ESAO CONGRESS 2026
Iasi, Romania
From Bench to Bedside and Back Again

14:00 -KEYNOTE LECTURE

Liviu Klein
University of California, San Francisco, United States of America

14:20 - OPTIMIZATION OF HEMODYNAMICS AND CARDIAC BIOMECHANICS USING DIFFERENT LVAD UNLOADING STRATEGIES

Theodor Abart
Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Aortic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

14:34- SOFT RIGHT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE –IN VITRO FEASIBILITY

Silje Ekroll Jahren
Integrated Actuators Laboratory, Center for Artificial Muscles, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland & ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Switzerland

14:48 - A BIOMIMETIC SOFT ARTIFICIAL VENTRICLE BASED ON THE NESTED TORI MYOARCHITECTURE

Kasra Osouli
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

15:02 - MODELING HEMOLYSIS IN THE CENTRIMAG PUMP: A COMPARISON OF STRESS- AND STRAIN-BASED APPROACHES

Ilaria Guidetti

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

15:16 - ANATOMICAL FEASIBILITY OF AN ULTRA-COMPACT TOTAL ARTIFICIAL HEART (BABYHEART, < 40 CM³) ACROSS BODY SIZES FROM NEWBORN TO EXTRA-LARGE ADULT: A CT-BASED AND PATIENT-SPECIFIC DIGITAL MODELING STUDY

Gabriela Cionca
"Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iași, Romania