The Fourth Annual Da Silva Center for Ebstein’s Anomaly Symposium

The Heart Institute at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh hosted the Fourth Annual Da Silva Center for Ebstein’s Anomaly Symposium in Feb. 2024. This year’s symposium brought together world-renowned pediatric and adult cardiologists and cardiac surgeons to discuss treatment and management of Ebstein’s anomaly, a rare, congenital heart defect.

In 1993, José Pedro da Silva, MD, created the Cone procedure for Ebstein’s anomaly repair. Now, more than 30 years later, it has become the gold standard for treatment of this congenital heart defect. Throughout this educational event, Dr. da Silva, alongside Luciana da Fonseca da Silva, MD, and other experts, presented comprehensive lectures on Ebstein’s anomaly, the utilization of advanced diagnostic imaging, the review of surgical technique, a new approach to procedural care, and post-surgical management.

Below are the presentations from the Fourth Annual Da Silva Center for Ebstein’s Anomaly Symposium.

For more information, or to refer a patient, please email HVIReferral@upmc.edu.

Session I: Morphology of Ebstein’s Anomaly: Imaging Review

Moderated by: Jacqueline Kreutzer, MD

• Fetal Echocardiogram
  • Presented by: Jacqueline Weinberg, MD

• Echocardiogram Insights on Ebstein’s Anomaly
  • Presented by: Norman Silverman, MD

• Cross-Sectional Imaging in Ebstein’s Anomaly
  • Presented by: Tarek Alsaied, MD

• Cardiac Catheterization
  • Presented by: Sara Trucco, MD

• Panel Discussion I
  • Panelists: Jacqueline Weinberg, MD; José Pedro da Silva, MD; Norman Silverman, MD; Sara Trucco, MD; and Tarek Alsaied, MD

Session II: Staged Treatment of Ebstein’s Anomaly

Moderated by: Laura Olivieri, MD

• Critical Care Management and Neonatal Ebstein’s Anomaly
  • Presented by: Joan Sanchez De Toledo, MD

• Neonatal Surgical Management of Ebstein’s Anomaly
  • Presented by: Christopher Knott-Craig, MD

• Imaging in Interstage Treatment of Ebstein’s Anomaly
  • Presented by: Adam Christopher, MD

• Cone after Starnes
  • Presented by: Luciana da Fonseca da Silva, MD

• Panel Discussion II
  • Panelists: Adam Christopher, MD; Christopher Knott-Craig, MD; Joan Sanchez De Toledo, MD; José Pedro da Silva, MD; and Luciana da Fonseca da Silva, MD

Session III: Cone Repair in Special Situations

Moderated by: Tarek Alsaied, MD

• Cone Repair in Special Situations
  • Presented by: José Pedro da Silva, MD

• Panel Discussion III
  • Panelists: Bryan Goldstein, MD; Christopher Knott-Craig, MD; José Pedro da Silva, MD; Mario Castro Medina, MD; and Norman Silverman, MD

• Patient Video: Jessica’s Story

Session IV: Outcomes Review

• Results from Our Center of the Cone Procedure for Ebstein’s Anomaly
  • Presented by: Jacqueline Kreutzer, MD