Tam Anh General Hospital In HCMC Attends Scientific Congress On Interventional Cardiology For Congenital Heart Disease

Doctors from the Congenital Heart Disease Department of Tam Anh General Hospital’s Cardiovascular Center will take part in the 10th Vietnam Congress of Congenital and Structural Heart Disease (PDA 2024) between January 17-19, 2024. This conference on congenital heart intervention and pediatric cardiology, which is held annually in Vietnam, is the third largest of its kind in the world.

Tam Anh General Hospital in HCMC attends scientific congress on interventional cardiology for congenital heart defects

Vu Nang Phuc, executive committee member of HCMC Pediatric Cardiology & Congenital Heart Disease Society and head of the Congenital Heart Department at Tam Anh General Hospital in HCMC, other doctors from Tam Anh General Hospital Group will be demonstrating a range of congenital heart intervention techniques at this year’s conference on January 19. The program will be broadcasted live from the DSA Room at Tam Anh General Hospital in HCMC to the Sheraton Saigon Hotel conference hall, where many local and international experts will be following the event.

Attendees at the event will hear from prominent experts such as

• Kevin Patrick Walsh, MD, PhD (Pediatric Cardiology Consultant at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin; Adult Congenital Heart Disease Consultant at Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin)
• Hidehiko Hara, MD, PhD (Cardiology Specialist, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Toho University, Ohashi Medical Center, Japan)

Panel members exchange information with attendees

The detailed schedule is as follows:

• January 19, 2024, 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Left Pulmonary Artery Stent Fracture. Management of pulmonary artery stent fracture by a stent-in-stent technique in a 24-year-old man with Tetralogy of Fallot repaired, left pulmonary artery stenting and percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation.
• January 19, 2024, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Potts Shunt in Pulmonary Artery Hypertension (PAH). Tiny PDA stenting in a 36-year-old woman with pulmonary artery hypertension, WHO HFC III.

“We are honored to accompany the HCMC Pediatric Cardiology & Congenital Heart Disease Society in this significant event. I believe that our team of highly skilled medical professionals as well as our modern equipment and experience in organizing large-scale international scientific conferences will greatly contribute to the success of this year’s event,” said Professor Pham Nguyen Vinh, director of the cardiovascular center at Tam Anh General Hospital in HCMC.

In addition to hosting the live transmission of the intervention session from the hospital’s DSA room to the conference hall, Tam Anh General Hospital is among the medical institutions sending experts to participate in the event to demonstrate its techniques. In addition, the hospital boasts a cardiac intervention room that adheres to international standards with advanced equipment. Notably, the hybrid operating room allows patients to undergo both surgical and interventional procedures simultaneously.

A foreigner stops by Tam Anh General Hospital’s booth

Following a three-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s event returns under the theme “Patent Ductus Arteriosus from A to Z.”

The event will feature nearly 100 presentations, with the participation of over 300 experts in the field of congenital heart interventions from Vietnam and countries around the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Experts will present and discuss a variety of interesting topics at the conference, including fetal echocardiography, severe congenital heart abnormalities in fetuses, congenital heart disease treatment, closure of arterial ducts and atrial septal defects in special cases, long-term complications after ductal closure, closure of arterial ducts in premature infants, and arterial duct stent placement procedures.

Doctors from the Cardiovascular Center at Tam Anh General Hospital in HCMC perform a cardiac intervention procedure on a patient

In addition, experts will perform live demonstrations of cardiac interventions, which will be broadcast from major hospitals across the country. This allows for dynamic and engaging exchanges between panel members and attendees. The valuable insights and discussions from leading international and domestic experts gave the attending physicians invaluable experience in diagnosing and treating their own patients.

People attend the opening ceremony of the 10th Vietnam Congress of Congenital and Structural Heart Disease on January 17, 2024

“This conference offers us an opportunity to exchange knowledge and consolidate experience in diagnosis and treatment, reducing mortality rates and improving the quality of life for children with congenital heart disease,” Phuc said.

At this event, attendees will have the chance to visit the booth of Tam Anh General Hospital and get more information about the services and state-of-the-art facilities that we offer.