May 12, 2025 | Lübeck, Germany | 7 CME Points
Ross-Symposium 2025
The ROSS Operation - Lifetime Management for all Aortic Valve Pathologies?
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Dear Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen,
We would like to cordially invite you to our Lübeck Ross Symposium titled 'The ROSS operation - Lifetime management for all aortic valve pathologies' at the Fraunhofer Institute IMTE, Lübeck on May 12, 2025. The Ross operation has a long tradition at the Department for Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery at the University Heart Center Lübeck.
It is a great honor for me to host this event together with Dr. Vladimir Voth (Stuttgart) and Prof. Daniel Zimpfer (Vienna). The aim of this symposium is to take a multidisciplinary look at the topic of ROSS surgery in children and adults from all perspectives and to hold it every two years alternately in Lübeck, Stuttgart and Vienna.
Since its introduction by Donald Ross in 1967, the surgical method named after him has polarized and consequently interest in this surgical method has in- and decreased in phases. The three main factors for this are a perceived higher surgical risk compared to conventional aortic valve surgery, reports of premature failure of the autograft and technical challenges in complex reoperations. In contrast, recently published long-term results support excellent durability and a very good quality of life for treated patients.
Nevertheless, the ROSS operation is still not included in national or international guidelines and is still the subject of an intense debate. We would like to address this discussion together with you and all the invited ROSS experts, focusing on what the various disciplines involved can learn from each other. This is why the invitation to this event is also aimed at all medical professional groups.
We would like to kick off the symposium on Sunday evening, May 11, 2025, with a “get together” in the Newport restaurant and give all speakers and participants the opportunity for clinical and scientific exchange.
We look forward to seeing you in May in Lübeck!
Stephan Ensminger
Prof. Dr. med. Stephan Ensminger
Director
Clinic for Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery
UKSH, Campus Lübeck
Vladimir Voth
Dr. Vladimir Voth
Senior Consultant, Deputy Medical Director
Heart Center, Klinikum Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Daniel Zimpfer
Prof. Dr. med. Daniel Zimpfer
Director
Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Aortic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna
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| Program ROSS Symposium | Monday, May 12, 2025 | |
| 08:15 | Start of Registration |
| Session I: ROSS-Operation – Past – Present and Future Moderation: Stephan Ensminger (Lübeck) and Daniel Zimpfer (Vienna) | |
| 09:00 | Welcome and Introduction Stephan Ensminger (Lübeck) |
| 09:10 | Donald Ross and the Development of the ROSS-Operation Stephan Ensminger (Lübeck) |
| 09:30 | Future Perspectives of the Ross Register Thomas Pühler (Lübeck) |
| 09:50 | Quality Requirements for a ROSS-Program Peter Murin (Vienna) |
| 10:10 | The Future of the ROSS-Operation Martin Andreas (Vienna) |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| Session II: ROSS-Operation – Patient Selection, technical Aspects, Tips and Tricks Moderation: Vladimir Voth (Stuttgart) and Alfred Kocher (Vienna) | |
| 11:00 | The ideal ROSS Patient Surgeon’s View Cardiologist’s View |
| 11:20 | Alternatives for RVOT Reconstruction Igor Berezovets (Lübeck) |
| 11:40 | The ROSS-Pears Operation – a personalized concept to avoid autograft dilatation Alfred Kocher (Vienna) |
| 12:00 | Critical Evaluation of the ROSS-Operation a) There is no future for ROSS in times of Inspiris, Avalus, Epic-plus et al. b) Make ROSS great again! |
| 12:30 | Group Photo |
| 12:35 | Lunch |
| 13:00 | Guided tour through the LIROS OP Lübeck Innovation Hub for Robotic Surgery (More Info …) |
| Session III: ROSS-Operation – New Strategies and Aspects Moderation: Fabian Kari (München) and Thomas Pühler (Lübeck) | |
| 13:30 | Update on ROSS – Data in 2025 Ismael El Hamamsy (New York) |
| 13:50 | ROSS-Operation – interventional Treatment Options Phuoc Duong (Liverpool) |
| 14:10 | ROSS-Recoveries Daniel Zimpfer (Vienna) |
| 14:30 | ROSS-Lessons for an Adult Cardiac Surgeon from a Congential Cardiac Surgeon Fabian Kari (München) |
| 14:50 | Coffee Break |
| Session IV: ROSS-Operation in Pediatric Patients Moderation: Peter Murin (Vienna) and Mi-Young Cho (Berlin) | |
| 15:30 | Longterm – Survival for Pediatric Patients after ROSS-Operations Nina Sophie Pommert (Lübeck) |
| 15:50 | What is the optimal RV-PA-Conduit for pediatric patients after Ross – Role of decellularized Homografts Samir Saricouch (Hannover) |
| 16:10 | Autograft Reinforcement in Pediatric Patients: Luxury or Must do? Peter Murin (Vienna) |
| 16:30 | The role of Ross operation and its alternatives in the lifelong management of congenital aortic valve disease Boulos Asfour (Bonn) |
| 16:50 | End of Symposium and Farewell |
Prof. Dr. med. Martin Andreas
University Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna
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Prof. Dr. med. Boulos Asfour
University Hospital Bonn, German Children's Heart Center UKB, Bonn
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Dr. med. Igor Berezovets
Clinic for Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, University Heart Center Lübeck, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck
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Mi-Young Cho
Department of Congenital Heart Surgery and Pediatric Heart Surgery, German Heart Center of the Charite, Berlin
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Dr. Phuoc Duong
Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool
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Prof. Dr. med. Stephan Ensminger
Clinic for Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, University Heart Center Lübeck, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck
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Prof. Dr. med. Jan Gummert
Klinik für Thorax- und Kardiovaskularchirurgie, Universitätsklinik der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen
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Ismael El Hamamsy, MD, PhD, Professor
Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA
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Prof. Dr. med. Fabian Kari
Herzchirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Sektion für Chirurgie angeborener Herzfehler und Kinderherzchirurgie, LMU-Klinikum, München
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Prof. Dr. med. Alfred Kocher
Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Aortic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna
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Dr. med. Markus Liebrich
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Sana Cardiac Surgery Stuttgart
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Dr. med. Peter Murin
University Clinic for Cardiac and Thoracic Aortic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna
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Dr. med. Nina Sophie Pommert
Clinic for Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, University Heart Center Lübeck, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck
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Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Pühler
Clinic for Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, University Heart Center Lübeck, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck
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Prof. Dr. med. Samir Saricouch
Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation, and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School
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Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Stiermaier
Medizinische Klinik II / Kardiologie, Angiologie, Intensivmedizin, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck Campus
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Dr. med. Vladimir Voth
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Sana Cardiac Surgery Stuttgart
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Prof. Dr. med. Daniel Zimpfer
University Clinic for Cardiac and Thoracic Aortic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna
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