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Friday, July 27, 2018

09:00 - 10:15   HALL A
 09:00

OC OPENING CEREMONY


 
09:35 - 10:15 OL OPENING LECTURE - TWELFTH H.J.C. SWAN MEMORIAL LECTURE

HALL A
10:15  COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
     
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2018
11:00-13:00   HALL A
 

PL01    Plenary Session:
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY TARGETS FOR CLINICAL CARE IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
 

 
  NANOMEDICAL STUDIES OF ENDOTHELIAL AGING IN THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM (Invited Lecture)
T. Malinski, H. Dawoud, M. Osama
Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
 
  GENETIC DISRUPTION OF NPR1 PLAYS A LEADING ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CARDIAC HYPERTROPHY AND HEART FAILURE (Invited Lecture)
K.N. Pandey
Tulane University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
 
  PROTEOTOXICITY AND CARDIAC DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
J. Robbins
Cincinnati Children's Hospital/Univ. Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
 
  MOLECULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING THE ANTI-ATHEROGENIC ACTIONS OF NUTRACEUTICALS (Invited Lecture)
J.W.E. Moss, J.O. Williams, H. Gallagher, W. Al-Ahmadi, A. Ismail, V. O'Morain,
D.P. Ramji
Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
 
  PDE5 INHIBITION WITH SILDENAFIL ATTENUATES ALCOHOL-INDUCED CARDIAC DYSFUNCTION IN OBESE DIABETIC MICE: ROLE OF MicroRNA 21 (Invited Lecture)
R.C. Kukreja, A. Samidurai, L. Xi, F. Salloum, A. Das
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
 
  T3 VERSUS METOPROLOL TREATMENT OF RATS WITH MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION - AND THE WINNER IS? (Invited Lecture)
A.M. Gerdes, K. Zhang, Y. Zhang, K. Ojamaa, Y.-D. Tang
New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY, USA
 
  CARDIAC TARGETING PEPTIDE; A NOVEL CARDIAC TARGETING PROTEIN TRANSDUCTION DOMAIN (Invited Lecture)
M. Zahid
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
 
  ANTIBODIES TO MALONDIALDEHYDE-ACETALDEHYDE (MAA) PROTEIN ADDUCT AS A BIOMARKER FOR CARDIOVASCULAR MANIFESTATIONS IN SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS (Invited Lecture)
K. Su, Y. Yu, T. Wang, P.D. Lopez, C. Tineo, G. Paulino, M. Hearth-Holmes, E. Loyo
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
 
  LUNCH BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2018
11:00-13:00   HALL B
  PL02   Plenary Session:
INSIGHTS FROM MULTIMODALITY CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING

 

  CALCIUM SCORING - WHERE DO WE STAND IN 2018? (Invited Lecture)
J. Mahmarian
Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
 
  BEYOND STENOSIS: PLAQUE AND ISCHEMIA ASSESSMENTS BY CORONARY CTA (Invited Lecture)
D.S. Berman, Y. Otaki, J. Friedman, S. Hayes, L. Thomson, E. Eisenberg, A. Rozanski, P. Slomka, D. Dey, B.K. Tamarappoo
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
 
  NEXT GENERATION INTRAVASCULAR COMPOSITIONAL IMAGING ASSESSMENT OF THE HIGH-RISK PLAQUE (Invited Lecture)
J.W. Kim
Korea University Guro Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
 
  NOVEL ULTRASOUND IMAGING STRATEGIES FOR ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
J.M. Gardin
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
 
  OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY FOR THE DETECTION OF VULNERABLE PLAQUE (Invited Lecture)
T. Kubo
Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan
 
  ADVANCES IN MYOCARDIAL RECEPTOR IMAGING WITH PET: THE ANGIOTENSIN AND ENDOCANNABINOID SYSTEM (Invited Lecture)
T.H. Schindler, I. Valenta, P. Pacher
Washington University, Saint Louis, MO, USA
 
  STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF EXERCISE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY (Invited Lecture)
M. Prokudina
International Heart Center, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
 
  A FRAMEWORK FOR WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES IN CARDIOLOGY (Invited Lecture)
I. Kedan
Cedars Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
 
  LUNCH BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2018
11:00 - 13:30   HALL C
  PL03   Plenary Session:
MECHANISMS AND MANAGEMENT OF HEART FAILURE IN 2018: HOW CAN WE DO BETTER?
 
  MYOCARDIAL INTERSTITIAL FIBROSIS IN HEART FAILURE: BEYOND VENTRICULAR STIFFNESS (Invited Lecture)
H.N. Sabbah
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA
 
  EFFECT OF INSTITUTIONAL EXPERIENCE ON OUTCOMES OF ALCOHOL SEPTAL ABLATION FOR HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY (Invited Lecture)
J. Veselka, L. Faber, M. Kvistholm Jensen, R. Cooper, J. Januska, J. Krejci,
T. Bartel, M. Dabrowski, P.R. Hansen, V.M. Almaas, H. Seggewiss, D.Horstkotte, R. Adlova, H. Bundgaard, J.ten Berg, M. Liebregts
Charles University, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
 
  PULMONARY HYPERTENSION - HAVE WE GONE FROM A DEATH SENTENCE TO A "FORGETTABLE DISEASE" FOR MANY IN 30 YEARS? (Invited Lecture)
R.C. Bourge
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
 
  CLEARING OF β1-RECEPTOR AUTOANTIBODIES FROM THE BLOOD: A USEFUL TREATMENT OPTION FOR IDIOPATHIC DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY (Invited Lecture)
M. Dandel
Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
 
  A NEW APPROACH TO HEART VALVE DISEASE: INTERVENTION OR PREVENTION? (Invited Lecture)
R. Levine
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
 
  THE ROLE OF LEFT ATRIAL STRAIN IN HEART FAILURE (Invited Lecture)
B. Hoit
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
 
  FAMILIAL MITOCHONDRIAL CARDIOMYOPATHY (Invited Lecture)
A. Lorber, R. Tal
Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
 
  THERAPEUTIC EFFECT OF IMMUNOADSORPTION IN PATIENTS WITH INFLAMMATORY CARDIOMYOPATHY: RESULTS FROM THE PROSPECTIVE BAD BERKA REGISTRY (Invited Lecture)
M.-A. Ohlow, M. Schreiber
Zentralklinik, Bad Berka, Germany
 
  HFpEF AS A SYSTEMIC DISEASE - WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TESTING? (Invited Lecture)
J. Ho
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
 
  CARDIAC REHABILITATION AND ITS EFFECTS ON COGNITION IN SUBJECTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AND HEART FAILURE (Invited Lecture)
K. Alagiakrishnan
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
 
  LUNCH BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2018
14:00 - 16:15   HALL A
 

PL04   Plenary Session:
IDENTIFICATION AND MODIFICATION OF NOVEL RISK FACTORS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

 
  LOW T/HIGH T TESTOSTERONE AND THE HEART (Invited Lecture)
J.D. Marsh

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
 
  STORE OPERATED Ca2+-CHANNEL BLOCKERS AS A POTENTIAL THERAPY FOR HYPERTENSION (Invited Lecture)
N.S. Dhalla
St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
 
  CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS: AN UPDATE (Invited Lecture)
C. Chen, J. Lu, Q. Yao
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
 
  AGE-RAGE STRESS IN CARDIAC DISEASES (Invited Lecture)
K. Prasad
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
 
  HEMODYNAMIC MODULATION OF NON-PLATELET THROMBOXANE GENERATION (Invited Lecture)
J. Rade

University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
 
  CLINICALLY RELEVANT INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CARDIOVASCULAR DRUGS, HERBALS AND FRUIT JUICES: MECHANISMS OF INTERACTIONS AND PRESCRIBING STRATEGIES (Invited Lecture)
H. Buttar
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
 
  ROLE OF NITRATES IN THE PREVENTION OF MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA ASSOCIATED WITH CARFILZOMIB INFUSION (Invited Lecture)
T. Scarabelli
St John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA
 
  DECIPHERING THE ROLE OF MITOPHAGY-LYSOSOME DYSFUNCTION IN THE DIABETIC HEART (Invited Lecture)
Q. Liang, S. Kobayashi, F. Zhao, Y. Huang, T. Kobayashi
New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, NY, USA
 
  RAPAMYCIN PROTECTS DIABETIC RABBIT HEARTS AGAINST ISCHEMIA/REPERFUSION INJURY BY REGULATING PTEN-AKT SIGNALING (Invited Lecture)
A. Das, A. Samidurai, R.C. Kukreja
Virginia Commonwealth University, Pauley Heart Center, Richmond, VA, USA
 
  COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION  
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2018
14:00 - 16:30   HALL B
  PL05   Plenary Session:
CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS: CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
 
  OBESITY AND ATRIAL FIBRILLATION (Invited Lecture)
M.A. Alpert
University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO, USA
 
 

PROARRHYTHMIC SUBCELLULAR SIGNALING IN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: ROLE OF CALCIUM DEPENDENT POTASSIUM CHANNELS (Invited Lecture)
D. Dobrev
University Duisberg-Essen, Essen, Germany

 
  TOWARDS A COMPLETE TRUE HYBRID TREATMENT OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION (Invited Lecture)
S. Gelsomino
CARIM Scholl for Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
 
 

MANAGEMENT OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN THE ELDERLY PATIENT (Invited Lecture)
A. Kumar, V. Mohan
Adarsh Heart and Super Specialty Hospital, Amristar, India

 
  UNUSUAL ARRHYTHMIC CAUSES OF SYNCOPE (Invited Lecture)
H.P. Paydak
University of Arkansas for Medical Science, Little Rock, AR, USA
 
  VALIDATION OF THE INDICATION FOR IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR IN BRUGADA SYNDROME IN THE J WAVE SYNDROMES CONSENSUS CONFERENCE (Invited Lecture)
M. Takagi

Kansai Medical University Medical Center, Moriguchi, Japan
 
 

DANTROLENE, A RYANODINE RECEPTOR STABILIZER, REDUCES ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN HEART FAILURE (Invited Lecture)
C. Nofi, K. Zhang, Y.-D. Tang, Y. Li, A. Migirov, K. Ojamaa, A. Gerdes, Y. Zhang
New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, NY, USA

 
 

RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATIVE MODIFICATION OF THE AV NODE FOR THE TREATMENT OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: EXPLORING THE VALUE OF AN OLD TECHNIQUE (Invited Lecture)
J. Gimbel
Columbia-St. Mary's Hospital System-Ascension, Milwaukee, WI, USA

 
 

UP-TO-DATE MANAGEMENT OF ATRIAL TACHYARRHYTHMIAS IN ADULT CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
A. Kamp
Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

 
 

THE RISK PREDICTORS OF COMPLICATIONS OF PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION (Invited Lecture)
T.J. Matsubara, K. Fujiu, G. Oguri, E. Hasumi, T. Kojima, I. Komuro
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

 
  COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION  
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2018
14:00 - 16:15   HALL C
  PL06   Plenary Session:
AORTIC ANEURYSM AND PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE: BASIC AND CLINICAL STUDIES

 
  INSIGHT INTO POLYVASCULAR DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
T. Tomaru, T. Matsubara, E. Matsubara
Heisei Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama, Japan
 
  GENETICS OF THORACIC AORTIC ANEURYSM 2018 (Invited Lecture)
J. Elefteriades
Yale University School of Medicine, Aortic Institute at Yale-New Haven, New Haven, CT, USA
 
  ADIPOCYTES PROMOTE IL18 BINDING TO ITS RECEPTORS DURING ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM FORMATION IN MICE (Invited Lecture)
G.-P. Shi
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
 
  POTENTIAL MOLECULAR TARGETS FOR PREVENTION OF PROGRESSION OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM (Invited Lecture)
L. Gavish, R. Beeri, D. Gilon, C. Rubinstein, G. Elberg, S.D. Gertz
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
 
  SEX DIFFERENCES IN PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE: DIAGNOSIS, SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT (Invited Lecture)
J. Regensteiner

University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
 
  ANTIPLATELET THERAPY FOR PERIPHERAL INTERVENTIONS: AN UPDATE FOR 2018 (Invited Lecture)
R. Khouzam, M. Ibrahim
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
 
  DOAC IN CANCER PATIENTS: VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM AND ATRIAL FIBRILLATION (Invited Lecture)
N. Maurea
Istituto Nazionale Tumori, IRCCS, Fondazione G. Pascale, Naples, Italy., Naples, Italy
 
  CURRENT STATUS OF PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND THERAPY OF PERIPHERAL ARTERY DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
S. Bhullar, N.S. Dhalla
St. Boniface Hospital, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, CanadaA
 
  FILTERING THE EVIDENCE: UPDATES ON IVC FILTERS (Invited Lecture)
B. Bikdeli
Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
 
  COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION  
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2018
16:45 - 19:00   HALL A
 

S21  Session:
MOLECULAR CARDIOLOGY, VASCULAR BIOLOGY AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

 
  Na+-H+ EXCHANGER 1 DEFICIENCY PROTECTS ANGIOTENSIN II-INDUCED ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM IN APOLIPOPROTEIN E-DEFICIENT MICE
C.-L. Liu, G. Sukhova, P. Libby, G.-P. Shi
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
 
  THE EFFECT OF HYPOXIA PRE-TREATMENT ON STEM CELL BIOLOGY
V. Ramaswamy, F. Franchi, K.M. Peterson, R. Paulmurugan, M.G. Rodriguez-Porcel
Cardiovascular Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
 
  ATTENUATION OF ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS BY 4-PHENYLBUTYRIC ACID PROMOTES THE FUNCTIONAL SURVIVAL AND THERAPEUTIC EFFICACY OF BONE MARROW-DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS FOR HEART REPAIR
D. Han, J.-W. Chen, F. Cao
Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing China
 
  AN INSIGHT INTO THE ROLE OF EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX IN DETERMINING THE SITE OF AORTIC ANEURYSM, TAA VERSUS AAA
Z. Kassiri
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
 
  IMPORTANCE OF THE MYOCARDIAL MICROENVIRONMENT IN THE BIOLOGY TRANSPLANTED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS
F. Franchi, V. Ramaswamy, K.M. Peterson, P. Ramasamy, M.G. Rodriguez-Porcel
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
 
  CRUCIAL ROLE OF PI3-KINASE GAMMA IN VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL PROLIFERATION AND NEOINTIMA FORMATION BY REGULATING Skp2 AND p27(kip1)
J. Li
, S. Liu, M. Wang, R. Jin
Hearshey High School, Hershey, PA, USA
 
  CARDIAC TARGETING PEPTIDE: STUDIES INTO MECHANISM OF TRANSDUCTION
K. Feldman, T. Feinstein, M. Zahid
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
 
  SLC3A2 IS A NOVEL ER STRESS-RELATED SIGNALING PROTEIN THAT REGULATES BOTH UPR AND APOPTOSISIN CARDIOMYOCYTES
C. Liu, X. Li, C. Li, Y. Tian, K. He
Translational Medicine, Beijing, China
 
  CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS: A MULTIPURPOSE APPROACH
N. Motayagheni, A. Atala
Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, USA
 
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2018
16:45 - 19:30    
  S22  Session:
HYPERTENSION, LIPIDS, DIABETES MELLITUS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE – FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE
 
  FUNCTIONAL INACTIVATION OF MAST CELL ENHANCES SUBCUTANEOUS ADIPOSE TISSUE BROWNING THROUGH SEROTONIN IN MICE
X. Zhang, X. Wang, J. Liu, G.-P. Shi
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
 
  CARDIOVASCULAR OUTCOMES OF AMLODIPINE-BASED COMBINATION THERAPIES IN HIGH-RISK HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS
P.P. Lu, X. Meng, A.H. Hu, W. Wang, L.Y. Ma, Y.Q. Zhang, X.Z. Zhang, L.H. Ma,
L.S. Liu, X.L. Zhou
Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
 
  SEASONAL VARIATIONS IN BLOOD PRESSURE, NEUTROPHIL-LYMPHOCYTE RATIO AND WHITE BLOOD CELL COUNT IN A LARGE POPULATION OF PATIENTS WITH END STAGE RENAL DISEASE
A. Long
, Z. Terner, J. Larkin, M. Reviriego-Mendoza, L. Usvyat, Y. Wang,
P. Kotanko, F.W. Maddux
Fresenius Medical Care North America, Waltham, MA, USA
 
  DIRECT VERSUS CALCULATED LDL CHOLESTEROL AND C REACTIVE PROTEIN IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK ASSESSMENT IN THE FRAMINGHAM OFFSPRING STUDY
H. Ikezaki
, V.A. Fisher, C.-T. Liu, K. Nakajima, B.F. Asztalos, N. Furusyo,
J. Hayashi, L. Cupples, E.J. Schaefer
HNRCA at Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA
 
  ADIPOSE TISSUE SURFACE-EXPRESSION OF LDLR AND CD36; LINK TO RISK FACTORS FOR TYPE 2 DIABETES IN NORMOCHOLESTEROLEMIC SUBJECTS
S. Bissonnette, Y. Cyr, V. Lamantia, V. Provost, G. Maye, M. Chretien, M. Faraj
University of Montréal/ Clinical Research Institute of Montréal (IRCM), Montréal, QC, Canada
 
  PESSIMISTIC OUTLOOK IN ADOLESCENCE INCREASES RISK FOR OBESITY AND HYPERTENSION IN EARLY ADULTHOOD
K. Anand, S. Rajendran, S. Srinivas, A. Chockalingam
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
 
  COMBINED TREATMENT BY LIPID-LOWERING DRUGS IN ACUTE LIPEMIA IN MICE
T.A. Korolenko, M.M. Gevorgyan, N.P. Voronina, G.S. Russkikh, T.P. Korolenko,
E. Machova
Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
 
  SPATIAL VARIATION ON PREVALENCE OF HYPERTENSION IN CHINA: RESULTS FROM CHINA HYPERTENSION SURVEY, 2012-2015
Z. Wang, L. Pei, L. Zhang, J. Wu, X. Wang, Z. Chen, Y. Dong, C. Zheng, Y. Kang,
R. Gao
National Center of Cardiovascular Disease, FU WAI Hospital PUMC & CAMS, Beijing, China
 
  PREDICTORS OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE IN PATIENTS WITH HYPERTENSIVE EMERGENCY WITH ELEVATED CARDIAC BIOMARKERS
M. Rodriguez Ziccardi, J. Penalver, S. Basharat, C. Nwakile
Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
 
  ROLE OF EPICARDIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS ASSOCIATED WITH OBESITY
M. Addula
Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA
 
  TO COMPARE THE “REAL WORLD” EFFICACY OF PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE SUBTILISIN-KEXIN TYPE 9 (PCSK-9) INHIBITORS ALIROCUMAB VERSUS EVOLOCUMAB ON LDL LOWERING IN PATIENTS PRESENTING WITH DYSLIPIDEMIA: A SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE
S. Banga, S. Pendyala, T.J. Kizhakekuttu
OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL, USA
 
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2018
16:45 - 19:15   HALL C
  S23  Session:
ADVANCES IN CARDIAC SURGERY: CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE / CORONARY REVASCULARIZATION / MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT / HEART TRANSPLANTATION

 
  INITIAL INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND IN THE EVALUATION OF CARDIAC TRANSPLANT VASCULOPATHY WITHOUT A ROUTINE EARLY BASELINE STUDY HAS PROGNOSTIC VALVE
R. Arsanjani, M. Hashemzadeh, M. Movahed
Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
 
  A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY OF RIGHT VENTRICULAR NORMALIZATION AFTER PULMONARY VALVE REPLACEMENT IN ASYMPTOMATIC PATIENTS WITH MODERATE OR GREATER PULMONARY REGURGITATION AFTER REPAIRED TETRALOGY OF FALLOT
F. He, S. Li, Z. Feng
Fuwai Hospital, Beijing, China
 
  PATIENTS' PREFERENCES FOR CORONARY BYPASS GRAFTING OR STAGED PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION IN MULTI-VESSEL CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
M.-A. Ohlow, A. Farah
Zentralklinik, Bad Berka, Germany
 
  A PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHED STUDY OF ON PUMP AND OFF PUMP CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY
Y. Toyoda
, M.A.K. Kashem
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
 
  MIDTERM COMPARISON OF ANNULOPLASTY RINGS IN ISOLATED MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION
O. Altas, O. Yerlikhan, M. Ozgur, A. Karakoc, K. Kirali
Cardiovascular Surgery, Kosuyolu Heart Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
 
  MISPLACED PACEMAKER LEAD DUE TO A PARTIAL ANOMALOUS PULMONARY VENOUS CONNECTION
B. Gheyath, R. Kaul, A. Aggarwal, M. Summers, M. Abdallah, D. Majdalany
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
 
  INCIDENCE OF ACUTE CELLULAR REJECTION AFTER HEART TRANSPLANTATION AND ITS IMPACT ON ONE-YEAR SURVIAL: A REPORT FROM TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL IN THAILAND
C. Techorueangwiwat, S. Sinphurmsukskul, P. Ongcharit, K. Thammanatsakul, W. Polsawat, S. Siwamogsatham, S. Puwanant, V. Benjacholamas,
A. Ariyachaipanich
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
 
  SURGICAL TREATMENT OF PRIMARY BENIGN RIGHT VENTRICULAR TUMORS: A 10-YEAR SINGLE-CENTER STUDY
E. Qiao
Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Fuwai Hospital, Beijing, China
 
  VASOACTIVE AGENT EXPOSURE PRIOR TO ACUTE MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT FOR CARDIOGENIC SHOCK IS ASSOCIATED WITH END ORGAN DYSFUNCTION AND MORTALITY
A. Razavi, K. Morine, M. Esposito, S. Annamalai, C. Davila, R. Pedicini, L. Jorde,
K. Gobeil, J. Hernandez-Montfort, N. Kapur
Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
 
  ANOMALOUS CORONARIES IN CHILDREN PRESENT WITH GENDER DIFFERENCES DISSIMILAR TO ADULTS
B. Robinson, C. Baird, F. Pigula
Patients' Precision Clinic BR Health for You, LLC.; Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA
 

 

Friday, July 27, 2018

8:00 - 13:00 

 POSTER HALL

Board No.

 

Abstract No.

 

P101    Poster Session
CARDIOVASCULAR PHARMACOLOGY AND DRUG THERAPY

 
 

CARDIOVASCULAR BENEFITS OF DIURETIC-BASED THERAPIES COMBINED WITH SIMVASTATIN IN HIGH-RISK HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS WITH A HIGH-NORMAL LEVEL OF TOTAL CHOLESTEROL
P.P. Lu, L.H. Ma, L.Y. Ma, A.H. Hu, X.L. Zhou, W. Wang, L.S. Liu
Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

 
 

PHENYTOIN INHIBITS THE EXPRESSION OF CARDIAC CAV1.2 CHANNELS VIA DISRUPTING SYNTHESIS AND TRAFFICKING
D. Han, P. Liu, X. Sun, Y. Liu, J. Sun
The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

 
 

NONSPECIFIC INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA: A RARE ADVERSE REACTION OF ATORVASTATIN
J. Xu, S. Verga, J. Stoll, L. Pioppo, W. Khan
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

 
 

EFFECTS OF STATIN USE ON ADVERSE OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
S. Wu, Y.M. Yang
National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Fuwai Hospital, Beijing, China

 
 

LIDOCAINE TOXICITY MANIFESTING AS ACUTE STROKE: A RARE PRESENTATION
L. Hou, J. Xu, E. Pagan, K. Patel, A. Hakeem
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

 
 

A CASE REPORT OF HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION DURING
T.J. Matsubara, K. Fujiu, S. Ohnishi, M. Yamasaki
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

 
 

 

 
 

P102    Poster Session
CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE AND PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY

 
 

DETERMINATION OF RIGHT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION BY SYSTOLIC TO DIASTOLIC DURATION RATIO IN TETRALOGY OF FALLOT
A.L. Arndt, K.W. Holmes
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

 
  IDIOPATHIC PERICARDIAL EFFUSION AND CARDIAC TAMPONADE IN CHILDREN WITH TRISOMY 21
C.B. Johnson, A. Qasim, M.A. Aly, A.M. Aly
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
 
 

ISOLATED FAMILIAL RIGHT VENTRICULAR HYPOPLASIA
A.M. Aly, S. Dasgupta, A. Jain
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

 
  FETAL DIAGNOSIS AND NEONATAL PALLIATION OF ABSENT AORTIC VALVE WITH HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME
A. Qasim, C.B. Johnson, M.A. Aly, A.M. Aly
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
 
 

DESPITE THE ODDS
A. Addoumieh, M. Abdallah, D. Majdalany
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

 
  UNROOFED CORONARY SINUS AND PERSISTENT LEFT SUPERIOR VENA CAVA: LATE ONSET SYMPTOMS POST-SURGICAL CORRECTION
B. Gheyath, G. Pettersson, D. Majdalany
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
 
 

MULTIMODALITY IMAGING OF ANOMALOUS RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY WITH INTERARTERIAL COURSE FOUND DURING A NON ST ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
M. Bintvihok, J. Aoun, M. Almeqdadi, M. Afari, A. Davidoff, L. Tsao
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

 
  COMPARISON OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC CRITERIA FOR DIAGNOSING LEFT VENTRICULAR NONCOMPACTION IN PATIENTS WITH CLINICAL CARDIOMYOPATHY
G. Hackett, F. Munir, R. Tunks, T. Chin
Penn State Health Children's Hospital, Hershey, PA, USA
 
 

 

 
 

P103    Poster Session
TRANSCATHETER THERAPY FOR STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE

 
  PERMANENT PACEMAKER (PPM) INSERTION IN PATIENTS WITH CONDUCTION ABNORMALITIES POST TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT (TAVR): A REVIEW AND PROPOSED GUIDELINES
A.S. Nanda, T. Bob-Manuel, V. Chinta, A. Sharma, U. Ashraf, J. Kelly,
I. Pour-Ghaz, R.N. Khouzam
University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA
 
 

SMOKER’S PARADOX: THE IMPACT OF SMOKING IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT (TAVR)
A.S. Nanda, M. Agarwal, A. Sharma, V. Chinta, U. Ashraf, J. Kelly,
I. Pour-Ghaz, R.N. Khouzam
University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA

 
 

EFFECTS OF SMOKING ON ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL OUTCOMES AFTER TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT
A. Mehlman, A. Radhakrishnan, I. Sunjic, C. Bitetzakis, E. Sadic,
A. Bhandari, F. Alvarado, A. Chen, A. Patel, Y. Lu
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

 
 

ASSESSMENT OF IMPACT OF PREPROCEDURAL PULMONARY HYPERTENSION TO THE CLINICAL COUTCOMES IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT; A SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE
M. Farhoud, S. Banga, C. Bhardwaj
OSF SFMC, Peoria, IL, USA

 
 

INTERMEDIATE-TERM PACEMAKER DEPENDENCY FOLLOWING TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT
E. Choi, J. Lee, A. Karnik, K. Lee, V. Kumar, H. Chaudry, S.X. Li,
T.B. Curran, B.W. Andrus, J.T. DeVries
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA

 
 

IMPACT OF TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT ON SHORT AND LONG- TERM KIDNEY FUNCTION
J. Aoun, C. Zahm, T. Bhat, S. Lahsaei, J.P. Carrozza
Saint Elizabeth's Medical Center, Brighton, MA, USA

 
 

THE SAFETY AND FEASIBILITY OF A NOVEL CLOSURE TECHNIQUE IN TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT
G.A. Medranda, R. Schwartz, S. Green
NYU Winthrop Hospital, Mineola, NY, USA

 
 

 

 
 

P104    Poster Session
CARDIAC SURGERY AND MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT

 
 

REVERSE-U-AORTOTOMY (KIRALI INCISION) IS SAFE FOR AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT
O. Altas, T. Ozer, M. Ozgur, S. Sarikaya, K. Kirali
Kosuyolu Heart Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

 
 

INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON PUMP IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED MORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH ST-ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION UNDERGOING PRIMARY PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION: A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS
J. Kewcharoen, C. Techorueangwiwat, T. Limjaroen, A. Ariyachaipanich
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

 
 

EFFECT OF PLEURAL INTEGRITY DURING ITA HARVESTING ON POSTOPERATIVE RESPIRATORY FUNCTIONS AFTER CARDIAC SURGERY
O. Altas, O. Yerlikhan, M. Aksut, T. Ozer, D. Gunay, A. Karakoc,
K. Kirali
Kosuyolu Heart Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

 
 

AN UNUSUAL CASE OF INTRACARDIAC FOREIGN BODY FOLLOWING A NECK INJURY; A CASE REPORT AND REVIEW OF LITERATURE
M. Ghanim, S. Bsata, B. Campbell, G. Daly, A. Agnihotri, L. Tsao
Saint Elizabeth Medical Center, Brighton, MA, USA

 
 

LATE ISCHEMIC COMPLICATION OF ATYPICAL BENTALL PROCEDURE, LEADING TO ACUTE MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA
G. Jolly, A. Haidry, S. Pal, M. Hasan Khan, W. Aronow
Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA.

 
 

 

 
 

P105    Poster Session
MEASUREMENT OF OUTCOMES AND QUALITY OF CARDIOVASCULAR CARE

 
 

A MODIFIED PUNCTURE METHOD DECREASES THE VENOUS INDWELLING NEEDLE RELATED COMPLICATIONS IN INPATIENTS WITH CARDIOVASCUALR DISEASES: A SINGLE CENTER PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED STUDY
Y. Liu, D. Han, X. Li
The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

 
 

CLINICAL UTILITY OF AN OBSERVATION UNIT IN THE OUTCOME OF COCAINE-INDUCED CHEST PAIN
C. Dumancas, T.O Mene-Afejuku, P.D. Lopez, A. Akinlonu, E. Ngo,
S. Mushiyev, F. Visco, G. Pekler
Metropolitan Hospital, New York, NY, USA

 
 

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN POST HEART CATHETERIZATION CARE
K. Gu, M. Katz, D. Chang, E. Randhawa, K. D'Mello, G. Ledley
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 
 

 

 

Friday, July 27, 2018

13:30 - 18:30 

 POSTER HALL

Board No.

 

Abstract No.

 

P201    Poster Session
ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE

 
 

INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES, IL-1 AND TNF-A, ARE CLUE FOR DETERMINING STROKE ETIOLOGY WITH THE SUSCEPTIBILITY VESSEL SIGN ON MRI
H.-S. Kim, M.-S. Park, E.-H. Kim, J.-T. Park, W. Yoon
Chonnam National University Med. School, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

 
 

CEREBRAL INFARCTION IS ASSOCIATED WITH MULTIPLE RISK FACTORS IN PATIENTS WITHOUT SEVERE CAROTID SCLEROSIS
E. Matsubara, T. Matsubara, T. Tomaru
Tokyo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

 
 

FINDING CLOSURE AFTER CRYPTOGENIC STROKE
M. Patel, A. Goud, A. Patel, A. Mukherjee, P. Sethi, R. Pai
University of California, Riverside, Alta Loma, CA, USA

 
 

 

 
 

P202    Poster Session
PERIPHERAL ARTERY DISEASE AND AORTIC DISEASE

 
 

RETAINED AORTIC MISSILE: A CASE OF A PARTIALLY EMBEDDED BULLET IN THE DESCENDING AORTA
D. Hill, A. Einhorn
Orlando Health, Orlando, FL, USA

 
  A RARE CASE OF MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA CAUSED BY DESCENDING AORTA TO RIGHT INFERIOR PULMONARY ARTERY FISTULA
T.-H. Wu
, C.-J. Wu
Veterans General Hospital- Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
 
  COMMERCIAL PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE SCREENING OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF ESTABLISHED GUIDELINES
H. Hirzallah, A. Mallad, A. Amro, D. Kusmic, M. El-Hamdani
Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine., Huntington, WV, USA
 
  USE OF OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IN TREATING A CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION FROM A VIETNAM WAR INJURY
B. Horn, J. George
Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
 
 

 

 
 

P203    Poster Session
HEART FAILURE: DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT

 
  KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION IN PATIENTS RECEIVING PERCUTANEOUS LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE
H. Aboud, S. Sutchu, A. Kazory
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
 
 

LEARNING NEEDS OF PATIENTS WITH DIASTOLIC HEART FAILURE
J.-A. Ahn, J.-S. Park, P.-K. Min
Ajou University, Suwon, Republic of Korea

 
 

FAMILIAL AMYLOID CARDIOMYOPATHY: A CASE SERIES
A.C. Atanda, O. Atanda, E. Mbey, O. Omole, D. Ugwendum, T. Ogundipe, B. Curry, O. Akinboboye
Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA

 
 

FACTORS AFFECTING LENGTH OF STAY AND TIME TO READMISSION IN A RETROSPECTIVE HEART FAILURE READMISSION COHORT
J. Aoun, S. Khare, M. Ghanim, G. Yesodharan, M. Afari, S. Hedge, L. Tsao
Saint Elizabeth's Medical Center, Brighton, MA, USA

 
 

LUNG INFILTRATES IN A PATIENT ON BORTEZOMIB - NOT ALWAYS PNEUMONIA
S. Basharat, M. Rodriguez Ziccardi, M. Bandres, A. Pop
Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 
 

INHALED RACEMIC EPINEPHRINE AS A TRIGGER FOR TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY
M. Ghanim
, M. Almnajam, S. Khare, M.E. Afari, M. Khan
Saint Elizabeth Medical Center, Brighton, MA, USA

 
 

PREMATURE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AS THE PRESENTING SIGN OF HYPERCOAGULABLE SYNDROME
E.P. Hiltner
, A. Alam, K. Patel, J. Xu, H. Doshi, D. James, D. Iyer,
J. Almendral, K. Mody
Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

 
 

STRESS CARDIOMYOPATHY: LOOK AT THE URINE!
S.A. Raza, S. Haley, L. Hunter, F. Raza
Methodist Health System- Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA

 
 

CANNABIS INDUCED BASAL-MID VENTRICULAR STRESS CARDIOMYOPATHY
S.J. Meera
, S. Vallabhaneni, R. Aurshiya, S. Pakniyat, J. Shirani
St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, PA, USA

 
 

UTILIZATION OF BIOIMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY IN LIEU OF INVASIVE MONITORING FOR MONITORING FLUID OVERLOAD
A.A. Accardi, J.T. Heywood
Scripps Memorial Hospital, Encinitas, CA, USA

 
 

 

 
 

P204    Poster Session
DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY

 
 

CLINICAL, ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC, ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC PROFILE AND OUTCOMES OF ADULT PATIENTS WITH DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY AT MAKATI MEDICAL CENTER: A SUBSET ANALYSIS OF THE PHILIPPINE HEART ASSOCIATION (PHA) CARDIOMYOPATHY REGISTRY
M. Maliwat, B. Alimurung, G. Lopez, V. Zarza-Geron
Makati Medical Center, Makati City, Philippines

 
 

PERI-MYOCARDITIS IN A PATIENT WITH COINFECTION OF MYCOPLASMA AND COX SAKIE B LEADING TO DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY
D. Zakri , J. Saurez, Y. Braver
Brandon Regional Hospital, Brandon, FL, USA

 
 

CHRONIC NASAL DECONGESTANT USE AND TACHYCARDIOMYOPATHY: A CASE REPORT J.R.F. Rocha, I.C. Pinheiro, M. Giannini, M.C. Caires, P.B. Villela, R.M. Ferreira, L.A. Salis, N.A. de Souza e Silva Edson Saad Heart Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 
 

 

 
 

P205    Poster Session
HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY

 
 

IMPACT OF CONTEMPORARY TREATMENT STRATEGIES ON PATIENTS WITH EXTREME HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY PHENOTYPE
M.D. Romashko, B.J. Maron, W. Wang, H. Rastegar, M.S. Maron,
E.J. Rowin
Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

 
 

UNUSUAL CAUSES OF RESOLUTION OF LVOT OBSTRUCTION IN HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY
R. Aurshiya, S. Meera, S. Pakniyat, J. Shirani
St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, PA, USA

 
 

MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA CAUSED BY SINGLE CORONARY ARTERY IN HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY
A. Sinha, R. Kumar, J. Shirani
St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, PA, USA

 
 

MARKED REGRESSION OF LVH IN FAMILIAL HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY FOLLOWING BARIATRIC SURGERY AND SUBSTANTIAL WEIGHT LOSS
S. Meera, R. Aurshiya, S. Vallabhaneni, S. Pakniyat, J. Shirani
St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, PA, USA

 
 

A CASE OF CONSTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY IN FAMILIAL AMYLOIDOSIS
R. Shah, J. Uribe, G. Velasquez, P. Taylor
Orlando Health, Orlando, FL, USA

 
 

PERSISTENT ST ELEVATION: HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY RARELY DISCUSSED
M. Khattab, J.R. Martinez Parachini, A. Ul Haq, E. Mora Garzon, E.P. Ngo
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

 
 

 

 
 

P206    Poster Session
PERICARDIAL DISEASE

 
 

A PATIENT WITH A LARGE PERICARDIAL MASS
A. Sustar, D. Javoran
University Hospital Centre, Rijeka, Croatia

 
 

PERICARDIAL EFFUSION IN A NON-HIV PATIENT AS A HARBINGER FOR A RARE PRIMARY EFFUSION LYMPHOMA
S. Basharat, M. Rodriguez Ziccardi, M. Bandres, A. Pop
Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 
 

UNILATERAL PLEURAL EFFUSION: AN UNUSUAL PRESENTATION OF DRESSLER’S SYNDROME SECONDARY TO PCI
N. Shah, R. Pansare
Internal Medicine, St Mary Mercy Hospital, Livonia, MI, USA

 
 

 

 
 

P207    Poster Session
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE

 
 

THE ROLE OF SEMAPHORIN-3C (SEMA3C) IN INTERPLAY BETWEEN RENAL EPITHELIAL- ENDOTHELIAL CELLS DURING CYST DEVELOPMENT IN POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE
J. Park
, E. Lee
Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 
 

NEGATIVE MULTIPLICATION EFFECT OF KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION ON NON VALVULAR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
M. Zeeshan, R. Ayinla, T. Ahmad
Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

 
 

RENAL ARTERY STENOSIS PRESENTED WITH SUDDEN FLASH PULMONARY EDEMA IN A PATIENT WITH SINGLE KIDNEY
J. Choi, Y. Kim
Uijeoungbu St. Mary’s Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

 
 

 

 
 

P208    Poster Session
EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY, EXERCISE TESTING

 
 

EFFECTS OF A YOGA INTERVENTION IN REDUCING JOB STRESS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK FACTORS
W.J. Hwang, J. Ha, J. Kim
Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 
 

 

 

 

Saturday, July 28, 2018

08:30-11:00   HALL A
 

PL07    Plenary Session:
CARDIOVASCULAR PROTECTION, REPAIR AND REGENERATION
 

 
  A NOVEL MECHANISM CONTROLLING SMOOTH MUSCLE PHENOTYPE AND VASCULAR REMODELING (Invited Lecture)
Y.-C. Wang, X.-B. Cui, Y.-H. Chuang, S-Y. Chen
University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
 
  microRNAs IN CARDIOVASCULAR REMODELING AND DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
D.-Z. Wang
Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
 
  MECHANISM OF CARDIOVASCULAR REMODELING IN HEART FAILURE (Invited Lecture)
S.C. Tyagi
University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA
 
  REGULATION OF ANGIOGENIC RESPONSE IN DIABETIC MYOCARDIUM (Invited Lecture)
N. Maulik
University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
 
  PCSK9 EXPRESSION IN THE ISCHEMIC HEART AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO INFARCT SIZE AND CARDIAC FUNCTION (Invited Lecture)
J.L. Mehta, Z. Ding
University of Arkansas for Medical Science, Little Rock, AR, USA
 
  CARDIAC CELL THERAPY: CUMULATIVE DATA AND NEW CONCEPTS (Invited Lecture)
B. Dawn
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA
 
  MULTI-FACETED CONTRIBUTION OF TIMPs TO MYOCARDIAL REMODELING (Invited Lecture)
Z. Kassiri
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
 
 

LONG-TERM EXERCISE-DERIVED EXOSOMAL MIRNAS AS NOVEL EXERKINES FOR CARDIOVASCULAR PROTECTION (Invited Lecture)
J. Wu, Z. Hou, X. Qin, X. Zhang, F. Gao
The Fourth Military Medical University, Xian, China

 
 

PREVENTION OF MYOCARDITIS/DCM USING REGENERATIVE MEDICINE THERAPY (Invited Lecture)
D. Fairweather, K. Bruno, A. Hill, P. Stalboerger, L. Cooper, Jr., A. Behfar
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA

 
 

NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE RECEPTOR-C IMPROVES VASCULAR REMODELING INSPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RATS (Invited Lecture)
M.B. Anand-Srivastava
University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

 
  COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2018
08:30-10:45   HALL B

 

PL08   Plenary Session:
VALVULAR AND STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE – ASSESSMENT AND NOVEL TREATMENTS

 

  FEMALE GENDER IS A PREDICTOR OF VASCULAR COMPLICATIONS IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING TRANS-CATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT FOR SYMPTOMATIC SEVERE AORTIC STENOSIS: A SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE (Invited Lecture)
R. Patel, S. Banga, J. Patel, M. Barzallo, S. Mungee
University of Illinois College of Medicine-Peoria/OSF Healthcare, Bloomington, IL, USA
 
  A NOVEL AUTOLOGOUS TISSUE-ENGINEERED HEART VALVE FOR TRANSCATHETER IMPLANTATION (Invited Lecture)
Y. Takewa, Y. Nakayama, J. Shimamura, E. Tatsumi
National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan
 
  THE EMERGING ROLE OF CIRCULATING AND URINARY BIOMARKERS IN THE ASSESSMENT OF ADULTS WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
A.R. Opotowsky
Boston Children's and Brigham & Women's Hospitals, Boston, MA, USA
 
  NHLBI WORKING GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS ON CALCIFIC AORTIC VALVE DISEASE: THE CHAIRMAN'S PERSPECTIVE (Invited Lecture)
N.M. Rajamannan
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, and Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Cardiology and Valvular Institute, Sheboygan WI, Corvita, Chicago IL, USA
 
  FRAILTY AND CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT (Invited Lecture)
A. Cheema
St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
 
 

AORTIC REGURGITATION; ASSESSMENT OF ETIOLOGY & SEVERITY: IS IT STILL A CHALLENGE? (Invited Lecture)
H.P. Chaliki
Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

 
  TRICUSPID REGURGITATION - CURRENT AND EMERGING THERAPIES (Invited Lecture)
S. Singh
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA
 
  NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSTIC DILEMMA FOR LOW FLOW LOW GRADIENT AORTIC STENOSIS (Invited Lecture)
S. Rasla
St Vincent Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
 
  PRE-TAVR HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA ASSOCIATED WITH POST-TAVR IN-HOSPITAL MORTALITY
S. Jou, H. Patel, H. Oglat, R. Zhang, L. Zhang, A. Nappi, M. Torosoff
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
 
  COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2018
08:30 - 10:45   HALL C
  S24   Session:  
CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING MODALITIES FOR EVALUATION OF CORONARY CIRCULATION, CARDIAC STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
 
  AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN RENAL FUNCTION ONE YEAR AFTER KIDNEY TRANSPLANT AND INCIDENTAL PERICARDIAL EFFUSION
J. Muste, E. Pashkovetsky, S. Wang, R. Lopez-Soler, D. Conti, M. Torosoff,
R. Lyubarova
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
 
  PARADOXICAL SINUS DECELERATIONS DURING DOBUTAMINE STRESS TESTING
S. Vallabhaneni, R. Aurshiya, S. Agrawal, L. Stone, R. Silmi, S. Pakniyat, S. Nanda, J. Shirani
St Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, PA, USA
 
  PEDIATRIC PATIENTS HAVE PRESERVED LEFT VENTRICULAR LONGITUDINAL STRAIN EARLY AFTER HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION DESPITE EXPOSURE TO CARDIOTOXIC AGENTS
N. Ray Chaudhuri, C. Ebens, A. Sanchez Mejia
University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
 
  ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY(ASE) GUIDELINES FOR DIASTOLOGY ASSESSMENT
S.M. Hussain, B.J. Hachey, C. Ahmed, A. Altamiranoufion, S. Danciu
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
 
  NONINVASIVE ASSESSMENT OF CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE USING CONTINUOUS FLOW FROM THE INFERIOR VENA CAVA INTO RIGHT ATRIUM
R. Ranjan, E.J. Friend, V. Figuredo, G.S. Pressman, N. Schiller
Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA, USA
 
  ADVANCES IN MULTIMODALITY CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING OF PERICARDIAL CONDITIONS (Invited Lecture)
B. Xu, S.C. Harb, A.L. Klein
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
 
 

PREVALENCE AND THE DETERMINANTS OF A-WAVE DOMINANT PATTERN IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERE MITRAL REGURGITATION
K.R. Kolla, N. Qureshi, H.P. Chaliki
Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

 
 

USE OF CONTRAST AGENTS TO ENHANCE IMAGE QUALITY IN 2 D ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY FOR STRAIN ANALYSIS
I. Baig, S. Nanavaty, A. Sothwal, A. Alsaid, T. Bauch
University, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, USA

 
 

RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION DIFFERS IN PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION VS SECONDARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
S. Emami, N. Samiei, A. Amin, S. Taghavi, M. Parsaei, N. Naderi, A. Serati,
M. Movahed
CareMore and University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

 
  COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2018
11:15-13:30   HALL A

 

PL09   Plenary Session:
HYPERTENSION, OBESITY, DIABETES MELLITUS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, PREVENTION, RISK REDUCTION AND TREATMENT

 

  HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 2017 ACC/AHA HYPERTENSION GUIDELINES (Invited Lecture)
W.S. Aronow
Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA
 
  NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS (NSAIDS): CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS ARE RELATED PRIMARILY TO IMPACT OF NSAIDS ON BLOOD PRESSURE RATHER THAN TO COX SELECTIVITY (Invited Lecture)
J.S. Borer, F. PRECISION Trial Executive Committee
SUNY Downstate, New York, NY, USA
 
  LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY AND HEART FAILURE IN HYPERTENSION - MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR MECHANISMS (Invited Lecture)
C. Rosendorff
Mount Sinai Heart, Icahn School of Medicine, and the James J. Peters VA Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
 
  ROLE OF THE NOVEL ADIPOKINE IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
N. Ouchi
Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
 
  DOES CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS MODULATE THE INCIDENCE OF TYPE 2 DIABETES IN PATIENTS ON STATIN THERAPY (Invited Lecture)
P. Kokkinos
Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
 
  A NEW ERA IN THE MANAGEMENT OF TYPE II DIABETES IN PATIENTS WITH A HIGH CARDIOVASCULAR RISK. THE CHANCE FROM A GLUCOCENTRIC TO A VASCULAR POINT OF VIEW (Invited Lecture)
K. Seidl
Klinikum Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Germany
 
 

MANAGEMENT OF METABOLIC SYNDROME AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN MULTIPLE MOUSE MODELS OF HUMAN TYPE II DIABETES AND HEART DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
S.B. Chatterjee
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

 
 

CARDIOVASCULAR ACTIVATION DURING SOCIALLY EVALUATED COLD-PRESSOR TEST IS ASSOCIATED WITH CHANGES IN IMMUNE FUNCTION BUT NOT WITH ACTIVATION OF STEROID STRESS HORMONES (Invited Lecture)
D. Jezova, K. Buzgoova, L. Balagova, D. Kapsdorfer, M. Marko, I. Riecansky
Biomedical Research Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

 
  PERINODAL ADIPOSE TISSUE PARTICIPATES IN IMMUNE PROTECTION THROUGH A LYMPHATIC VESSEL-INDEPENDENT ROUTE (Invited Lecture)
S. Liao
University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canaday
 
  LUNCH BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2018
11:15-13:45   HALL B

 

PL10  Plenary Session:
INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY AND CARDIAC SURGERY: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

 

  EXPANDED USES OF INVASIVE PHYSIOLOGICAL TESTING FOR CLINICAL DECISION- MAKING IN CAD PATIENTS (Invited Lecture)
B. Uretsky
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
 
  MYCOBACTERIUM CHIMAERA IN CARDIAC SURGERY (Invited Lecture)
L.P. Perrault, J. Tardif, P. Pagé, P. Demers, D. Roy
Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada
 
  SETTING A NEW DIRECTION IN CAD AND PAD - THE COMPASS TRIAL (Invited Lecture)
D.L. Bhatt
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
 
  OCT-GUIDED PCI: PRESENT STATUS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES (Invited Lecture)
T. Akasaka
Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan
 
  DIFFERENT MODULATION OF MIRNA BY CLOPIDOGREL AND TICAGRELOR IN PATIENTS WITH NSTEMI (Invited Lecture)
L. Biasucci, C. Mandolini, M.C. Grimaldi, G. Larosa
Catholic University of Rome, Rome, Italy
 
  THE RATIONALE FOR PERCUTANEOUS MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT IN CARDIOGENIC SHOCK AND PROTECTED PCI (Invited Lecture)
R. Sachdeva
Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
 
  CLINICAL FEASIBILITY OF A FULLY AUTOMATED 3D RECONSTRUCTION OF ROTATIONAL CORONARY X-RAY ANGIOGRAMS (Invited Lecture)
J.A. Garcia Fernandez
Orlando Health, Orlando, FL, USA
 
 

THE DISTAL LEFT RADIAL ARTERY ACCESS FOR CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY AND INTERVENTION: A NEW ERA (Invited Lecture)
A. Lotfi
Medical Center, Springfield, MA, and Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA, USA

 
  DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL AUTOLOGOUS HEART VALVE
Y. Takewa, Y. Nakayama, J. Shimamura, E. Tatsumi
National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan
 
  A NOVEL CONCEPT IN REPAIR OF TETRALOGY OF FALLOT: PULMONARY ANNULUS Z-SCORE MAY NOT BE THE DETERMINANT FOR TRANSANNULAR PATCH ENLARGEMENT
X. Jiang, Q. Wang
Peking Union Medical College, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
 
  LUNCH BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2018
11:15 - 13:30   HALL C
  S25 Session:
CELLULAR, MOLECULAR AND GENETIC MECHANISMS OF CARDOVASCULAR DISEASE
 
  CONGENITAL HEART ABNORMALITIES ASSOCIATED WITH LOSS OF FUNCTION FILAMIN A GENE MUTATIONS
M. Chen
, M. Hirata, C. Walsh, S. Choudhury
Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, Boston, MA, USA
 
  POLYGENIC RISK FOR DEPRESSION INCREASES RISK FOR ISCHEMIC STROKE: FROM THE STROKE GENETICS NETWORK (SIGN) STUDY
S. Wassertheil-Smoller
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
 
  MITOPHAGY PLAYS A PROTECTIVE ROLE IN THE DIABETIC MOUSE HEART
F. Zhao, S. Kobayashi, T. Kobayashi, Y. Huang, Y. Zhang, Q. Liang
New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY, USA
 
  EXOME SEQUENCING AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS FOR PATIENTS WITH EARLY ONSET CARDIAC CONDUCTION-SYSTEM DISEASES
K. Hayashi, A. Nomura, Y. Asano, M. Beerens, Y. Kurata, N. Fujino, H. Tada, C. MacRae, S. Takashima, M. Yamagishi
Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan
 
  AGE-RELATED DOWNREGULATION OF SIRT6/NRF2 SIGNAL AXIS CONTRIBUTES TO THE DECREASED HEART ISCHEMIC TOLERANCE IN OLDER MICE
D. Han, J.-W. Chen, F. Cao
Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
 
  EXOGENOUS GDF11 PROTECTS AGAINST MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA-REPERFUSION INJURY VIA ATTENUATION OF TGF- β SIGNALING PATHWAY
H. Su, J.-C. Yen, S.-S. Huang
National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
 
  SUBPROTEOMIC ANALYSIS OF CARDIOMYOPATHIC CHANGES IN X-LINKED MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
S. Murphy, M. Zweyer, R.R. Mundegar, D. Swandulla, K. Ohlendieck
Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland
 
  ALLICIN DISRUPTS CARDIAC CAV1.2 CHANNELS VIA TRAFFICKING
D. Han, J. Sun, X. Sun, P. Liu, Y. Liu
The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
 
 

A NOVEL CACNA1C MUTATION IN A CHINESE FAMILY WITH BRUGADA SYNDROME
M. Cao, D. Han, C. Sun, J. Wu, J. Sun, G. Li
The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

 
  LUNCH BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2018
14:00 - 16:15   HALL A
 

PL11   Plenary Session:
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: DIFFERENT STRATEGIES FOR PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PREVENTION

 
  FASTING IS NOT NECESSARY FOR LIPID TESTING: NIHIL PER OS NON IAM (Invited Lecture)
S. Mora
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
 
  ASPIRIN IN THE PRIMARY PREVENTION OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: NEED FOR INDIVIDUAL CLINICAL JUDGMENTS (Invited Lecture)
C.H. Hennekens, S.K. Wood, D.D. DeMets, M.A. Pfeffer
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Ratan, FL, USA
 
  OPTIMIZING STATIN UTILIZATION AND TREATMENT ADHERENCE AMONG PATIENTS WHO DISCONTINUE STATINS DUE TO ADVERSE MUSCLE EVENTS - A PERSONALIZED APPROACH (Invited Lecture)
R.S. Rosenson
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
 
  LIFE SIMPLE SEVEN AND INCIDENCE OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE: THE MILLION VETERAN PROGRAM (Invited Lecture)
L. Djousse
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
 
  TESTOSTERONE AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (Invited Lecture)
J. Shirani
St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, PA, USA
 
  UPDATE ON PREOP EVALUATION OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING NON-CARDIAC SURGERY (Invited Lecture)
M. Movahed
CareMore and University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
 
  HEARTFUL LIVING: PROGRAM FOR IMPROVING HEALTH & LIFESTYLE THROUGH SELF-AWARENESS (Invited Lecture)
A. Chockalingam
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
 
  CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK AND MENOPAUSE: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED FROM SWAN? (Invited Lecture)
S.R. El Khoudary
Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
 
 

SEX DIFFERENCES IN EXERCISE DURATION TIME AND RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE EVENTS IN HEALTHY ADULTS (Invited Lecture)
R. Herscovici, E. Maor, J. Mirocha, I. Goldenberg, S. Segev, Y. Charuzi
Cedars- Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 
  COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION  
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2018
14:00 - 16:00   HALL B
  PL12  Plenary Session:
VASCULAR BIOLOGY OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS: ROLE IN DISEASE PATHOGENESIS AND AS A THERAPEUTIC TARGET
 
  MODULATION OF INFLAMMATORY VASCULITIS (IVS) AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORY TREATMENT BY THE GUT MICROBIOTA - A MOUSE HERPESVIRUS IVS MODEL (Invited Lecture)
A. Lucas, J.R. Yaron, S. Ambadapadi, L. Zhang
Personalized Diagnostics, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
 
 

DOWNREGULATION OF ENDOTHELIAL BETA-2 SPECTRIN BY INCREASED PLAQUE STIFFNESS INDUCES A LEAKY VESSEL PHENOTYPE IN ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE MICROVASCULATURE (Invited Lecture)
E.A. Biessen
University, Maastricht, Netherlands

 
  WHAT IF WE HAD A GOOGLE MAP OF THE HUMAN VASCULATURE (Invited Lecture)
Z.S. Galis
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
 
 

CARDIOVASCULAR AGING AND BIOLOGICAL PATHS TO RESILIENCE (Invited Lecture)
S. Cheng
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

 
  DISTINCT ROLES OF CALCIUM & CYCLIC AMP IN ANGIOTENSIN II-INDUCED EXPRESSION OF EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR-1 (EGR-1) IN VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS (Invited Lecture)
A.K. Srivastava
CRCHUM, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
 
  TURNING TRASH TO TREASURE: TARGETING NON-CODING RNAS TO CONTROL ATHEROSCLEROSIS (Invited Lecture)
M.W. Feinberg
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
 
 

THE HYDROGEL-ENCAPSULATED T0901317 REDUCES ATHEROSCLEROSIS WITHOUT EFFECT ON LIPOGENESIS IN APOE DEFICIENT MICE (Invited Lecture)
C. Ma, K. Feng, X. Yang, Y. Chen, Q. Li, Z. Yang, Y. Duan, J. Han
Nankai University, Tianjin, China

 
 

LYSOSOMAL CYSTEINE PROTEASES AND DISTURBANCES OF THEIR REGULATION IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS (Invited Lecture)
T.A. Korolenko, T.P. Johnston, A.B. Shintyapina
Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia

 
  COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION  
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2018
14:00 - 17:00   HALL C
  S26 Session:
CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS AND SUDDEN DEATH: FROM BASIC MECHANISMS TO STATE-OF-THE-ART MANAGEMENT


 
  PACEMAKER/ICD IN THE MRI ENVIRONMENT; BEYOND THE MAGNASAFE TRIAL (Invited Lecture)
R.W. Biederman, L. Gevenosky, H. Samar, R.B. Williams, R. Lombardi, M. Shah, C. Bonnet, M. Doyle
Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
 
  THERAPEUTIC HYPOTHERMIA IN CARDIAC ARREST SURVIVORS WITH PRE-EXISTING CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IS NEPHROPROTECTIVE
A. Dutta, K. Hari, H.R. Jogu, U. Nasir, A. Pal, W. Qureshi
Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston Salem, NC, USA
 
  INFLUENCE OF ANTICOAGULATION ON STROKE AND MORTALITY RATES IN A SUBSET OF PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: REAL WORLD OUTCOMES FROM REVIEW OF A LARGE ELECTRONIC DATABASE
E.A. Bucklew, R. Bazaz, S. Koscumb, O. Marroquin, S. Saba, S. Jain, E. Adelstein
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
 
  ANALYSIS OF REMOTE MAGNETIC CATHETER NAVIGATION SYSTEMS USE FOR ABLATION PROCEDURES OVER TIME
E. Aziz, O. Reynbakh, I. Khan, S. Sadiq, N. Souvaliotis, J. Aziz, A. Malinay, P. Boktor, D. Mehta
Mount Sinai St Luke's and Mount Sinai West Hospitals, New York, NY, USA
 
  TEMPERATURE INTOLERANCE AS A COMMON SYMPTOM IN POSTURAL ORTHOSTATIC TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME
H. Ahmad, W. Almardini, M.A. Nasri, S.B. Alam, H. Mistry, N. Joy, K. Munez, S. Alam, A. Suleman
Cardiology, The Heartbeat Clinic, McKinney, TX, USA
 
  PREVALENCE OF PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA (PSVT) IN THE UNITED STATES IN PATIENTS UNDER 65 YEARS OF AGE
N.C. Sacks, P.L. Cyr, S. Bariahtaris, A. Sharma, S.G. Green, P. Douville,
J.N. Ruskin
Precision Xtract, Boston, MA, USA
 
  BOTH BYSTANDER'S OWN AND DISPATCHER-ASSISTED RESUSCITATION EFFORTS ARE DEPRESSED DURING NIGHTTIME IN OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARRESTS WITNESSED BY NON-FAMILY BYSTANDERS
H. Inaba, A. Yamashita, Y. Wato, T. Maeda
Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan
 
  OUTCOMES OF CATHETER ABLATION OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETES MELLITUS
M. Bengaluru Jayanna, A.M. Mohsen, G. Palamaner Subash Shantha,
C.J. Dezorzi, M.C. Giudici
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA
 
  THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PLASMA BIG ENDOTHELIN-1 LEVELS AT ADMISSION AND LONG-TERM OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
S. Wu, Y.M. Yang
National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Fuwai Hospital, Beijing, China
 
  A BENEFIT OF IMPELLA DEVICE IN ABLATION OF SCAR RELATED VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA
N.L. Ko Ko, U. Batnyam, U.R. Siddiqui
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
 
 

NON-SUSTAINED AND INDUCIBLE SUSTAINED VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA IN PACEMAKER PATIENTS
Y. Hanna, M. Arulthasan, W.-C. Sheu, D.A. Bloomfield
Richmond University Medical Center, Staten Island, NY, USA

 
 

PURKINJE-FIBER MEDIATED VENTRICULAR ECTOPY INDUCED VF STORM FOLLOWING ANTERIOR WALL MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
E. Pagan, A. Alam, A. Aboyme, G. Siroky, W. Kostis, J. Coromilas, J. Kassotis,
A. Saluja
Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

 
  COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION  
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2018
16:45-19:30   HALL A
 

S27 Session:
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE PREVENTION AND RISK MANAGEMENT

 
  ASSOCIATION BETWEEN 2017 HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINE NEWLY-DEFINED HYPERTENSION AND CHANGE IN BLOOD PRESSURE ON CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AMONG YOUNG ADULTS
J. Son, S. Choi, K. Kim, S. Kim, G. Lee, S.-M. Jeong, S. Park, Y.-Y. Kim, J.-M. Yun, S. Park
Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
 
  PREFERABLE EFFECTS OF AMLODIPINE/DIURETICS TO AMLODIPINE/TELMISARTAN ON VISIT-TO-VISIT VARIABILITY OF BLOOD PRESSURE IN HIGH-RISK HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS
P.P. Lu, P. Fan, L.Y. Ma, A.H. Hu, W. Wang, L.S. Liu, L.H. Ma, X.L. Zhou
Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Bei Jing, China
 
  MOODINESS AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN ADOLESCENCE PREDICTS OBESITY AND HYPERTENSION IN ADULTHOOD
K. Anand, S. Srinivas, S. Rajendran, A. Chockalingam
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
 
  PREDICTORS OF HIGH ON-ASPIRIN PLATELET REACTIVITY IN CHINESE ELDERLY PATIENTS
W. Ou, X. Chen, M. Liu, B. Huang, X. Feng, W. Liu, M. Liu
Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China
 
  PREVENT AND INTERCEPT AMI (ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFRACTION) RISK WITH AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENT SYSTEM
L. Ma, L. Tao, C.W. Ma, Y. Ge, M. Han, G. Li, L. Ma, Z. Wu, P. Yu, Y. Yang
Beijing Yiwan Technologies, Beijing, China
 
  ASSOCIATION BETWEEN AIR POLLUTION AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES DURING DUST STORMS IN TAIWAN
H.-R. Guo, S.-W. Yang
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
 
 

CARDIOVASCULAR SAFETY AND POTENTIAL BENEFIT OF 5-ALPHA REDUCTASE INHIBITOR USE AMONG MALES AND BPH PATIENTS, A KOREAN NATIONAL COHORT
J. Chang, S. Park
Seoul National University Graduate School, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 
 

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN HIV INFECTED PATIENTS - A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW AT A SINGLE CENTER IN MIAMI
G. Zablah, F. Pyarali, R. Iordanov, T. Haque, R. Parmar, C. Martinez
University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, USA

 
 

THE ROLE OF THE CARDIOLOGIST IN THE PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION OF THE BARIATRIC SURGERY PATIENT
L.A. Bucklew, E.A. Bucklew
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

 
 

ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SMOKELESS-TOBACCO USE AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE 2015 BRFSS DATA
P. Ndunda, D. Rakestraw
University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita, Wichita, KS, USA

 
 

IDEAL CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH STATUS AND RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE OR ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY IN A CHINESE MIDDLE AGED POPULATION
Y. Dong, G. Hao, Z. Wang, X. Wang, Z. Chen, L. Zhang
NCCD, Fuwai Hospial, Pecking Union Medical College, CAMS, Beijing, China

 
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2018
16:45 - 19:30   HALL B
  S28  Session:
HEART FAILURE: NOVEL RISK FACTORS, PREDICTORS, NEW TREATMENT OPTIONS AND OUTCOME
 
  BETA3-ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKADE BY APD418 ENHANCES CARDIAC POSITIVE INOTROPIC AND LOSITROPIC RESPONSES TO DOBUTAMINE IN HEART FAILURE ASSESSMENT BY PRESSURE-VOLUME ANALYSIS
X. Zhang, Z. Zhang, T. Li, H.-J. Cheng, D. Deal, J. Jordan, J. Adams, C. Cheng
Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
 
  NOVEL HEART FAILURE PROTOCOL DRAMATICALLY REDUCES HOSPITAL READMISSIONS FROM SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES
N.J. Trivedi, K. Duffy, J. Bander, A. Ali, R. Bhandari
Mount Sinai Hospital System, New York, NY, USA
 
  ELEVATED SERA SST2 PREDICTS HEART FAILURE IN MEN UNDER THE AGE OF 50 WITH CLINICAL SUSPECTED MYOCARDITIS
K.A. Bruno, M. Coronado, L. Blauwet, E. Douglass, E. Abston, J. Frisancho,
M. Greenaway, A. Hill, L. Cooper, Jr., D. Fairweather
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA
 
  A STUDY TO IDENTIFY THE PREDICTORS OF RE-ADMISSIONS IN PATIENTS WITH CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IN MINORITY POPULATION IN AN INNER-CITY HOSPITAL
S. Hanif, P. Kakarla, N. Bhalodkar, A. Zhang, G. Kamalakannan
Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center, Bronx, NY, USA
 
  ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE AND READMISSION RATE IN PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED WITH HEART FAILURE
R. Alreshq, H. Patel, S. Purga, S. Fein, E. Philbin, M. Torosoff, R. Lyubarova
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
 
  VASOACTIVE AGENT EXPOSURE PRIOR TO ACUTE MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT FOR CARDIOGENIC SHOCK IS ASSOCIATED WITH END ORGAN DYSFUNCTION AND MORTALITY
A. Razavi, K. Morine, M. Esposito, S. Annamalai, C. Davila, R. Pedicini, L. Jorde,
K. Gobeil, J. Hernandez-Montfort, N. Kapur
Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
 
 

PREVALENCE OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND EFFECT ON REHOSPITALIZATION IN PATIENT WITH ACUTE HEART FAILURE
J. Kewcharoen
, C. Techorueangwiwat, W. Laosanguanek, T. Tiensuntisook,
A. Ariyachaipanich
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

 
 

ASSESSING THE COMPONENTS OF THE NEWLY REPORTED ASA SCORE
A. Mukherjee, A. Alam, C. Maulion, E. Pagan, J. Xu, D. James, J. Cheng, D. Iyer,
K. Mody, J. Almendral
Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Rahway, NJ, USA

 
  VALIDATION OF THE ARABIC VERSION OF THE MINNESOTA LIVING WITH HEART FAILURE QUESTIONNAIRE
S. Noureddine, M. Zahwe, H. Isma'eel, H. Tamim, A. Al Hajje, S. Rachidi, H. Skouri
American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
 
 

CONTEMPORARY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW OF HEART FAILURE READMISSIONS AT AN ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER
M. Almnajam, M. Ghanim, G. Yesodharan, M. Afari, L. Tsao
St Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

 
 

PREDICTORS OF HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA AMONG PATIENTS WITH NON-ISCHEMIC HEART FAILURE AND PROGNOSTIC IMPLICATIONS
T.O. Mene-Afejuku, A. Akinlonu, P.D. Lopez, C. Dumancas, E.A. Symonds,
A. Alisasis, O. Alsalman, G. Pekler, S. Mushiyev, F. Visco
New York Medical College, Metropolitan, New York, NY, USA

 
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2018
16:45 - 19:30   HALL C
  S29  Session:
DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF AORTA AND PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES
 
  DO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE SYSTEMS PROPERLY ASSSESS THE RISK OF ACUTE AORTIC SYNDOME AND TRANSPORT THE PATIENTS TO THE RIGHT HOSPITALS? IMPACT OF EMS ASSESSMENT AND TRANSPORTATION IN OUTCOMES
H. Inaba, A. Yamashita, Y. Yoshita, Y. Wato
Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan
 
  THE PREVALENCE OF PERIPHERAL ATERIAL DISEASE: RESULTS FROM THE CHINA HYPERTENSION SURVEY, 2012-2015
Z. Wang, X. Wang, L. Zhang, Z. Chen, Y. Dong, C. Zheng, J. Wang
National Center of Cardiovascular Disease, FU WAI Hospital PUMC & CAMS, BEIJING, China
 
  PROFILES OF PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE INTERVENTIONS IN A NETWORK OF FREESTANDING OUTPATIENT CLINICS
D. Cross, K. Bemis, N. Marwah, J. Larkin, L. Usvyat, R. Lombardo, A. Odhav,
T. Das, B. Le, F. Maddux
National Cardiovascular Partners, Houston, TX, USA
 
  NOVEL MURINE DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS (DVT) MODEL ENABLES REAL-TIME IN VIVO IMAGING OF CLINICALLY RELEVANT DVT
M. Okano, T. Hara, Y. Irino, S. Kobayashi, M. Shinohara, R. Toh, T. Ishida,
K.-I. Hirata
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
 
  METABOLIC BIOMARKERS OF CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN CHINESE MIDDLE-AGED AND ELDERLY MEN
W. Liu, M. Liu, Y. Yang, Y. Liu
Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China
 
  HIGH PREVALENCE OF INTERNAL ELASTIC LAMINA CALCIFICATION IN AN ELDERLY POPULATION: A CADAVERIC STUDY
J.D. Davidov, D. Moussouros, H.J. Begmatov, S. Cheema, A. Sherwani, Z. Ghani, K. Damiris, B.L. Beatty, M.M. Plummer, O.V. Savinova
NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, NY, USA
 

 

Saturday, July 28, 2018

8:00 - 13:00 

 POSTER HALL

Board No.

 

Abstract No.

 

P401    Poster Session
NON-INVASIVE CARDIAC IMAGING, NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY AND ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

 
 

POINT-OF-CARE ULTRASOUND IN CARDIAC ARREST: A REVIEW OF THE ASSESSMENT OF CARDIAC MOTION IN THE SETTING OF CARDIAC ARREST
W. Ciozda, A. Kimchi, I. Kedan
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 
 

THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC EVALUATION OF BIVENTRICULAR FUNCTION IN ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS WITH HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION ACQUIRED IN EARLY LIFE
L. Capotosto, G. D'Ettorre, N. Cavallari, C. Ajassa, M. Ciardi, G. Placanica, V. Vullo, C. Gaudio, A. Vitarelli
Sapienza University, Cardiology and Infectious Diseases Depts, Rome, Italy

 
 

UTILIZATION OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN PULMONARY EMBOLISM: A GROUND REALITY
H. Lodhi
, M. Waqas, M. Khan, H. Shafiq, I. Achebe, A. Shafiq
Baptist Memorial Medical Group, Southaven, MS, USA

 
  THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE-TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF RIGHT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION IN OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA - EFFECTS OF CPAP THERAPY
L. Capotosto, E. Mangieri, M. Pergolini, M. Saponara, C. Gaudio,
A. Vitarelli
Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
 
  ECHOCONTRAST INDUCED ANGIOEDEMA
R. Samannan, M.A. Arif, U. Bhatti, E. Munzinger, S. Mathew
University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
 
 

VASODILATOR STRESS TESTING WITH NUCLEAR PERFUSION IMAGING: A POOR MODALITY FOR EVALUATION OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE IN PATIENTS WITH LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK
K. Gu, A. Kaneria, N. Parikh, P. Sharedalal, S. Cho
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 
 

AN UNEXPECTED ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC FINDING: RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY TO RIGHT ATRIAL FISTULA
J.R. Martinez-Parachini, M. Khattab, D. Gilada, I. Javed, L. Size, P. Lozano
University of Oklahoma HSC, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

 
 

A CASE OF SEVERE ASTHMA EXACERBATION COMPLICATED BY REVERSE TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY IN AN ADULT
S.A. Haidry, H.A. Cooper, W.S. Aronow
Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA

 
 

LOEYS DIETZ SYNDROME AS A RARE CAUSE OF CORONARY ANEURYSMS
O. Aqtash, Y. Jawaid, A. Amro, K. Mansoor, L. Dial
Marshall University, Huntington, WV, USA

 
 

 

 
 

P302    Poster Session
PRIMARY PREVENTION OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF RISK FACTORS, LIFESTYLE CHANGES

 
 

HEALTHY LIFESTYLE FACTORS AND RISK OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM IN THE PHYSICIANS' HEALTH STUDY
R. Singh, V. Bodar, J. Chen, L. Wang, H.D. Sesso, J.M. Gaziano,
L. Djoussé
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

 
 

TARGETED SCREENING OF THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN CANDIDATE GENES AND ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN A HIGH CARDIOVASCULAR RISK POPULATION
O. Coltell, E.M. Asensio, J.V. Sorlí, J.I. Gonzalez, J.B. Ramírez-Sabio,
D. Corella
Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain

 
 

COMPARISON BETWEEN STRICT CONTROL OF RISK FACTORS AND STANDARD CONTROL IN PREVENTION OF ARTERIOSCLEROSIS
T.J. Matsubara, E. Matsubara, J. Suzuki, T. Tomaru
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

 
 

IMPROVING THE CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH OF PRESCHOOLERS IN A CHILDCARE SETTING
R. Natale
University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

 
 

CAFFEINE INDUCED MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
A.C. Atanda, E. Mbey, F. Ogundipe, D. Ugwendum, S. Folaranmi,
V. Mallipeddi, J. Henry, B. Curry
Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA

 
 

 

 
 

P303   Poster Session
STABLE ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE

 
 

PREDICTORS OF IN-HOSPITAL MORTALITY AMONG SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOUS PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION RESULTS FROM A LARGE NATIONAL DATABASE
O. Ola, O. Olorunfemi, A. Akinlonu, T.O. Mene-Afejuku, R. Ojo, O. Akinboro
Mayo Clinic Health System, LaCrosse, WI, USA

 
 

COLON CANCER LATERALITY IS ASSOCIATED WITH ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
S.C. Wang, J. Schulman-Marcus, J. Fantauzzi, T. Bevington, A. Sayegh,
R. Alreshq, E. Lee, A. Ata, M. Sidhu, M. Kambam, R. Lyubarova
Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, USA

 
 

RISK FACTOR ANALYSIS FOR PATIENTS WITH SLOW CORONARY FLOW
M. Katsnelson, M. Bhalja, J. Diez
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

 
 

PREVALENCE OF CORONARY CALCIFICATION ON CT IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
B.P. Schwartz
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA

 
 

CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF microRNA SCORE IN DISCRIMINATING VASOSPASTIC ANGINA FROM ATHEROTHROMBOTIC ANGINA OR NON-CORONARY CHEST PAIN
H.-Y. Lee
Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 
 

ASIAN-INDIANS: A REVIEW OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE IN THIS UNDERSTUDIED COHORT IN THE UNITED STATES
A. Sharma, D.R. Ardeshna, T. Bob-Manuel, A. Nanda, U. Ashraf, J. Kelly, R.N. Khouzam
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

 
 

INTERVENTIONAL DECISION MAKING WITH FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE FOR CULPRIT LESIONS ASSOCIATED WITH LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING ARTERY MYOCARDIAL BRIDGE
H. Patel, S. Kumar, N.L. Ko Ko, J. John, P. Mathias
University of Central Florida College of Medicine/HCA GME Consortium, Kissimmee, FL, USA

 
 

SHOULD SARCOIDOSIS BE CONSIDERED A RISK FACTOR FOR DEVELOPMENT OF PREMATURE CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE: A CASE OF 40-YEAR OLD FEMALE WITH CORONARY DISEASE AND SARCOIDOSIS
M. Rodriguez Ziccardi, S. Basharat, O. Maludum
Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 
 

AN UNUSUAL CASE OF ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION WITH NORMAL CORONARY ARTERIES
S. Khare, E.S. Karreci, J. Aoun, L. Tsao
St. Elizabeth Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine, Brighton, MA, USA

 
 

 

 
 

P304    Poster Session
HEART DISEASE IN WOMEN

 
 

SPONTANEOUS CORONARY ARTERY DISSECTION, A FATAL DISEASE IN HIDING
A. Sarkar, S. Sennhauser, J. Lee, A. Llanos, M.J. Wood
University of Miami at Holy Cross Hospital, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

 
 

 

 
 

P305   Poster Session
HEART DISEASE IN THE ELDERLY

 
 

ABNORMAL COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE
C. Techorueangwiwat, A. Ariyachaipanich
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

 
 

EXAMINING VARIATIONS IN STROKE RISK FACTORS AND HOSPITAL COST BY AGE AND GENDER IN CALIFORNIA
B. Husaini
Tennessee state University, Nashville, TN, USA

 
 

PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF HYPERTENSION IN THE ELDERLY: RESULTS FROM CHINA HYPERTENSION SURVEY, 2012-2015
Z. Wang, S. Li, X. Wang, Z. Chen, L. Zhang, Y. Dong, C. Wang, J. Wang,
Y. Kang, R. Gao
National Center of Cardiovascular Disease, FU WAI Hospital PUMC & CAMS, Beijing, China

 
 

 

 
 

P306   Poster Session
MISCELLANEOUS

 
 

LOW RISK PULMONARY EMBOLISM PATIENTS CAN BE DISCHARGED FROM EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT: A META-ANALYSIS
A.H. Malik
Westchester Medical Center, Harriman, NY, USA

 
 

GENERATING BIG DATA OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS THROUGH GEOTAGGED TWITTER MINING
J. Lee, J. Sung
Jackson State University, Madison, MS, USA

 
 

ACUTE PANCREATITIS MIMICKING ST-SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN A PATIENT WITH SYNCOPE
A. Agrawal, J. Penalver, N. Sayyida, M. Rodriguez
Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 
 

TRANSIENT PULSUS ALTERNANS IN A MINIATURE PINSCHER WITH PULMONIC STENOSIS
W.A. Ware, S. Murphy, A. Cheney
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA

 
 

 

 

 

Saturday, July 28, 2018

13:30 - 18:30 

 POSTER HALL

Board No.

 

Abstract No.

 

P401    Poster Session
ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: CAUSES, SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT

 
 

THE LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE FRACTAL DIMENSION IN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
R.A. Kabadi, V. Singh, M. Keroles, V. Rajendran, D. Frisch, B. Pavri, B. Sundaram, S. Guo, J. Jacobson, T. Nag
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 
 

AGREEMENT BETWEEN A MEDTRONIC PACEMAKER AND LINQ IN REPORTING PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
J. Kneller
Astria Heart Institute, Yakima, WA, USA

 
 

PULMONARY VEIN STENOSIS AFTER RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
G. Li, J. Sun, D. Han, J. Wu, C. Sun, L. Xu
The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

 
  THE BLED THAT BLED, A HITHERTO UNREPORTED CASE OF HEMOTHORAX OCCURRING AS A COMPLICATION OF ELECTRODE CATHETER ABLATION TO TREAT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
H.E. Matos Santana, S. Winters, D. Markley, C. Fabrizio
Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ, USA
 
 

 

 
 

P402    Poster Session
SUDDEN DEATH, ARRHYTHMIAS AND DEVICE THERAPY

 
  PREDICTION OF “SUPER-RESPONSE” TO CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY BY SURFACE ECG FINDINGS IN PATIENTS WITH LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK - A PILOT STUDY
N. Kocovic, J. Newland, A. Carleen, M. DeCaro, B. Pavri
Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, USA
 
 

A REVIEW OF SUDDEN UNEXPLAINED NOCTURNAL DEATH SYNDROME (SUNDS) AND THE ROLE OF EXTERNAL STRESS IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN POPULATIONS
K. Lo
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 
 

PHYSICIAN PERCEPTION SURVEY REGARDING ABBOTT (FORMERLY ST. JUDE) CYBERSECURITY VULNERABILITIES AND FIRMWARE UPGRADE FOR PACEMAKERS
T. Dar, B. Yarlagadda, L.D. Berenbom, M. Emert, D. Atkins, M. Reddy,
R. Dendi, R.C. Pimentel, D. Lakkireddy, S.H. Sheldon
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA

 
 

RUNNING TO A STANDSTILL: CARDIAC ARREST IN A HEALTHY MARATHON RUNNER WITH A MYOCARDIAL BRIDGE
A. Cubberley, C. Ngongang, S. Banka
Drexel University College of Medicine/Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 
 

A HIDDEN CASE OF HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY RELATED SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST UNDER THE GUISE OF ACUTE ST ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN AN ELDERLY MALE
M. Anderson, M. Rodriguez Ziccardi
Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 
 

WEARABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR “THE LIFEVEST”: DEVICE DESIGN, LIMITATIONS, AND AREAS OF IMPROVEMENT
V. Chinta, M. Agarwal, N. Khouzam, A. Nanda, U. Ashraf, J. Kelly,
I. Pour-Ghaz, A. Sharma R. Khouzam
Arkansas Methodist Medical Center, Jonesboro, AR, USA

 
 

A RARE CASE OF PACEMAKER-DEFIBRILLATOR DEVICE INFECTION CAUSED BY ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS
S.A. Raza, R. Collazo-Maldonado, L. Hunter
Methodist Health System- Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA

 
 

TWIDDLER'S SYNDROME IN A PATIENT WITH TARDIVE DYSKINESIA
S. Shrestha, A.C. Shah, M. Polomsky, S.L. Winters
Morristown Medical Center, New Jersey, NJ, USA

 
 

 

 
 

P403   Poster Session
ARRHYTHMIAS AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

 
 

CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT WITHOUT LVH BY VOLTAGE CRITERIA
R. Zhang, K. Keller, S. Jou, A. Nappi, M. El-Hajjar, A. Delago, M. Torosoff
Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, USA

 
 

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC ABNORMALITIES IN SICKLE CELL PATIENTS IN A MAJOR METROPOLITAN CENTER
S.M. Chiadika, A.J. Serauto-Canache, M. Kwak, W. Yang, K.C. Pabba,
M. Idowu
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA

 
 

PREVALENCE AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY BY VOLTAGE CRITERIA IN TAVR RECIPIENTS
R. Zhang, K. Keller, S. Jou, A. Delago, M. El-Hajjar, A. Nappi, M. Torosoff
Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, USA

 
 

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC PREDICTORS OF ARRHYTHMIA AFTER TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT
J.L. Penalver, A. Agrawal, P. Ram, M. Rodriguez Ziccardi, D. Brito, F. Aguilar, M. Pitteloud, A. Mora, V. Figueredo
Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 
 

INTRAVENOUS SALINE PROVIDES SYMPTOMATIC RELIEF FOR PATIENTS WITH POSTURAL ORTHOSTATIC TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME (POTS)
W. Almardini, M.A. Nasri, H. Mistry, S.B. Alam, N. Joy, K. Munez, S. Alam, A. Suleman
The Heartbeat Clinic, McKinney, TX, USA

 
 

HYPOTHYROIDISM IN POSTURAL ORTHOSTATIC TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME (POTS) PATIENTS
W. Chaudhary, M.A. Nasri, W. Almardini, N. Chaudhary, S. Alam,
S.B. Alam, H. Mistry, K. Munez, N. Joy, A. Suleman
The Heartbeat Clinic, McKinney, TX, USA

 
 

FEVER-INDUCED BRUGADA PATTERN IN A HISPANIC PATIENT
J.M. Stempel, A. Tiu, N. Candelario, A. Mora, D. Brito
Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 
 

SLOW VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA
M.A. Arif, R. Samannan, U. Bhatti, C.H. May
University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

 
 

CALMING THE STORM - A CHALLENGING PRESENTATION OF A PATIENT WITH ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR CARDIOMYOPATHY AND RECURRENT VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA
N.K.O. Onuorah, A. Ekiz, J. Pollock
Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA

 
 

FASCICULAR VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA IN A 28-YEAR-OLD MALE WITH FUNGAL INFECTION
J.L. Penalver, M. Zabad, E. Franco, F. Aguilar, S. Basharat, A. Mora,
S. Mainigi, B. Cepeda
Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 
 

BRUGADA PHENOCOPY, NOT A COPY OF BRUGADA SYNDROME
M. Patel, A. Patel, A. Goud, A. Mukherjee, I. Alesh, R. Pai, P. Sethi
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

 
 

REFRACTORY ELECTRICAL STORM IN CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY: IS HEART TRANSPLANT THE LAST OPTION?
I.C. Pinheiro, J.R.F. Rocha, M.C. Caires, P.B. Villela, L.R. Siqueira,
A.T. Alencar, P.A. Sampaio, A.S. Sousa, R.M. Ferreira
Edson Saad Heart Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 
 

LEV’S DISEASE IN A YOUNG ADULT WITH BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE
S. Vallabhaneni, R. Aurshiya, S.J. Meera, S. Pakniyat, D. Traub, J. Shirani
St.Luke's University Health network, Bethlehem, PA, USA

 
 

 

 
 

P404    Poster Session
PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION

 
 

LONG TERM COMPARISON OF PLATINUM CHROMIUM-BASED EVEROLIMUS-ELUTING STENT VERSUS COBALT CHROMIUM-BASED ZOTAROLIMUS-ELUTING STENT: 3-YEAR OUTCOMES FROM THE HOST-ASSURE RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL
K. Park, C. Kim, J. Kang, H.-S. Kim
Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 
 

RADIAL VS FEMORAL ACCESS IN PATIENTS WITH HISTORY OF CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING (CABG) WHO ARE UNDERGOING DIAGNOSTIC CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY VS PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION (PCI): META-ANALYSIS
A. Amro, M. Kanbour, H. Hirzallah, O. Aqtash, A. El-Hamdani, Y. Numan,
Y. Abdelazeez, K. Mansour, M. El-Hamdani
Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington, WV, USA

 
 

SIMPLIFIED TECHNIQUE FOR CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY IN PATIENTS WITH DEXTROCARDIA WITH SITUS INVERSUS
J. Crisafi, A. Agarwal
Kettering Medical Center/Dayton VA Medical Center, Dayton, OH, USA

 
 

SAME DAY DISCHARGE PCI: HIGH CLINICAL RISK PATIENTS
J. Telayna, Jr., E. Martino, R. Costantini, J. Telayna, Sr.
Hospital Universitario Austral, Pilar - Buenos Aires, Argentina

 
 

SAME DAY DISCHARGE PCI: HIGH ANGIOGRAPHIC RISK
J. Telayna, Jr., R. Costantini, Sr., E. Martino, Sr., J. Telayna, Sr.
Hospital Universitario Austral, Pilar - Buenos Aires, Argentina

 
 

IMPELLA VERSUS INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON PUMP IN CARDIOGENIC SHOCK POST PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION
N. Shah
Internal Medicine, St Mary Mercy Hospital, Livonia, MI, USA

 
 

ROTATIONAL ATHERECTOMY OF A COMPLEX CALCIFIC VENOUS BYPASS GRAFT
I. Baig, S. Ahmed, C. Patel, S. Green
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, USA

 
 

POSSIBLE ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND HYPOTENSION: THE UTILITY OF ECHOGRAM
A. Sayed, W. Aronow, R. Timmermans
Westchester medical center, Valhalla, NY, USA

 
 

 

 
 

P405   Poster Session
ANTITHROMBOTIC AND ANTIPLATELET THERAPY

 
 

PRASUGREL STILL NEEDS MORE ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!!
A. Amro, O. Aqtash, H. Hirzallah, Y. Numan, R. Sayyed
Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine., Huntington, WV, USA

 
 

USE OF NEW THIENOPYRIDINES IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE TREATED WITH PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTIONS IN ARGENTINA. RESULTS FROM A “REAL WORLD” MULTICENTER REGISTRY
A.M. Rodriguez-Granillo, C. Haiek, M. Larribau, C. Fernandez-Pereira,
J. Mieres, R. Sarmiento, A. Pocoví, W. Pan, Z. Ming, A.E. Rodriguez
Centro de Estudios en Cardiologia Intervencionista (CECI), Buenos Aires, Argentina

 
 

RECURRENT PULMONARY EMBOLISM DESPITE BEING ON RIVAROXABAN
M. Ghanim, S. Hegde, A. Vaziri
Saint Elizabeth Medical Center, Brighton, MA, USA

 
 

HOW SAFE ARE NEWER ANTICOAGULANTS AND THEIR REVERSAL ANTIDOTES: A CASE REPORT ON RISK-BENEFIT DILEMMA
N. Shah
St Mary Mercy Hospital, Livonia, MI, USA

 
 

 

 

 

Sunday, July 29, 2018

08:30-11:00   HALL A
 

PL13    Plenary Session:
CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE: FROM BASIC MECHANISMS TO NOVEL OPPORTUNITIES FOR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
 

 
  THE ASSOCIATION OF CONCOMITANT SERUM POTASSIUM AND GLUCOSE LEVELS AND IN-HOSPITAL MORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (Invited Lecture)
Y. Plakht, A. Shiyovich, H. Gilutz
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
 
  SPONTANEOUS CORONARY ARTERY DISSECTION: FURTHER INSIGHTS UTILISING BIG DATA (Invited Lecture)
R. Potluri
ACALM, Birmingham, UK
 
  DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME AND ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: DOES A GENDER- ORIENTED DIFFERENCE EXIST? (Invited Lecture)
R. Manfredini, F. Fabbian, B. Zucchi, R. Cappadona
Center for Studies on Gender Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
 
  INDIVIDUALIZATION OF OPTIMAL TREATMENT FOR STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS: AN ONGOING CHALLENGE (Invited Lecture)
U. Thadani
University of Oklahoma HSC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and VA Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
 
  ENHANCING INFLAMMATION RESOLUTION IN ACUTE CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE: THE NEXT FRONTIERS FOR THERAPY? (Invited Lecture)
J.G. Filep
University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
 
  INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND (IVUS): CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS (Invited Lecture)
M. Terashima
Toyohashi Heart Center, Toyohashi, Japan
 
  PLACEBO: POWER OF NON-SPECIFIC TREATMENT EFFECTS (Invited Lecture)
G. Barsness
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
 
 

EMS GUIDED PRIMARY PCI MADE A DRAMATIC IMPACT ON POSITIVE STEMI CARE (Invited Lecture)
H. Reddy, R.C. Komatireddy, R. Sharma
University of Arkansas Medical School, Little Rock, AR, and St. Louis University Medical School, St. Louis, MO, USA

 
  ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN ANCIENT MUMMIES (Invited Lecture)
M. Madjid
McGovern School of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
 
 

THE NOVEL SMALL LEUCINE RICH-REPEAT PROTEIN PODOCAN IS A SELECTIVE SYSTEMIC AND LOCAL REGULATOR OF SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL FUNCTION VIA THE CANONICAL WNT-PATHWAY: LESSONS LEARNED IN MICE AND MEN (Invited Lecture)
R. Hutter
Bassett Medical Center, Cooperstown, NY, USA

 
  COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2018
08:30-10:45   HALL B

 

PL14   Plenary Session:
STEPS FORWARD IN UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGEMENT OF CARDIOMYOPATHY AND HEART FAILURE: BASIC AND CLINICAL

 

  THROMBOLYTICS VERSUS PUMP EXCHANGE IN VAD MANAGEMENT: SHOULD WE USE A TAILORED APPROACH? (Invited Lecture)
N. Nair
Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA
 
  DO NEW STUDIES/DEVICES TIP THE BALANCE TO EARLIER LVAD IMPLANTATION AS DESTINATION THERAPY? (Invited Lecture)
M.R. Johnson
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
 
  GENETICS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY (Invited Lecture)
L. Mestroni
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
 
  TARGETING CaMKII IN HEART FAILURE (Invited Lecture)
Y. Wang, J. Cheng
Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
 
  HOME HOSPITALIZATION FOR ACUTE DECOMPENSATED HEART FAILURE: OPPORTUNITIES AND STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVED HEALTH OUTCOMES (Invited Lecture)
M. Silver
University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
 
 

MECHANISMS OF DCM DUE TO CELL CYCLE STRESS (Invited Lecture)
B.S. Tuana
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

 
  SILENCING OF THE CARDIAC 18-kDa TRANSLOCATOR PROTEIN PREVENTS HEART FAILURE DUE TO PRESSURE OVERLOAD (Invited Lecture)
S. Schaefer, E.N. Dedkova, P.N. Thai
University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
 
  THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF SLOW CONTINUOUS ULTRAFILTRATION FOR MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE HEART FAILURE - AN UPDATE FOR 2018 (Invited Lecture)
A. Kazory
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
 
 

IMPACT OF EXERCISE TRAINING ON DIASTOLIC FUNCTION IN HFPEF: GATHERING EVIDENCE FROM CLINICAL AND PRE-CLINICAL STUDIES (Invited Lecture)
D. Moreira-Goncalves
University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

 
  COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2018
08:30 - 10:45   HALL C
  S30   Session:  
NEW CONCEPTS IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND TREATMENT OUTCOMES
 
  HEALTHCARE RESOURCE USE AND EXPENDITURES IN PATIENTS UNDER 65 YEARS OF AGE AND NEWLY DIAGNOSED WITH PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA (PSVT) IN THE UNITED STATES
N.C. Sacks, S. Bariahtaris, A. Sharma, K. Everson, P.L. Cyr, P. Douville, J.N. Ruskin
Precision Xtract, Boston, MA, USA
 
  PREDICTORS OF HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE AFTER FIELD-TRIAGE TO PRIMARY PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION FOR NON-COMPLICATED ST-ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: AN AGE COMPARISON STUDY
S.Y. Soo Hoo
Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. Australia
 
  ACUTE AND CHRONIC ELEVATION OF CARDIAC TROPONIN PREDICT THE SEVERITY OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE IN PATIENTS WITH END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE
M.B. Taha, M. Alom, Y. Abdelgadir, O. Hadid, A. Sharma, V. Yelamanchili, R. Naik, N. Haidar, S. Hussain, C. Arsene
Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA
 
  LESS IS MORE - RESTRICTIVE TRANSFUSION STRATEGY IN CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE PATIENTS RESULTS IN SHORTER LENGTH OF STAY
G.A. Medranda, P.J. Sapia, K. Brahmbhatt, C.A. Garcia, C. Healey, M. Fazzari,
S. Green
NYU Winthrop Hospital, Mineola, NY, USA
 
  VALIDATION AND COMPARISON OF RESTING GRADIENT TO FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE FOR ASSESSMENT OF CORONARY ARTERY STENOSIS
J. Aoun, S. Lahsaei, C. Zahm, T. Bhat, J.P. Carrozza
Saint Elizabeth's Medical Center, Brighton, MA, USA
 
  DEATH REPORTS AMONGST NOACS AND WARFARIN USERS. A STRATIFIED ANALYSIS OF FAERS DATA
F.F. Richy
Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
 
 

PREDICTORS OF OUTCOME IN PATIENTS TRANSFERRED DIRECTLY TO THE CARDIAC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT VIA INTER-HOSPITAL TRANSFER
B. Ternus, J. Jentzer, S. Kopecky, G. Barsness
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

 
  POSTOPERATIVE TROPONIN ELEVATIONS PORTEND A HIGH MORTALITY RISK EVEN IN LOW-RISK PATIENTS
E. Pivato, S. Vasireddi, L. James, M. Kondapaneni
MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
 
 

LONG-TERM PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY IN MEDICALLY TREATED PATIENTS
R.M. Ferreira, M.C. Caires, L. Franco, P.B. Villela, J.C.G. Almeida, L.A. Salis,
N.A. de Souza e Silva
Edson Saad Heart Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 
  COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS AND EXHIBITION  
SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2018
11:15-14:00   HALL A

 

S31   Session:  
ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME: DETECTION, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT

 

  FALSE CATHETERIZATION ALERTS: ECG CLUES AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
A. Agrawal, M. Lu, N. Kanjanahattakij, H. Jeon, A. Romero-Corral, V. Figueredo, G. Pressman
Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
 
  EFFECT OF TIME OF DAY ON OUTCOMES OF PCI FOR STEMI
A. Karnik, J. Lee, E. Choi, J. Aguilar, S. Li, V. Kumar, S. Conley, N.W. Niles, II,
B.W. Andrus, J.T. DeVries
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA
 
  PREDICTIVE VARIABLES OF LONG TERM OUTCOME IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING COMPLEX PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTIONS. THE ERACI RISK SCORE
A.M. Rodriguez-Granillo, H. Pavlovsky, C. Fernandez-Pereira, J. Mieres, M.L. Sisu, O. Santaera, Z. Ming, W. Pan, A.E. Rodriguez
Sanatorio Otamendi, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
  ASSOCIATION BETWEEN E-CIGARETTE USE AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
P. Ndunda, T. Muutu
University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita, KS, USA
 
  IMPACT OF FAMILY HISTORY OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE ON IN-HOSPITAL CLINICAL OUTCOMES IN ST-SEGMENT MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
U. Ashraf, A. Sharma, A. Nanda, J. Kelly, V. Chinta, I. Pour-Ghaz, R. Khouzam
University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA
 
  MARIJUANA (CANNABIS) USE IS AN INDEPENDENT PREDICTOR OF ADVERSE OUTCOMES IN PRINZMETAL’S ANGINA
A. Singh, R. Aurshiya, S. Pakniyat, J. Shirani
St. Luke's University Health network, Bethlehem, PA, USA
 
 

ANTIPLATELET DRUG RESISTANCE IN ASIAN POPULATION
S.A.P. Sadath, G. Vijayaraghavan
Nizar Cardiac Centre, Malappuram, India

 
  MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA IN TRUE (IIA SUBTYPE) ISOLATED SINGLE CORONARY ARTERY
A. Sinha, R. Kumar, J. Shirani
St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, PA, USA
 
 

MYOCARDIAL BRIDGES DIAGNOSTICS
O. Gogayeva, V. Lazoryshynets, L. Dzakhoieva, S. Rudenko, S. Salo
National Amosov Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery NAMS of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

 
 

INTERNUCLEAR OPHTHALMOPLEGIA, A RARE NEURO OPHTHALMOLOGIC COMPLICATION OF CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION
S. Kumar, H. Patel, A. Rajasekaran, J. Morales Lappot, T. Lee, S. Hussain
University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, FL, USA

 
 

THERE IS NO SIGNIFICANT ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ADMISSION GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE AND LOCATION OR SEVERITY OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
T. Oliver, P. Sethi, A. Jbeli, M. Omar, P. Thompson, J. Devasahayam, U. Krishnan
USD Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, SD, USA

 
SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2018
11:15-13:30   HALL B

 

S32  Session:
CARDIOMYOPATHY, HEART FAILURE AND PULMONARY HYPERTENSION: NOVEL APPROACHES FOR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
 
 

A NOVEL SELECTIVE HUMAN BETA3-ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST OF APD418 IMPROVED LEFT VENTRICULAR AND CARDIOMYOCYTE FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE IN CONSCIOUS, CHRONICALLY-INSTRUMENTED DOGS WITH PACING-INDUCED HEART FAILURE
H.-J. Cheng, X. Zhang, T. Li, Z. Zhang, D. Deal, J. Jordan, J. Adams, C. Cheng
Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

 
  PVC INDUCED CARDIOMYOPATHY: RISK ASSESSMENT
C. Sineri, W. Sheu, T. Ejigu, H. Kalinga, D. Bloomfield
Richmond University Medical Center, Staten Island, NY, USA
 
  ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC PREDICTORS OF NEW ONSET TACHYARRHYTHMIA INDUCED CARDIOMYOPATHY
N. Thinda, B. Khatri, C. Katikireddy
VA CCHS / UCSF Fresno, Fresno, CA, USA
 
  GENOME EDITING THERAPY FOR DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY-ASSOCIATED CARDIOMYOPATHY
L. Xu, Y. Lau, Y. Gao, J. Ma, R. Han
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
 
  STRESS CARDIOMYOPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH COCAINE USE
A. Singh, R. Aurshiya, S. Pakniyat, J. Shirani
St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, PA, USA
 
  COST EFFECTIVENESS OF SIMPSON’S BIPLANE METHOD & EARLY PREDICTORS OF LEFT VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION IN BREAST CANCER PATIENTS TREATED WITH TRASTUZUMAB
K. Bhamidipati, A. Ali, B. Skaria, K. Mahmood, G. Pulikal
Heart of England NHS Trust, Solihull, UK
 
 

UNDERRATED AND DIAGNOSED: CHRONIC THROMBOEMBOLIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION (CTEPH)
A. Shah, S. Shrestha, C. Cabral
Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ, USA

 
 

OBESITY PARADOX IN RECREATIONAL DRUG USERS: ARE HEART FAILURE OUTCOMES AFFECTED?
A. Akinlonu, T.O. Mene-Afejuku, P.D. Lopez, C. Dumancas, O. Ola, E.M. Ngo,
A. Savadkar, F. Visco, S. Mushiyev, G. Pekler
New York Medical College, Metropolitan Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA

 
 

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PULMONARY HYPERTENSION AND OUTCOMES AMONG PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE WITH REDUCED EJECTION FRACTION
T.O. Mene-Afejuku, C. Dumancas, A. Akinlonu, P.D. Lopez, H.A. Reyes,
E.H. Cativo, G. Pekler, F. Visco, S. Mushiyev
New York Medical College, Metropolitan, New York, NY, USA

 
SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2018
11:15 - 13:15   HALL C
  S33  Session:
VALVULAR AND STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE: MECHANISMS AND TREATMENT OPTIONS
 
  ACQUIRED AORTIC ATRESIA CATHETER THERAPY USING COVERED STENTS
S.S. Mohsin, T. Momenah, K. Al Khalaf, A. Alsahari
Prince Sultan Cardiac Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 
  ORIFICE ECCENTRICITY ACCENTUATES FLOW DISTURBANCE DUE TO SEVERE MITRAL ANNULAR CALCIFICATION
E.J. Friend, B. El-Sayegh, G.S. Pressman, G. Di Labbio, E. Obasare, L. Kadem
Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA, USA
 
  RHYTHM DISTURBANCES AFTER TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT: A STRATEGY OF SURVEILLANCE
S. Lilly, M. Skaf, N. Makki, N. Matre, K. Boudoulas, G. Rushing
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
 
  STROKE AS PRESENTING SIGN OF CONGENITALLY UNICUSPID AORTIC VALVE
S. Vallabhaneni, R. Aurshiya, S. Meera, S. Pakniyat, J. Shirani
St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, PA, USA
 
  A REVIEW OF RACIAL DISPARITIES IN TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT (TAVR)
A. Sharma, T. Bob-Manuel, A. Nanda, U. Ashraf, J. Kelly, I. Pour-Ghaz, R.N. Khouzam
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
 
  NEW ONSET CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE FOLLOWING NEW LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK AFTER TRANS-CATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT: A CASE REPORT
M. Katayama, D. Fortuin, J. Sweeney, M. Belohlavek, H. Chaliki
Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
 
  AN EXAMINATION OF ACCESS SITE COMPLICATIONS IN TRANSCUTANEOUS AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT: RISK FACTORS, POTENTIAL PREVENTION, AND TREATMENT
J. Kelly, A. Nanda, I. Pour-Ghaz, U. Ashraf, A. Sharma, A. Sharma, V. Chinta, R.N. Khouzam
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
 
 

MY WORST COMPLICATION JUST HAPPENED
I. Baig, S. Ahmed, C. Good, A. Alsaid, S. Agarwal
University, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, USA

 

 

Sunday, July 29, 2018

08:00 - 13:00 

 POSTER HALL

Board No.

 

Abstract No.

 

P501    Poster Session
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY, VASCULAR BIOLOGY, BASIC RESEARCH

 
 

PHARMACOLOGICAL RESCUE OF MITOCHONDRIAIN HEART FAILURE
J. Han
Inje University, Busan, Republic of Korea

 
 

THE PROTECTIVE ROLE OF PRX1 IN THE ATHEROSCLEROSIS BY REGULATING MACROPHAGE LIPOPHAGIC FLUX
S.-J. Jeong, G. Oh
Cardiovascular Division, St. Louis, MO, USA

 
 

LIPID LYSOPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE-INDUCED Ca2+ INFLUX WAS MUCH MORE SUBSTANTIAL AND UNLIKELY STORE-OPERATED Ca2+ ENTRY (SOCE) IN CYTOTOXICITY OF MOUSE CEREBRAL MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS
K.-L. Wong, C.-W. Cheung, B.-M. Huang, Y.-M. Leung
China Medical University and Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

 
 

THE INCREASE OF CELLULAR ANTIOXIDANT ENZYMES ACTIVITY BY METABOLIC DRUG ELTACIN IN THERAPY OF ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE
E. Kalinina, R. Zaslavskaya, Y. Nartsissov
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russian Federation

 
 

EXPRESSION OF Flk-1 AND CYCLIN D2 mRNA IN MYOCARDIUM WITH DOXORUBICIN-INDUCED CARDIOMYOPATHY
M.G. Klinnikova, E.V. Koldysheva, T.A. Korolenko, E.L. Lushnikova
Institute of Molecular Pathology and Pathomorphology, Inst. Physiol. Fund. Med., Novosibirsk, Russia

 
 

miRNA-449 PROMOTE DIABETIC CARDIAC FIBROSIS BY THE SMAD3 PATHWAY
H. Liu
Qinghai University Medical College, Xining, China

 
 

 

 
 

P502    Poster Session
IMMUNE AND INFLAMMATORY MECHANISMS IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS

 
 

T REGULATORY CELLS EXERT AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN ATTENUATING β-ADRENERGIC ACTIVATION INDUCED CARDIAC INFLAMMATION, FIBROSIS AND HYPERTROPHY THROUGH MODULATING MACROPHAGE INFILTRATION
X. Liu, Y. Chen
Shanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Taiyuan, China, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

 
  RARE ONSET OF ACUTE RHEUMATIC CARDITIS POST TREATMENT OF STREPTOCOCCAL PHARYNGITIS
T. Nag, S. Pal, M. Karim, J. Harburger
Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA
 
 

 

 
 

P503    Poster Session
CARDIAC PROTECTION AND REGENERATION, BASIC RESEARCH

 
  THE EFFECT OF ENDOGENOUS CARBON MONOXIDE ON MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA REPERFUSION INJURY
Y. Liu, Z. Zhou, Y. Zhang, C. Cao, Q. Ji, W. Zhang
Medical College of Qinghai University, Xining, China
 
 

PULSED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD STIMULATION AS A POTENTIAL CARDIOPROTECTIVE INTERVENTION
K. Purnamawati, J. Yap, S. Ng, P. Li, A. Rufaihah, A. Franco-Obregon
National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

 
 

EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT β-ADRENERGIC RECEPTORS ON CARDIAC FUNCTION IN HYPOXIC STRESS RATS
W. Zhang, Y. Zhang, J. Liu, C. Cao, Q. Ji, Z. Yuan
Research Center for High Altitude Medicine, Xining, China

 
 

 

 
 

P504    Poster Session
THROMBOSIS, BASIC RESEARCH

 
 

LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE THROMBOSIS IN A MOUSE MODEL OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
H.J. Begmatov, O. Rashidbaigi, F. Romanelli, A.M. Corbo, J. Millan, M. Plummer, O.V. Savinova
NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, NY, USA

 
 

YHD & EYHD SUPPRESSES PLATELET ACTIVATION AND THROMBUS FORMATION BY REDUCING THROMBOXANE B2
H. Wu, Sr.
Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China

 
 

TETRAMETHYLPYRAZINE INHIBITS CALCIUM RESPONSE IN PLATELETS BY SUPPRESSING SGK1
Z. Wang
Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China

 
 

 

 
 

P505    Poster Session
HYPERTENSION, LIPIDS, OBESITY, METABOLIC SYNDROME, TYPE 2 DIABETES AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

 
 

CHRONOLOGICAL AGE-GENE INTERACTIONS IN DETERMINING THE EFFECTS OF THE CIRCADIAN MTNR1B GENE ON FASTING GLUCOSE
R. Barragan, E.M. Asensio, O. Coltell, O. Portoles, J.V. Sorli, D. Corella
University of Valencia-CIBEROBN, Valencia, Spain

 
 

SWEET TASTE PERCEPTION AND OBESITY RISK IN SUBJECTS WITH METABOLIC SYNDROME. GENOME WIDE SCREENING FOR NEW GENES AND GENE-GENDER INTERACTIONS
E.M. Asensio, D. Corella, R. Fernández, J.V. Sorlí, O. Coltell
University of Valencia-Ciberobn, Valencia, Spain

 
 

THE THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS OF EVODIAMINE IN FRUCTOSE-INDUCED METABOLIC SYNDROME IN RATS
V.K. Spiridonov, Z.S. Tolochko, C.-L. Lin, T.A. Korolenko
Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

 
 

GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION SCREENING FOR TOTAL BILIRUBIN LEVELS IN PATIENTS WITH METABOLIC SYNDROME IN A MEDITERRANEAN POPULATION
O. Coltell, E.M. Asensio, C. Ortega-Azorín, R. Fernández-Carrión, J.V. Sorlí, R. Tosca, L.V. Lizán, I.M. Giménez-Alba, A. Betancort, D. Corella
Computer Languages and Systems, Universitat Jaume I-Ciberobn, Castellon, Spain

 
 

TAS2R38 VARIATION AND BITTER TASTE PERCEPTION: ANALYSIS OF GENDER, AGE AND LIFESTYLE INTERACTIONS
R. Barragan, O. Coltell, E.M. Asensio, J. Gonzalez, O. Portoles, R. Fernandez-Carrion, D. Corella
University of Valencia-CIBEROBN, Valencia, Spain

 
 

PATHOGENESIS OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN THE YOUNG: TIME TO LOOK BEYOND DIABETES, HIGH CHOLESTEROL AND TOBACCO
S. Potluri, P. Carter, D. Lavu, H. Uppal, S. Chandran, R. Potluri
ACALM Study Unit, Birmingham, UK

 
 

ASARONE STIMULATES LIPOLYSIS IN ADIPOCYTES
Y. Yang
Sookmyung Women's University, Yongsan-gu, Republic of Korea

 
 

CLINICAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS WITH HYPERTENSIVE CRISES TREATED IN THE EMERGENCY SERVICE OF A HIGH LEVEL INSTITUTION OF COMPLEXITY, MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA 2014-2015
M.C. Duque, L.M. Martinez, L.F. Álvarez, D. Gallego, J.I. Bañol,
M.A. Rodriguez, J.S. Marin, A.E. Marin, L.I. Jaramillo
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin, Colombia

 
 

 

 
 

P506   Poster Session
PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION

 
 

ACUTE SEVERE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION CAUSING RIGHT HEART FAILURE FROM PULVERIZED OXYCODONE INTRAVENOUS INJECTION
S. Gupta, G. Jolly, S. Pal, A. Milovanovic, G. Lanier
Westchester Medical Center (New York Medical College), Valhalla, NY, USA

 
 

VASODILATOR TESTING FOR IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION: IS IT REALLY NECESSARY?
H. Doshi, J. Xu, A. Alam
Robert Wood Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

 
 

 

 
 

P507    Poster Session
ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES

 
 

DIASTOLIC WALL STRAIN PREDICTS MORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH NON-ST ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
B. Horn, P. Ram, E. Obasare, C. Nwakile, T. Alnabelsi, M. Lu, V. Bhalla,
V. Figueredo, G. Pressman
Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 
 

PLAQUE CHARACTERISTICS IN HYPERINSULINEMIA PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION. AN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY STUDY
T. Nunohiro, T. Fukushima, S. Furudono, S. Muto, H. Suenaga,
S. Takeshita, H. Nakashima
Nagasaki Harbor Medical Center, Nagasaki, Japan

 
 

COMPARISON OF LONG-TERM AND SHORT-TERM MORTALITY AFTER PRIMARY PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION FOR STEMI VERSUS THOSE WITH NON-STEMI
H.-Y. Kim, D.-B. Kim
Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital, Bucheon, Republic of Korea

 
 

PERI-PROCEDURAL COMPLICATION RATES AMONG FALSE AND TRUE ST ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION ACTIVATIONS TAKEN TO THE CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION LABORATORY
C.M. Dookhan, A. Ghatak, R. Patel, E. De Marchena, C. Mendoza,
A. Ferreira
Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA

 
 

LATE PRESENTATION OF ANTERIOR WALL STEMI WITH RIGHT VENTRICULAR WALL RUPTURE IN AN ELHERS-DANLOS SYNDROME PATIENT
G. Jolly, A. Koulova, S. Pal, S. Gupta, G. Andries, R. Malekan
Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA

 
 

VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT AFTER ACUTE ST-ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: STILL A COMPLICATION OF THE MILLENNIAL ERA
J.E. Yamamoto, J. Penalver Leon, A. Mora Carpio, J. Stempel
Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 
 

INTRAMUSCULAR EPINEPHRINE INDUCED TRANSIENT ST ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
B. Shrestha, P. Kafle
Interfaith Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA

 
 

FOCAL MYOPERICARDITIS PRESENTING AS ACUTE STEMI
M. Vindhyal, J. Mehta, V.S. Boppana, A. Farhat
University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita, Wichita, KS, USA

 
 

AN UNCONVENTIONAL CAUSE OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
H.E. Matos Santana
Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ, USA

 
 

PREDICTIVE FACTORS OF IN-HOSPITAL DEATH IN TUNISIAN PATIENTS PRESENTING FOR ST-ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION MANAGED WITH PREHOSPITAL THROMBOLYSIS
W. Jomaa, M.A. Tekaya, N. Amdouni, A. El Hraiech, K. Ben Hamda,
F. Maatouk
Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Monastir, Tunisia

 
 

MORTALITY IN CARDIOGENIC SHOCK WITHOUT EVIDENT ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME: UNDERSTANDING POPULATIONS TO MODIFY THE RESULTS
R. Costantini, J.M. Telayna, J.M. Telayna, Jr.
Hospital Universitario Austral, Pilar, Bs As, Argentina

 
 

 

 
 

P508    Poster Session
VALVULAR HEART DISEASE

 
 

AN APPROACH TO AVOID SURGERY IN TRICUSPID VALVE ENDOCARDITIS
P.R. Pinkhasova, A.R. Elashery, R. Gallagher, M. Warshofsky
Western Connecticut Health Network - Danbury Hospital, Danbury, CT, USA

 
 

TRANSCUTANEOUS AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT (TAVR) VALVE IN TAVR VALVE FOR SEVERE PREIPROSTHETIC REGURGITATION
S. Nandy
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Rochester, MN, USA

 
 

IMPLANTATION OF LEADLESS PACEMAKER FOR DEVELOPMENT OF NEW LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK AND SYMPTOMATIC PAUSE FOLLOWING TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT (TAVR)
S. Nandy
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Rochester, MN, USA

 
 

THROMBOSIS AS A COMPLICATION OF TRANSAPICAL TRANSCATHETER MITRAL VALVE-IN-VALVE IMPLANTATION
R. Shah, D. Hill, A. Waldman, D. Bourque
Orlando Health, Orlando, FL, USA

 
 

AGAINST SEVERE ODDS: SPONTANEOUS VAGINAL DELIVERY WITHOUT MAJOR COMPLICATIONS IN A PATIENT WITH UNDIAGNOSED SEVERE MITRAL STENOSIS
W. Ko, J. Woytanowski, S. Hasni, P. Rushworth
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 
 

 

 

 


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