• The team approach : the surgical point of view

What does the surgeon expect from the interventionalist?
F. Maisano

• The team approach : the interventionist point of view

What does the interventional cardiologist expect from the surgeon?
A. Vahanian

• The surgical treatment: is it the best?

Debate: transcatheter valve therapies are here to stay! Contra: a passing fad with no clinical utility
P.W. Connolly

• Physiology after annuloplasty

The mitral valve: anatomical considerations for a physiological repair
C. Acar

• Percutaneous approach based on edge to edge repair - ‘Alfieri – like’ techniques

Clinical results of the percutaneous mitral valve repair: the E-valve experience?
T. Feldman

Current results of mitral valve repair using the Edge-to-Edge technique
P. Block

Clinical results of the percutaneous mitral valve repair: the Mobius experience
M. Buchbinder

• Percutaneous approach based on coronary sinus ‘annulopasty’

The role of MSCT for selection

Coronary sinus and mitral valve imaging: lessons learned from computered tomography studies
M. Tuzcu

• Percutaneous approach based on coronary sinus ‘annulopasty’

The different devices

The Carillon experience
J. Schofer

MONARC system design concept and implantation techniques
K.H. Kuck

• The role of functional MR in cardiac heart failure patients

Evaluating and managing mitral regurgitation in a congestive heart failure patients
L. Piérard

• The role of surgery in functional MR

Mechanism of functional mitral regurgitation – a surgeon’s perspective
F. Maisano

• Basics about MR

What is the influence of loading conditions on valve areas and regurgitant fraction?
F. Eberli

• The inoperable valvular heart disease patient: the pluses and minuses of percutaneous valvular replacement

• Surgical isolated edge-to-edge mitral valve repair without annuloplasty: clinical proof of the principle for an endovascular approach

• Percutaneous implantation of atrioventricular valves: concept and early animal experience

• Percutaneous Pulmonary Valve Implantation: 83 patients

• Pulmonary valve implantation: prevention and treatment of complications

• The iCoapsys Repair System for the percutaneous treatment of functional mitral insufficiency

• Cardiac Dimensions®: percutaneous annuloplasty for functional mitral regurgitation

• Small Intestinal Submucosa Prosthetic Percutaneous Valve: reduction of leaflet thickening with a low-profile self-centring valve frame