Welcome to heartlive The heartlive congress in the Carl-Benz-Arena is a congress for interventional heart medicine. It is designed by universities, hospitals and established physicans. Programm coordinators PD Dr. med. Wolfgang Bocksch und Dr. med. Winfried Haerer summarize: “The concept of this congress with its high amount of live cases and many didactally prepared box-cases is unique in the German speaking countries. We are highly pleased to announce the next date in November 2018. Chairman of the congress will be Prof. Dr. med. Hugo A. Katus from University Hospital, Heidelberg.“
Electrophysiology
Chairpersons Prof. Steven (Cologne) and PD Dr. Tilz (Lübeck) will focus on ablation strategies and exciting fields like cardiac pacing, electrophysiology and other cardiac rhythm disorders.
Heart valve therapies
Focus of this year’s valvelive are TAVR innovations, as well as procedural and post procedural aspects like optimal access ways or correct follow-up care. Another aspect of the discussion will be future possibilities for mitral- and tricuspid valve therapy.
Complex coronary interventions
Pcilive will focus on the handling of risk patients with regard to coronary heart disease and heart failure. Complex coronary interventions (CTOs, bifurcations, left main ... ) will be demonstrated live from several centres.