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Sunday,
July 17, 2005
Monday,
July 18, 200
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Tuesday,
July 19, 2005
Oral Presentations Oral Presentations Oral Presentations
Poster Sessions Poster Sessions Poster Sessions

 

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

08:30-10:45   HALL A
  PL14   Plenary Session:  
SURGERY FOR LV DYSFUNCTION, CARDIAC TRANSPLANTATION, MECHANICAL SUPPORT

Chairpersons: J. Elefteriades, New Haven, CT, USA
                    
N. Radovanovic, Vojvodina, Serbia, and
                                                Montenegro

 
08:30 SURGICAL TREATMENT OF HEART FAILURE – FROM VALVE REPAIR TO REPAIR OF THE VENTRICLE (Invited Lecture)
N. Radovanovic
, L.J. Petrovic, B. Mihajlovic, S. Nicin, Z. Jonjev, M. Zorc, University Clinic of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sremska Kamenica, Yugoslavia
 
08:45 CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY--IS THERE FINALLY SOME LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL? (Invited Lecture)
M. Johnson, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, WI, USA
 
09:00 EXTENDED HEART ALLOGRAFT SURVIVAL BY MANIPULATION OF VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM TO EXPRESS FAS-LIGAND (Invited Lecture)
N. Askenasy, E. Yolcu, H. Shirwan, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel
 
09:15 HEMODYNAMIC  UNLOADING OF THE FAILING LEFT VENTRICLE  WITH THE ORQIS MEDICAL CANCION CARDIC RECOVERY SYSTEM (Invited Lecture)
H.N. Sabbah
, M.A. Konstam, Henry Ford Health System, Henry Ford Hospital, Boston, MA, USA 
 
09:30 IMPROVEMENT IN PERFUSION AND DILATATION OF OLD MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AFTER INTRACORONARY AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
A. Manginas, E. Leontiadis, E. Gousetis, I. Peristeri, M. Theodosaki, S. Graphakos, G. Karatasakis, M. Koutelou, A. Theodorakos, D. Cokkinos, Onasis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece
 
09:45 A NEW RIGHT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE (RVAD) FOR RV SUPPORT
S. Christiansen
, R. Autschbach, University of Aachen, Germany 
 
10:00 SURGICAL VENTRICUAR RESTORATION FOR ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY IN OLD PATIENTS
M. Di Donato
, S. Castelvecchio, M. Rannucci, P. Dabic, A. Frigiola, C. De Vincentis, L. Menicanti, San Donato Hospital, Milano, Italy
 
10:15 EXTRACORPOREAL LIFE SUPPORT PROVIDES BETTER SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS RECEIVING PROLONGED CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
Y.S. Chen, S.C. Chao,  S.C.Huang,  N.H. Chi,  I.H. Wu,  H.S. Yu,  J. Hsu,  S.S. Wang,  F.Y. Lin, National Taiwan University Hospital Taipei, Taiwan
 
10:30 HEART TRANSPLANTATION IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
H. Al-Hiti,
J. Kettner, I. Malek, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
 
10:45 COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION  
TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2005
08:30-10:15   HALL B
  PL15   Plenary Session:  
MODIFICATION OF RISK FACTORS AND CAD, DYSLIPOPROTEINEMIA, HYPERTENTION, DIABETES MELLITUS

Chairpersons: M. Diamant, Amsterdam,Netherlands
                     I. Jialal, Sacramento, CA, USA

 
08:30 INFLAMMATION, CRP AND STATINS (Invited Lecture)
I. Jialal, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA
 
08:45 RETHINKING THE PRIMARY PREVENTION OF HYPERTENSION (Invited Lecture)
H.D. Sesso
, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
 
09:00 DIABETIC CARDIOMYOPATHY: ANOTHER FEATURE OF THE METABOLIC SYNDROME? (Invited Lecture)
M. Diamant
, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
09:15 PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLES OF A MULTI-LIGAND RECEPTOR CD36 IN ATHEROGENESIS --- INSIGHTS FROM HUMAN CD36 DEFICIENCY (Invited Lecture)
S. Yamashita
, D. Masuda, T. Kuwasako, M. Janabi, N. Sakai, I. Shimomura, K. Hirano Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
 
09:30 CARDIOVASCULAR RISK PROFILE EARLIER IN LIFE AND HEALTH CARE COSTS IN OLDER AGE (Invited Lecture)
M. Daviglus, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
 
9:45 THE CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH OF HERB AND NATURAL PRODUCTS (Invited Lecture)
P. Chan, C-Yin Kwan, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
 
10:00 PECULIARITIES OF LOW RISK POPULATIONS; IMPLICATION OF FINDINGS OF THE SEVEN COUNTRIES STUDY (Invited Lecture)
D. Panagiotakos
, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
 
10:15 COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION  
TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2005
08:30-10:45   HALL C
 

 

S63   Session:
PREDICTORS AND MARKERS OF HEART FAILURE OUTCOME, RENAL ASPECTS

Chairpersons: R.C. Bourge, Birmingham, AL, USA
                    
W. Miller, Rochester, MN, USA

 

 

08:30 FEMALE SEX IS A STRONG PREDICTOR OF SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH LEFT VENTRICULAR EJECTION FRACTION <0.2 BUT ONLY IN ABSENCE OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
E. Martinez, M. Martinez-Selles, M. Dominguez, M.A Garcia Fernandez, E. Garcia, Hospital Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain
 
08:45 RACE, OBESITY, AND RISK OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE (CHF)
L.L Yan
, M.L Daviglus, K Liu, R Wang, D.B Garside, P Greenland, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA, Peking University, Beijing, China
 
09:00 ACARBOSE REDUCES THE RISK FOR MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES : META-ANALYSIS OF SEVEN LONG-TERM STUDIES
D Petzinna
, A Brueckner, T Petrowitsch, D Neuser, M Hanefeld, Bayer HealthCare, Wuppertal, Germany
 
09:15 NEW CARDIOPROTECTIVE AGENT K201 IS NATRIURETIC AND GFR ENHANCING
O Lisy
, JC Burnett, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
 
09:30 A WEARABLE CONTINUOUS ULTRAFILTRATION BELT FOR AMBULATORY TREATMENT OF CHF
V Gura
, C Ezon, M Beizai, Cedars Sinai Medical Center. UCLA, The Geffen School of Medicine, National Quality Care, Inc, CA, USA
 
09:45 NESIRITIDE SUPPORTED VOLUME LOADING IN THE PREVENTION OF CONTRAST-INDUCED NEPHROPATHY
R.M Mills
, R.E Hobbs, C.T Bajzer, D.J Moliterno, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA
 
10:00 REDUCTION OF SERUM NT-PROBNP PREDICTS A FAVORABLE PROGNOSIS AFTER CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY
CM Yu, JWH Fung, Q Zhang, HCK Chan, I Chan, YS Chan, SL Kong, JE Sanderson, CWK Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 
10:15 INDEPENDENT PREDICTORS OF RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSFUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERE LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION 
M Dominguez, M Martinez-Selles, E Martinez, MA Garcia Fernandez, E Garcia,
Cardiology Department, Hospital Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain
. Kaur, GOVT Medical College, Amritsar, Punjab, India 
 
10:30 PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF HAEMOGLOBIN LEVELS AT DISCHARGE IN OLDER PATIENTS ADMITTED WITH HEART FAILURE
N. Wisniacki, P. Aimson, C. Manning, S. Raza , M. Lye, J. Pyatt, Liverpool University, Liverpool, UK
 
10:45 COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION  
TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2005
11:15 - 14:00   HALL A
  PL16   Plenary Session:  
NEW HORIZONS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HEART FAILURE

Chairpersons: F.G. Spinale, Charleston, SC, USA
                    
K. Chatterjee, San Francisco, CA, USA

 
11:15 BIOMARKERS IN CARDIOMYOPATHY (Invited Lecture)
W.L. Miller, Mayo Clnic, Rochester, MN, USA
 
11:30 INTERSTITIAL UNRAVELING OF THE MATRIX IN HEART FAILURE: CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS (Invited Lecture)
F.G. Spinale,
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
 
11:45 THE PURSUIT OF OPTIMUM OUTCOMES IN HEART FAILURE: POLYPHARMACY AND DEVICES FOR ALL OR SELECTIVE USE (Invited Lecture)
U. Thadani, OUHSC, and VAMC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
 
12:00 NESIRITIDE: SYSTEMIC AND CORONARY HEMODYNAMIC EFFECTS (Invited Lecture)
K. Chatterjee, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California USA
 
12:15 NOVEL DRUG THERAPIES FOR HEART FAILURE (Invited Lecture)
R.E. Hobbs,
Cleveland Clinic, Department of Cardiology, Cleveland, OH, USA
 
12:30 NEW DEVICE THERAPIES AND MONITORING DEVICES FOR ADVANCED HEART FAILURE (Invited Lecture)
RC Bourge
, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
 
12:45 BETA BLOCKERS IN CORONARY DISEASE AS  CARDIOPROTECTION (Invited Lecture)
B. F. Uretsky, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
 
13:00 BNP: EFFECTS BEYOND THE KIDNEYS (Invited Lecture)
H.P. Brunner-La Rocca, Cardiology, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
 
13:15 RELEVANCE OF BETA-BLOCKER THERAPIE IN INFLAMMATORY HEART DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
M. Pauschinger,
S Rutschow, H-P Schultheiss, Charite - Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
 
13:30 THE ROLE OF RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN ANTAGONISTS IN THE PREVENTION OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN THE PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE AND HYPERTENSION (Invited Lecture)
A. Ducharme,
Montreal Heart Institute, University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec), Canada
 
13:45 B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE AND TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE (Invited Lecture)
H. Dokainish,
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
 
TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2005
11:15 - 13:15   HALL B
  S64   Session
VALVULAR HEART DISEASE / HEART VALVE SURGERY / SURGICAL REVASCULARIZATION

Chairperson:  P. Nataf, Saint Denis, France

 
11:15 INR SELF-MANAGEMENT WITH LOW-DOSE THERAPETIC RANGE AFTER MECHANICAL HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT
H. Koertke, D. Seifert, O. Wagner, N. Atmacha, A. Krian, J. Ennker, W.P. Kloevekorn, R. Mossdorf, W. Saggau, R. Koerfer, Heart Center North Rhine-Westphalia Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, Clinic of the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
 
11:30 THE “SHELHIGH” STENTLESS BIOPROSTHESIS IN ACTIVE INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS: EARLY AND MID-TERM RESULTS
M. Musci
, O. Birkelbach, R. Petzina, M. Pasic, C.H. Detschades, S. Kosky, H. Siniawski, C.Yankah, R. Hetzer, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Dept. of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Berlin, Germany
 
11:45 LOW THROMBOGENICITY MECHANICAL AORTIC PROSTHESIS WITH LOW INTENSITY ANTICOAGULATION - A SAFE OPTION FOR THE ELDERLY
EG Butchart, N Payne, GG Grunkemeier, University Hospital of Wales, UK
 
12:00 OUTCOME OF MITRAL BALLOON VALVOTOMY IN ASYMPTOMATIC OR MINIMALLY SYMPTOMATIC PATIENTS WITH SEVERE MITRAL STENOSIS
M.E. Fawzy
, M. Shoukri, H.Hegazy, A. Al. Sanei, A. Badr, A. Hamadanchi, J. Al. Buraiki, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 
12:15 VALVE REPAIR IN AORTIC REGURGITATION WITHOUT ROOT DILATATION 
H.F. Lausberg, D. Aicher, F. Langer, H.J. Schaefers, University Hospitals of the Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany
 
12:30 PERCUTANEOUS MITRAL VALVULOPLASTY VERSUS SURGERY IN SEVERE MITRAL STENOSIS WITH SEVERE TRICUSPID REGURGITATION
D.H. Kang
, K.M. Park, H. Song, M.K. Hong, J.K. Song, S.W. Park, S.J. Park, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
 
12:45 IMMEDIATE RESULTS AND LONG-TERM PROGNOSIS OF PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION IN HIV-INFECTED PATIENTS
F. Boccara, G. Odi, E. Di Angelantonio, A. Cohen, G. Barbarini, G. Barbaro,
University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
 
13:00 EVALUATION OF ROBOTICALLY ASSISTED CORONARY SURGERY BY INTRAOPERATIVE ANGIOGRAPHY  
G.J. Friedrich
, N. Bonaros, T. Schachner, A. Oehlinger, G. Laufer, G.M. Feuchtner, P. Jonetzko, O. Pachinger, J. Bonatti, University Hospital, Innsbruck, Austria
 
TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2005
11:15 - 13:15   HALL C
  S65   Session
GENE AND CELL BASED THERAPIES, BASIC RESEARCH

Chairpersons:  N.E. Bowles, Houston, TX, USA
                      Q. Xu, London ,UK

 
11:15 LEUKOTRIENE PATHWAY GENE POLYMORPHISM AND THE RISK OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE (CHD)
S.P. Mall, J.W. Holloway, A.P. Sampson, S. Ye, University of Southampton, School of Medicine, Southampton, UK
 
11:30 A NOVEL MUTATION IN THE TOLL/IL-1R (TIR) DOMAIN-CONTAINING ADAPTER INDUCING IFN-BETA (TRIF) GENE IN A PATIENT WITH VIRUS-INDUCED DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY
N.E. Bowles
, M. Pauschinger, L. Banks, J. Bersola, C.H. Huang, J.S. Baker, H.S. Hardarson, K. Fitzgerald, J.G. Vallejo, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
 
11:45 ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF VENTRICULAR MYOCYTES OF XIN-ALPHA-DEFICIENT MOUSE HEARTS
C.I. Lin, C.P. Cheng, Y.X. Loh, E.A. Gustafson-Wagner, Y.J. Lai, Y.C. Chen, J.J.C. Lin, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
 
12:00 MATERNAL TRANSMISSION OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE RISK IS STRONGER THAN PATERNAL TRANSMISSION: A NATION-WIDE STUDY OF 427000 EVENTS
X. Li
, J. Sundquist, S.E. Johansson, K. Sundquist, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
 
12:15 BETA-CATENIN/TCF SIGNALING CONTROL VASCULAR PROVISIONAL MATRIX FORMATION THROUGH TARGETING PROTEOGLYCAN, VERSICAN, GENE PROMOTER IN VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS
M. Rahmani
, L. Ang, J.T. Read, B.W. Wong, J.M. Carthy , P.S. Rennie, B.M. McManus, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
12:30 COMBINATION OF G-CSF AND GM-CSF STIMULATES MONOCYTE-DERIVED PRO-ANGIOGENIC CELLA IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION 
S. Marra
, P. Scacciatella, S. Bruno, C. Tarella, G. Camussi, S. G. Battista Hospital, Turin, Italy
 
12:45 GENE TRANSFER OF HUMAN GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE I REVERESE BH4 DEFICIENCY AND ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION IN LOW RENIN HYPERTENSION
J.S. Zheng, G.D. Fink, A.F. Chen,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
 
13:00 PEGYLATED-LIPOSOMAL FORMULATION OF CHIMERIC LNA/DNA ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES AGAINST DNA METASE AND VINORELBINE INDUCE APOPTOSIS IN CHEMORESISTANT ANGIOSARCOMA CHARACTERISED BY 5'CPG ISLAND METHYLATION OF TSGS CDKN2/MTS1(P16INK4A), P14ARF, CDKN2B/MTS2(P15INK4B), IRF1,NF AND P53
J. Giannios
, P. Lambrinos, Dept.of Surgical and Clinical Oncology/Hematology, GSHA, Athens, Greece
 

 

 

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