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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

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Wednesday 25th February 2009

Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester

Course Organisers:
Jan Kovac, Consultant Cardiologist and Tom Spyt, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon

All day live cases from a state-of-the-art cath lab with a reputation for major interventional meetings following successful pioneering years of the UK Structural Live Course.

Topics to be covered will include:

> Aortic valve procedures
(Transcatheter aortic valve implantation, femoral and apical approaches)

> Mitral valve procedures
(mitral valvuloplasty, percutaneous mitral regurgitation therapies)

> Percutaneous pulmonary valve replacement

> Novel therapies for septal defects and left atrial appendage closure

Debate and keynote lectures from international opinion leaders and operators in the field. Training and regulatory issues for non coronary interventions. How to set up a structural interventional programme, gathering scientific evidence, future concepts in the structural interventional therapies.

International and UK Faculty:

Patrick Serruys, Rotterdam Bagrat Alekyan, Moscow Peter de Jaegere, Rotterdam Gerhard Schuler, Leipzig Jan Harnek, Lund, Sweden Alec Vahanian, Paris Corrado Tamburino, Catania

Marty Leon, New York Dominique Himbert, Paris Phillip Bonhoeffer, London Mike Mullen, London Susanne Ludgate, London Saibal Kar, Los Angeles

Targeted at adult interventional GUCH and general cardiologists, specialists in cardiac imaging, cardiology trainees. Cardiac Surgeons with an interest in percutaneous valve therapies and neurologists may also find this live course of interest.

FOR FURTHER DETAILS CONTACT:
Millbrook Medical Conferences Ltd - Tel: 01455 552559 Email: lslive@millbrookconferences.co.uk