Sentient Summit 2025
January 16, 17 & 18, Bengaluru, India
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
Geza Fontos
Peter Andreka
Saibal Kar
Susheel Kodali
Vinayak N Bapat
International Faculty
Azeem Latib
Eberhard Grube
Guilherme Attizzani
K Chandrasekaran
Mamta H Buch
Nawzad Saleh
Pawel Kleczynski
Ramesh Daggubati
Rebecca Hahn
Reubendra Jeganathan
Rohan Bhagwandeen
Sahil Khera
Vijay K Iyer
Vlasios Ninios
National Course Directors
AB Mehta
Ashok Seth
Mathew Samuel
Praveen Chandra
Course Co directors
A Sreenivas Kumar
Ajit Menon
Amit Chaurasia
Atul Mathur
Rajneesh Kapoor
Sanjay Mehrotra
Y Vijaychandra Reddy
Organising Secretary
Ajit Mullasari
Anantharaman R
Sai Satish
Agenda
2025
Hall 1 | Foundations of Structural Heart : Essentials & Beyond |
11.00 AM - 12.00 PM | Registration |
12.00 PM - 01.00 PM | Keynote Session How to Become a Structural Heart Interventionalist in India – What are my Options? – Ajit Mullasari S (15 min) ▶Watch |
01.30 PM - 02.55 PM | Session 1 – Aortic Track (10 mins talk + 5 mins discussion) ▶Watch Moderator: Guilherme Attizzani, Atul Mathur Basics of Diagnosing AS on Echo – It’s not Just About Valve Area – Anoop Agrawal (15 min) |
03.00 PM - 03.52 PM | Session 2 – Vascular Access Management (10 mins talk + 5 mins discussion) ▶Watch Moderator: Ganesh Manoharan, Ajit Menon Vascular Access Management – Puncture to Securing Safe Passage – Ramesh Daggubati (15 min) |
03.52 PM - 04.00 PM | Coffee Break |
04.00 PM - 06.15 PM | Session 3 – Mitral Track (8 mins talk + 6 mins discussion) ▶Watch Moderator: Vinayak N Bapat, Manik Chopra Anatomy 101- The Mitral Valve for Structural Interventionalists – K Chandrasekar (15 min) |
06.15 PM - 08.15 PM | Session 4 – Complications (Case Based Discussions) (8 mins talk + 7 mins discussion) ▶Watch Moderator: Ashok Seth, Ramesh Daggubati, P K Hazra Paravalvular Leak – Susheel Kodali (15 min) |
Hall 2 – Imaging Room |
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01.00 PM - 03.10 PM | Session – Essentials and Beyond – Structural Echocardiography (8 mins talk + 7 mins discussion) Diagnostic Dilemma – Low Flow, Low Gradient AS – K Chandrasekhar (15 min) |
08.00 AM - 09.00 AM | Hall 2, Case Corner 1 Case 1 – A Complex Bicuspid with Horizontal Aorta & Large Annulus – Rama Krishna S V K (7 min talk + 5 min discussion) |
08.00 AM - 09.00 AM | Hall 2, Case Corner 2 Case 1 – TAVI Complex Case – Ajit Mullasari S (7 min) Case 2 – Navigating the Rescue Path: Size DOES Matter!! – Shafeeq Mattummal (7 min) Case 3 – TAVI Complex Case – Pandula A (7 min) Case 4 – Valve Embolization During TAVR – Varsha Rakshita Prakash (7 min) Case 5 – Balloon Assisted Cutting That Comes in the Way – Suraj Narasimhan A (7 min) |
08.00 AM - 09.00 AM | Hall 3, Case Corner 3 Case 1 – AViV with Surgical Valve Fracture – Perimount – Girish B Navasundi (7 min) Case 2 – 2 Year Outcome of Small Bioprosthetic Valve Treated with Balloon Expandable Valve – Raja Ramesh (7 min) Case 3 – ViV in Perimount Magna 19mm – Nagendra Chouhan (7 min) Case 4 – Valve in Valve – Rajneesh Kapoor (7 min) Case 5 – TAV in SAV with Coronary Protection – Ranjan Modi (7 min) |
08.00 AM - 09.00 AM | Hall 3, Case Corner 4 Case 1 – Transcarotid TAVR – Harikrishnan Parthasarathy (7 min) Case 2 – Transapical TAVR – Asishkumar Mandaley (7 min) Case 3 – Trans Carotid TAVR with Evolut – Brijesh Kumar (7 min) Case 4 – Antegrade Transseptal TAVR – Aashish Chopra (7 min) Case 5 – Trans-Caval TAVR – Anantharaman R (7 min) |
Main Hall |
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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) ▶Watch Moderator: Ganesh Manoharan, Susheel Kodali, Vinayak N Bapat, Saibal Kar, Peter Andreka Why TAVI Won’t Work in Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease – A Surgeon’s Perspective – Mohammed Rehan Sayeed (10 min) Bicuspids are Like Snowflakes – No Two are Alike (Key Anatomic Features of BAV) – Guilherme Attizzani (10 min) Case 1 – Type 1 Bicuspid Case 2 – Type 0 Bicuspid |
11.00 AM - 12.00 Noon | Session 2 – Hot Topics in TAVI (12 mins talk + 8 mins discussion) ▶Watch Moderator: Peter Andreka, Sanjay Mehrotra Extending TAVR Indications – Perspectives on Asymptomatic and Moderate AS – Eberhard Grube (12 min) Lifetime Management – What Does it Mean in India? – Guilherme Attizzani (12 min) Hemodynamics and TAVI – Sifting Through the Noise – Rebecca Hahn (12 min) |
12.00 Noon - 12.45 PM | Session 3 – Mitral Track – Bioprosthetic Valve Disease (Case Based Discussion) ▶Watch Moderator: Vinayak N Bapat, T S Kler Case Presentation Including Key Echocardiographic Findings – Y V C Reddy (7 min) Valve in Valve App – Review of Key Features – Vinayak N Bapat (5 min) |
12.45 PM - 01.05 PM | INAUGURATION – With Course Directors – Sai SatishKeynote Speaker – Preetha Reddy (10 min) |
01.05 PM - 01.15 PM | Break |
01.15 PM - 02.10 PM | Session 4 – Self Expanding Valve Symposium ▶Watch Moderator: Guilherme Attizzani, Ashok Seth Decoding SMART Trial for Indian Patient – Ashok Seth (8 min) Why Durability Matters in Indian Patients – Maulik Parekh (8 min) Live Case – Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK – Dan Blackman, Christopher Malkin (25 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 ▶Watch Moderator: Ashok Seth, Pawel Kleczynski 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 – Navitor Vision in Small Annulus ▶Watch Moderator: Ashok Seth, Ganesh Manoharan Presentation – 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 ▶Watch Moderator: Eberhard Grube, Balbir Singh 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) ▶Watch Moderator: Rohan Bhagwandeen, Guilherme Attizzani Cases I Wish I Could do Over – Case Based Discussions I Wish I had Paid Attention to the Coronary Heights – Guilherme Attizzani (7 min) I Wish I had Chosen a Self Expanding Valve – Sahil Khera (7 min) I Wish I had Chosen a Balloon Expanding Valve – Peter Andreka (7 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) ▶Watch Moderator: Ashok Seth, Susheel Kodali, Rajaram Anantharaman BASILICA – Step by Step Procedural Planning with Case Example – Nagendra Boopathy S (8 min) BASILICA Gone Awry – What the @$%! Happened? – Susheel Kodali (8 min) Understanding LVOT Obstruction – When is Leaflet or Septal Modification Necessary – Rajneesh Kapoor (8 min) LAMPOON – Step by Step Procedural Planning with Both Tip to Base and Base to Tip – Ravinder Singh Rao (8 min) Managing Elevated LVOT Gradients Post TMVR – Ramesh Daggubati (8 min) Principles of Valve Fracture – When To Do and Step by Step Planning – Pawel Kleczynski (8 min) Bench Demonstration – Susheel Kodali, Anantharaman R, Aashish Chopra (30 min) |
Hall 2 |
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06.30 PM - 08.30 PM | Mitral Room – Deep Dive into TEER Use of Multiplanar Reconstruction for Assessment and Guidance of TEER – Moody M Makar (12 min) 55 Year Old Male with Non Ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy with Ejection Fraction 30% and Severe Mitral Regurgitation on Optimal Medical Treatment Recurrent MR Following Surgical or Transcatheter Repair |
Hall 3 |
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06.30 PM - 08.30 PM | Surgeons Room – TAVI Device Hands On and TAVI Explant Lifetime Management TAV Failure Management – Tips and Tricks |
08.45 AM - 09.45 AM | Main Hall Moderator: Eberhard Grube, Vinayak N Bapat, Ganesh Manoharan 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) |
10.00 AM - 11.00 AM | Session 11 – Live Case 4 – S3UR in Bicuspid Anatomy ▶Watch Moderator: Rebecca Hahn, Susheel Kodali, Ravinder Singh Rao S3U Resillia: A Promise to Life Time Management of AS – Ravinder Singh Rao (7 min) |
11.05 AM - 12.05 PM | Session 12 – TAV in TAV ▶Watch Moderator: Balbir Singh, Pawel Kleczynski Case Presentation Including Echo Findings – Rohan Bhagwandeen (10 min) |
12.05 PM - 12.50 PM | Session 13 – A Taste of the Future – Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Intervention ▶Watch Moderator: Eberhard Grube, Vijay Iyer Tricuspid Valve Intervention – Surgeon’s Perspective – Reubendra Jeganathan (10 min) |
12.50 PM - 01.35 PM | Session 14 – Balloon Expanding Valve Symposium Live Case with Octaalign Demonstration – King Abdullah Medical City, Makkah, Saudi Arabia – Abdullah Ghabashi, Saleh Khouj (35 min) |
02.20 PM - 03.20 PM | Session 15 – TEER (MitraClip) ▶Watch Moderator: Saibal Kar, Vinayak N Bapat Evaluating TEER Anatomy and Why it Matters – Understanding Green, Yellow and Red Zones – Moody M Makar (10 min) Without Imaging There is Nothing – Understanding Key Procedure Views – Rebecca Hahn (10 min) Case Based Discussion Case 2 – TEER in Functional MR with LV Dysfunction – Mamta H Buch (5 min) |
03.25 PM - 04.20 PM | Session 16 – Challenging Scenarios (Case Based Discussions) (7 min Presentation + 3 min Discussion) ▶Watch Moderator: Peter Andreka, Ajit Mullasari S It’s a Rock in There – TAVI in Extreme Calcium – Rajeev Menon (7 min) |
04.20 PM - 05.10 PM | Session 17 – My Worst Complications ▶Watch Moderator: Ganesh Manoharan, Amit Chaurasia Case 1 – Ravinder Singh Rao (10 min) |
05.10 PM - 05.40 PM | Closing Ceremony – Awards Session / Closing Ceremony – All India KOLs ▶Watch 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 |