Abstract
Of the day 12. 11. 2015 Dept. of Cardiac surgery arranged traditional Cardiosurgical symposium on the occasion celebrations 70. anniversary of Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove. On the whole it was registred 210 attendant (doctors and nurses from our University Hospital and from other hospitals).
Special part workshop proceed double blocks. First topic was surgery of mitral valve.
This field underwent big development especially because of valve preserving procedures and because of minimally invasive approach. The topic of individual lectures was anatomy, pathology, imaging possibilities and possibilities of surgical therapy of mitral valve in different disease.
In the second part the subject was short and medium term mechanical heart support in cardiac surgery. It was discussed the need of existence of ECMO team.