30thCongress of theInternational Society forMechanical Circulatory Support

Joint International Congress 2024 in Utsunomiya

13th November – 15th November, 2024
LIGHT CUBE UTSUNOMIYA in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan.

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On behalf of the local organizing committee, I am delighted to invite you to the 30th
Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society for MechanicalCirculatory Support (ISMCS). The conference will take place from November 13th toNovember 15th at LIGHT CUBE UTSUNOMIYA in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan. The

ISMCS2024 will be held in person, and we are trying three new things in the program.
The first is that we have two sessions for cardiologists including session with theJapanese Heart Failure Society (Topics 5) and session for AMI SHOCK (ECLS trial/DanGer trial) (Topics 8). The second is a joint session with the VAD coordinators(Topics 4). We will discuss self-management of VADs that will reduce the burden oncaregivers. The third is regarding the rapid spread of VAD treatment in Asian countries.
In particular, in China, four VADs made in China are used. We will also organize anexhibition and a wet lab for devices where you can meet the distinguished experts andnew devices. Moreover, we will discuss intra-atrial VAD for HFpEF (Topics 2) and Firstin-Human experience of BiVACOR TAH (Topics 3).
Utsunomiya is located at north of Tokyo and it takes 50 min by bullet train (Shinkansen)from Tokyo and famous for its beautiful scenery in autumn especially in Nikko areasuch as Toshogu shrine (magnificent memorial for Tokugawa-shogunate, UNESCOWorld Heritage) (please see the beautiful Nikko: Movies | Visit Tochigi (visit-tochigi.
com)). The venue will also offer local foods such as gyoza (pan fried dumplings),ramen, and strawberry. Please visit our website for registration and submission of yourabstract (https://kinki-convention.jp/ismcs30/index.html).
I look forward to meeting you in Utsunomiya, Japan.
Sincerely,
Koichi Toda
Conference President

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11/12 (Tuesday)

11/13 (Wednesday)

7：00

7：00

8：00

8：00

9：00

9：00

10：00

10：00

Young Investigators Pre-symposium

Opening Ceremony

Helmut Reul Young Investigator Award

Executive Board meeting
11：00

11：00

Topics 1: Impella for high risk surgery12：00

14：00

15：00

16：00

13：00

ICCAC-MCS Bootcamp

13：00

The 2nd International
Heart Hackathon Competition

12：00

Lunch Symposium 1 sponsored by ABIOMED

14：00

Topics 2: What is new?
From laboratory and company
General Board meeting

15：00

16：00

17：00

17：00

18：00

18：00

19：00

19：00

20：00

20：00

21：00

21：00

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Topics 3: Right ventricular failure(two implantable VAD, TAH, or Fontan?)

Topics 4: Self-Care in Patients with MCS: ISMCS-ICCAC joint symposium(VAD coordinator session )Welcome reception
Table tennis tournament / Karaoke tournament11/14 (Thursday)

11/15 (Friday)
7：00

7：00

8：00

8：00

General session (Mini Orals)

9：00

11：00

Topics 5: ISMCS - Japanese Heart
Failure Society (JHFS)
joint symposium

Topics 6: Towards forgettabledevice: Battery/Driveline/Remotemonitoring/Artificial Intelligence

Meet the experts andnew pumps in Wet Lab(parallel session)

9：00

10：00

10：00

Topics 11: Simulation and Modelling
12：00

Lunch Symposium 2 sponsored by
CH-Biomedical(CH-VAD/BRIOVAD)

13：00

Topics 7: Booming VAD therapy
in Asian countries

Topics 12: Complicated VAD surgery(pump exchange, valve surgery/TAVI, etc)
15：0015：00

17：00

Lunch Symposium 3
sponsored by Abbott and NIPRO

14：00

14：00

16：00

Topics 10: Cardiac recovery after MCS(medication, biological therapies, etc)

11：00

12：00

13：00

Topics 9: ISMCS-JSAO joint symposium: How to design new pumps(digital twins, virtual fitting, In silico testing…)

General session(Mini Orals)

General session (Mini Orals)
16：00

Topics 8: Management of AMI
shock in 2024: Role of temporary
MCS (ECLS shock trial and DanGer
shock trial)

17：00

Topics 13: VAD for small patients/small heart/congenital disease
Closing Ceremony18：00

18：00

General Assembly

19：00

19：00

20：00

Gala dinner(at Utsunomiya Tobu-Hotel)

20：00

21：00

21：00

4Buffet party with JSAO

30th Congress of the International Society for
Mechanical Circulatory Support

13th November ‒ 15th November, 2024

LIGHT CUBE UTSUNOMIYA in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan.

ISMCS 2024
International Society for Mechanical Circulatory Support
Scientific Congress
Utsunomiya, Japan
November 13 – 15, 2024

Reunion for clinicians and engineers

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Mechanical Circulatory Support

13th November ‒ 15th November, 2024

LIGHT CUBE UTSUNOMIYA in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan.

Tuesday November 12, 2024 (Day 0)
10:00 – 17:00 (Room 103)

The 2nd International Heart Hackathon Competition
Heart Hackathon is the world’s first total artificial heart design competition by students, aiming tonurture and inspire the next generation in cardiovascular innovation. (Please visit: HeartHackathon)
13:00 – 17:00 (Room 104)

ICCAC-MCS Bootcamp
ICCAC (International Consortium of Circulatory Assist Clinicians) includes networking
events, MCS (VAD) Coordinator-Specific sessions and MCS Bootcamp. This ICCAC-MCSBootcamp will be the first ICCAC-MCS Bootcamp in Asia. (Please visit: Home | ICCAC)
9:00 – 12:00 (Room 101)

Executive Board meeting
13:00 – 17:00 (Room 101)

General Board meeting

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Mechanical Circulatory Support

13th November ‒ 15th November, 2024

LIGHT CUBE UTSUNOMIYA in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan.

Wednesday November 13, 2024 (Day 1)
7:30 – 8:45 (Room 201-202)

Young Investigators Pre-symposium
9:00 – 9:15 (Room 201-202)

Opening Ceremony
Koichi Toda (Japan), Antonio Loforte (Italy)
9:30 – 10:30 (Room 201-202)

Helmut Reul Young Investigator Award
Moderators: Ulrich Steinseifer (Germany), TBD
10:45 – 12:00 (Room 201-202)

Topics 1: Impella for high risk surgery
Moderators: Alexander Bernhardt (Germany), TBD
Speakers: Alexander Bernhardt (Germany), Kenji Minakata (USA), Hiroshi Niinami (Japan), TBD
We will discuss preoperative, intraoperative (Impella supported CABG), and postoperative use ofImpella for high risk patients.
12:30 – 13:30 (Room 201-202)

Lunch Symposium 1 sponsored by ABIOMED
Evgenij Potapov (Germany), Masahiro Ono (USA)13:45 – 15:15 (Room 201-202)Topics 2: What is new? From laboratory and company
Moderators: Vakhtang V. Tchantchaleishvili (Chief editor of Artificial Organs, USA), TBD
Speakers: Vakhtang V. Tchantchaleishvili (USA), Eduardo Rame (Berlin Heals, USA), Andrew
Malone (Pumpinheart, Ireland), Ina Laura Perkins (Realheart TAH, Sweden), Po-Lin Hsu(magAssist, China), Kevin Bourque (Abbott, USA), TBD

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30th Congress of the International Society for
Mechanical Circulatory Support

13th November ‒ 15th November, 2024

LIGHT CUBE UTSUNOMIYA in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan.

We will discuss microcurrent devices that propagate cardiac reverse remodeling and new pumps
including intra-atrial VAD for HFpEF, Chinese percutaneous VAD, and more.

15:30 – 17:00 (Room 201-202)

Topics 3: Right ventricular failure (two implantable VAD, TAH, orFontan?)
Moderators: Evgenij Potapov (Germany), Tomonori Tukiya (Japan), TBD
Speakers: Pascal Leprince (France), Daniel Zimpfer (Austria), David McGiffin (Australia), Akira
Shiose (Japan), Daniel Timms (Australia)
We will discuss clinical outcomes of Carmat TAH, HeartMate 3 x 2 as TAH, implantable Bi-VAD,
Fontan type operation, and First-in-Human experience of BiVACOR TAH for right ventricularfailure.
17:15 – 18:45 (Room 201-202)

Topics 4: Self-Care in Patients with MCS: ISMCS-ICCAC joint symposium (VAD coordinator session )Moderators: Thomas Schlöglhofer (Austria), Shunsuke Saito (Japan), Christopher Hayward(Australia)
Speakers: Janelle McLean (Australia), Janet Wu (USA), Desiree Robson (Australia) , TBD
We will talk about “Empowering the patient to be self-sufficient: is the caregiver necessary?” and“Combining patient-self-care with remote monitoring : easing clinicians fear for patients withoutcaregivers” and so on.
19:00 – (Room 201-202)

Welcome reception
Table tennis tournament / Karaoke tournament8

30th Congress of the International Society for
Mechanical Circulatory Support

13th November ‒ 15th November, 2024

LIGHT CUBE UTSUNOMIYA in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan.

Thursday November 14, 2024 (Day 2)
7:30 – 8:45 (Room 201-202)

General session (Mini Orals)
9:00 – 10:30 (Room 201-202)

Topics 5: ISMCS - Japanese Heart Failure Society (JHFS) joint
symposium
Moderators: Koichiro Kinugawa (Japan), Ina Laura Perkins (Sweden), Antonio Loforte (Italy)
Speakers: Mandeep Mehra (USA), Manreet Kanwar (USA), Masaru Hatano (Japan), Makiko
Nakamura (Japan)
We will discuss how we can break the stagnation in the MCS area. What can we as the ISMCS doto ensure that more patients can be saved with the help of MCS?
10:30 – 12:00 (Room 201-202)

Topics 6: Towards forgettable device: Battery/Driveline/Remotemonitoring/Artificial Intelligence
TBD
TBD
TBD
9:00 – 12:00 (Room 105-106)

Meet the experts and new pumps in Wet Lab (parallel session)
Alexander Bernhardt (Germany), Antonio Loforte (Italy), Kenji Minakata (USA), Evgenij Potapov(Germany), Masahiro Ono (USA), Pascal Leprince (France), Daniel Zimpfer (Austria), David
McGiffin (Australia), Akira Shiose (Japan), Xianqiang Wang (China), Cumaraswamy Sivathasan(Singapore), Minoru Ono (Japan), KR Balakrishnan (India), Nai Hsin Chi (Taiwan), Yang Hyun
Cho (Korea), Christopher Salerno (USA), Akinobu Itoh (USA), Iki Adachi (USA), Vakhtang V.
Tchantchaleishvili (USA), Tadashi Motomura (USA), Tomaso Bottio (Italy)

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Mechanical Circulatory Support

13th November ‒ 15th November, 2024

LIGHT CUBE UTSUNOMIYA in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan.

12:30 – 13:30 (Room 201-202)

Lunch Symposium 2 sponsored by CH-Biomedical (CH-VAD/BRIOVAD)
Xianqiang Wang (China)
13:45 – 15:00 (Room 201-202)

Topics 7: Booming VAD therapy in Asian countries
Moderators: Yoshiki Sawa (Japan), Cumaraswamy Sivathasan (Singapore)
Speakers: Minoru Ono (Japan), Xianqiang Wang (China), KR Balakrishnan (India), Nai Hsin Chi(Taiwan), Yang Hyun Cho (Korea)
15:00 – 16:15 (Room 201-202)

General session (Mini Orals)
16:15 – 17:30 (Room 201-202)

Topics 8: Management of AMI shock in 2024: Role of temporary
MCS (ECLS shock trial and DanGer shock trial)
Speakers: Manreet Kanwar (USA), Jacob Eifer Møller (Denmark), Junya Ako (Japan), TBD
We will discuss the role of MCS including ECLS (ECLS shock trial) and percutaneous left
ventricular unloading (Impella: DanGer shock trial) in the management of AMI-CardiogenicShock.
17:45 – 18:30 (Room 201-202)

General Assembly
19:00 –Gala dinner (at Utsunomiya Tobu-Hotel)

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Mechanical Circulatory Support

13th November ‒ 15th November, 2024

LIGHT CUBE UTSUNOMIYA in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan.

Friday November 15, 2024 (Day 3)
7:30 – 9:00 (Room 201-202)

Topics 9: ISMCS-JSAO joint symposium: How to design new pumps (digital twins, virtual fitting, In silico
testing…)
Moderators: Christoph Nix (Germany), Toru Masuzawa (Japan), Iki Adachi (USA)
Speakers: Shaun Gregory (Australia), Tomonori Tukiya (Japan), Kiyotaka Fukamachi (USA), TBD
We will discuss how engineers can design the better pump based on clinical needs.
9:15 – 10:45 (Room 201-202)

Topics 10: Cardiac recovery after MCS (medication, biologicaltherapies, etc)
Moderators: Stravros Drakos (USA), Yasushi Sakata (Japan), TBD
Speakers: Stravros Drakos (USA), Eduardo Rame (USA), Shigeru Miyagawa (Japan), TBD
We will discuss how we can facilitate cardiac recovery during MCS. By medication, cardiac
rehabilitation, biological therapies including iPS cell technology, or microcurrent device?
10:45 – 12:00 (Room 201-202)

Topics 11: Simulation and Modelling
Speakers: Zhongjun Jon Wu (USA)
TBD
TBD
12:30 – 13:30 (Room 201-202)

Lunch Symposium 3 sponsored by Abbott and NIPRO
Ivan Netuka (Czech)

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Mechanical Circulatory Support

13th November ‒ 15th November, 2024

LIGHT CUBE UTSUNOMIYA in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan.

13:45 – 15:00 (Room 201-202)

Topics 12: Complicated VAD surgery (pump exchange, valve
surgery/TAVI, etc)
Moderators: Ivan Netuka (Czech), TBD
Speakers: Christopher Salerno (USA), Evgenij Potapov (Germany), Akinobu Itoh (USA) , TBD
Experts will tell you how you can change the pump, fix the leaky valve, and save nightmare cases.
15:00 – 16:15 (Room 201-202)

General session (Mini Orals)
16:15 – 17:30 (Room 201-202)

Topics 13: VAD for small patients/small heart/congenital disease
Moderators: Yoshikatsu Saiki (Japan), Iki Adachi (USA), TBD
Speakers: Iki Adachi (USA), Daniel Zimpfer (Austria), Akinobu Itoh (USA), TBD
We will discuss how we can implant pumps in congenital cases and pts with small hearts.
17:30 – (Room 201-202)

Closing Ceremony
Koichi Toda (Japan), Daniel Zimpfer (ISMCS 2025 in Austria)

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