final program

 

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Presented abstracts have been published in a special online supplement issue of the journal CARDIOLOGY published by S. Karger AG, Basel, Switzerland.


Friday,
July 14, 2017
Saturday,
July 15, 2017
Sunday,
July 16, 2017
Oral Presentations Oral Presentations Oral Presentations
Poster Sessions Poster Sessions Poster Sessions

 

Saturday, July 15, 2017

08:30-10:30   HALL A
 

PL07    Plenary Session:
VALVULAR AND STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE – ASSESSMENT AND NOVEL TREATMENTS
 

Chairs:
S.H. Rahimtoola, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J. Ye, Vancouver, BC, Canada

 
08:30 SUTURELESS VALVE ASSOCIATED A MINIMALLY INVASIVE APPROACH COVERS THE GAP BETWEEN TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION AND CONVENTIONAL AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT (Invited Lecture)
A. Miceli
Istituto Clinico Sant'Ambrogio, Gruppo Ospedaliero San Donato, Milano, Italy
099
08:45 TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION FOR PURE AORTIC REGURGITATION (Invited Lecture)
J. Ye
St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
100
09:00 VALVE PROSTHESIS - PATIENT MISMATCH: AN UPDATE - CLEAR THE CONFUSION AND SIMPLIFY (Invited Lecture)
G. Huang, S.H. Rahimtoola
Methodist Hospital of Southern California; University of Southern California, CA, USA
101
09:15 WHEN ANSWERS CANNOT BE FOUND IN THE TEXTBOOK – MAKING DECISIONS IN CHILDREN WITH PROFOUND DISABILITIES (Invited Lecture)
A. Lorber, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine – Technion, Haifa, Israel
102
09:30 WnT SIGNALING IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS: THE OSTEOCARDIOLOGY GO/ NO GO THEORY (Invited Lecture)
N.M. Rajamannan, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
103
09:45 TAVR FOR ALL COMERS WITH AORTIC STENOSIS: A DESTINATION TOO FAR? (Invited Lecture)
A.N. Cheema, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
104
10:00 PERICARDIAL CYSTS- REVISITED (Invited Lecture)
Y. Charuzi, R. Van Allan, J. Finkelstein-Boim, J. Mirocha
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA
105
10:15

DA VINCI AORTIC AND NON-AORTIC SURGERY
P. Stadler, L. Dvoracek, P. Vitasek, P. Matous
Na Homolce Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic

106
10:30 COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017
08:30-10:15   HALL B

 

PL08   Plenary Session:
INFLAMMATION AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: FROM PATHOGENESIS TO THERAPEUTIC TARGET

Chairs:
J.G. Filep, Montreal, QC, Canada
J.L. Mehta, Little Rock, AR, USA

 

08:30 BEYOND SLICING AND DICING: CYSTEINE PROTEASE CATHEPSIN K A NOVEL TARGET FOR CARDIOMETABOLIC DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
S. Nair, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
108
08:45 IL-10 AND TOLL LIKE RECEPTORS 2 AND 4 IN CARDIAC STRESS CONDITIONS (Invited Lecture)
P.K. Singal, A. Bagchi, P. Ayyappan, G. Akolkar
St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
109
09:00 ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES: A ROLE FOR INFLAMMATION AND ITS RESOLUTION (Invited Lecture)
J.G. Filep
University of Montreal, Montreal, and Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
110
09:15 INFLAMMATION, AUTOPHAGY AND MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA (Invited Lecture)
J.L. Mehta
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and CAVHS, Little Rock, AR, USA
111
09:30 LYSOPHOSPHATIDIC ACID IS THE CULPRIT MOLECULE INVOLVED IN BOTH ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND IN CANCER (Invited Lecture)
M. Navab, A. Chattopadhyay, P. Mukherjee, M. Hough, N. Dorreh, P. Martinez,
Z. Zarina Barseghyan
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, USA
112
09:45

MODIFIED MYXOMAVIRAL SERPIN REACTIVE CENTER LOOP (RCL) PEPTIDE IMPROVES SURVIVAL AND OUTCOMES IN AN ACCELERATED LETHAL MOUSE INFLAMMATORY VASCULITIC SYNDROME MODEL (Invited Lecture)
A.R. Lucas, S. Ambadapadi, B. Mahon, R.M. Thomas, C. Jobin, S. Karst,
S. Tibbetts, J.R. Yaron, S. Keinan, A. Varsani, G. McFadden
Biodesign Institute/ Arizona State University, Arizona & St Joseph’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ, USA

113
10:00 UPSTREAM MEDIATORS OF INFLAMMATION AND THE POTENTIAL TO UNLOCK PARADOXES OF AGE-RELATED DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
S. Cheng, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
114
10:15 COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017
08:30 - 10:45   HALL C
  S24   Session:  
CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING MODALITIES FOR EVALUATION OF CORONARY CIRCULATION, CARDIAC STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Chairs:
A. Elhendy, Marshfield, WI, USA
T. Tomaru, Tokyo, Japan
 
08:30 THE UTILITY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN SYNCOPE EVALUATION
W. Sheu, G. Faldu, S. Noriega, A. Dulku, D. Bloomfield
Richmond University Medical Center, Staten Island, NY, USA
115
08:45 ASSESSMENT OF LEFT VENTRICULAR SEGMENTAL MASS IN HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY BY THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
H. Salehi
Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
116
09:00 SAFETY PROFILE OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC CONTRAST AGENTS
S. Kumar, C.S. Purtell, A. Peterson, P. Gibbons, J. Lindner, S. Heitner
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
117
09:15 CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY AS A COST-EFFECTIVE TEST FOR CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
M. Gorenchtein, E. Wilson, T.J. Turco, A.N. Johnson, J.K. Hersh, K.A. Hebert
Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai West Hospitals, New York, NY, USA
118
09:30 DOES MORPHOLOGY AND FUNCTION OF THE LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE CHANGE AS A RESULT OF MITRAL REGURGITATION?
A.P. Ziganshina, E. Meoli, B.A. Ziganshin, J.A. Elefteriades, S.K. Mukherjee
Western Connecticut Health Network, Danbury Hospital, Danbury, CT; Aortic Institute at Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
119
09:45 QUANTIFICATION OF PLEURAL EFFUSIONS BY TWO-DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
S.A. Chang, D. McFarlane, J. Yim, K. Gin, J. Jue, P.K. Lee, P. Nair, M. Tsang,
D. Thompson, T. Tsang
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
120
10:00

AUTONOMOUS HEART MURMUR DETECTION IN THE ELDERLY WITH VALVE DEFECTS
R.A. Riedlbauer, E. Woelkhart, L. Lai, A.J. Reinisch, M.J. Unterberger, A.J. Schriefl
CSD Labs, Graz, Styria, Austria

121
10:15

SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF USING SIMULATION TO TEACH ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
C.A. Rambarat, J.M. Merritt, H.F. Norton, E. Black, D.E. Winchester
UF Health Shands at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

122
10:30

CARDIOVASCULAR ABNORMALITIES IN HIV PATIENTS AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH DURATION OF HAART AND CD4 COUNT
A. Sharma, H. Dandu, A.K. Tripathi, S. Chandra
Saint Peter's University Hospital/ Rutgers Robertwood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

123
10:45 COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017
11:00-13:15   HALL A

 

PL09   Plenary Session:
IDENTIFICATION AND MODIFICATION OF NOVEL RISK FACTORS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

Chairs:
J.S. Borer, New York, NY, USA
J. Shirani, Bethlehem, PA, USA

 

11:00 LIFESTYLE FACTORS AND THE IMPACT ON LIFETIME INCIDENCE AND MORTALITY OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
P.E. Puddu, A Menotti
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
124
11:15 NEW CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS AND ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION
(Invited Lecture)
C. Chen, J.M. Lu, Q. Yao
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
125
11:30 PARADOXICAL HOOKAH SMOKING-INDUCED AUGMENTATION OF ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION (Invited Lecture)
R.G. Victor, M. Rezk-Hanna, N.L. Benowitz, D.P. Tashkin, O.R. Mason, N. Li,
R.M. Elashoff
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
126
11:45 CARDIOVASCULAR RISKS OF RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA USE (Invited Lecture)
J. Shirani
St. Luke's University Health Network, PA, USA
127
12:00 NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE: RELATIVE RISKS FROM THE PRECISION TRIAL (Invited Lecture)
J.S. Borer
SUNY Downstate Medical Center and College of Medicine, Brooklyn and New York, NY, USA, on behalf of the Executive Committee and other Co-Authors of PRECISION
128
12:15 NON-PLATELET THROMBOXANE GENERATION AS A NOVEL PREDICTOR OF MORTALITY (Invited Lecture)
J. Rade
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
129
12:30 HEALTHY WEIGHT, HEALTHY EATING AND ACTIVE LIFESTYLE REDUCE THE RISK OF HEART DISEASE AND STROKE (Invited Lecture)
H.S. Buttar, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
130
12:45

A CURRENT UPDATE ON INFLUENZA AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES (Invited Lecture)
M. Madjid, University of Texas at Houston HSC, Houston, TX, USA

131
13:00

BIG DATA IN CARDIOLOGY - WHERE WE SHOULD BE GOING AND WHY? (Invited Lecture)
R. Potluri
Aston Medical School, Birmingham, UK

132
13:15 LUNCH BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017
11:00-13:00   HALL B

 

PL10  Plenary Session:
HEMODYNAMICS, INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY AND SURGICAL TREATMENT

Chairs:
L.P. Perrault, Montreal, QC, Canada
G.W. Vetrovec, Richmond, VA, USA

 

11:00 HEMODYNAMIC SUPPORT FOR HIGH RISK PCI AND CARDIOGENIC SHOCK: FINDING THE SWEET SPOT (Invited Lecture)
G.W. Vetrovec
VCU Pauler Heart Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, USA
133
11:15 THE IMPORTANCE OF POST-PCI FFR: “IT'S NOT OVER ‘TIL IT'S REALLY OVER”
(Invited Lecture)
B.F Uretsky
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
134
11:30 DURAGRAFT VASCULAR GRAFT TREATMENT IN THE PREVENTION OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING CABG (Invited Lecture)
L. Perrault, M. Carrier, D. Bouchard, R. Cartier, P. Demers, Y. Lamarche,
I. El-Hamamsy, D. Tanguay, D. Terronne
Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada
135
11:45 HOW TO PREDICT THE LONG-TERM OUTCOME OF NEW STENTS? (Invited Lecture)
Y. Ueda, Osaka National Hospital, Osaka, Japan
136
12:00 ROLE OF ECMO IN ADVANCED HEART FAILURE AND CARDIAC ARREST (Invited Lecture)
A. Kumar
MMIMSR Institute, Mulana, Ambala, India
138
12:15 COMPREHENSIVE MULTIMODAL INTRA-VASCULAR OPTICAL IMAGING WITHOUT EXOGENOUS CONTRAST AGENT (Invited Lecture)
H. Yoo, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
139
12:30 DEVELOPMENT OF BIODEGRADABLE NANOFIBROUS DRUG-ELUTING STENTS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES (Invited Lecture)
S.K. Bhullar, H.S. Buttar
Bursa Technical University, Bursa, Turkey and University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
140
12:45

PERCUTANEOUS HEMODYNAMIC SUPPORT DEVICES IN THE CURRENT DAY CATH LAB (Invited Lecture)
M. Shanmugasundaram
The University of Arizona College of Medicine/ SAVAHCS, Tucson, AZ, USA

141
13:00 LUNCH BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017
11:00 - 13:15   HALL C
  PL11 Plenary Session:
IMPROVING UNDERSTANDING, TREATMENT AND OUTCOME IN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

Chairs:
A.B. Curtis, Buffalo, NY, USA
D. Dobrev, Essen, Germany
 
11:00 CELLULAR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS OF PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN PATIENTS (Invited Lecture)
D. Dobrev, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
142
11:15 IS IT TIME TO RETHINK OUR MODEL OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND STROKE? (Invited Lecture)
T.J. Bunch, Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute, Murray, UT, USA
144
11:30 TREATMENT OF ARRHYTHMIAS IN THE ELDERLY: SPECIFIC AGE RELATED CONSIDERATIONS (Invited Lecture)
S.K. Seidl, Klinikum Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Deutschland
145
11:45 ARE LOW DOSES OF DIRECT-ACTING ORAL ANTICOAGULANTS JUSTIFIED AND APPROPRIATE IN PATIENTS WITH NONVALVULAR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION? NONVALVULAR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION? (Invited Lecture)
A. Martinez-Rubio, O. Martinez-Torrecilla
Univ. Hosp. of Sabadell, Univ. Autonoma of Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain
146
12:00 UTILIZATION OF 3-D MAPPING FOR SUCCESSFUL ABLATION OF TYPICAL ATRIAL FLUTTER (Invited Lecture)
H. Paydak, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
147
12:15 INCREASED VULNERABILITY OF FAILING HEARTS TO SYMPATHETIC STIMULATION INDUCED ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: THE ROLE OF RYANODINE RECEPTOR DYSFUNCTION (Invited Lecture)
Y. Zhang
New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, NY, USA
148
12:30 ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND GERIATRIC SYNDROMES (Invited Lecture)
K. Alagiakrishnan, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
149
12:45 LEADLESS PACEMAKERS (Invited Lecture)
K.S. Srivathsan, Mayo Clinic, AZ, USA
150
13:00

FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF RARE VARIANTS IMPLICATED IN SUSCEPTIBILITY TO LONE ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
K. Hayashi, N. Fujino, K. Sakata, T. Konno, H. Tada, T. Tsuda, R. Teramoto,
A. Nomura, N. Makita, M. Yamagishi
Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

151
13:15 LUNCH BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017
14:00 - 16:15   HALL A
 

PL12   Plenary Session:
HYPERTENSION, OBESITY, DIABETES MELLITUS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES, PREVENTION, RISK REDUCTION AND TREATMENT

Chairs:
N.S. Dhalla, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
B.I. Jugdutt, Edmonton, AL, Canada

 
14:00 PROTECTION OF DIABETIC HEART WITH PDE5 INHIBITION AND HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE (Invited Lecture)
R. Wang, L. Xi, R.C. Kukreja
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA, USA
184
14:15 DAPAGLIFLOZIN ATTENUATES DIABETIC CARDIOMYOPATHY AND THE ACTIVATION OF THE NLRP3/ASC INFLAMMASOME IN MICE WITH TYPE-2 DIABETES: A GLUCOSE-LOWERING AND SGLT-2 INDEPENDENT EFFECT (Invited Lecture)
Y. Ye, M. Bajaj, Y. Hsiu-Chiung, J.R. Perez-Polo, Y. Birnbaum
UTMB, Galveston, Texas, USA
185
14:30 CO2 WATER-BATH AS A NOVEL THERAPY FOR THE TREATMENT OF PERIPHERAL ARTERY DISEASE IN DIABETES (Invited Lecture)
N.S. Dhalla, Y-J. Xu, V. Elimban
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
186
14:45 CARDIOVASCULAR MECHANISMS OF EXERCISE INTOLERANCE IN DIABETES AND THE ROLE OF SEX (Invited Lecture)
J.G. Regensteiner, M. Cree-Green, D. Rafferty, T.A. Bauer, J.E.B. Reusch
University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA
187
15:00 AGING AND OBESITY (Invited Lecture)
B.I. Jugdutt
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
188
15:15 ROLE OF THE ADIPOKINE OMENTIN IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
N. Ouchi
Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
189
15:30 REVASCULARIZATON IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETES MELLITUS: OPTIMAL APPROACH IN 2017 (Invited Lecture)
G.W. Barsness
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
190
15:45 CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF EXAGGERATED BLOOD PRESSURE (Invited Lecture)
P. Kokkinos
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, Georgetown University School of Medicine, George Washington University School, University of South Carolina, USA
191
16:00

mTOR SIGNALING IN DIABETES AND MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (Invited Lecture)
A. Das
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA

192
16:15 COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION  
SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017
14:00 - 16:45   HALL B
  PL13  Plenary Session:
VASCULAR REMODELING AND CARDIAC REGENERATION AND REPAIR

Chairs:
A.M. Gerdes, Old Westbury, NY, USA
K.N. Pandey, New Orleans, LA, USA
 
14:00 LOW DOSE IGF1 FOR CARDIAC CYTOPROTECTION AND REPAIR FROM MOUSE TO MAN (Invited Lecture)
N.M. Caplice, University College Cork, Ireland
193
14:15

WHERE ARE WE WITH BONE MARROW CELL THERAPY FOR HEART REPAIR? (Invited Lecture)
B. Dawn
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA

194
14:30 WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CARDIAC REMODELING (Invited Lecture)
A.M. Gerdes
New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, NY, USA
195
14:45

PLAQUE ANGIOGENESIS IN HUMAN ATHEROSCLEROSIS: A SYSTEMS MEDICINE APPROACH (Invited Lecture)
T. Rademakers, M. Manca, J. Sluimer, M.J.A.P. Daemen, J. Van Buul,
E.A.L. Biessen
Maastricht University, The Netherlands

196
15:00 REBUILDING THE FAILING HEART WITH CELL THERAPY: ROADBLOCKS TO OVERCOME (Invited Lecture)
J. Zhang
UAB - The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
197
15:15 HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS PREVENT CARDIAC HYPERTROPHIC REMODELING AND DYSFUNCTION IN NPR1 HAPLOTYPE MICE (Invited Lecture)
K.N. Pandey
Tulane University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
198
15:30

STEM CELLS DERIVED EXOSOMES: A FUTURE OF CELL THERAPY (Invited Lecture)
D. Singla, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

199
15:45

BIOELECTRIC STIMULATION FOR ORGAN REGENERATION (Invited Lecture)
L.W. Miller, Leonhardt Ventures, Tampa, FL, USA

200
16:00 A NOVEL MECHANISM CONTROLLING VASCULAR REMODELING (Invited Lecture)
R. Tang, X.B. Cui, J.N. Wang, S.Y. Chen
University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
201
16:15 EMERGING ROLE OF CELLULAR THERAPY (STEM CELL THERAPY) IN CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
R.K. Sharma, E.I. Murgasen, R.K. Sharma, A.K. Prashar, H.K. Reddy
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
202
16:30

MACROPHAGES AND CARDIAC REPAIR (Invited Lecture)
E. Thorp, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

203
16:45 COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION  
SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017
14:00 - 16:45   HALL C
  S25 Session:
ARRHYTHMIA I: DIAGNOSIS, DRUG THERAPY, ABLATION

Chairs:
T.J. Bunch, Murray, UT, USA
A. Martinez-Rubio, Barcelona, Spain

 
14:00 THE VALUE OF INCORPORATING THE LEFT ATRIAL SIZE TO THE CURRENT STROKE RISK SCORING SYSTEMS FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
M. Shahreyar, S.A. Salem, U. Ashraf, J. Gardner, W.P. Skelton, R.N. Khouzam
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
204
14:15 EFFECT OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION ON THE IN-HOSPITAL MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY TRENDS OF TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY
A. Sharma, P. Charilaou, N. Patel, B. Yegneswaran, A. Badheka
Saint Peter's University Hospital/ Rutgers Robertwood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
205
14:30 ASSOCIATION OF CHA2DS2VASC AND R2CHADS2 SCORES WITH LEFT ATRIAL VOLUME INDEX: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF STROKE PATIENTS WITH NON-VALVULAR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION (NVAF)
J.J. Mehta, M.R. Vindhyal, J.K. Kallail, F.A. Eid
University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita, KS, USA
206
14:45 INFERIOR VENA CAVA DIAMETER BY HAND HELD ULTRASOUND PREDICTS ATRIAL FIBRILLATION RECURRENCE AFTER CARDIOVERSION
D.W. Kehl, R. Zimmer, I. Kedan
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA
207
15:00 PVI WITHOUT FLUOROSCOPY IS AS SAFE, EFFICIENT, AND EFFECTIVE AS TRADITIONAL FLUOROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES
A. Ahmad, A. Velasco, J. Barrios, H. McElderry, V. Plumb, T. Yamada, V. Kumar,
H. Doppalapudi, W. Maddox
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
208
15:15 AV NODAL REENTRANT TACHYCARDIA OF THE SICK
M.E. Madmani, F.J. Habash, P. Card, B. Boye, H. Paydak
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
209
15:30 INTER-OBSERVER RELIABILITY OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE-TRACKING DERIVED GLOBAL LEFT ATRIAL STRAIN MEASUREMENTS IN PATIENTS WITH SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING AND PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: RESULTS FROM THE SAFEBEAT STUDY
B. Xu, R. Byrne, R. Mehra, J. Aylor, R. Nawabit, L. Wang, J. Bena, D. Kwon
Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, OH, USA
210
15:45 ASSOCIATION OF BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE AND ATRIAL FIBRILLATION RECURRENCE AFTER SUCCESSFUL ELECTRICAL CARDIOVERSION: A MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS INCLUDING DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION
A. Al-Sheyyab, T. Gilotra, B. Barad, M. Jbara, T. Paul
East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
211
16:00 ASSESSMENT OF SAFETY OF BOLUS INJECTION OF PROTAMINE AFTER PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION
T.J. Matsubara, K. Fujiu, E. Hasumi, T. Kojima, I. Komuro
Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan
212
16:15 RAMP™ SHEATH DECREASES THE NUMBER OF RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION APPLICATIONS FOR BIDIRECTIONAL ISTHMUS BLOCK IN TYPICAL RIGHT ATRIAL FLUTTER
J.A. Thomas, J. Wong, L. Achanta, L. Oke, R. Delongchamp, N. Pothineni,
W. Maskoun, A. Sewani, H. Paydak
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
213
16:30

CONVERSION OF ISOLATED UNIDIRECTIONAL ISTHMUS BLOCK TO BIDIRECTIONAL BLOCK BY ABLATING A DIFFERENT LOCATION IN THE CAVO-TRICUSPID ISTHMUS FOR THE TREATMENT OF TYPICAL ATRIAL FLUTTER
J. Xu, J. Wong, S. Reddy, T.E. Watts, K. Singkhek, H. Paydak
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

214
16:45 COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION  
SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017
1630-18:15   HALL A
 

S26 Session:
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE PREVENTION AND RISK MANAGEMENT


Chairs:
G. Barsness, Rochester, MN, USA
S. Mora, Boston, MA, USA

 
16:30 ASSOCIATION OF SERUM FERRITIN WITH CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE INCIDENCE AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS: A JACKSON HEART STUDY
O. Egbuche, H.R Millard, B. Renelus, M. Axiyan, S.K Musani, E.R Fox, J. Liu,
H.A Taylor, A. Bidulescu
Atlanta Morehouse School of Med, GA, USA
215
16:45 SOCIAL SUPPORT VERSUS ISOLATION: RELATION TO GLOBAL CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH
S.R. Behforooz, C.K. Kieu, N.D. Wong
University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
216
17:00 CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS ATTENUATES THE RISK OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IN HYPERTENSIVES
P. Kokkinos, P. Narayan, F. Mordini, J. Myers, A. Ahmed, C. Faselis
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
217
17:15 A FEASIBILITY STUDY ON 10-YEAR CVD RISK ASSESSMENT AS A SECONDARY PREVENTION TOOL FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
R. Shi, Y. Lan, W. Yu
Pfizer, China
218
17:30 PATIENT CENTERED SPECIALTY PRACTICE: THE PROVIDENCE EXPERIENCE
X. Huang, L. Jones Larson
Providence Heart Clinic, Portland, OR, USA
219
17:45 PREVALENCE OF ASYMPTOMATIC PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE BY ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX AND ITS CORRELATION TO ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (ASCVD) RISK ESTIMATE AMONG PATIENTS IN A PRIVATE TERTIARY HOSPITAL IN PASAY CITY, PHILIPPINES: A PROSPECTIVE ANALYTICAL STUDY
A.V. Dela Cruz, G.M. Obrado, M.O. Matulac
Adventist Medical Center Manila. Pasay City, Philippines
220
18:00

MAKING THE DECISION TO QUIT SMOKING: IMPACT OF INTERACTIVE AND EDUCATIONAL VIDEO APPLIED IN POPULATION WITH MULTIMORBIDITIES
L.S. Pereira, M.F. Madureira, M.F.M. Lamas, D.A. Brum, N.P. Sobreira,
N.S. Pereira, A.G.S. Galil, A.P. Cupertino, F.A.B. Colugnati
Public University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil

221
SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017
17:00 - 19:15   HALL B
  S27  Session:
ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME: DETECTION, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT

Chairs:
Y. Ueda, Osaka, Japan
B. Uretsky, Little Rock, AR, USA
 
17:00 NON-CULPRIT VESSEL OBSTRUCTIVE LESIONS IN PATIENTS WITH ANTERIOR ST ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND INFERIOR ST DEPRESSIONS
T.J. Breen, P. Fisher, M. Torosoff, A. Nappi
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
222
17:15 WOMEN FAIL TO RECOGNIZE SYMPTOMS OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION LEADING TO DELAYS IN HOSPITAL PRESENTATION
E. Wilson, J.P. Cordova, C.P. Bavishi, J. Tamis-Holland
Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai West Hospitals, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
223
17:30 TYPE II MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND THE RISK OF READMISSION
S.A. Doleeb, R.D. Patel, S. Olet, J.J.F. Kram, R.J. Logue, P. Nallani, M.F Jan,
S. Allaqaband
Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI, USA
224
17:45 THE HIGH-DEGREE ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK REMAINS A SEVERE PROGNOSTIC MARKER IN THE PRIMARY PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION ERA, THE NEXT STEP
P. Dobes
Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
225
18:00 ONE-YEAR MORTALITY IN TYPE 2 MI: PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS FROM A LARGE CLINICAL SERIES
R.D. Patel, S. Olet, J.J.F. Kram, S.A. Doleeb, P. Nallani, R.J. Logue, M.F. Jan,
S. Allaqaband
Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI, USA
226
18:15 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSIONS: A NOT SO INNOCENT SILENT GUEST
J.M. Telayna, R.A. Costantini, J.M.(h) Telayna
Hospital Universitario Austral, Pilar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
227
18:30 POSTCONDITIONING WITH LACTATE-ENRICHED BLOOD FOR CARDIOPROTECTION IN HUMANS
T. Koyama, M. Munakata, T. Akima, K. Miyamoto, M. Shibata, K. Moritani, H. Kanki,
S. Ishikawa, H. Mitamura
Saitama Municipal Hospital, Saitama City, Saitama, Japan
228
18:45

STRESS-INDUCED THROMBUS: ROLE OF ANTICOAGULATION IN TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY
M.R. Heckle, C.W. McCoy, R.N. Khouzam
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

229
19:00

STEMI IN A PATIENT WITH HIV ASSOCIATED CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
A.A. Khan, A. Hannan, Z. Rahman, N.A. Khan, I. Arif, S. Masood
East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA

 

230
SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017
17:00 - 19:30   HALL C
  S28  Session:
ARRHYTHMIA II: SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH / ADVANCES IN IMPLANTABLE RHYTHM DEVICE THERAPY

Chairs:
H. Paydak, Little Rock, AR, USA
S.W. Rabkin, Vancouver, Canada
 
17:00 A NOVEL RYR2 P.R420W MUTATION CAUSING SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH IN FAMILIES WITH CPVT
O.A. Abdel-Razek, A. Collier, F. Curtis, S. Predham, A. Bullen, J. Houston,
S. Stuckless, S. Connors, T.L. Young, K.L. Hodgkinson
Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
231
17:15 OUTCOMES IN QUADRIPOLAR VS BIPOLAR LEFT VENTRICULAR LEADS IN CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY (CRT): A META-ANALYSIS OF SEVEN STUDIES
S.I.M. Zaidi, H.B. Panchal, A.A. Khan, G. Murtaza, Z.U. Rahman, Z.Q. Baloch,
N. Mungo, V. Ramu
East Tennessee State University, USA
232
17:30 BETTER THAN YOU THINK: APPROPRIATE USE OF IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER-DEFIBRILLATORS AT A SINGLE ACADEMIC CENTER
N. Shah, S. Ross, S. Noutong Njapo, J. Merritt, A. Kolarich, M. Kaufmann,
T. Burkart, W. Miles, D. Winchester, M. McKillop
University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL, USA
233
17:45 SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH (SCD) AND SUDDEN UNEXPLAINED DEATH (SUD) IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR: A 10 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE STUDY
R.A. Alkhateb, F. Paulin, S.I. Avis, B.A. Gallagher, F.I. Curtis, T.L. Young,
S.E. Connors, K.A. Hodgkinson
Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada
234
18:00 STAPLING FOR WOUND DEHISCENCE AFTER CARDIAC IMPLANTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE IMPLANTATION
O. Paydak, N.V. Pothineni, P. Card, A. Sewani
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
235
18:15 2 CASES OF PACEMAKER DERMATITIS INDUCED BY BACKPACK STRAP FRICTION
T.J. Matsubara, K. Fujiu, E. Hasumi, T. Kojima, T. Sato, M. Yamasaki, S. Ohnishi, I. Komuro
Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan
236
18:30

TEMPORARY – PERMANENT PACEMAKERS: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE AND SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE
K.S. Suarez, S.M. Mehta, S.A. Zamin, J.E. Banchs
Scott and White Medical Center, Temple, TX, USA

237
18:45

TORSADES DE POINTES IN THE SETTING OF IVABRADINE
E.N. Dreessens, T.M. Ratajczak, A.A. El-Moghraby, A. Wase
Wright State University Department of Internal Medicine, Dayton, OH, USA

238
19:00 RECURRENT CONTACT DERMATITIS SECONDARY TO ADHESIVE TAPE AND DERMABOND USE AFTER PACEMAKER PROCEDURE
P. Card, A. Shanbhag, J. Guthrie, L. Gao, H. Paydak
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
239
19:15

VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION STORM: AN UNCOMMON PRESENTATION OF IDIOPATHIC HEART BLOCK
O.E. Egbuche, D. Adedinsewo, P. Agasthi, A. Onwuanyi
Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

240
 

 

 

 

 

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