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Sentient Summit 2025

Highlights

Sentient Summit 2025 on Foundations of Structural Heart: Essentials & Beyond

Faculty

This is the list of last year’s speakers, which will only get more powerful. Watch this space.

International Course Directors

Ganesh Manoharan

UK

Geza Fontos

HUNGARY

Peter Andreka

HUNGARY

Saibal Kar

USA

Susheel Kodali

USA

Vinayak N Bapat

USA

International Faculty

Azeem Latib

UA

Eberhard Grube

Germany

Guilherme Attizzani

USA

K Chandrasekaran

USA

Mamta H Buch

UK

Nawzad Saleh

Sweden

Pawel Kleczynski

Poland

Ramesh Daggubati

USA

Rebecca Hahn

USA

Reubendra Jeganathan

UK

Rohan Bhagwandeen

Australia

Sahil Khera

USA

Vijay K Iyer

USA

Vlasios Ninios

Greece

National Course Directors

AB Mehta

Mumbai

Ashok Seth

New Delhi

Mathew Samuel

Chennai

Praveen Chandra

Gurugram

Course Co directors

A Sreenivas Kumar

Hyderabad

Ajit Menon

Mumbai

Amit Chaurasia

New Delhi

Atul Mathur

New Delhi

Rajneesh Kapoor

Gurugram

Sanjay Mehrotra

Bangalore

Y Vijaychandra Reddy

Chennai

Organising Secretary

Ajit Mullasari

Chennai

Anantharaman R

Chennai

Sai Satish

Chennai

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Agenda

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2025
08.00 AM - 09.00 AM

Hall 2, Case Corner 1
Session – Challenge the Experts – Bicuspid Focus (7 mins talk + 5 mins discussion)
Moderator: Vijay Iyer, Suhas Hardas
Expert Panel: Moody M Makar, Nawzad Saleh, Viveka Kumar, Gaurav Singhal, Rajpal K Abhaichand, Nitin Bajaj
Floor Discussant: Rahul Gupta, Rohan Bhagwandeen

Case 1 – A Complex Bicuspid with Horizontal Aorta & Large Annulus – Rama Krishna S V K (7 min talk + 5 min discussion)
Case 2 – Navitor in Challenging Bicuspid – Amit Chaurasia (7 min talk + 5 min discussion)
Case 3 – Bicuspid – Type 0 – Raj Pratap (7 min talk + 5 min discussion)
Case 4 – Optical Outcome with SEV in a Challenging Bicuspid Anatomy – Swaroop Bharadi (7 min talk + 5 min discussion)
Case 5 – Bicuspid L-R Fusion – Prashant Dwivedi (7 min talk + 5 min discussion)
08.00 AM - 09.00 AM

Hall 2, Case Corner 2
Session – Challenge the Experts – Complication Focus (7 mins talk + 5 min discussion)
Moderator: Sahil Khera
Expert Panel: Guilherme Attizzani, Rebecca Hahn, Ajay J Swamy, Anoop Agarwal, Smartin Abraham, Abhijit Joshi
Floor Discussant: Mamta H Buch, Vijayakumar S

Case 1 – TAVI Complex Case – Ajit Mullasari S (7 min)
Discussion (5 min)

Case 2 – Navigating the Rescue Path: Size DOES Matter!! – Shafeeq Mattummal (7 min)
Discussion (5 min)

Case 3 – TAVI Complex Case – Pandula A (7 min)
Discussion (5 min)

Case 4 – Valve Embolization During TAVR – Varsha Rakshita Prakash (7 min)
Discussion (5 min)

Case 5 – Balloon Assisted Cutting That Comes in the Way – Suraj Narasimhan A (7 min)
Discussion (5 min)
08.00 AM - 09.00 AM

Hall 3, Case Corner 3
Session – Challenge the Experts – Valve in Valve Focus (7 mins talk + 5 mins discussion)
Moderator: Vinayak N Bapat
Expert Panel: Rushabh Parikh, Karthik Vasudevan, Pawel Kleczynski, Bivin Wilson, Pramod Kuamr K, Gulla Suryaprakash
Floor Discussant: Ramesh Daggubati, Maulik Parekh

Case 1 – AViV with Surgical Valve Fracture – Perimount – Girish B Navasundi (7 min)
Discussion (5 min)

Case 2 – 2 Year Outcome of Small Bioprosthetic Valve Treated with Balloon Expandable Valve – Raja Ramesh (7 min)
Discussion (5 min)

Case 3 – ViV in Perimount Magna 19mm – Nagendra Chouhan (7 min)
Discussion (5 min)

Case 4 – Valve in Valve – Rajneesh Kapoor (7 min)
Discussion (5 min)

Case 5 – TAV in SAV with Coronary Protection – Ranjan Modi (7 min)
08.00 AM - 09.00 AM

Hall 3, Case Corner 4
Session – Challenge the Experts – Alternative Access (7 mins talk + 5 mins discussion)
Moderator: Reubendra Jeganathan, Anantharaman R
Expert Panel: Ezhilan J, Shiv Nair, Anand Sancheti, Anuj Kapadia, Manoj Durairaj , Naveen Agarwal
Floor Discussant: Peter Andreka, Aashish Chopra

Case 1 – Transcarotid TAVR – Harikrishnan Parthasarathy (7 min)
Discussion (5 min)

Case 2 – Transapical TAVR – Asishkumar Mandaley (7 min)
Discussion (5 min)

Case 3 – Trans Carotid TAVR with Evolut – Brijesh Kumar (7 min)
Discussion (5 min)

Case 4 – Antegrade Transseptal TAVR – Aashish Chopra (7 min)
Discussion (5 min)

Case 5 – Trans-Caval TAVR – Anantharaman R (7 min)
Discussion (5 min)

Main Hall
09.00 AM - 9.15 AM

Welcome Address – Sai Satish
09.15 AM - 11.00 AM

Session 1 – Aortic Track – Case Based Discussion for TAVR Case (Bicuspid Valve) (10 mins talk + 5 mins discussion)

Moderator: Ganesh Manoharan, Susheel Kodali, Vinayak N Bapat, Saibal Kar, Peter Andreka
Expert Panel: Ashok Seth, Ajit Mullasari S, Sai Satish, R Anantharaman, Rajat Datta, Ganesh Iyer
Floor Discussant: Pandula Athauda Arachichi, Vijayakumar S

Why TAVI Won’t Work in Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease – A Surgeon’s Perspective – Mohammed Rehan Sayeed (10 min)

Discussion (5 min)

Bicuspids are Like Snowflakes – No Two are Alike (Key Anatomic Features of BAV) – Guilherme Attizzani (10 min)

Discussion (5 min)

Case 1 – Type 1 Bicuspid
Case Presentation – Sanjay Mehrotra (5 min)

Live CT Analysis – Ramesh Daggubati (10 min)

Panel Discussion (15 min)

Case Resolution – What I Did – Sanjay Mehrotra (5 min)

Case 2 – Type 0 Bicuspid
Case Presentation – Ashok Seth (5 min)

Live CT Analysis – Vijay Iyer (10 min)

Panel Discussion (15 min)

Case Resolution – What I Did – Ashok Seth (5 min)

11.00 AM - 12.00 Noon

Session 2 – Hot Topics in TAVI (12 mins talk + 8 mins discussion)

Moderator: Peter Andreka, Sanjay Mehrotra
Expert Panel: Sahil Khera, Dhiren Shah, Binoy John, Navreet Singh, Smartin Abraham, Nitin Bajaj
Floor Discussant: Harikrishnan P, Nawzad Saleh

Extending TAVR Indications – Perspectives on Asymptomatic and Moderate AS – Eberhard Grube (12 min)

Discussion (8 min)

Lifetime Management – What Does it Mean in India? – Guilherme Attizzani (12 min)

Discussion (8 min)

Hemodynamics and TAVI – Sifting Through the Noise – Rebecca Hahn (12 min)

Discussion (8 min)
12.00 Noon - 12.45 PM

Session 3 – Mitral Track – Bioprosthetic Valve Disease (Case Based Discussion)

Moderator: Vinayak N Bapat, T S Kler
Expert Panel: Mamta H Buch, Rebecca Hahn, Reubendra Jeganathan, Suraj Narasimhan A, Anil Abbot, R K Jain
Floor Discussant: Moody M Makar, Maulik Parekh

Case Presentation Including Key Echocardiographic Findings – Y V C Reddy (7 min)

Live CT Analysis – Vijayakumar S (8 min)

Discussion (6 min)

Valve in Valve App – Review of Key Features – Vinayak N Bapat (5 min)

TMVR Following a Lampoon Procedure to Prevent LVOT Obstruction – Manik Chopra (8 min)

Panel Discussion (6 min)

Case Resolution – What I Did? – Y V C Reddy (5 min)

12.45 PM - 01.05 PM

INAUGURATION – With Course Directors – Sai Satish

Keynote Speaker – Preetha Reddy (10 min)
Lamp Lighting – Malika Srinivasan (10 min)
01.05 PM - 01.15 PM

Break
01.15 PM - 02.10 PM

Session 4 – Self Expanding Valve Symposium

Moderator: Guilherme Attizzani, Ashok Seth
Expert Panel: Sahil Khera, Sanjay Mehrotra, Rajneesh Kapoor, Amit Chaurasia, A Sreenivas Kumar, S Selvamani
Floor Discussant: Ganesh Manoharan, Rajaram Anantharaman

Decoding SMART Trial for Indian Patient – Ashok Seth (8 min)

Discussion (2 min)

Why Durability Matters in Indian Patients – Maulik Parekh (8 min)

Discussion (2 min)

Live Case – Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK – Dan Blackman, Christopher Malkin (25 min)

Allegra Valve by Design – Suraj Narasimhan A (7 min)

02.10 PM - 02.45 PM

Lunch
02.45 PM - 03.45 PM

Session 5 – Live Case 1 – Balloon Expandable Valve – Aortic and Beyond Aortic

Moderator: Ashok Seth, Pawel Kleczynski
Expert Panel: Nagendra Boopathy S, Pandula A, Selvamani S, Pramod Kumar K, Nandkishore Kapadia, R K Jain
Floor Discussant: Asishkumar Mandaley, Prashant Dwivedi

Live Case – University Hospitals of Leicester, UK – Jan Kovac, Elved Roberts (45 min)

Myval Beyond Aortic – TMVR, TPVR & TTVR – John Jose (15 min)

03.45 PM - 04.45 PM

Session 6 – Live Case 2 – Self Expanding I

Moderator: Ashok Seth, Ganesh Manoharan
Expert Panel: Rajneesh Kapoor, Amit Chaurasia, Suhas Hardas, Sanjay Mehrotra, Girish B Navasundi, T Rajesh
Floor Discussant: N Ganesan, Anantharaman R

Navitor Vision: Adressing Current and Future Challenges with TAVI – Sahil Khera (15 min)

Live Case – Kings College Hospital London UK – Rafal Dworakowski (45 min)

04.45 PM - 05.45 PM

Session 7 – Live Case 3 – Self Expanding

Moderator: Eberhard Grube, Balbir Singh
Expert Panel: Guilherme Attizzani, Suraj Narasimhan A, Girish B Navasundi, Manik Chopra, Rajat Dutta, T S Kler
Floor Discussant: Ajit Mullasari S, Peter Andreka

Commissural Alignment & Post TAVR Coronary Access – Ravinder Singh Rao (15 min)

Live Case – Leipzig Heart Centre, Germany – Mohamed Abdel Wahab (45 min)

05.45 PM - 06.30 PM

Session 8 – Life is Full of Regrets, So is Structural Intervention (7 mins talk + 8 min discussion)

Moderator: Rohan Bhagwandeen, Guilherme Attizzani
Expert Panel: Rebecca Hahn, J Balakumaran, S M Ashraf, H K Bali, Ajay Kaul, Rashmi Dutta, G Kesavamurthy
Floor Discussant: Peter Andreka, Binay Kumar

Cases I Wish I Could do Over – Case Based Discussions

I Wish I had Paid Attention to the Coronary Heights – Guilherme Attizzani (7 min)

Discussion (8 min)

I Wish I had Chosen a Self Expanding Valve – Sahil Khera (7 min)

Discussion (8 min)

I Wish I had Chosen a Balloon Expanding Valve – Peter Andreka (7 min)

Discussion (8 min)
06.30 PM - 08.30 PM

Session 9 – Aortic Room – Main Hall – Leaflet Laceration and Bioprosthetic Valve Fracture (Step by Step) (8 mins talk + 7 mins discussion)

Moderator: Ashok Seth, Susheel Kodali, Rajaram Anantharaman
Panelist: Pandula Athauda Arachichi, P K Goel, Keshavamurthy G, Roopali Khanna, Y V C Reddy, Rajesh T

BASILICA – Step by Step Procedural Planning with Case Example – Nagendra Boopathy S (8 min)

Discussion (7 min)

BASILICA Gone Awry – What the @$%! Happened? – Susheel Kodali (8 min)

Discussion (7 min)

Understanding LVOT Obstruction – When is Leaflet or Septal Modification Necessary – Rajneesh Kapoor (8 min)

Discussion (7 min)

LAMPOON – Step by Step Procedural Planning with Both Tip to Base and Base to Tip – Ravinder Singh Rao (8 min)

Discussion (7 min)

Managing Elevated LVOT Gradients Post TMVR – Ramesh Daggubati (8 min)

Discussion (7 min)

Principles of Valve Fracture – When To Do and Step by Step Planning – Pawel Kleczynski (8 min)

Discussion (7 min)

Bench Demonstration – Susheel Kodali, Anantharaman R, Aashish Chopra (30 min)

Hall 2
06.30 PM - 08.30 PM

Mitral Room – Deep Dive into TEER
Moderator: Mamta H Buch, Saibal Kar
Panelist: Moody M Makar, Asma Hussaini, Sanjeev Gera, Sandeep Seth, A G K Gokhale, Swaroop Bharadi

Use of Multiplanar Reconstruction for Assessment and Guidance of TEER – Moody M Makar (12 min)

Mitraclip Case based selection – Ravinder Singh Rao (12 min)

Discussion (17 min)

55 Year Old Male with Non Ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy with Ejection Fraction 30% and Severe Mitral Regurgitation on Optimal Medical Treatment

TEER is the First Line of Treatment – Mamta H Buch (12 min)

TEER is an Expensive Palliation, Consider Surgical Valve Replacement or Heart Transplant – K R Balakrishnan (10 min)

Both of You Are Wasting Your Time, Just Use GDMT – Abraham Oomman (10 min)

Discussion (5 min)

Recurrent MR Following Surgical or Transcatheter Repair

TEER Should Always be Tried First – Saibal Kar (12 min)

Surgery is a More Definite Treatment – Vijit K Cherian (12 min)

Discussion and Closing Comments (18 min)

Hall 3
06.30 PM - 08.30 PM

Surgeons Room – TAVI Device Hands On and TAVI Explant
Moderator: Vinayak N Bapat, Reubendra Jeganathan
Panelist: Alok Sharma, Swapneel Karne, Dhiren Shah, S Rajan, Ganesh Manoharan, Vijayakumar S

Lifetime Management

Introduction – Vinayak Bapat (4 min)

SAVR Durability – Promise vs Reality – Vivek Jawali (8 min)

Discussion (10 min)

Root Enlargement – Complications and Watchouts – Reubendra Jeganathan (8 min)

Discussion (10 min)

EOA/PPM – How to Make Decision Before Opening the Chest? – Vinayak Bapat (8 min)

Discussion (10 min)

Summary – Vinayak Bapat (2 min)

TAV Failure Management – Tips and Tricks

Introduction – Better to do TAVR first or SAVR? – Vinayak Bapat (4 min)

Evidence Update – Shiv Nair (8 min)

Discussion (10 min)

CT Assessment for Patient Selection and Case Planning – Vijayakumar S (8 min)

Discussion (10 min)

SAVR Redo vs TAVR Explant – Which is Harder – Ajay Kaul (8 min)

Discussion (10 min)

Summary – Vinayak Bapat (2 min)

08.45 AM - 09.45 AM

Main Hall
Session 10 – Call for Cases by Fellows (6 min Presentation + 4 min Discussion) – 6 Selected Cases

Moderator: Eberhard Grube, Vinayak N Bapat, Ganesh Manoharan
Expert Panel: Ramesh Daggubati, Nawzad Saleh, Saibal Kar, Sahil Khera, Vijay Iyer, Rajat Dutta

Case 1 – Extraordinary TAVR in a Heavily Calcified Bicuspid AV with Horizontal Root and Severely Tortuous Aorta using Novel Python BZ Introducer – Kamal Kant Jena (10 min)

Case 2 – TAVR in the Presence of Bio-Prosthetic Mitral Valve – Nandhakumar Vasu (10 min)

Case 3 – TMVR with Lampoon Procedure – Shashi Kant (10 min)

Case 4 – Chronically Stuck Mechanical Aortic Valve (Novel Parallel Balloon Dilatation in Surgically Turned Down Patient) – Amit Gupta (10 min)

Case 5 – The Uncrossable Aortic Valve – Anusha A Rao (10 min)

Case 6 – Post TAVR Severe Paravalvular Leak – Device Comes to the Rescue – Suraj Narasimhan A (10 min)
10.00 AM - 11.00 AM

Session 11 – Live Case 4 – S3UR in Bicuspid Anatomy

Moderator: Rebecca Hahn, Susheel Kodali, Ravinder Singh Rao
Expert Panel: Vijay Iyer, Rohan Bhagwandeen, Maulik Parekh, Rajaram Anantharaman, Justin Paul G, Swaroop Bharadi
Floor Discussant: Atul Mathur, Rajpal Singh

S3U Resillia: A Promise to Life Time Management of AS – Ravinder Singh Rao (7 min)

Live Case – Alfred Health, Victoria, Australia – Tony Walton (44 min)

Late Clinical Outcomes with BEV in Small Annulus Patients from the Partner Trials – Rebecca Hahn (8 min)

11.05 AM - 12.05 PM

Session 12 – TAV in TAV

Moderator: Balbir Singh, Pawel Kleczynski
Expert Panel: Peter Andreka, Umeshwar Pandey, Awadhesh Kumar Sharma, Prafull Sharma, Swaroop Bharadi, Gokul Reddy
Floor Discussant: Guilherme Attizzani, Rajaram Anantharaman

Case Presentation Including Echo Findings – Rohan Bhagwandeen (10 min)

Key Anatomic Considerations and Role of Redo TAVR App – Vinayak N Bapat (10 min)

Live CT Analysis – Susheel Kodali (10 min)

Panel Discussion (Valve Choice, Role of TAVI Explant & Anticoagulant in Pre and Post TAVI) (10 min)

Case Resolution – How I Did it? – Rohan Bhagwandeen (10 min)

Valve in Valve in Valve – Is it Feasible – Nawzad Saleh (10 min)

12.05 PM - 12.50 PM

Session 13 – A Taste of the Future – Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Intervention

Moderator: Eberhard Grube, Vijay Iyer
Expert Panel: Moody M Makar, K Chandrasekar, Rebecca Hahn, Anuj Kapadia, Girish B Navasundi, Srinivas Prasad
Floor Discussant: Ramesh Daggubati, Nandhakumar Vasu

Tricuspid Valve Intervention – Surgeon’s Perspective – Reubendra Jeganathan (10 min)

Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Intervention – Interventionalist’s Perspective & Case Based Discussion – Susheel Kodali (15 min)

Discussion (20 min)
12.50 PM - 01.35 PM

Session 14 – Balloon Expanding Valve Symposium
Moderator: Vijayakumar S, Ajit Mullasari S
Expert Panel: Akhil Sharma, Shafeeq Mattummal, Raj Pratap, Harikrishnan P, Naveen Agarwal
Floor Discussant: Suraj Narsimhan A, Aashish Chopra

Live Case with Octaalign Demonstration – King Abdullah Medical City, Makkah, Saudi Arabia – Abdullah Ghabashi, Saleh Khouj (35 min)
Compare TAVI and Landmark Substudy – Pawel Kleczynski (10 min)
02.20 PM - 03.20 PM

Session 15 – TEER (MitraClip)

Moderator: Saibal Kar, Vinayak N Bapat
Expert Panel: Mamta H Buch, Ranjan Shetty, Sudhansu Bhattacharyya, Ganesh K Iyer, Sanjay Gandhi
Floor Discussant: Vijay Iyer, Sahil Khera

Evaluating TEER Anatomy and Why it Matters – Understanding Green, Yellow and Red Zones – Moody M Makar (10 min)

Discussion (5 min)

Without Imaging There is Nothing – Understanding Key Procedure Views – Rebecca Hahn (10 min)

Discussion (5 min)

Case Based Discussion

Case 1 – TEER in Barlows

Case Presentation – Saibal Kar (5 min)

Panel Discussion (5 min)

What I Did – Saibal Kar (5 min)

Case 2 – TEER in Functional MR with LV Dysfunction

Case Presentation – Mamta H Buch (5 min)

Panel Discussion (5 min)

What I Did – Mamta H Buch (5 min)

03.25 PM - 04.20 PM

Session 16 – Challenging Scenarios (Case Based Discussions) (7 min Presentation + 3 min Discussion)

Moderator: Peter Andreka, Ajit Mullasari S
Expert Panel: Guilherme Attizzani, Sameer Pagad, Murali Krishna, Jaideep K Trivedi, Rajneesh Malhotra
Floor Discussant: Rajaram Anantharaman, Reubendra Jeganathan

It’s a Rock in There – TAVI in Extreme Calcium – Rajeev Menon (7 min)

Managing PVL Post TAVI – Should I Intervene? If so, How? – Susheel Kodali (7 min)

Everything Is Perfect, Until It’s Not
– Suraj Narasimhan (7 min)

Effaced Sinuses with low coronaries . Is There a Shortcut – Saibal Kar (7 min)

What the %^$# Happened Here?? How Do I Fix This Now ?? – Suicidal Left Ventricle – Anantharaman R (7 min)

04.20 PM - 05.10 PM

Session 17 – My Worst Complications

Moderator: Ganesh Manoharan, Amit Chaurasia
Expert Panel: Saibal Kar, Ramesh Daggubati, G Keshavamurthy, Gopi A, Amita Yadav
Floor Discussant: Peter Andreka, Rohan Bhagwandeen

Case 1 – Ravinder Singh Rao (10 min)

Case 2 – Balbir Singh (10 min)

Case 3 – Suraj Narasimhan (10 min)

Case 4 – Navreet Singh (10 min)

Case 5 – A Sreenivas Kumar (10 min)

05.10 PM - 05.40 PM

Closing Ceremony – Awards Session / Closing Ceremony – All India KOLs

Moderator: Ashok Seth, Ganesh Manoharan, Susheel Kodali, Vinayak N Bapat, Saibal Kar, Peter Andreka, Ajit Mullasari S, R Anantharaman, Sai Satish

Presentation of the Awards – Best 3 Cases

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