Publish Date: July 2015 Volume 1, Issue 2 OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE PICS FOUNDATION Published by Now accepting papers at http://structuralheartdisease.org ISSN 2325-4637 Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Associate Editors Ziyad M. Hijazi Sidra Medical & Research Center Clifford J. Kavinsky Rush University Medical Center (Doha-qatar) (Chicago, IL) Bray Patrick Lake PFO Research Foundation Co-Editor-in-Chief (Boulder, CO) John Messenger University of Colorado Horst Sievert CardioVascular Center (Aurora, CO) Sankt Katharinen Hospital (Frankfurt, Germany) Managing Editor Hussam Suradi Rush University Medical Center Assistant Editors (Chicago, IL) Damien Kenny Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, IL) Michael Kim University of Colorado (Aurora, CO) Editorial Board Teiji Akagi Okayama University Roberto Cubeddu Aventura Hospital (Okayama, Japan) (Miami, FL) Bagrat Alekyan Bakoulev Scientific Center for Bharat Dalvi Glenmark Cardiac Centre Cardiovascular Surgery (Mumbai, India)Jo De Giovanni (Moscow, Russia) Birmingham Children’s Hospital Zahid Amin Children’s Hospital of Georgia (Birmingham, United Kingdom) (Augusta, GA) Helene Eltchanninof University Hospital Vasilis Babaliaros Emory University (Rouen, France) (Atlanta, GA) Maiy El Syed Ain Shams Univesity Steven Bailey University of Texas, San Antonio (Cairo, Egypt) (San Antonio, TX) Thomas Fagan University of Colorado Lee Benson Hospital for Sick Kids (Denver, CO) (Toronto, Canada) Ted Feldman Evanston Northshore Hospital Lisa Bergersen Boston Children’s Hospital (Evanston, IL) (Boston, MA) Olaf Franzen University Heart Center Hamburg Younes Boudjemline Hospital Necker (Hamburg, Germany) (Paris, France) Yun Ching Fu Taichung Veterans General Hospital Elchanan Bruckheimer Schneider’s Children’s (Taichung, Taiwan) Medical Center David Gao Shanghai Children’s Medical Center (Petach Tikva, Israel) (Shanghai, China) Maurice Buckbinder Stanford University Eulogio Garcia Hospital Clinico San Carlos (Palo Alto, CA) (Madrid, Spain) Massimo Caputo Rush University Medical Center Marc Gewillig University of Lueven (Chicago, IL) (Lueven, Belgium) Mario Carminati San Donato Milanese Matt Gillespie Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (Milan, Italy) (Philadelphia, PA) John Carroll University of Colorado Denver Omer Goktekin BezmiAlem Vakif University (Aurora, CO) (Istanbul, Turkey) John P. Cheatham Ohio State University Steven Goldberg University of Washington (Columbus, OH) (Seattle, WA) Jae Young Choi Severance Cardiovascular Hospital William Gray Columbia University (Seoul, Korea) (New York, NY) Antonio Colombo St. Rafaele Hospital Eberhard Grube Heart Center Siegburg (Milan, Italy) (Siegburg, Germany) Costantino Costantini Hospital Cardiológico Costantini Rebecca Hahn Columbia University Medical Center (Curitiba, Brazil) (New York, NY) Alain Cribier Charles Nicolle Hospital Jeff Harrisberg Pediatric Cardiology (Rouen, France) (Gauteng, South Africa) William E. Hellenbrand Yale University Washington University (New Haven, CT) (St. Louis, MO) James Hermiller The Care Group Martin B. Leon Columbia University (Indianapolis, IN) (New York, NY) Howard Herrmann University of Pennsylvania Daniel Levi UCLA Medical Center (Philadelphia, PA) (Los Angeles, CA) David Holmes Mayo Clinic Scott Lim University of Virginia Health System (Rochester, MN) (Charlottesville, VA) Noa Holoshitz Rush University Medical Center Michael Mack Baylor Healthcare System (Chicago, IL) (Plano, TX) Ralf Holzer Sidra Medical & Research Center Francesco Maisano University of Zurich (Doha, Qatar) (Zurich, Switzerland) Eric Horlick University of Toronto Raj Makkar Cedars Sinai Medical Center (Toronto, Canada) (Los Angeles, CA) Reda Ibrahim Montreal Heart Institute Robert March Rush University Medical Center (Montreal, Canada) (Chicago, IL) Michel Ilbawi Rush University Medical Center Gwen Mayes VP National Patient (Chicago, IL) Advocate Foundation Frank Ing LA Children’s Hospital (Washington, DC) (Los Angeles, CA) Pat McCarthy Northwestern Memorial Hospital Alexander Javois Hope Children’s Hospital (Chicago, IL) (Oak Lawn, IL) Doff McElhinney New York University Thomas Jones Seattle Children’s Hospital (New York, NY) (Seattle, WA) John Messenger University of Colorado Saibal Kar Cedars Sinai Medical Center (Denver, CO) (Los Angeles, CA) Friedrich Mohr Herzzentrum Universitaet Leipzig Clifford Kavinsky Rush University Medical Center (Leipzig, Germany) (Chicago, IL) Tarek Momenah Prince Salman Cardiac Center Joseph Kay University of Colorado (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) (Denver, CO) Issam Moussa (Jacksonville, FL) Damien Kenny Rush University Medical Center Michael Mullen The Heart Hospital (Chicago, IL) (London, England) Morton Kern University of California Irvine David Muller St. Vincent’s Hospital (Irvine, CA) (Sydney, Australia) Michael Kim University of Colorado William O’Neill Henry Ford Hospital (Aurora, CO) (Detroit, MI) Seong-Ho Kim Cheju Halla General Hospital Igor Palacios Mass General Hospital (South Korea) (Boston, MA) Susheel Kodali Columbia University Medical Center SJ Park University of Ulsan (New York, NY) College of Medicine Jackie Kreutzer Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital (Seoul, Korea) (Pittsburgh, PA) Carlos Pedra Danta Pazzanese Shelby Kutty Children’s Hospital and University Instituto de Cardiologia of Nebraska Medical Center (Sao Paolo, Brazil) (Omaha, NB) Alejandro Peirone Children’s Hospital of Cordoba Bray Patrick-Lake PFO Research Foundation (Cordoba, Argentina) (Boulder, CO) Giacomo Pongiglione Bambino Gesu Hospital Michael Landzberg Boston Children’s Hospital (Rome, Italy) (Boston, MA) Matthew Price Scripps Clinic Geoffrey Lane Royal Melbourne Hospital (La Jolla, CA) (Melbourne, Australia) Robert Quaife University of Colorado Roberto Lang University of Chicago (Denver, CO) Medical Center Shakeel Qureshi Evelina Children’s Hospital (Chicago, IL) (London, UK) John Lasala Barnes Jewish Hospital, Steve Ramee Oschner Clinic Corrado Tamborino University of Catania (New Orleans, LA) (Catania, Italy) Mark Reisman Swedish Medical Center Vinod Thourani Emory University (Seattle, WA) (Atlanta, GA) John Rhodes Miami Children’s Hopsital Jonathan Tobis UCLA Medical Center (Miami, FL) (Los Angeles, CA) Charanjit Rihal Mayo Clinic Murat Tuczu Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Rochester, MN) (Cleveland, OH) Richard Ringel Johns Hopkins Medical Center Zoltan Turi Robert Wood Johnson (Baltimore, MD) Medical School Carlos Ruiz Lenox Hill Hospital (Camden, NJ) (New York, NY) Alec Vahanian Bichat University Hospital Ernesto Salcedo University of Colorado (Paris, France) (Denver, CO) Joseph J. Vettukattil Spectrum Health Joachim Schofer Hamburg University (Grand Rapids, MI) Cardiovascular Center Kevin Walsh Our Lady’s Hospital (Hamburg, Germany) (Dublin, Ireland) Paul Sorajja Minneapolis Heart John Webb St. Paul Hospital Vancouver Institute Foundation (British Columbia, Canada) (Minneapolis, MN) Brian Whisenant Intermountain Medical Center Christian Spies Queen’s Heart Physician Practice (Salt Lake City, Utah) (Honolulu, HI) Matthew Williams Mount Sinai Medical Center Frank Silvestry University of Pennsylvania Hospital (New York, NY) (Philadelphia, PA) Neil Wilson University of Colorado Gregg Stone Columbia University (Denver, CO) (New York, NY) Evan Zahn Cedars Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, CA) Volume 1, Issue 2, July 2015 MEETING ABSTRACTS 36 The Pediatric & Adult Interventional Cardiac Symposium (PICS/AICS) 19th Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, September 18-21, 2015 Journal of Structural Heart Disease (ISSN 2325-4637) is an online open-access journal issued bi-monthly (6 issues per year, one volume per year) by Science International Corporation. All correspondence should be directed to: Ziyad M. Hijazi, MD, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Structural Heart Disease, PO Box 26999, Doha, Qatar. Tel.: +974-4404-2116, Fax: +974-44041779, E-Mail: [email protected] All inquiries regarding copyrighted material from this publication should be directed to Science International Corporation: 70 Forest Street, Suite 6-C, Stamford, CT, 06901, USA. Tel.: +1-203-329-8842, Fax: +1-203-329-8846, E-Mail: [email protected] Meeting Abstracts Journal of Structural Heart Disease, July 2015, Published online: July 2015 Volume 1, Issue 2: 36-111 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12945/j.jshd.2015.0004-15 The Pediatric & Adult Interventional Cardiac Symposium (PICS/AICS) 19th Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, September 18-21, 2015 The Pediatric and Adult Interventional Cardiac Symposium – PICS-AICS 2015 is being held at the Aria Hotel, Las Vegas from September 18-21, 2015. The focus of this years meeting is on how we can overcome greater complexity through collaboration. Hence we have focused sessions outlining opportunities for greater integration with adult structural heart disease specialists and congenital surgeons. We have endeavored to ensure the meeting continues to support open dialogue as well as visual learning, along with updates from all the relevant trials and societies, with real opportunities for networking and sharing global clinical and research experience. This year, a record number of abstracts have been submitted and a committee of experts has chosen nearly 190 abstracts for oral and poster presentations. The abstracts cover the entire gamut of interventional cardiology for congenital and structural heart disease. Two awards will be issued this year: one for the best oral abstract presenta- tion and the other one for the best poster abstract presentation. I hope through this journal, which is the official journal of the PICS