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Final
Program (as a pdf)
Tuesday,
July 29, 2008
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TUESDAY, JULY
29, 2008 |
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08:30 - 11:00 |
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HALL
A |
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PL:15 Plenary Session
NEW HORIZONS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HEART FAILURE
Chairpersons: R. Hobbs, Cleveland, OH, USA
B.I. Jugdutt, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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08:30 |
DIETARY AND LIFESTYLE FACTORS AND HEART FAILURE (Invited Lecture)
L. Djoussé, J.
Gaziano,
Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA,
USA |
443 |
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08:45 |
RECENT TRENDS IN SURVIVAL, HOSPITALIZATION AND TREATMENT OF HEART
FAILURE (Invited Lecture)
P. Heidenreich,
VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo
Alto, CA, USA |
444 |
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09:00 |
HEALING AND REMODELING AFTER STEMI IN THE ELDERLY (Invited Lecture)
B.I. Jugdutt,
University
of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
445 |
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09:15 |
ADENOSINE RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS IN HEART FAILURE
(Invited Lecture)
R. Hobbs,
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA |
446 |
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09:30 |
TREATMENT OF HEART FAILURE WITH A REDUCED LEFT VENTRICULAR EJECTION
FRACTION (Invited Lecture)
W.S. Aronow,
New York
Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA |
447 |
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09:45 |
DESIGNING NON-RCT STUDIES LIKE RCT USING PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING:
EVIDENCE FOR DIURETICS, HYPOKALEMIA, AND POTASSIUM SUPPLEMENTS IN
CHRONIC HEART FAILURE (Invited Lecture)
A. Ahmed,
University
of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA |
448 |
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10:00 |
ONLY LARGE REDUCTIONS IN B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDES ARE ASSOCIATED
WITH IMPROVED OUTCOME IN HEART FAILURE PATIENTS
(Invited Lecture)
W.L. Miller,
K.A.. Hartman, A.S. Jaffe,
Rochester Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
449 |
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10:15 |
RIGHT VENTRICLE – SPECIFIC THERAPIES IN PULMONARY HYPERTENSION AND
HEART FAILURE (Invited Lecture)
E.D. Michelakis,
University
of Alberta, Edmonton, AL, Canada |
450 |
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10:30 |
HEART FAILURE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMMES: WHICH INTERVENTIONS WORK?
(Invited Lecture)
F. Gustafsson,
Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark |
451 |
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10:45 |
NEW CARDIAC ENHANCERS FOR THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE HEART FAILURE
SYNDROMES: CLINICAL ADVANTAGES AND DRAWBACKS (Invited Lecture)
J.
Parissis,
Attikon
University Hospital, Athens, Greece |
452 |
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11:00 |
COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION |
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TUESDAY,
JULY
29, 2008 |
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08:30 - 10:30 |
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HALL
B |
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PL:16 Plenary Session
IDENTIFICATION AND TREATMENT OF HIGH RISK
ASYMPTOMATIC PATIENTS
Chairpersons: M. Motro, Tel Hashomer, Israel
T. Tomaru,
Chiba, Japan
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08:30 |
THE PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF CT CORONARY CALCIFICATION IN ASYMPTOMATIC
INDIVIDUALS (Invited Lecture)
M.
Motro, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
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453 |
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08:45 |
PREDICTION OF
CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
T. Tomaru,
K. Shimizu, T. Kurosu, K. Nakamura, Toho
University Medical Center Sakura Hospital, Sakura, Chiba, Japan |
454 |
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09:00 |
INCREMENTAL VALUE OF CT TO SPECT IN PATIENT MANAGEMENT (Invited
Lecture)
J.J. Mahmarian,
The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA |
455 |
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09:15 |
SUBCLINICAL CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: WHAT DOES IT MEAN? (Invited
Lecture)
M.H. Criqui,
University
of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA |
456 |
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09:30 |
TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION IN RENAL ARTERIES
(Invited Lecture)
V. Mathew,
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
457 |
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09:45 |
ATHEROSCLEROTIC CALCIFICATION – THE CARDIOVASCULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY OF
WHOLE BODY SCANNING (Invited Lecture)
M. Allison,
University
of California San Diego, CA, USA |
459 |
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10:00 |
NUCLEAR STRESS TESTING IN WOMEN: MORE THAN JUST MYOCARDIAL
PERFUSION? (Invited Lecture)
J.W. Askew,
Mayo Clinic, Rochester,
MN, USA |
460 |
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10:15 |
SENSITIVITY, SPECIFICITY, POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE, AND NEGATIVE
PREDICTIVE VALUE OF 64-CHANNEL MULTISLICE CORONARY COMPUTED
TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY IN PREDICTING OBSTRUCTIVE CORONARY ARTERY
DISEASE DIAGNOSED BY CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY IN PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED
CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
H.M. Lai,
W.S. Aronow, G.
Ravipati, J. Shao, A.J. DeLuca, M.B. Weiss, A.L. Pucillo,
K. Kalapatapu, C.E. Monsen, R.N. Belkin,
New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA |
461 |
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10:30 |
COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION |
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TUESDAY,
JULY
29, 2008 |
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08:30 - 11:00 |
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HALL
C |
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S34
Session
VALVULAR HEART DISEASE / HEART VALVE SURGERY
Chairpersons:
M.E. Fawzy,
Saudi Arabia
M.R. Movahed,
Tucson, AZ, USA
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08:30 |
20 YEARS FOLLOW-UP RESULTS OF PULMONARY BALLOON VALVULOPLASTY IN
ADULTS AND THE FATE OF CONCOMITANT INFUNDIBULAR STENOSIS AND
TRICUSPID REGURGITATION
M.E. Fawzy,
A. Badr, S. El Amraoiu, O. Nowayhed, I. Ibrahim, S. Shah, C. Canver,
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research
Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
462 |
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08:45 |
LOW BODY MASS INDEX AND BODY SURFACE AREA ARE INDEPENDENTLY
ASSOCIATED WITH AORTIC REGURGITATION
M.R. Movahed,
C. Manrique, A. Martinez, R. Ebrahimi,
Southern Arizona VA Health Care System, Tucson, AZ, USA |
463 |
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09:00 |
COMPARISON BETWEEN IN VIVO SEEDING AND IN SITU CELL ATTRACTION FOR
THE RECELLULARISATION OF HEART VALVE BIOPROSTHESES
G. De Visscher, W.
Flameng,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium |
464 |
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09:15 |
MATRIX STIFFNESS DIRECTS OSTEOGENIC AND MYOFIBROGENIC
DIFFERENTIATION OF VALVE FIBROBLASTS
C.Y.Y. Yip, C.A. Simmons,
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada |
465 |
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09:30 |
INCREASED CARDIAC TROPONIN I LEVELS IN INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS IS
ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED IN-HOSPITAL MORTALITY AND VALVE
REPLACEMENT
P. Tsenovoy,
W.S. Aronow, J. Joseph, M.S. Kopacz New
York Medical College, Valhalla, NY USA |
466 |
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09:45 |
TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION - IN GOOD HANDS WITH CARDIAC
SURGEONS
S. Bleiziffer,
H. Ruge, D. Mazzitelli, C. Schreiber, A. Hutter, J.C. Laborde, R.
Bauernschmitt, R. Lange,
German
Heart Center Munich, Munich, Germany |
467 |
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10:00 |
IMPACT OF ROSUVASTATIN ON THE PROGRESSION OF AORTIC STENOSIS CAUSED
BY HYPERTENSION
G. Giunta, E. Guevara, G. Yannarelli, L. Gomez Rosso, L. Marziali,
F. Brites, R.R. Favaloro,
L.A. Cuniberti,
Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
468 |
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10:15 |
REDO VERSUS FIRST BALLOON MITRAL VALVOTOMY FOR RHEUMATIC MITRAL
STENOSIS
O.A. Rifaie,
M.I. Ohamad, M.M. Helmi, M.M. Elbiali, Ain Shams University, Cairo,
Egypt |
469 |
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10:30 |
INFLAMMATION/REMODELING MARKERS AND MULTISLICE CT/IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY
IN AORTIC VALVE DISEASE
A. Mazzone,
A. Vianello, G. Palladini, S. Cappelli, S. Perlini, A. Pompella, D.
Chiappino, S. Berti, M. Glauber, P. Tanganelli, Heart Hospital,
Massa, Italy |
470 |
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10:45 |
WHY DO AORTIC VALVES FAIL? A NEW THEORY TO EXPLAIN DEGENERATIVE
AORTIC VALVE DISEASE
F. Robicsek,
R.F. Padera, A.A. Fokin,
M.J. Thubrikar, J. Madjarov,
Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, USA |
471 |
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11:00 |
COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION |
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TUESDAY,
JULY 29, 2008 |
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11:15-13:30 |
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HALL
A |
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PL:17
Plenary Session
PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY AND CARDIAC SURGERY / CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
/ MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT
Chairpersons: L. Benson, Toronto,
ON, Canada
G.L. Rosenthal, Cleveland, OH, USA
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11:15 |
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY: AN OVERVIEW OF NATIONAL
INITIATIVES (Invited Lecture)
G.L. Rosenthal,
Cleveland
Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA |
472 |
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11:30 |
CATHETER-BASED COMPLETION OF THE FONTAN: A NON-SURGICAL APPROACH
(Invited Lecture)
L.N. Benson,
M.C. Crystal, S.J. Yoo, G. VanArsdell, H. Mikailian,
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto,
ON, Canada |
473 |
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11:45 |
PERCUTANEOUS PFO CLOSURE FOR CRYPTOGENIC STROKE AND MIGRAINES, THE
SIMPLE WAY (Invited Lecture)
A. Manolis,
Patras
University, Athens, Greece |
474 |
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12:00 |
UPDATE ON PEDIATRIC MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT (Invited Lecture)
B.W. Duncan,
Cleveland
Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA |
475 |
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12:15 |
PERMANENT MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT: IMPROVED TECHNOLOGY AND
OUTCOMES (Invited Lecture)
M. Slaughter,
Advocate
Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL, USA |
476 |
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12:30 |
MANAGEMENT OF AORTIC DILATION IN CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
(Invited
Lecture)
A.T. Yetman,
Primary Children's Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
477 |
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12:45 |
SUDDEN DEATH IN THE ADULT WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE (Invited
Lecture)
L. Harris,
University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada |
478 |
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13:00 |
CONGENITAL INTERVENTION DECISION MAKING
(Invited Lecture)
E.M. Horlick,
Toronto
General
Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada |
479 |
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13:15 |
LONG-TERM OUTCOME (UP TO 22 YEARS) OF BALLOON ANGIOPLASTY OF
DISCRETE NATIVE COARCTATION OF THE AORTA IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS
(Invited Lecture)
M.E. Fawzy,
H. Sergani, F. El Shaer, A. Osman, A. Badr, C. Canver,
King
Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
480 |
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13:30 |
LUNCH BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION |
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TUESDAY,
JULY
29, 2008 |
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11:15-13:15 |
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HALL
B |
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PL:18 Plenary Session
ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE / RISK ASSESSMENT / NEW TREATMENT
STRATEGIES
Chairpersons:
P.A. McCullough,
Royal Oak, MI, USA
U. Thadani,
Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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11:15 |
UPDATE ON STABLE ANGINA WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON MANAGEMENT OF NO
OPTION (REFRACTORY) ANGINA (Invited
Lecture)
U. Thadani,
University of
Oklahoma,
VA Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA |
481 |
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11:30 |
NEW INSIGHTS ON ACCELERATED VASCULAR CALCIFICATION IN PATIENTS WITH
KIDNEY DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
P.A. McCullough,
William
Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, USA |
482 |
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11:45 |
REVASCULARIZATION VS SECONDARY PREVENTION: WHAT TO DO WHEN TWO
WORLDS COLLIDE (Invited Lecture)
G.W. Barsness,
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
483 |
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12:00 |
INFLUENZA VACCINATION: THE NEGLECTED COMPONENT OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR
PREVENTION GUIDELINES (Invited Lecture)
M. Madjid,
S.W. Casscells, Texas Heart Institute,
Houston, TX, USA |
484 |
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12:15 |
COLCHICINE FOR PERICARDITIS: HYPE OR HOPE?
(Invited Lecture)
M. Imazio,
R. Trinchero ,Maria Vittoria Hospital,
Torino, Italy |
485 |
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12:30 |
CLINICAL FEATURES AND IN-HOSPITAL OUTCOMES OF ACUTE CORONARY
SYNDROME IN PATIENTS WITH UNDERLYING CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISORDERS
(Invited Lecture)
S. Arora,
V.A. Doraiswamy, C. Thatikonda, P. Kleist, V. Srinivasan,
Western Pennsylvania Hospital/Temple
University Program, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
486 |
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12:45 |
THE USE OF FIBRATES REDUCES THE RISK OF NON-FATAL MYOCARDIAL
INFARCTION BUT DOES NOT AFFECT MORTALITY OR OTHER ADVERSE
CARDIOVASCULAR OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS- A
POOLED META-ANALYSIS (Invited Lecture)
S.A Saha,
R.R. Arora,
Sacred Heart Medical Center, Spokane, WA, USA |
487 |
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13:00 |
DECREASING KIDNEY FUNCTION PREDICTS VASCULAR EVENTS INDEPENDENTLY
FROM THE GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE AT BASELINE: A PROSPECTIVE
COHORT STUDY ON MEN UNDERGOING CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY FOR THE
EVALUATION OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
(Invited Lecture)
P. Rein, C.H. Saely, L. Risch, A. Vonbank, S. Aczel, S. Beer, U.
Neyer,
H. Drexel,
VIVIT Institute, Feldkirch, Austria |
488 |
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13:15 |
LUNCH BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION |
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TUESDAY,
JULY
29, 2008 |
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11:15-14:15 |
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HALL
C |
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S35 Session
NEW DIAGNOSTIC METHODS AND IMAGING TECHNIQUES
Chairperson: Y. Charuzi, Los Angeles, CA, USA
B. Kantor, Rochester, MN, USA
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11:15 |
A RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED, MULTICENTER STUDY OF
THE SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF ADVEGF121 BIOBYPASS GENE THERAPY IN
PATIENTS WITH REFRACTORY ADVANCED CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE: THE NOVA
TRIAL
J. Kastrup,
E. Jjorgensen, S. Fuchs, S. Nikol, H.E. Boetker, F. Baldazzi, R.
Kornowski Copenhagen University Hospital,
Copenhagen, Denmark |
489 |
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11:30 |
TYPE 2 DIABETES SIGNIFICANTLY MODULATES THE CARDIOVASCULAR RISK
CONFERRED BY THE PAI -1 -675 5G/4G POLYMORPHISM
C.H. Saely, A. Muendlein, A. Vonbank, G. Sonderegger, S. Aczel, P.
Rein, L. Risch,
H. Drexel,
VIVIT Institute, Feldkirch, Austria |
490 |
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11:45 |
RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION IS COMMON AMONG NONELITE MARATHON
RUNNERS AND IS ASSOCIATED WITH TROPONIN ELEVATION - A CARDIAC
MAGNETIC RESONANCE STUDY
R. Attaran,
B. Boudi, V.S. Sorrell,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA |
491 |
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12:00 |
SCREENING FOR DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS IN ASYMPTOMATIC HIGH RISK
PATIENTS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN DIGITAL PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY AND
VENOUS ULTRASONOGRAPHY
B. Sharif-Kashani, N. Behzadnia, P. Shahabi, M. Sadr,
Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical
Sciences & Health Services, Tehran, Iran |
492 |
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12:15 |
DETERMINANTS OF ACCURACY
AND REPRODUCIBILITY OF LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION ASSESSMENT BY
REAL-TIME THREE-DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
O.I.I. Soliman,
S.W. Kirschbaum, B.M. van dalen, W.B. Vletter, M.L. Geleijnse, F.J.
Ten Cate
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
493 |
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12:30 |
THE IMPACT OF LEFT VENTRICULAR GEOMETRY ON MORTALITY - THE OCHSNER
EXPERIENCE
S.M. Artham,
C.J. Lavie, R.V. Milani, D.K. Patel, H.O. Ventura,
Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA,
USA |
494 |
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12:45 |
RIGHT VENTRICULAR REMODELING: FOLLOW UP WITH 3D ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY AND
CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE
I.A. Grapsa,
D. Dawson, D. O'Regan, G. Duringhel, H. Pavlopoulos, J. Hajnal, P.
Nihoyannopoulos, Imperial College of
London, London, UK |
495 |
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13:00 |
ROLE OF M-MODE IN DIAGNOSING ATRIAL SEPTAL ANEURYSM (ASA):
A CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUE WITH A NOVEL APPLICATION
R. Garg,
A. Khaja, L. Tejwani, K. Aggarwal,
University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA |
496 |
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13:15 |
TISSUE DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN PERSONS WITH HYPERTENSION,
DIABETES, OR ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE
R. Mogelvang,
P. Sogaard, S.A. Pedersen, N.T. Olsen, P. Schnohr, J.S. Jensen,
University
of Copenhagen, Hellerup, Denmark |
497 |
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13:30 |
SENSITIVITY, SPECIFICITY, POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE, AND NEGATIVE
PREDICTIVE VALUE OF STRESS TESTING VERSUS 64-CHANNEL MULTISLICE
CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY IN PREDICTING OBSTRUCTIVE
CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE DIAGNOSED BY CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY
H.M. Lai,
W.S. Aronow, G. Ravipati, J. Shao, A.J. DeLuca, M.B. Weiss, A.L.
Pucillo,
K. Kalapatapu, C.E. Monsen, R.N. Belkin,
New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA |
498 |
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13:45 |
NORMAL RANGE OF MECHANICAL VARIABLES
IN PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
A. Lopez-Candales,
N. Rajagopalan, K. Dohi, K. Edelman, B. Gulyasy, R. Bazaz,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
499 |
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14:00 |
CAN WE REDEFINE THE GOLD STANDARD FOR LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE
THROMBUS?
A. Simmons,
T. Rosamond, J. Nath, M. Biria, L. Wetzel, D. Lakkireddy,
University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, USA |
500 |
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14:15 |
LUNCH BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION |
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