Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club | Why I Use an Endoscopic Approach to AVR

The Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club is dedicated to raising global awareness of the benefits of endoscopic cardiac surgery among patients, surgeons, and industry partners. Stay tuned for more ECSC videos in the coming weeks.    

At the Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club Meeting 2023, Dr. Farhad Bakhtiary, Director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Cardiac Surgery at Bonn University Hospital in Germany, delivered a presentation titled “Why I Use an Endoscopic Approach to AVR.” 

In his presentation, he discussed the goals of endoscopic aortic valve replacement (AVR), the essential components needed to establish a minimally invasive cardiac program and compared the right anterior minithoracotomy with partial upper sternotomy approaches in AVR. Additionally, Dr. Bakhtiary examined the differences between percutaneous and surgical femoral access in minimally invasive cardiac operations and presented a case study of a real-life minimally invasive total endoscopic AVR, detailing all the steps involved.  

The Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club promotes global awareness of the advantages of endoscopic cardiac surgery among patients, surgeons, and industry partners. A primary goal is to increase the safe and widespread adoption of endoscopic techniques in cardiac surgery, ultimately driving improvements in both short- and long-term outcomes for cardiac patients.  

The Club vision is to establish cardiac surgery as a specialty in which endoscopic methods are utilized more widely, improving surgical performance and patient outcomes. The Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons Club operates as a not-for-profit organization.  

The annual meeting is a highly technical event featuring live cases and live in a box presentations of both endoscopic and robotic cardiac operations. The meeting is filled with discussions and participation of younger surgeons, who present their endoscopic work from around the world in the Endoscopic Video Competition.  

This year, for the first time, the meeting will take place in the United States from September 4-6, 2025, in Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky.  

All are invited to attend the meeting and learn more about the Club.

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