Program XIII Warsztatów

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 Main Topics:

• Drug Eluting Stents
• Chronic total occlusion, left main & bifurcation lesions
• Multivessel coronary artery disease: percutaneous interventions and surgery
• Acute Coronary Syndromes
• Carotid & Peripheral Angiolpasty
• Percutaneous Valve Therapy
• Cardiac Imaging for Coronary Interventions 2009

April 16, 2009 (Thursday)

8:30 - 9:00  Follow-up of cases presented during 2008 Workshop.

9:00 - 9:40 Live transmission I.  Angioplasty in a patient with multivessel CAD

9:40 - 10:00    Opening Ceremony     

10:00 - 11:20  Session 1: Drug-eluting stents

10:00 - 10:20 Opening Lecture: The critical appraisal of drug-eluting stents.
10:20 - 11:20 Safety and efficacy of first and second generation DES.
- Cypher stent (10 min)
- Taxus stent (10 min)
- Endeavor & Endeavor Resolute stent (10 min)
- Xience V stent (10 min)
- Biomatrix stent (10 min)
- Luc-Chopin stent (10 min)

11:20 - 11:50 Debate 1: Do we have evidences from trials and regiestries for routine use of DES in primary PCI?
- The evidences are in! (10 min).
- Still it is not enough! (10 min).
- Rebuttal (5 min).
- Rebuttal (5 min).

11:50 - 12:30 Live transmission II.  Angioplasty in a patient with left main lesion.

12:10 - 13:25  Session 2: Coronary bifurcation: from anatomy to techniques

12:10 - 12:25 Anatomy and physiology of coronary bifurcations.
12:25 - 12:40 Treatment techniques and limitations.
12:40 - 12:55 Treatment of bifurcation lesions with drug eluting stents. One or two stents - is there a difference?
12:55 - 13:10 Is it time to include LMCA percutaneous interventions in the Guidelines for stable coronary artery disease?
13:10 - 13:25 Novel device approaches.

13:25 - 14:05 Live transmission III.  Angioplasty of multivessel CAD with lesion located on bifurcation

14:05 - 15:05 Lunch (Restaurants ?Ogrodowa" and ?Ferdy's")

14:05 - 15:05 Meeting of the Executive Board of the Advances in Interventional Cardiology Journal

15:05 - 17:00  Session 3:  STEMI and STE-ACS: new guidelines, new drugs, new devices
15:05 - 15:20 New ESC STEMI guidelines - reperfusion therapy.
15:20 - 15:35 Protection devices and thrombectomy in primary PCI - new set of evidence.
15:35 - 15:50 New ESC NSTE-ACS guidelines - interventional treatment
15:50 - 16:05 Antiplatelet and antithrombotic treatment in ACS - what is more?

16:05 - 16:20 ANDREAS Awards of the year 2009.

16:20 - 17:00 Live transmission IV.  PCI in patient with acute coronary syndrome

17:00 - 19:40  Session 4: Invasive coronary diagnostic techniques - application in the DES era (state-of-the-art)
17:00 - 17:15 Coronary angiography - is there anything new in the field?  
17:15 - 17:30 ICUS and it`s derrivates - place in daily clinical practice.
17:30 - 17:45 OCT - the new standard in the contemporary CathLab?
17:45 - 18:00 FFR - a substitute of cardiac perfusion imaging?

18:00 -18:40 Live transmission V.  Chronic total occlusion - antegrade approach

18:40 - 19:00 Invited lecture: How to avoid contrast-induced nephropathy?

19:00 -19:40 Live transmission VI.  One stage PCI and peripheral angioplasty

20:30-22:00 Welcome Party in Radisson (Exhibition area)
20:30 Faculty Dinner
 April 17, 2009 (Friday)

9:00 - 10:00 Live transmission I. Aortic valve implantation with Edwards-Sapien system.

10:00 - 11:15 Session 1: Percutaneous valve transplantation and repair - invited lectures
10:00 - 10:15 Percutaneous aortic valve transplantation - Core Valve system.
10:15 - 10:30 Percutaneous and transapical aortic valve transplantation - Edwards-Sapien system.
10:30 - 10:45 Percutaneous pulmonary valve transplantation with Melody system.
10:45 - 11:00 Mitral valve annuloplasty - percutaneous approach in 2009.
11:00 - 11:15 Mitral valve reconstruction - surgical approach in 2009.

11:15 - 14:10 Session 2: Chronic total occlusions 2009: basic and expert techniques
11:15 - 11:30 Scope of the problem: case selection, procedural success and failure.
Techniques currently used:
11:30 - 11:45 Antegrade approach.   
11:45 - 12:00 Retrograde approach.
12:00 - 12:15 Complications of CTO intervention: how to avoid and how to treat.
12:15 - 12:30 Imaging and novel devices for CTO angioplasty.

12:30 - 13:30 Live transmission II.  Percutaneous pulmonary valve replacement.

13:30 - 14:10 Live transimssion III.  Chronic total coronary occlusion - retrograde approach.

14:10 - 15:00 Lunch (Restaurants ?Ogrodowa" and ?Ferdy's")

15:00 - 17:40 Session 3: Perspective on peripheral arteries angioplasty - Part 1: Carotid Stenting
15:00 - 15:15 Data from new trials (CAVATAS 2, ECRAS 2007, PROTECT).
15:15 - 15:30 Noninvasive detection of carotid disease - an update.  
15:30 - 15:45 Technique and device selection according to clinical and anatomical characteristics.  
15:45 - 16:00 Should we perform CAS prior to CABG.
16:00 - 16:15 Should we perform CAS in octogenarians?

16:15 - 16:55 Live transmission IV  CAS in patient with asymptomatic disease.

17:00 - 17:40 Live transmission V  SFA angioplasty.

17:40 - 18:20 Sesion 3: Perspective on peripheral arteries angioplasty - Part 2: Peripheral Stenting
17:40 - 18:00 The importance of the clinical status of the patent for choosing the appropriate revascularization strategy in aorto-iliac disease.
18:00 - 18:20 Results and indications for renal artery stenting.

18:45 - 20:15 General Assembly of the members of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Interventions  of the Polish Cardiac Society.

18:45 - 20:15 Scientific Session for interventional cardiology nurses and technicians.
Moderators: to be established

 21:00 Faculty Dinner

 21:00 Get-Together Party

April 18, 2009 (Saturday)

9:00 - 10:30 Symposium 1. Quality in coronary interventions.
9:00 - 9:20 Could we do better with PCI in the randomized study?
9:20 - 9:40 My everyday efforts to improve early and late results after a complex PCI.
9:40 - 10:00 Patient or lesion specific treatment? Surgical point of view.  
10:00 - 10:30 Panel discussion

9:00 - 10:30 Symposium 2. Sponsored by unrestricted grant from Sanofi-Aventis

9:00 - 10:30 Symposium 3: Interventional cardiology in Poland in 2009 and beyond. Joint Session of the National Health Fund, Country Consultant in Cardiology and Working Group on Cardiovascular Interventions of the Polish Cardiac Society (in polish)
9:00 - 9:20 Interventional cardiology in Poland - point of view of the National Country Consultant.
9:20 - 9:40 Challenges in interventional cardiology in Poland: new technologies.
9:40 - 10:00 Interventional cardiology in Poland from the perspective of National Health Fund.
10:00 - 10:30 Discussion with invited experts.
11:00 - 15:00 Technology Forum sponsored by unrestricted grant from Abbott Vascular