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Endorsed by
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Clinical
& Interventional
Cardiology
President:
Michele M. Gulizia, MD, FESC
Final Program
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CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
2015 welcome to the 7th edition of the Mediterranean Cardiology Meeting (MCM).
PRESIDENT
Michele M. Gulizia, MD, FESC Over 1200 participants took part in the last edition, a strong international attendance
which confirmed the highest interest aroused by this biannual meeting.
HONORARY PRESIDENTS An outstanding Faculty, selected between the leading experts in these fields, will provide
Antonio G. Circo the highest quality teaching with new interactive programs and events.
Salvatore Mangiameli
Through multidisciplinary Courses, Symposia, Debates on Controversial Topics,Clinical
ORGANIZED BY Tutorials, Luncheon Panels, Focus on, Meet-the-Expert Sessions, Interactive Cases-
Cardiology Division Review from Faculty and Delegate, Interactive iPad and Televoter Sessions, Intercultural
“Garibaldi-Nesima” Hospital Exchanges, Abstract and Poster Sessions the meeting will highlight the current state
Catania, Italy of the art and the prospective developments for the treatment of: Atrial Fibrillation,
Sudden Cardiac Death, Heart Failure,Acute Coronary Syndromes, Global Cardiovascular
SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT Prevention, Arterial Hypertension, Pharmacological Therapy, Syncope, Congenital Heart
Michele M. Gulizia Disease, Cardiac Monitoring Technologies and Genetics.
Director Cardiology Division
“Garibaldi-Nesima” Hospital - Catania, Italy The main target of the meeting is to give the latest update on Clinical &
Interventional Cardiology and it is addressed to cardiologists, internists,
CONGRESS VENUE first aid clinicians, physicians of general medicine, fellows, allied professionals and
Sheraton Catania Hotel technicians with high interest in the whole management of cardiac pathologies.
& Conference Center
Via Antonello da Messina, 45 Catania, as one of the most famous historical and cultural locations in the whole
Aci Castello - Catania, Italy Mediterranean area, is the ideal setting for this meeting. It is a particularly lively and
fascinating town, rich in marvellous examples of typically Sicilian baroque style, as well
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES as one of the main economic and educational centres in the island, and a key hub of
The Meeting’s official languages are English and Italian the technological industry.
(simultaneous translation will be provided).
This beautiful city, full of colours, perfumes and flavours, is suspended between the
deep blue of the Ionian Sea and the majestic shape of Etna volcano, which dominates
the town from afar.
Looking forward to meeting you at Congress, I
wish a pleasant stay for all of you in Catania.
Sincerely,
Michele M. Gulizia, MD, FESC
President
Mediterranean Cardiology Meeting
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INSTITUTIONAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
AUSPICES AUSPICES
Endorsed by:
Presidency of the Minister’s Council
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY EHRA - European Heart Rhythm Association,
2015 a Registered Branch of the ESC
Ministry of Health FIC - Federazione Italiana di Cardiologia
WSA - World Society of Arrhythmias
AIFA (Italian Medicines Agency)
Under the auspices of:
AA GICR - Gruppo Italiano di
Presidency of Sicilian Region Arrhythmia Alliance Cardiologia Riabilitativa e
Preventiva
AFA - Atrial Fibrillation
Association GIEC - Gruppo Intervento
Health Councillorship Sicilian Region Emergenze Cardiologiche
AIAC - Associazione
Italiana di Aritmologia e GISE - Società Italiana di
Cardiostimolazione Cardiologia Invasiva
Municipality of Catania
ANCE - Associazione ISE - International Society of
Italiana Cardiologi Electrocardiology
Extraospedalieri
University of Catania
SIC - Società Italiana di
ANMCO - Associazione
Cardiologia
Nazionale Medici
Cardiologi Ospedalieri
Department of Medicine SIC SPORT - Società Italiana di
University of Catania Cardiologia dello Sport
ARCA - Associazioni
Regionali Cardiologi
Ambulatoriali SOLAECE - Sociedad
Latinoamericana de
A.R.N.A.S. Garibaldi di Catania Estimulacion Cardiaca y
ECAS - European Cardiac
Arrhythmia Society Electrofisiologia
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INDEX COMMITTEES
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Welcome letter...................................................................................... p. 1
Institutional Auspices........................................................................... p. 2 Scientific Committee
Scientific Societies Auspices................................................................ p. 3
Scientific and Organizing Committees................................................ p. 5 Angelo Auricchio (Switzerland) Aldo P. Maggioni (Italy)
Advisory Board..................................................................................... p. 6 Gianluca Botto (Italy) Attilio Maseri (Italy)
Faculty................................................................................................... p. 8 Eugene Braunwald (USA) Jawahar L. Metha (USA)
General Information............................................................................. p. 14 Michele Brignole (Italy) Andrea Natale (USA)
Scientific Information........................................................................... p. 16
Program at a glance............................................................................. p. 19 Joseph Brugada (Spain) Ali Oto (Turkey)
Scientific Program Riccardo Cappato (Italy) Eli I. Ovsyshcher (Israel)
Congress program................................................................................ p. 28 Paul Casale (USA) Fausto J. Pinto (Portugal)
Scientific Program for Allied Professional Matteo Di Biase (Italy) Antonio Raviele (Italy)
Training Course in Cardiology and Intensive Care Giuseppe Di Pasquale (Italy) Renato Pietro Ricci (Italy)
for Allied Professional (Italian Allied Professional only) Bulent Gorenek (Turkey) Francesco Romeo (Italy)
see Italian version for details............................................................... p. 73
Michele M. Gulizia (Italy) Massimo Santini (Italy)
Scientific Program Basic Life Support Course and Defibrillation
see Italian version for details............................................................... p. 75 Karl Heinz Kuck (Germany) Marino Scherillo (Italy)
Information
Registration Information...................................................................... p. 78
Congress Venue.................................................................................... p. 80
Hotels................................................................................................... p. 82 Organizing Committee
Congress Venue Plan............................................................................ p. 84
Exhibitors and Sponsors...................................................................... p. 86 Michele M. Gulizia
Thanks to.............................................................................................. p. 107
Mario Audoly Anna Portale
Concetto Cacia Salvatore Raciti
Scientific Program’s Legend Nunzia R. Cardillo Natascia Savoca
Giuseppe Di Guardo Silvana Anastasi
Magistral Luncheon
Symposium Giuseppina Maura Francese Giuseppe Di Dio
Lecture Panel
Daniele Mangiameli Giuditta Gianì
Minicourse Meet Joint
the Experts Session Cardiology Division
Garibaldi - Nesima Hospital - Catania, Italy
Controversies Intercultural
Focus on
in Cardiology Exchanges
Interactive
Casual Session with
Meeting PC and iPad
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ADVISORY
BOARD
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Maurizio Abrignani (Italy) Giuseppe Di Tano (Italy) Salvatore Novo (Italy) Francesco Romeo (Italy)
Gianfranco Alunni (Italy) Francesco Furlanello (Italy) Ali Oto (Turkey) Massimo Santini (Italy)
Antonio F. Amico (Italy) Domenico Gabrielli (Italy) Eli I. Ovsyshcher (Israel) Maurizio Santomauro (Italy)
Fabrizio Ammirati (Italy) Angelo Gambera (Italy) Giuseppe Palazzo (Italy) Marino Scherillo (Italy)
Angelo Auricchio (Switzerland) Gianfranco Gensini (Italy) Vittorio Panno (Italy) Gianfranco Sinagra (Italy)
Alessandro Biffi (Italy) Giovanna Geraci (Italy) Leonardo Patanè (Italy) Christian Sticherling (Switzerland)
Giuseppe Boriani (Italy) Franco Giada (Italy) Pasquale Perrone Filardi (Italy) Corrado Tamburino (Italy)
Gianluca Botto (Italy) Bulent Gorenek (Turkey) Fausto J. Pinto (Portugal) Pier Luigi Temporelli (Italy)
Michele Brignole (Italy) Michele M. Gulizia (Italy) Salvatore Pirelli (Italy) Sakis Themistoclakis (Italy)
Joseph Brugada (Spain) Giuseppe Inama (Italy) Calogero Puntrello (Italy) Salvatore Tolaro (Italy)
Pasquale Caldarola (Italy) Helmut Klein (Germany) Antonio Raviele (Italy) Giovanni Battista Zito (Italy)
Valeria Calvi (Italy) Karl Heinz Kuck (Germany) Renato Pietro Ricci (Italy) Massimo Zoni Berisso (Italy)
Salvatore Campione (Italy) Maurizio Eugenio Landolina (Italy) Carmine Riccio (Italy) Guerrino Zuin (Italy)
Roberto Caporale (Italy) Maurizio Lunati (Italy) Carla Riganti (Italy)
Riccardo Cappato (Italy) Aldo Pietro Maggioni (Italy)
Paul Casale (USA) Attilio Maseri (Italy)
Giancarlo Casolo (Italy) Anna Vittoria Mattioli (Italy)
Allied Professionals Course Coordinators
Domenico Catanzariti (Italy) Gianfranco Mazzotta (Italy)
Giuseppina Maura Francese (Italy), Angelo Gambera (Italy),
Giacomo Chiarandà (Italy) Jawahar L. Metha (USA) Loredana Morichelli (Italy)
Gennaro Cice (Italy) Vincenzo Montemurro (Italy)
Furio Colivicchi (Italy) Loredana Morichelli (Italy)
Pietro Delise (Italy) Ernesto Mossuti (Italy)
Matteo Di Biase (Italy) Franco Naccarella (Italy)
Andrea Di Lenarda (Italy) Federico Nardi (Italy)
Giuseppe Di Pasquale (Italy) Andrea Natale (USA)
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FACULTY
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
M. Abrignani (Trapani, Italy) L. Calò (Rome, Italy) E. Degli Esposti (Ravenna, Italy) F. Giada (Noale, Italy)
G. Agnelli (Perugia, Italy) G. Calvagna (Taormina, Italy) P. Delise (Conegliano Veneto, Italy) G. Gianì (Catania, Italy)
F. Al-Smadi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) V. Calvi (Catania, Italy) C. Dell’ Ali (Avola, Italy) C. Giannessi (Pisa, Italy)
M. Alario (Caltagirone, Italy) S. Campione (Catania, Italy) G. Desideri (L’ Aquila, Italy) G. Giannola (Cefalù, Italy)
B. Aloisi (Pedara, Italy) D. Capodanno (Catania, Italy) S. Di Benedetto (Taormina, Italy) A. Giardina (Cagliari, Italy)
G. Alunni (Perugia, Italy) R. Caporale (Cosenza, Italy) M. Di Biase (Foggia, Italy) G. Giordano (Catania, Italy)
C. Altomare (Milan, Italy) A. Capucci (Ancona, Italy) G. Di Dio (Catania, Italy) U. Giordano (Palermo, Italy)
A. Amico (Copertino, Italy) A. Carbonaro (Catania, Italy) A. Di Guardo (Catania, Italy) C. Giuffrida (Catania, Italy)
F. Ammirati (Ostia, Italy) P. Casale (Lancaster, USA) G. Di Guardo(Catania, Italy) M. Glauber (Milan, Italy)
V. Amodeo (Reggio Calabria, Italy) G. Casolo (Lido di Camaiore, Italy) A. Di Lenarda (Trieste, Italy) E. Gotti (Rome, Italy)
Sa. Anastasi (Catania, Italy) G. Casu (Nuoro, Italy) G. Di Pasquale (Bologna, Italy) A. Grasso (Catania, Italy)
Si. Anastasi (Catania, Italy) C. Catalano (Agrigento, Italy) A. Di Pino (Taormina, Italy) M. Grasso (Catania, Italy)
G. Antonini (Messina, Italy) D. Catanzariti (Rovereto, Italy) G. Di Tano (Cremona, Italy) C. Greco (Rome, Italy)
M. Arca (Rome, Italy) F. Cerruto (Pedara, Italy) S. Egman (Palermo, Italy) G. Gregorio (Salerno, Italy)
B. Arena (Messina, Italy) G. Chiarandà (Caltagirone, Italy) M. Elia (Crotone, Italy) D. Grimaldi (Catania, Italy)
N. Aspromonte (Rome, Italy) M. Chiatto (Cosenza, Italy) I. Enea (Caserta, Italy) M.M. Gulizia (Catania, Italy)
M. Audoly (Catania, Italy) G. Ciaramitaro (Palermo, Italy) P. Faggiano (Brescia, Italy) M. Iacoviello (Bari, Italy)
M. Averna (Palermo, Italy) G. Cice (Naples, Italy) F. Fattirolli (Florence, Italy) G. Iervasi (Pisa, Italy)
S. Barro (San Donà di Piave, Italy) M.T. Cinà (Palermo, Italy) O. Fazzio (Pedara, Italy) G. Inama (Crema, Italy)
I. Bartoli (Catania, Italy) V. Cirrincione (Palermo, Italy) C. Ferri (L’ Aquila, Italy) T. Infusino (Catanzaro, Italy)
C. Battaglia (Palermo, Italy) G. Cisca (Taormina, Italy) G.M. Francese (Catania, Italy) C. Inserra (Taormina, Italy)
S. Berti (Massa, Italy) F. Colivicchi (Rome, Italy) M. Gabriele (Mazara del Vallo, Italy) G. La Delfa (Catania, Italy)
I. Bianca (Catania, Italy) P. Colonna (Rome, Italy) D. Gabrielli (Fermo, Italy) S. La Rosa (Milazzo, Italy)
S. Bianchi (Livorno, Italy) F. Coniglio (Palermo, Italy) A. Galassi (Catania, Italy) M. Landolina (Crema, Italy)
M. Biffi (Bologna, Italy) M. Contarini (Siracusa, Italy) A. Gambera (Catania, Italy) G. Leonardi (Catania, Italy)
L. Bolognese (Arezzo, Italy) A. Curcio (Catanzaro, Italy) P. Gambino (Agrigento, Italy) V. Lettica (Vittoria, Italy)
R. Bordonaro (Catania, Italy) R. D’ Anneo (Messina, Italy) V. Gargano (Palermo, Italy) F. Liberti (Catania, Italy)
M. Brignole (Lavagna, Italy) M. D’ Urso (Catania, Italy) G. Gensini (Florence, Italy) G. Licciardello (Augusta, Italy)
P. Calabrò (Naples, Italy) G. De Luca (Palermo, Italy) M. Gentile (Pedara, Italy) F. Lisi (Catania, Italy)
G. Calculli (Matera, Italy) L. De Luca (Rome, Italy) G. Geraci (Palermo, Italy) V. Lo Giudice (Palermo, Italy)
P. Caldarola (Bari, Italy) L. De Nicola (Naples, Italy) M. Giaccardi (Florence, Italy) F. Lucà (Marsala, Italy)
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FACULTY
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
S. Lumera (Vittoria, Italy) E. Occhetta (Novara, Italy) C. Riganti (Naples, Italy) M. Uguccioni (Rome, Italy)
G. Luzzi (Bari, Italy) S. Orazi (Rieti, Italy) F. Rigo (Mestre, Italy) S. Urbinati (Bologna, Italy)
A.P. Maggioni (Florence, Italy) R.A. Osanna (Potenza, Italy) A. Rizzo (Catania, Italy) S. Valente (Florence, Italy)
D. Mangiameli (Catania, Italy) A. Oto (Ankara, Turkey) F. Romeo (Rome, Italy) R. Valle (Chioggia, Italy)
S. Mangiameli (Catania, Italy) D. Pacini (Bologna, Italy) L. Roncon (Rovigo, Italy) L. Vasquez (Milazzo, Italy)
E. Manzato (Padua, Italy) G. Palazzo (Catania, Italy) R. Rossini (Bergamo, Italy) P. Verdecchia (Assisi, Italy)
A. Margonato (Milan, Italy) G. Paleologo (Messina, Italy) E. Rubino (Catania, Italy) R. Verlato (Camposampiero, Italy)
M. Marini (Ancona, Italy) A. Pangallo (Reggio Calabria, Italy) P. Saja (Augusta, Italy) F. Versaci (Campobasso, Italy)
C. Marino (Milazzo, Italy) V. Panno (Palermo, Italy) M. Santomauro (Naples, Italy) S. Viani (Pisa, Italy)
A. Maseri (Rome, Italy) L. Patanè (Pedara, Italy) F. Sarullo (Palermo, Italy) E. Vinci (Siracusa, Italy)
A.V. Mattioli (Modena, Italy) C. Pedi (Caltagirone, Italy) G. Satullo (Messina, Italy) M. Viola (Palermo, Italy)
N. Maurea (Naples, Italy) G. Perna (Ancona, Italy) R. Sauro (Avellino, Italy) M. Volterrani (Rome, Italy)
G. Mazzotta (La Spezia, Italy) P. Perrone Filardi (Naples, Italy) G. Scaboro (Mestre, Italy) A. Zambon (Padua, Italy)
J.L. Mehta (Little Rock, USA) M. Pezzino (Catania, Italy) F. Scarfia (Catania, Italy) M. Zaninotto (Padua, Italy)
M. Mennuni (Colleferro, Italy) S. Pipitone (Palermo, Italy) M. Scherillo (Benevento, Italy) M. Zoni Berisso (Genoa, Italy)
C. Mignosa (Catania, Italy) S. Pirelli (Cremona, Italy) A. Sciabò (Catania, Italy) A. Zorzin Fantasia (Trieste, Italy)
V. Minardi (Ragusa, Italy) E. Pisanò (Lecce, Italy) S. Severi (Grosseto, Italy) G. Zuin (Mestre, Italy)
A. Mistretta (Catania, Italy) G. Pizzimenti (Milazzo, Italy) M. Sicuro (Aosta, Italy)
G. Modica (Caltanissetta, Italy) G. Polizzi (Partinico, Italy) A. Silvia (Siracusa, Italy)
L. Molina (Mexico City, Mexico) A. Porfili (Rome, Italy) F. Sisto (Potenza, Italy)
M. Moncada (Lentini, Italy) M. Portoghese (Sassari, Italy) F. Sortino (Pedara, Italy)
V. Montemurro (Reggio Calabria, Italy) G. Pulignano (Rome, Italy) C. Spica (Catania, Italy)
L. Morichelli (Rome, Italy) C. Puntrello (Marsala, Italy) C. Sticherling (Basel, Switzerland)
A. Mortara (Monza, Italy) D. Radini (Trieste, Italy) C. Tamburino (Catania, Italy)
E. Mossuti (Siracusa, Italy) G. Ranno (Siracusa, Italy) L. Tarantini (Belluno, Italy)
G. Mureddu (Rome, Italy) A. Rapacciuolo (Naples, Italy) P.L. Temporelli (Veruno, Italy)
A. Murrone (Perugia, Italy) C. Rapezzi (Bologna, Italy) S. Themistoclakis (Mestre, Italy)
G. Muscio(Siracusa, Italy) G. Rasetti (Pescara, Italy) G. Todero (Catania, Italy)
F. Nardi (Verbania, Italy) A. Raviele (Mestre, Italy) S. Tolaro (Pedara, Italy)
G. Novelli (Rome, Italy) R.P. Ricci (Rome, Italy) C. Tondo (Milan, Italy)
S. Novo (Palermo, Italy) C. Riccio (Caserta, Italy) M. Tritto (Castellanza, Italy)
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CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015 2015
INFORMATION
General
Scientific
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GENERAL
INFORMATION
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
CONGRESS VENUE INFORMATION DESK
SHERATON CATANIA HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTER An information desk will be available at the Congress Venue for
Via Antonello da Messina, 45 - 95021 Aci Castello - Catania (Italy) restaurant reservations, travel services, hotel accommodation and
Tel. +39 095 7114111 - Fax. +39 095 271380 general information.
www.sheratoncatania.com
FUTURE MEETING DESK
SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT All programs of future events can be distributed in the appropriate
MICHELE M. GULIZIA desk located at Ground floor. Any other distribution that was not
Cardiology Division - “Garibaldi-Nesima” Hospital approved by the Organizing Secretariat is forbidden.
Via Palermo, 636 - 95122 Catania, Italy
Tel. +39 095 7598502 - Fax + 39 095 7598505 TELEPHONES AND MOBILES
e-mail: michele.gulizia@alice.it Several telephones are available at the Congress Venue. Please contact
the Hotel Reception. IT IS ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN TO KEEP
ORGANIZING SECRETARIAT CELLPHONES SWITCHED ON DURING SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS.
ADRIA CONGREX
Via Sassonia, 30 - 47922 Rimini, Italy ELECTRICITY
Tel. +39 0541 305830 - 305811 - Fax + 39 0541 305842 In Italy, the electric current is 220 Volts.
e-mail: info@mcmweb.it - Web site: www.mcmweb.it
TIPPING
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES Service is generally included in the bill, tips are welcome if you wish
The Meeting official languages are English and Italian with to show your appreciation for a good meal or a special service.
simultaneous translation.
CREDIT CARDS
EXHIBITION Major credit cards are accepted in hotels, restaurants and shops. If
The technical and pharmaceutical exhibition area will be located at you wish to use your credit card to pay for a taxi, please inform the
the Congress Venue, close to the conference rooms. The exhibition driver before starting the journey.
opening hours will follow the timetable of the scientific sessions.
SAFETY AND SECURITY
SECRETARIAT AND REGISTRATION DESK OPENING HOURS Catania is as safe as any other European tourist resort and delegates
For Groups April 17, 2015 2.30 pm - 6.30 pm are advised to take the usual sensible precautions. All the hotels
For appointment please contact the Organizing Secretariat can offer security facilities for valuable goods.
For Individuals April 18, 2015 8.00 am - 7.00 pm INSURANCE
April 19, 2015 8.00 am - 7.00 pm Responsibility for personal accidents and for losses or damages
April 20, 2015 8.00 am - 4.00 pm to the private belongings of participants and exhibitors cannot be
accepted. Participants and exhibitors are advised to make their own
insurance arrangements, if considered useful.
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SCIENTIFIC
INFORMATION
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
OPENING CEREMONY TECHNICAL COURSE:
Saturday, April 18 2015
The Opening Ceremony will take place at 5.00 pm in Pegaso Room TRAINING COURSE IN CARDIOLOGY AND INTENSIVE CARE
at the Sheraton Hotel, after the Plenary Lecture that will start at FOR ALLIED PROFESSIONALS:
4.30 pm. The events are open to all registered participants. For Italian allied professionals only. Please see the Italian version
of the program.
INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGES
Presenters will have 10 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes BASIC LIFE SUPPORT COURSE AND DEFIBRILLATION
for discussion. All speakers are requested to keep to their allotted Please see the Italian version of the program.
time. Please ensure that you are in the session room at least 10
minutes before the start of the session and that you stay until the ATTENDANCE CERTIFICATES
end of the session. Attendance certificates will be distributed to all the registered
delegates at the end of the Meeting.
PROJECTION
PC data projection will be available in all the rooms. All projections PROGRAM CHANGES
must be worded in English only. The information published in this program is correct at time of print.
The Scientific Committee reserves the right to change the program
LUNCHEON PANELS at any time.
The admission to the luncheon panels (limited to seat availability)
is free for all the registered participants.
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION
We applied for CME accreditation (Italian Physicians only) for
the following disciplinary areas: cardiology, internal medicine,
emergency and first aid medicine, sport medicine, cardiac surgery,
surgery, practitioners, geriatrics, urology, nephrology. 4,6 CME
credits with a participation of 23 hours.
For Italian physicians only. Please see the Italian version of the
program.
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PROGRAM
AT A GLANCE
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SATURDAY APRIL 18
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Sat, April 18 PEGASO Room ETNA Room CALIPSO Room TIMO ALTO Room
Registration -
7.30 - 9.00 Registration Registration
Allied Professional
Interactive Minicourse Allied Professional Program
Minicourse
9.00 - 10.30 Risk Stratification Organizational aspects and
Aortic valve pathology today
in Primary Prevention management in arrhythmology
10.30 - 11.00 Exhibition Visit & Coffee Break Exhibition Visit & Coffee Break
Focus on
11.00 - 12.00
Discovering the second generation of S-ICD
Interactive Symposium Allied Professional Program
Controversies on Nursing management of
The management of the patient
Dronedarone: Guide Lines and Therapeutic cardiovascular drugs Casual Morning Meeting
with Stable CAD: the benefits of
Plan, a glaring dichotomy between Clinical Navigating the evidence:
12.00 - 13.00 the new therapeutic approach
Evidences and Regulatory restrictions NAO in nonvalvular atrial are all NOACs the same?
fibrillation
Hyperphosphatemia: a real “double-face matter”?
Interactive Luncheon Panel
Casual Afternoon Meeting
Luncheon Panel Different therapeutical approach
The revolution of biological drugs
13.00 - 14.30 Heart & Sport: diagnostic evaluation related in patients with NSTEMI PCI and
in cardiology: new perspectives for
to age and sport type in those with pharmacological
high risk patients
therapy
14.30 - 15.00 Exhibition Visit
Interactive Symposium
Rivaroxaban: practical experience Casual Afternoon Meeting
ESC-EHRA Joint Symposium examples and sharing clinical Allied Professional Program Home Monitoring in clinical
15.00 - 16.30 cases
Atrial Fibrillation Challenges Nursing in hemodynamic practice: the role of physician
and nurse
Plenary Lecture Prevention of infection in
16.30 - 17.00 Inflammation in atherosclerosis: cardiology and cardiac surgery
do we need to treat it?
17.00 - 18.30 Opening Ceremony
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SUNDAY APRIL 19
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Sun, April 19 PEGASO Room ETNA Room CALIPSO Room TIMO ALTO Room
Minicourse
Allied Professional Program
How to interpret Interactive Symposium
9.00 - 10.30 Update in electrophysiology
and personalize biomarkers Management of dyslipidemia in and cardiac pacing
in heart failure management high cardiovascular risk patients:
two clinical cases
Casual Morning Meeting
10.30 - 11.00 Exhibition Visit & Coffee Break Allied Professional Program Longevity, Mini-ICD, S-ICD: the
Joint Session: right device for every patient.
Education as a tool to What is the best choice?
Symposium enhance the health care allied
Getting the most out of the latest available professionals
11.00 - 12.30 Interactive Symposium
technologies in order to optimize
daily clinical practice Unmet needs and current
practice of stroke prevention in Casual Morning Meeting
Lecture non valvular atrial fibrillation Rivaroxaban in daily clinical
Allied Professional Program
12.30 - 13.00 Therapeutic Target of Uricaemia Nurse and heart failure practice: the experts opinion
and impact on Health Care Costs
Luncheon Panel Interactive Luncheon Panel
Patients with high CV risk and Ivabradine in the management of
13.00 - 14.30
hypercholesterolemia: cardiovascular patients: the Italian
old unresolved problems, new solutions clinical experience
14.30 - 15.00 Exhibition Visit Exhibition Visit
Lecture Casual Afternoon Meeting
15.00 - 15.30 Thyroid hormone treatment in heart failure: Allied Professional Program Dyslipidemic patients: from
Interactive Symposium Nursing care in non-invasive acute setting to long term
when and how? Novel trials and new horizons ventilation management of
with dabigatran: protecting cardiovascular risk
patients at high risk of stroke
Meet the Expert
15.30 - 17.00 Allied Professional Program
The Heart in Neoplastic patients
Lecture
Casual Afternoon Meeting
A defibrillator to bring down
Interactive Minicourse Management of High Risk
Symposium mortality: state of the art
Pediatric cardiology : real practical Cardiovascular Patients
17.00 - 18.30 Therapeutical appropriateness (S-ICD)
needs for the clinical cardiologist
for technological innovation
and the general practitioner
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MONDAY APRIL 20
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Mon, April 20 PEGASO Room ETNA Room CALIPSO Room TIMO ALTO Room
Interactive Meet the expert
15 interactive questions/
Minicourse answers on: “Atrial Fibrillation,
BLS-D Course
9.00 - 10.30 The management of antiplatelet and Heart Failure, Ventricular
physician Casual Morning Meeting
anticoagulant therapy in surgery Arrhythmias and Cardiac
Devices: what do we need to New perspectives in the
know?” 1st part prevention of thromboembolic
risk in Atrial Fibrillation
10.30 - 11.00 Exhibition Visit & Coffee Break Exhibition Visit & Coffee Break
Interactive Meet the expert
Symposium 15 interactive questions/answers
Which oral antiplatelet agents in ACS- on: “Atrial Fibrillation, Heart Casual Morning Meeting
11.00 - 12.30
PCI patients? Unmet Needs and Possible Failure, Ventricular Arrhythmias Innovation in Arrhythmology
Solutions and Cardiac Devices: what do we BLS-D Course
need to know?” 2nd part physician
Lecture
Focus on Changing the face of
12.30 - 13.30
Imaging: not only echocardiography anticoagulation: 2 years of
Dabigatran in Italy
Luncheon Panel
Integrated management of heart failure
13.30 - 15.00 Intercultural Exchanges
patient: role of the general practitioner and
the out-of-hospital cardiologist
BLS-D Course
15.00 - 17.30
physician
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Saturday, April 18 Saturday, April 18
7.30 - 9.00 Registration Secretariat Desk 9.00 - 10.30 Interactive Minicourse Etna Room
9.00 - 10.30 Minicourse Pegaso Room Risk Stratification in Primary Prevention
Chairmen: M. Chiatto (Cosenza), G. Rasetti (Pescara)
AORTIC VALVE PATHOLOGY TODAY
Chairmen: M. Gentile (Pedara), E. Vinci (Siracusa) Role of exercise test and provocative tests
M. Gabriele (Mazara del Vallo)
Valvular repair The role of cardiovascular imaging
D. Pacini (Bologna) G. Casolo (Lido di Camaiore)
Traditional surgery: which prothesis? 24 hours holter recording: not only arrhythmias?
B. Aloisi (Pedara) A. Amico (Copertino)
TAVI Evaluation of old complex cardiac patient
C. Tamburino (Catania) G. Palazzo (Catania)
The sutureless Is it useful to revascularize patients older than 80?
M. Glauber (Milano) G. Pulignano (Rome)
Are expenses sustainable?
G. De Luca (Palermo)
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Saturday, April 18 Saturday, April 18
11.00 - 12.00 Focus on Pegaso Room 11.00 - 13.00 Interactive Symposium Etna Room
Discovering the second generation of S-ICD The management of the patient with Stable CAD:
the benefits of the new therapeutic approach
Chairmen: U. Giordano (Palermo), E. Occhetta (Novara)
Chairmen: G. Gregorio (Salerno), A.V. Mattioli (Modena)
Speakers: A. Curcio (Catanzaro), S. Viani (Pisa)
- Therapeutic approach in Stable CAD:
which news from ANMCO/GICR-IACPR/GISE Consensus
F. Fattirolli (Florence)
Clinical Cases
- Diabetic patient with Stable CAD and with no possible revascularization
F. Fattirolli (Florence)
- Elder patient with previous infarction and Stable CAD with comorbidity
G. Cice (Naples)
- Patient with microvascular angina
G. Zuin (Mestre)
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Saturday, April 18 Saturday, April 18
11.30 - 13.00 Casual Morning Meeting Timo Alto Room 12.00 - 13.00 Controversies on Pegaso Room
Navigating the evidence: are all NOACs the same? Dronedarone: Guide Lines and Therapeutic Plan, a glaring
dichotomy between Clinical Evidences and Regulatory
Chairmen: G. Inama (Crema), F. Romeo (Rome) restrictions
Chairmen: M.M. Gulizia (Catania), A. Raviele (Mestre)
Stroke prevention in NVAF patients: challenges in clinical practice
F. Ammirati (Ostia) Pro: A. Capucci (Ancona)
Cons: M. Tritto (Castellanza)
Rationale for NOAC dosing strategies: the apixaban case
P. Perrone Filardi (Naples)
HYPERPHOSPHATEMIA: A REAL “DOUBLE-FACE MATTER”?
Chairmen: S. Pirelli (Cremona), G. Pulignano (Rome)
- No, It’s a pure Kidney disease!
L. De Nicola (Naples)
- Yes, It’s a Kidney-Cardio disease!
M. Iacoviello (Bari)
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Saturday, April 18 Saturday, April 18
13.00 - 14.30 Luncheon Panel Pegaso Room 13.00 - 14.30 Interactive Luncheon Panel Etna Room
HEART & SPORT: DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATION RELATED Different therapeutical approach in patients with NSTEMI PCI and
TO AGE AND SPORT TYPE in those with pharmacological therapy
Chairmen: A. Amico (Copertino), S. Mangiameli (Catania) Chairmen: G. Calculli (Matera), G. Mazzotta (La Spezia)
EKG in agonist athlete Discerning criteria for choosing reperfusion strategy
S. La Rosa (Milazzo) R.A. Osanna (Potenza)
How to manage ventricular extrasistolia in sportive subject with healty heart Updates about medical management (of ACS)
C. Puntrello (Marsala) S. Severi (Grosseto)
Sport can induce arrhythmias? Therapeutic options and prognosis of NSTEMI patient not eligible for invasive
G. Inama (Crema) strate
G. Casolo (Lido di Camaiore)
Sincope in health sportive subjects: overtraining or alert ring of unrecognized
cardiopathy
F. Giada (Noale)
Can patients with atrial fibrillation play non –agonistic sport?
G. La Delfa (Catania)
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Saturday, April 18 Saturday, April 18
13.00 - 14.30 Casual Meeting Timo Alto Room 14.30 - 16.30 Interactive Symposium Etna Room
The revolution of biological drugs in cardiology: new Rivaroxaban: real life experience e clinical cases sharing
perspectives for high risk patients
Chairmen: G. Di Pasquale (Bologna), M. Santomauro (Naples)
Chairmen: M.M. Gulizia (Catania), F. Romeo (Rome)
Evidences from Dresda registry
Cardiovascular prevention in Italy: where we are today and where we need to be M. Uguccioni (Rome)
G. Mureddu (Rome)
Statin intolerance and adherence management Interactive discussion of clinical cases in stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation
V. Montemurro (Reggio Calabria) and treatment of pulmonary embolism
Role of PCSK9i in the “difficult” cardiovascular prevention Atrial Fibrillation clinical cases:
C. Rapezzi (Bologna) First case
G. Casu (Nuoro)
Second case
L. Calò (Rome)
Pulmonary Embolism clinical case
I. Enea (Caserta)
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Saturday, April 18 Saturday, April 18
15.00 - 16.30 ESC-EHRA Joint Symposium Pegaso Room 15.00 - 16.30 Casual Meeting Timo Alto Room
ATRIAL FIBRILLATION CHALLENGES Home Monitoring in clinical practice:
the role of physician and nurse
Chairmen: A. Maseri (Rome), G. Novelli (Rome), C. Sticherling (Basel)
Chairmen: F. Ammirati (Ostia), G. Giannola (Cefalù)
ESC Guidelines on Atrial Fibrillation: the grey zones Speakers: R.P. Ricci (Rome) L. Morichelli (Rome)
M. Brignole (Lavagna)
Diagnostics Challenges
A. Oto (Ankara)
Silent Atrial Fibrillation relevance after Transcatheter Ablation
S. Themistoclakis (Mestre)
Therapeutic Challenges
L. Molina (Mexico City)
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Saturday, April 18
16.30 - 17.00 Plenary Lecture Pegaso Room
INFLAMMATION IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS:
DO WE NEED TO TREAT IT?
J.L. Mehta (Little Rock)
Jawahar L. Mehta, MD
Dr. Mehta received his MD degree in India and PhD in Sweden, and completed
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his post-graduate education in New York and Minnesota. He joined the faculty
of the college of medicine of the University of Florida where he rose to be Uni-
versity Research Foundation professor for his work which led to the trials of
anti-platelet drugs in cardiac patients.
He moved to Little Rock in 2000 as the first Stebbins Chair in Cardiology and
Professor of Medicine and Physiology and Biophysics. He led the Division of Cardiovascular
Medicine at UAMS until 2007.
Dr. Mehta serves on the editorial board of several major cardiology, physiology and pharmaco-
logy journals, including Circulation, Hypertension, American Journal of Cardiology, European
Heart Journal, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and the World Journal of Cardio-
logy. He has published over 1000 papers, abstracts and book chapters. He is a member of
many prestigious academic societies, including the Association of American Physicians, Ame-
rican Society for Clinical Investigation and Association of University Cardiologists. Grateful
patients have established a Mehta Chair in Cardiovascular Research at UAMS in his honor.
Dr. Mehta has lectured in over 30 countries. He has diverse interests besides medicine, such
as painting, photography, world economy and international politics. He has received several
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major awards from medical and non-medical societies in the US and abroad. He is an hono-
rary professor in the University of Rome, an adjunct Professor in the Clinton School of Public PEGASO ROOM
ETNA ROOM
School in Little Rock, AR, and serves as consultant to the University of Arkansas in nanotech-
CALIPSO room
nology and biomedical engineering. TIMO ALTO room
17.00 - 18.30 Opening Ceremony Pegaso Room
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2015
Sunday, April 19 Sunday, April 19
9.00 - 10.30 Minicourse Pegaso Room 9.00 - 11.00 Interactive Symposium Etna Room
HOW TO INTERPRET AND PERSONALIZE BIOMARKERS IN HEART FAILURE Management of dyslipidemia in high cardiovascular risk
MANAGEMENT patients: two clinical cases
Chairmen: N. Aspromonte (Rome), G. Di Tano (Cremona) Chairmen: G. Alunni (Perugia), A. Di Lenarda (Trieste)
The utililization of natriuretic peptides in prognostic assessment, therapy First Clinical Case
guidance including home management / Telemedicine. M. Abrignani (Trapani), F. Colivicchi (Rome)
R. Valle (Chioggia)
Second Clinical Case
Question time: are biomarkers useful in management of patients with CRT/ICD? E. Manzato (Padua)
N. Aspromonte (Rome)
Cardiorenal biomarkers in acute and chronic heart failure
A Mortara (Monza)
New biomarkers for new phenotypes: galectin 3
M. Zaninotto (Padua)
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2015
Sunday, April 19 Sunday, April 19
10.00 - 11.30 Casual Meeting Timo Alto Room 11.00 - 12.30 Symposium Pegaso Room
Longevity, Mini-ICD, S-ICD: the right device for every patient. Getting the most out of the latest available technologies in
What is the best choice? order to optimize daily clinical practice
Chairman: G. Ciaramitaro (Palermo) Chairmen: P. Delise (Conegliano Veneto), M. Landolina (Crema)
Speakers: E. Pisanò (Lecce), G. Luzzi (Bari) Adapting ventricular pacing in order to increase responsiveness to CRT
M. Biffi (Bologna)
SureScan technology: the ultimate solution for CIED patients undergoing MRI
A. Rapacciuolo (Naples)
Reveal LINQ: a revolution in subcutaneous cardiac monitoring
T. Infusino (Catanzaro)
More than 100.000 AF patients treated with “One Shot” technology: what we
know and what we expect
R. Verlato (Camposampiero)
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2015
Sunday, April 19 Sunday, April 19
11.00 - 13.00 Interactive Symposium Etna Room 11.30 - 13.00 Casual Meeting Timo Alto Room
Unmet needs and current practice of stroke prevention in non RIVAROXABAN IN DAILY CLINICAL PRACTICE: THE EXPERTS OPINION
valvular atrial fibrillation
Chairmen: M.M. Gulizia (Catania), A.P. Maggioni (Florence)
Chairmen: M. Elia (Crotone), S. Novo (Palermo)
In the stroke prevention of atrial fibrillation
Translating clinical data in real word use
M. Scherillo (Benevento) Ask to cardiologist
G. Di Pasquale (Bologna)
Interactive case based session
R. Caporale (Cosenza), G. Geraci (Palermo), F. Nardi (Verbania) Ask to internal medicine specialist
G. Agnelli (Perugia)
In the pulmonary embolism
Ask to cardiologist
G. Di Pasquale (Bologna)
Ask to internal medicine specialist
G. Agnelli (Perugia)
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Sunday, April 19 Sunday, April 19
12.30 - 13.00 Lecture Pegaso Room 13.00 - 14.30 Luncheon Panel Pegaso Room
Therapeutic target of uricaemia and impact on health care costs Patients with high CV risk and hypercholesterolemia:
old unresolved problems, new solutions
Chairman: G.B. Desideri (L’ Aquila)
Chairmen: M. Averna (Palermo), P. Faggiano (Brescia)
Speaker: E. Degli Esposti (Ravenna)
Hypercholesterolemia: what is the real dimension of the problem?
M. Arca (Rome)
Therapeutic inappropriateness and inertia in management of dyslipidemias in
patient with high CV risk
P. Calabrò (Naples)
Treatment of high CV risk patient with hypercholesterolemia: we are close to real
innovation
A. Zambon (Padua)
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2015
Sunday, April 19 Sunday, April 19
13.00 - 14.30 Interactive Luncheon Panel Etna Room 15.00 - 15.30 Lecture Pegaso Room
IVABRADINE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR PATIENTS:
THE ITALIAN CLINICAL EXPERIENCE Thyroid hormone treatment in heart failure:
when and how?
Chairmen: M. Di Biase (Foggia), M.M. Gulizia (Catania)
Chairman: D. Gabrielli (Fermo)
Management and treatment of CAD patients Speaker: G. Iervasi (Pisa)
G. Perna (Ancona)
Management and treatment of heart failure patients with comorbidities
M. Volterrani (Rome)
Management of patients in cardiac rehabilitation
F. Sarullo (Palermo)
Questions & Answers session
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Sunday, April 19 Sunday, April 19
15.00 - 17.00 Interactive Symposium Etna Room 15.00 - 16.30 Casual Meeting Timo Alto Room
Novel trials and new horizons with dabigatran: protecting Dyslipidemic patients: from acute setting to long term
patients at high risk of stroke management of cardiovascular risk
Chairmen: D. Catanzariti (Rovereto), M.M. Gulizia (Catania) Chairman: C. Greco (Rome)
First Clinical Case Sustainability of statin treatments
C. Ferri (L’Aquila) F. Colivicchi (Rome)
Second Clinical Case Statin-beyond LDL control
A. Margonato (Milan) S. Urbinati (Bologna)
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Sunday, April 19 Sunday, April 19
15.30 - 17.00 Meet the Expert Pegaso Room 16.30 - 18.00 Casual Afternoon Meeting Timo Alto Room
The Heart in Neoplastic Patients Management of High Risk Cardiovascular Patients
Chairmen: R. Bordonaro (Catania), N. Maurea (Naples) Chairmen: G. Gensini (Florence), C. Riccio (Caserta)
Cardiotoxicity of Anthracycline-like Chemotherapy agents: Dyslipidemia treatment after ACS
Cardioprotection and Management P. Caldarola (Bari)
L. Tarantini (Belluno)
New evidences on the protective role of n-3 PUFAs in patients with ACS
Trastuzumab, novel ErbB2 Inhibitors and Antiangiogenic Agents: P. Temporelli (Veruno)
Cardioprotection and Management of toxicity of Target Therapy
N. Maurea (Naples) Dyslipidemie management in the renal patient
S. Bianchi (Livorno)
Management of Atrial Fibrillation and VTE in Cancer Patients:
there is a role for NOAC?
G. Polizzi (Partinico)
QT Monitoring in Chemotherapy and Management of Cardiac Devices During
Radiation Therapy
A. Murrone (Perugia)
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2015
Sunday, April 19 Sunday, April 19
17.00 - 18.30 Symposium Pegaso Room 17.00-18.30 Interactive Minicourse Etna Room
THERAPEUTICAL APPROPRIATENESS FOR TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY: REAL PRACTICAL NEEDS FOR THE CLINICAL
CARDIOLOGIST AND THE GENERAL PRACTITIONER
Chairmen: R. Sauro (Avellino), F. Versaci (Campobasso)
Chairmem: I. Bianca (Catania), G. Paleologo (Messina)
Atrial Firbrillation ablation: indications and timing
V. Calvi (Catania) The point on epidemiology and classification of congenital cardiopaties
S. Pipitone (Palermo)
MITRACLIP: does we really need it?
M. Marini (Ancona) Clinics: semeiology and symptomatology
A. Silvia (Siracusa)
S-ICD: a new way to protect the heart without touching it
M.M. Gulizia (Catania) Role of radiology: from chest X-Ray to Magnetic Nuclear Resonance
A. Di Pino (Taormina)
VAD: bridge or alternative to cardiac transplant?
G. Leonardi (Catania) Results and complications of permanent cardiac pacing in paediatric patients
with congenital or acquired AVB
Early cardiac defibrillation out of hospital: the emergency call central point of view G. Calvagna (Taormina)
I. Bertoli (Catania)
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2015
Monday, April 20 Monday, April 20
9.00 - 10.30 Minicourse Pegaso Room 9.00 - 10.30 Interactive Meet the Expert Etna Room
THE MANAGEMENT OF ANTIPLATELET AND ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY 15 INTERACTIVE QUESTIONS/ANSWERS ON: “ATRIAL FIBRILLATION, HEART
IN SURGERY FAILURE, VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS AND CARDIAC DEVICES: WHAT DO
WE NEED TO KNOW?” 1st PART
Chairmen: L. Patanè (Pedara), M. Portoghese (Sassari)
Chairmen: P. Gambino (Agrigento), E. Rubino (Catania)
Before Coronary Artery By-pass Surgery
M. Contarini (Siracusa) 1. ILR with remote control: can we utilize in all silent Atrial Fibrillation?
A. Pangallo (Reggio Calabria)
After Coronary Artery By-pass Surgery
C. Mignosa (Catania) 2. Why and in whom should we use Atrial Fibrillation ablation as first line therapy?
G. Pizzimenti (Milazzo)
In Extracardiac Surgery
G. Chiarandà (Caltagirone) 3. Does CRT improve the compliance of Atrial Fibrillation patient?
C. Catalano (Agrigento)
NOA and bleeding management
A. Carbonaro (Catania) 4. QRS duration, morphology, NYHA class: a real need before CRT implant?
G. Di Guardo (Catania)
Double Antiplatelet Therapy in association with Oral Anticoagulation
S. Valente (Florence) 5. Pacing site is more important than lead type to increase the number of CRT
responder?
G. Muscio (Siracusa)
6. Remote monitoring of CRT devices has improved the number of responder?
V. Lettica (Vittoria)
7. To whom proposing ICD upgrading from single or dual chamber to biventricular?
C. Pedi (Caltagirone)
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2015
Monday, April 20 Monday, April 20
9.30 - 11.00 Casual Morning Meeting Timo Alto Room 11.00 - 12.30 Symposium Pegaso Room
New perspectives in the prevention of thromboembolic risk in WHICH ORAL ANTIPLATELET AGENTS IN ACS-PCI PATIENTS? Unmet Needs
Atrial Fibrillation and Possible Solutions
Chairmen: M.M. Gulizia (Catania), N. Maurea (Naples) Chairmen: S. Berti (Massa), A. Galassi (Catania)
Unmet medical needs in the prevention of thromboembolic events in AF The essential need and the right solution for ensuring the best outcome in
M. Scherillo (Benevento) STEMI patients
D. Capodanno (Catania)
NOACs in the treatment of AF: Clinical Trials and RWE
P. Verdecchia (Assisi) Current Controversies in the administration of antiplatelet therapy in NSTEMI-
PCI: Pretreatment vs Non-Pretreatment, what to do?
The role of NOACs in pts undergoing electrical cardioversion L. Bolognese (Arezzo)
S. Thamistoclakis (Mestre)
Do SCA-Diabetic patients deserve a more targeted treatment?
R. Rossini (Bergamo)
Switching: the right strategy to improve patients’ treatment
L. De Luca (Rome)
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Monday, April 20 Monday, April 20
11.00 - 12.30 Interactive Meet the Expert Etna Room 11.00 - 12.30 Casual Meeting Timo Alto Room
15 INTERACTIVE QUESTIONS/ANSWERS ON: “ATRIAL FIBRILLATION, HEART INNOVATION IN ARRHYTHMOLOGY
FAILURE, VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS AND CARDIAC DEVICES: WHAT DO WE
NEED TO KNOW?” 2nd PART Speaker: P. Casale (Lancaster), M. Zoni Berisso (Genoa)
Chairmen: F. Lisi (Catania), M. Moncada (Lentini)
Multi Point Pacing: improving the outcome of the CRT patients
F. Al-Smadi (Riyad)
1. Does RMN conditional CRT/CRT-D devices changed quality of life of our patients?
L. Vasquez (Milazzo)
Contact Force Sensor: changing the routine of AF ablation procedures
2. Sudden death primary preventions with ICD: what indications? M. Giaccardi (Florence)
F. Liberti (Catania)
3. Does latest technology dual chamber ICD succeded in a significant inappropriate Simplified LAAO Procedure: a New Technology in the market
shock reduction? C. Tondo (Milan)
M. Sicuro (Aosta)
4. What is the ABC in the arrhythmic storm management of a low EF ICD implanted
patient?
G. Ciaramitaro (Palermo)
5. What to answer to a patient who refuse and ICD replacement for battery depletion?
C. Riganti (Naples)
6. Ventricular arrhythmias ablation has grown its fruits or are we growing a tree
which makes only nice flowers?
S. Lumera (Vittoria)
7. Leads explant: is it always correct when a PM/ICD decubitus occurs?
G. Calvagna (Taormina)
8. S-ICD implant can be useful as a life-saving in a patient already implanted with
a pacemaker?
S. Orazi (Rieti)
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Monday, April 20 Monday, April 20
12.30 - 13.30 Focus on Pegaso Room 12.30 - 13.30 Lecture Etna Room
IMAGING: NOT ONLY ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY Changing the face of anticoagulation:
2 years of Dabigatran in Italy
Chairmen: V. Amodeo (Reggio Calabria), E. Mossuti (Siracusa)
Chairman: L. Roncon (Rovigo)
Hypertropic cardiomiopathy Speaker: P. Colonna (Rome)
G. Giordano (Catania)
Dilatative cardiomiopathy
F. Rigo (Mestre)
Right ventricular arrhytmogenic dysplasia
G. Licciardello (Augusta)
MNR and cardiac devices
A. Giardina (Cagliari)
Coronary-TC or coronary angiography for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease
S. Tolaro (Pedara)
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2015
Monday, April 20 Monday, April 20
13.30-15.00 Luncheon Panel Pegaso Room 13.30 - 15.00 Luncheon Panel Etna Room
Integrated management of heart failure patient: role of the INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGES
general practitioner and the out-of-hospital cardiologist
Chairmen: M. Audoly (Catania), C. Dell’Ali (Avola)
Chairmen: S. Campione (Catania), D. Grimaldi (Catania), F. Sisto (Potenza)
Management of stand-alone atrial fibrillation: advantages of the hybrid approach
Keep incharge by general practitioner C. Puntrello, L. Pison, G. Rubino, C.M. Rao, G.M. Francese, G. Puntrello,
A. Rizzo (Catania) M.M. Gulizia, J.G. Maessen, H.J.G. Crijns, M. La Meir, S. Gelsomino, F. Lucà
(Marsala, Italy)
Which role for out-pf-hospital cardiologist
V. Panno (Palermo) The importance of substrate modification in maintenance of sinus rhythm after
electrical cardioversion in patients undergoing surgical ablation
C. Puntrello, G. Rubino, P.W. Lozekoot, C.M. Rao, G.M. Francese, G. Puntrello,
How to evaluate quality of care and management of post-acute patient M.M. Gulizia, J.G. Maessen, H.J.G. Crijns, S. Gelsomino, F. Lucà (Marsala, Italy)
A. Di Guardo (Catania)
The Safety Transfer in Acute cRitical patient by Telemedicine (START) Program at
How general practitioners answer to high NYHA class patient needs Udonthani general hospital, Thailand
M. D’Urso (Catania) W. Wichitkosoom (Bangkok, Thailand)
Predictors and an incidence of ventricular lead dislodgement in early
postoperative period (a single center experience)
V. Agapov, D. Terekhov, V. Samitin, S. Zadorozhnaya (Saratov, Russia)
Neutrophil to lymphocyte Ratio (NLR) Predicts Appropriate Shocks in Ischemic
and Non-Ischemic CMP Patients with implanted ICD for primary prevention
F. Mehmet (Ankara, Turkey)
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SESSION
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2015
Poster Area
P1 Relationship between the diagnostic the CorVueTM and the left ventricle P8 Gamma-glutamyl Transferase Predicts Recurrences of Atrial Fibrillation
remodeling in patients undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy After Catheter Ablation
(CRT) F. Mehmet (Ankara, Turkey)
F. Lucà, G. Rubino, C.M. Rao, G. Puntrello, G.M. Francese, M.M. Gulizia,
C. Puntrello (Marsala, Italy) P9 Baseline LDL Levels Predict Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) Severity In
Asymptomatic Low Ejection Fraction Patients
P2 Improvement in right ventricular function evaluated by two-dimensional F. Mehmet (Ankara, Turkey)
strain after cardiac resynchronization therapy
F. Lucà, G. Rubino, C.M. Rao, G. Puntrello, S. Gelsomino, G.M. Francese, P10 The Association Between Platelet/Lymphocyte Ratio (PLR) and Coronary
M.M. Gulizia, C. Puntrello (Marsala, Italy) Artery Disease Severity In Asymptomatic Low Ejection Fraction Patients
F. Mehmet (Ankara, Turkey)
P3 Social-economic impact of trasvenous lead extraction procedure: a single-
center experience P11 Uric Acid Predicts Appropriate Shocks in CMP Patients with primary
S. Patanè, G.M. Calvagna (Taormina, Italy) prevention ICD’s
F. Mehmet (Ankara, Turkey)
P4 The place of Holter monitoring in patients with cardiac resynchronization
therapy devices P12 Aortic dissection in a Turner syndrome patients: Aortic Size Index as a
V. Agapov, D. Terekhov, V. Samitin, S. Zadorozhnaya (Saratov, Russia) criterion to predict risk
C.M. Rao, J. Nijs, G.M. Francese, F.A. Benedetto, C. Puntrello, G. Rubino,
P5 Myocardial infarction or pulmonary embolism? A diagnosis guided by O. Parise, G. Puntrello, N. Ingianni, J.G. Maessen, M. La Meir,
electrocardiogram M.M. Gulizia, S. Gelsomino, F. Lucà (Marsala, Italy)
L. Valeri, G. Bricco, D. Tedeschi, D. Pancaldo, L. Correndo, M. De Benedictis,
A. Magliarditi, G. Amoroso, A. Battisti, S. Dogliani, A. Bassignana, P13 Implantable cardioverter defibrillator and pacemaker: psychological impact
B. Doronzo, A. Coppolino (Savigliano, Italy) in patients
G.M. Francese, C. Giuffrida, C. Puntrello, C.M. Rao, M.M. Gulizia, F. Lucà
P6 Massive myocardial staining and small coronary artery rupture during (Marsala, Italy)
complicated coronary angiography
F. Mehmet (Ankara, Turkey)
P7 Cystic Massive Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy With Polymorphic
Tachycardia
F. Mehmet (Ankara, Turkey)
70 71CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015 2015
TRAINING COURSE ON
Cardiology
and Intensive Care
FOR ALLIED PROFESSIONALS
APRIL 18-19, 2015
(Italian Allied Professionals only)
see Italian version for details
President:
Michele M. Gulizia, MD, FESC
Program Chairs:
Giuseppina Maura Francese
Angelo Gambera
Loredana Morichelli
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Basic Life
Support Course
and Defibrillation
APRIL 20, 2015
see Italian version for details
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2015 2015
INFORMATION
Registration
Congress Venue
Hotel
Exhibitors and Sponsors
76 77REGISTRATION
INFORMATION
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Congress Registration Modalities Course Attendance Modalities
DELEGATE € 620,00* Vat 22% not included BLS-D COURSE PHYSICIAN € 220,00* Vat 22% not included
Registration fee includes: attendance to all the scientific sessions including the luncheon Registration fee includes: participation to the Course, entrance to the exhibition area,
BLS-D licence, coffee break, CME Certificate (for Italian participants).
panels (limited to seat availability), entrance to the exhibition area, meeting proceedings,
Maximum 36 participants accepted on first come first served basis after the full payment
attendance certificate, badge and congress kit, welcome opening reception and coffee
of the charge. Date and timetables must be respected.
breaks at the venue, CME Certificate (for Italian participants).
ALLIED PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
Registration for 1 day € 60,00* Vat 22% not included
Registration for 2 days € 100,00* Vat 22% not included
Registration fee includes: attendance to all scientific sessions, entrance to the exhibition
area, badge and conference kit, attendance certificate, CME certificate (if entitled to - two-
day attendance is required), coffee breaks and welcome opening ceremony.
* VAT could be subjected to changes. The VAT rate will be applied depending on the Italian
fiscal law at the time of payment of registration.
78 79LOCATION
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Catania & Congress Venue
Catania is undoubtely one of the most important cities in the whole
Mediterranean area, both in terms of cultural and historical point of
view. It is one of the few cities in Italy that offers a variety of landscapes
condensed in one site. Located on the east coast of Sicily (which
represents the metropolitan area with the highest population density),
Catania has ancient origins since its foundation dates back to 729 BC.
During its history Catania has been a constant point of reference for
the entire Mediterranean area, especially from an artistic and cultural
point of view: it is here that in 1434 the oldest university of Sicily was
founded. The remains of several ruins still enrich the heritage of the
town and surrounding areas, despite Catania was repeatedly destroyed
by violent volcanic eruptions caused by the Etna volcano (the most
impressive occurred in 1669) and by devastating earthquakes (the more
catastrophic one occurred in 1693). It is from this tragic event that the
city and its people were able to get up in a truly unique and admirable
way. A work of reconstruction with few equals in the world led to the
blossoming of the famous “Sicilian Baroque” style of architecture that
identifies more than any other the fantasy, the imaginative power and the
passion for beauty of Catania and its inhabitants. Therefore in 2006 the
splendid baroque center of Catania became a UNESCO World Heritage
Site, along with seven towns of the Val di Noto, Sicily. Today, Catania is a Sheraton Catania Hotel & Conference Center
city full of colors, scents and flavors - a lively and surprising, suspended Just few minutes from the historic center of Catania, the Sheraton Hotel
between the magic of the blue Ionian Sea and the imposing outline of offers high level of hospitality with a wide range of business and spare time
Etna volcano and often snowy, which dominates the city from above. facilities. The Sheraton Catania is one of the largest conference centers in
eastern Sicily, with an area of 724 square meters in 6 modular meeting
rooms of different sizes and acoustically isolated. All the 162 rooms and 7
suites - walking through a panoramic elevator - are characterized by colors
that come into perfect harmony with the landscape of the Mediterranean
area. Each room is equipped with all facilities and comforts offering the
highest standards of quality and safety. The conference area, personalized
for the Mediterranean Cardiology Meeting 2015, provides a great learning
experience in an extremely pleasant and comfortable site.
80 81HOTEL
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Hotels – Telephone numbers
4 Star Hotels ****
1) Plaza Hotel Catania (Aga Hotel) +39 095 8362406
2) Grand Hotel Baia Verde +39 095 491522
3) Nettuno +39 095 7122006
4) NH Parco degli Aragonesi +39 095 7234073
5) Romano House +39 095 3520611
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