Dear Colleagues,
It gives me very great pleasure to welcome you to Saint Petersburg for the 30th Annual meeting of the World Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery.
As most of you know, the Society was founded in 1990 by the original pioneers in cardiac surgery, with the goal of having a truly international forum for the exchange of ideas and progress in clinical care and research. The annual meetings are therefore held in many parts of the world. The 26th annual meeting was in Cape Town, South Africa, and the 27th annual meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan. The 2018 meeting was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and last year’s meeting in Sophia, Bulgaria.
Every year, the steering committee of the Society, made up of the officers of the Society, the Past Presidents and the Regional Representatives, selects the host country for the annual meeting, three years in advance. The unanimous choice for the meeting in 2022 was Saint Petersburg.
Saint Petersburg is a historic and beautiful city, with wonderful hotels and restaurants. The 18th and 19th century architecture of the city and its environs is preserved virtually unchanged. It is listed by UNESCO on the World Heritage list as an area with around 4,000 outstanding individual monuments of architecture, history and culture. The Hermitage museum is a must to visit, as is the Winter Palace and Peterhof with its magnificent gardens. In all the city has 221 museums, 2,000 libraries, and more than 80 theatres.
It is an excellent choice for the meeting in 2022, and I encourage your participation. Please bring your families and plan to make time to visit the many magnificent attractions of this wonderful city.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Piotr Yablonski
30th Congress of the World Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons Russia abstracts
Scientific Programme
- Minimally invasive valve surgery (aortic, mitral)
- Aortic root surgery
- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- Mechanical circulatory support and ventricular assist devices
- Aortic arch surgery
- Hybrid cardiac procedures
- Stem cells and tissue engineering in cardiac surgery
- Minimally invasive CABG
- Coronary artery disease in diabetic patients
- Congenital cardiac surgery in adults
- Surgery of descending aorta
- Infective endocarditis
- Surgical infections in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery
- Mediastinal surgery
- New technologies in esophageal surgery
- Pulmonary tuberculosis surgery in the XXI century
- Lung cancer surgery in the era of immunotherapy
- Lung cancer staging: yesterday and today
- Surgery for acute infectious lung destruction
- Surgery for emphysema
- Surgery of the trachea
- Chest trauma in wartime and peacetime
- Treatment of flail chest
- Parasitic diseases in the practice of cardiothoracic surgeon
- Minimally invasive and robotic technologies in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery
- Endovascular technologies
- Simultaneous and hybrid operations
- Anaesthetic management of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
- Heart and lung transplantation
- CTEPH Surgery
- Long-term air release after lung resections
- Segmental resection of the lungs
- Invasive technologies in the differential diagnosis and staging of lung diseases
- Rigid bronchoscopy in the XXI century
- EBUS in thoracic practice
- Assistive technology in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
- Education of cardiovascular and thoracic surgeons – trends and the best practices
- HITHOC in thoracic surgery
- Lung metastasis for colo-rectal cancer
- TNM classification of lung cancer: what needs to be changed?!
- Navigation in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
- Nursing in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
- Open peripheral vascular surgery
- Peripheral Vascular catheter intervention
- Carotid and Cerebrovascular intervention and surgery
- Thoracic Aortic intervention and surgery
- Abdominal aortic Aneurysm Surgery and Intervention
- Management of Renal and mesenteric arterial disease
- Management of Venous Disease
- Complications in Vascular Surgery
- Imaging in Vascular disease
- Economics of Management of Vascular disease
- Education of Modern Vascular Disease management
Vascular Case Reports