{"id":9968,"date":"2012-12-06T00:10:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T05:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=9968"},"modified":"2019-02-26T19:48:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T00:48:01","slug":"2012-dallas-leipzig-valve-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2012\/12\/06\/2012-dallas-leipzig-valve-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow! The 2012 Dallas-Leipzig Valve Conference Started Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, I was very fortunate to attend the Dallas-Leipzig Valve Conference<\/a> in Dallas, Texas. While I had heard of this conference in the past, I had no idea about this size of the conference, its world renown faculty or its Transatlantic approach to education.<\/p>\n

 
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Interestingly… Each year, the host city of the conference alternates between Leipzig, Germany and Dallas, Texas.<\/p>\n

The goal of the conference, as\u00a0 I understand it, is to bring together valve specialists — both cardiologists and surgeons — to engage in meaningful lectures, case studies, and debates about best practices for valvular therapy.<\/p>\n

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Did I Forget To Mention The Live Surgeries?<\/h2>\n

To further enhance this unique educational environment, the conference leverages the latest communications technology to discuss surgical approaches in… real-time.<\/p>\n

For example, within forty-five minutes of the opening remarks by Dr. Michael Mack, Dr. David Brown and Dr. Fred Mohr, I was watching a live transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) performed by Dr. Linke and Dr. Holshey at the Heart Center in Leipzig. (To learn more about this non-invasive technique, please watch or download our recent TAVI Webinar by clicking here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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\"TAVITAVI Procedure Broadcast from Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\n

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Then, later in the day, a bicuspid aortic valve replacement was performed at The Heart Hospital in Plano, Texas (which is just outside of Dallas). Again, more meaningful discussions were held specific to valve calcification, valve replacement sizing, suture strategies and more.\u00a0 In the past, we have talked about how surgeons size a valve replacement<\/a>. At the beginning of the video below, you can see an actual sizer tool being used.<\/p>\n

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