WSCTS2022

15-18
September

2022

St. Petersburg,
Russia

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Welcome to
St. Petersburg

Stuart Jamieson

Chancellor

Welcome to
St. Petersburg

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.

The Chancellorship of the Society was held since the initiation of the Society in 1990 by the late Juro Wada of Japan, and I took over as Chancellor in 2007. I have attended the last twenty-four meetings of the Society, which have been held in many parts of the world. During this time, I have seen the annual meetings progressively increase in participation and quality. The meetings now are very widely attended and the quality of the presentations outstanding – made up of not only invited lectures by the world leaders in the respective topics, but also selected international presentations of submitted abstracts.

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.

Dear colleagues and friends!

I would like to invite you to the WSCTS 30th Annual Congress and Exhibition 2022. This event will be held on September 15-18, 2022 in St Petersburg, Russia.

The scientific program of the Congress will include current topics of cardiovascular surgery, thoracic surgery, transplantology, endovascular surgery, robotic surgery and endovideosurgery; modern aspects of the treatment of trauma of the chest organs, selected topics of anesthesiology and resuscitation and related disciplines. The problems of treating patients with a new coronavirus infection and its consequences, organizing the work with infectious patients and those with comorbidities will be discussed. Special attention will be paid to the use of artificial intelligence in modern healthcare. The key speakers of the congress will be the leading World masters of cardiovascular and thoracic surgeries.

Today, more than ever, we must unite and be together. Our vocation is to serve people by saving lives! I hope that our event will allow us to unite our professional interests and competencies.

Despite the extremely tight program and the difficult political situation, I am sure you would like to get acquainted with our wonderful city – the pearl of world architecture and the treasury of world culture.


Welcome to St.Petersburg!

Piotr Yablonskiy

President of the 30th Congress of the World Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons

International Organizing
Committee

Stuart Jamieson

United States

Sotirios Prapas

Greece

Afksendiyos Kalangos

Switzerland

Vipin Zamvar

United Kingdom

Joel Dunning

United Kingdom

Shanda Blackmon

United States

Prof. Gencho Nachev

Bulgaria

Yuriy Pya

Kazakhstan

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

An e-visa is FREE

Invitations, hotel booking confirmations or any other documents that confirm the purpose of your journey to the Russian Federation are not required for an e-visa. The time period for issuing an e-visa is no longer than 4 calendar days from the date of submission of the complete application.

The venue

The Congress Center of the Park Inn by Radisson in St. Petersburg lies amid the expansive Gulf of Finland, just 25 kilometers from Pulkovo Airport (LED) and 10 kilometers from the train station. The hotel is also just 5 kilometers from historic and cultural attractions including the Hermitage Museum and the Peter and Paul Fortress. Explore St. Petersburg city center, just 10-15 minutes away from our hotel.

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14 Korablestroiteley Street, St. Petersburg, 199226, Russia

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