DE)
09:05-10:05	LIVE educational case transmission from Clinique Pasteur – Toulouse, France Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) Chairpersons: Andreas Baumbach (London, UK), Jozica Šikić (Zagreb, HR), Milan Nedeljković (Belgrade, RS) Panelists: Milovan Petrović (Novi Sad, RS), Branko Beleslin (Belgrade, RS), Dejan Milašinović (Belgrade, RS), Zlatko Mehmedbegović (Belgrade,RS), Milorad Tešić (Belgrade, RS), Mila Kovačević (Novi Sad, RS), Mihajlo Farkić (Belgrade, RS), Danijela Trifunović Zamaklar (Belgrade, RS) Operator: Nicolas Dumonteil (Toulouse, FR)
10:10-10:40	Clinical outcome with new generation ballon expandable THV Speakers: Andreas Baumbach (London, UK), Mihajlo Farkić (Belgrade, RS), Zlatko Mehmedbegović (Belgrade, RS) Early outcome of randomized trial comparing THV devices (15 min.) Andreas Baumbach (London, UK) MyVal Clinical case discussion (5 min.) Mihajlo Farkić (Belgrade, RS) MyVal Clinical case discussion ( 5 min.) Zlatko Mehmedbegović (Belgrade, RS) Discussion (5 min.) Sponsored by Meril Life
10:50-11:50	UŽIVO: Interventni tretman plućne hipertenzije, prenos iz UKCS, Beograd/Interventional management of pulmonary hypertension, live transmission from the University Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade) Organizatori i moderatori/Organizers and moderators: Goran Stanković (Belgrade, RS), Shao-Liang Chen (Nanjing, CN), Arsen Ristić (Belgrade, RS) Predsedavajući/Chairpersons: Arsen Ristić (Belgrade, RS), Shao-Liang Chen (Nanjing, CN), Slobodan Obradović, (Belgrade, RS), Jovan Matijašević (Sremska Kamenica, RS) Panelisti/Panelists: Boris Džudović (Belgrade, RS), Jovica Šaponjski (Belgrade, RS), Ilija Bilbija (Belgrade, RS), Dejan Simeunović (Belgrade, RS) Introduction and presentation of operators and discussion panelists (3 min.) Arsen Ristić (Belgrade, RS) Prikaz bolesnice sa teškom plućnom arterijskom hipertenzijom zbog nekorigovanog komorskog septalnog defekta / Case presentation – advanced pulmonary artery hypertension due to a large ventricular septal defect (3 min.) Stefan Zaharijev (Belgrade, RS) Kateterizacija desnog srca: saveti, trikovi i uobičajene greške / Right heart catheterization: tips, tricks, and common mistakes (8 min.) Stephan Rosenkranz (Cologne, DE) LIVE: Denervacija plućnih arterija (prenos iz UKCS, Beograd) / Pulmonary artery denervation (transmission from the UCCS, Belgrade) Shao-Liang Chen (Nanjing, CN) Diskusija slučaja tokom prenosa/Live case discussion Live-in-a-box: Pulmonalna balon angioplastika, Univerzitetski Klinički Centar Srbije, Beograd/ Pulmonary balloon angioplasty, University Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade (7 min.) Arsen Ristić (Belgrade, RS), Slobodan Obradović, (Belgrade, RS) Diskusija/Discussion
12:00-12:30	New ESC Guidelines – Updates on Renal Denervation Speakers: Goran Stanković (Belgrade, RS), Dejan Milašinović (Belgrade, RS), Zlatko Mehmedbegović (Belgrade, RS) Introduction and symposium objectives Goran Stanković (Belgrade, RS) Renal denervation in the NEW ESC Guidelines for the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertension Dejan Milašinović (Belgrade, RS) Procedural success and patient follow-up Zlatko Mehmedbegović (Belgrade, RS) Diskusija/Discussion All Sponsored by Medtronic
12:35-13:40	Regional cases: learning with neighbours part 2: Complex PCI – LM, CTO, Bifurcation PCI Chairpersons: Lampros Michalis (Ioannina, GR), Marin Postu (Bucharest, RO), Valery Gelev (Sofia, BG), Miloje Tomašević (Belgrade, RS) Panelists: Shuichiro Takanashi (Tokyo, JP), Miodrag Dikić (Belgrade, RS), Ivica Obradović (Valjevo, RS), Vuk Mijailović (Užice, RS), Saša Lončar (Banja Luka, BA), Aleksandar Davidović (Belgrade, RS), Slobodan Klašnja (Belgrade, RS), Rada Vučić (Kragujevac, RS) Keynote lecture: Evolution in the management of stable multivessel disease (10 min. ) Lampros Michalis (Ioannina, GR) Anatomical consideration in Left Main PCI (8 min. + 2 min. discussion) Valery Gelev (Sofia, BG) Case 1 (5 min. + 5 min. discussion) Sadeek Kanoun (Graz, AT) Case 2 – DK crush in cardiogenic shock (5 min. + 5 min. discussion) Judit Andreka (Graz, AT) Case 3 – ACS patient with a thrombotic bifurcation lesion: Stepwise provisional approach saves the day (5 min. + 5 min. discussion) Fatih Yucedag (Istanbul, TR)
13:45-14:15	Future of PCI – How Technology help Individualize Treatment of Complex Patient Predsedavajući/Chairpersons: Goran Stankovic (Belgrade, RS), Petr Kala (Brno, CZ) Panelisti/Panelists: Daniel Aradi (Balatonfured, HU), Hrvoje Jurin (Zagreb, HR), Milenko Čanković (Novi Sad, RS) Session Introduction & objectives (1 min.) Goran Stankovic (Belgrade, RS) Case Presentation: OCT in Bifurcation (7 min.) Milenko Čanković (Novi Sad, RS) Discussion: Imaging in Bifurcation Lesions (2 min.) Goran Stankovic (Belgrade, RS) Case Presentation: Full Physiology in PCI (7 min.) Hrvoje Jurin (Zagreb, HR) Discussion: Full Physiology in Practice (2 min.) Petr Kala (Brno, CZ) Case Presentation: DAPT for Complex PCI Does the DES platform choice make a difference (7 min.) Daniel Aradi (Balatonfured, HU) Discussion & Take-Home Message Goran Stankovic (Belgrade, RS), Petr Kala (Brno, CZ) Sponsored by Abbott
14:30-15:00	RUČAK / Lunch break
15:00-16:00	Calcified lesions: which device and how Facilitators: Petr Kala, (Brno, CZ), Georgios Triantis (Athens, GR), Vladan Vukčević (Belgrade, RS), Dejan Milašinović (Belgrade, RS) Panelists: Milorad Živković (Belgrade, RS), Dragan Topić (Belgrade, RS), Tomislav Krčmar (Rijeka, HR), Dušan Ružičić (Valjevo, RS), Saša Dželebdžić (Subotica, RS), Aleksandar Davidović (Belgrade, RS), Predrag Đuran (Belgrade, RS), Dušan Nikolić (Kragujevac, RS) European consensus on calcified lesions PCI (10 min.+ 5 min. discussion) Dejan Milašinović (Belgrade, RS) My approach to calcified lesions (10 min.+ 5 min. discussion) Petr Kala (Brno, CZ) Fighting coronary calcium (10 min.+ 5 min. discussion) Georgios Triantis (Athens, GR) Calcified lesion PCI (10 min.+ 5 min. discussion) Ali Nazmi Calik (Istanbul, TR)
16:10-17:00	Regional cases: learning with neighbors Part 3: Complex PCI and TAVI Chairpersons: Vladimir Dzavik (Toronto, CA), Jozica Šikić (Zagreb, HR), Gerasimos Gavrielatos (Piraeus, GR), Rade Babić (Belgrade, RS) Panelists: Luka Vukmirović (Belgrade, RS), Stefan Živković (Belgrade, RS), Srđan Bošković (Belgrade, RS), Višeslav Popadić (Belgrade, RS), Ilija Srdanović (Novi Sad, RS), Miroslav Martinović (Belgrade, RS) Complications in contemporary CTO (10 min.) Gerasimos Gavrielatos (Piraeus, GR) Case 1 -New tools in BiF-TriF: CTO trifurcation with ROTA-Cutt (5 min. + 5 min. discussion) Jozica Šikić (Zagreb, HR) Case 2 – Bifurcation CTO PCI treatment with DK crush (5 min. + 5 min. discussion) Dušan Nikolić (Kragujevac, RS) Case 3 – Chimney stenting for low take-off RCA occlusion during TAVR (5 min. + 5 min. discussion) Utku Uluköksal (Istanbul, TR) Case 4 – Complication during complex PCI with remote proctoring using HoloLens (5 min. + 5 min. discussion) Slobodan Ćalić (Arendal, NO)
17:00-19:00	LIVE cases transmission University Clinical Center of Serbia CTO PCI: a case in point Chairpersons: Siniša Stojković (Belgrade, RS), Gerasimos Gavrielatos (Piraeus, GR), Valery Gelev (Sofia, BG), Nenad Božinović (Niš, RS) Panelists: Mladen Tasić (Belgrade, RS), Slobodan Ćalić (Arendal, NO), Bojan Maričić (Niš, RS), Aleksandar Jolić (Zaječar, RS), Marijan Spasić (Belgrade, RS), Predrag Đurić (Belgrade, RS) Operators: Gerald Werner (Darmstadt, DE), Sunao Nakamura (Tokyo, JP), Stefan Juričić (Belgrade, RS), Vladimir Dedović (Belgrade, RS) Lectures during LIVE transmission: Case 1 – Uncrossable CTO lesion troubleshooting Lazar Travica (Belgrade, RS)/ Zlatko Mehmedbegović (Belgrade, RS) Case 2 – IVUS guided CTO Dragana Dabović (Novi Sad, RS)