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European Society of Cardiology

CongressStockholm, Sweden
28 August - 1 September 2010

Evolving Standards of Care
The way cardiology is practiced evolves continuously. At the ESC Congress 2010 in Stockholm, Siemens will provide you with multiple opportunities to learn about these trends and to discuss with the experts.

Satellite Symposia
Evolving standards of care in patients with heart failure, chest pain and severe aortic valve stenosis are the topics of our three Satellite Symposia featuring presentations and panel discussions by renowned experts.

Evolving standards of care in the management of heart failure patients

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Interview with
Josep Brugada

University of Barcelona, Spain

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Interview with
Josef Kautzner

IKEM, Prague, Czech Republic

Evolving standards of care in chest pain patients

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Interview with
Christopher DeFilippi

University of Maryland, Baltimore MD, USA

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Interview with
Christian Hamm

Kerckhoff Heart Center, Bad Nauheim, Germany

Evolving standards of care in patients with severe aortic valve stenosis

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Interview with
Gerhard Schuler

Universitätsklinik Leipzig, Germany

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Interview with
Alec Vahanian

Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France

Hands-On Tutorials
Our Hands-On Tutorials will introduce you to new possibilities in Cardiovascular CT and MR, 3D Cathlab Imaging and Echocardiography. The ESC Cardiovascular MR Working Group announced their endorsement of the CMR sessions.
Interview with Prof. Herbert Frank, Chair-elect of the ESC Cardiovascular MR Working Group

Floor Plan
Check out the locations of all these events on our ESC Congress 2010 Floor Plan.

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Visit us at ESC Congress 2010 Stockholm, Siemens booth C16:30

Listen to key opinion leaders discussing evolving standards of care. Get answers to your questions about management of patients with heart failure, chest pain and severe aortic valve stenosis from a panel of renowned experts.

Evolving standards of care in the management of heart failure patients

Saturday, 28 August, 14:30-16:00

Room Paris, Zone A

Chairperson: J Brugada Terradellas (Barcelona, ES), P Collinson (London, GB)

Satellite Symposium organised by Siemens AG, Healthcare Sector

Programme 1

Heart failure is a great challenge for the individual patient, but also for healthcare systems. New therapies like CRT help to improve the patient’s life. Learn about the latest developments that help to overcome current problems of modern heart failure care.

Short introduction to current challenges in HF management.

J Brugada Terradellas (Barcelona, ES)

Instantaneous full volume echocardiography for accurate assesment of heart failure.

T H Marwick (Cleveland, US)

The assessment of cardiac volumes and cardiac function is the basis of objective heart failure assessment. Learn how real-time full volume echocardiography in combination with new analysis tools enables new insights into the failing heart.

Magnetic resonance imaging for differential diagnosis of heart failure.

O. Bruder (Essen, DE)

Differential diagnosis is very important for appropriate HF patient management. With traditional approaches this may often be long lasting and perhaps inconclusive. CMR facilitates a fast differentiation of ischemic and non-ischemic heart failure and may even help to differentiate other underlying diseases like HCM, amyloidosis, myocarditis, and many more.

Second generation dual-source computed tomography: selecting the appropriate scan option for the clinical indication in patients with congenital heart disease.

J Lesser (Maple Plain, US)
Grown-ups with congenital heart disease are becoming a more important patient subgroup in heart failure management. Comprehensive assessment of anatomy, morphology and function is a must but even with newest imaging technology still a challenge. Learn how special protocols help to overcome this challenge in cardiac CT imaging.

Imaging to improve cardiac resynchronization therapy implantation.

J. Kautzner (Prague, CZ)

CRT improves outcomes of heart failure patients, but up to 30% of patients are non-responders. Learn how new imaging approaches can help to minimize this number and to improve the CRT implantation process with new technologies like CT of the coronary sinus, DynaCT, CMR late enhancement or intraprocedural echocardiography.

Natriuretic peptides guided heart failure management.

J Januzzi (Boston, US)

Heart failure patients are at high risk to die and also are very frequent guests in hospitals. Learn how BNP monitoring helps to improve the quality of care in heart failure and also helps to reduce the re-hospitalization rate significantly.

Short summary with focus on the novel role of imaging and lab testing in heart failure management.

P Collinson (London, GB)

The presentations will be followed by a 20-minute panel discussion. The discussion will evaluate how standards of care in management of heart failure patients will evolve and may change clinical routine.
The audience will be encouraged to contribute their questions and comments.

Evolving standards of care in chest pain patients

Tuesday, 31 August, 14:00-15:30

Room Cairo, Zone A

Chairperson: C W Hamm (Bad Nauheim, DE), V Dor (Monaco, MC)

Satellite Symposium organised by Siemens AG, Healthcare Sector

Programme 2

Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is the most important disease in clinical cardiology. Management of patients with CAD has dramatically improved over the last two decades, but the end has not been reached! Learn how innovative imaging approaches and also lab testing may help to further optimize CAD patient care.

Introduction: Importance of guideline-adherent CAD patient management.

C W Hamm (Bad Nauheim, DE)

Coronary intervention in the era of SYNTAX and FAME.

F J Neumann (Bad Krozingen, DE)

In 2009, two landmark studies generated big discussions how to manage patients with Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) best. SYNTAX evaluated whether PCI is an alternative to CABG also in patients with severe coronary 3-vessel disease and/or left main disease. FAME demonstrated that FFR assessment directly in the cathlab helps to differentiate hemodynamic significant stenosis from non significant ones. How should these studies impact therapeutic decision making today?

Instantaneous full volume stress echocardiography for myocardial ischemia diagnosis.

M J Monaghan (London, GB)

Stress echocardiography is an established diagnostic tool to identify patients with significant CAD. The introduction of volume echocardiography combined with new tools for visualization and analysis of the acquired data, promises to improve the diagnostic quality of stress echocardiography and has the potential to make stress echo studies easier to perform, faster and more reproducible.

Cardiac CT is more than Coronary CT: Comprehensive CT assessment of CAD including myocardial perfusion and viability.

J Hausleiter (Munich, DE)

CT has become an important diagnostic tool for coronary assessment over the last decade. With introduction of newest scanner technologies like Dual Source CT and Dual Energy applications, now more clinical questions can be answered by means of cardiac CT, such as myocardial perfusion and viability.

One-stop-shop PET/CT.

F M Bengel (Baltimore, US)

Having one exam that answers all relevant questions is a dream of clinicians of all disciplines. Learn how PET/CT is offering this comprehensive approach in patients with CAD: assessment of coronary artery anatomy, cardiac function and myocardial perfusion, all in one study!

Value of an efficient biomarker profile in the management of chest pain patients.

C DeFilippi (Baltimore, US)

Lab tests play an important role in the management of CAD patients, either in the preventive, acute, but also in the chronic setting. Get to know how combining several markers helps to improve diagnosis of patients with acute chest pain.

Summary on how innovative methods help to improve CAD care.

V Dor (Monaco, MC)

The presentations will be followed by a 20-minute panel discussion. The discussion will evaluate how standards of care in management of Coronary Artery Disease will evolve and may change clinical routine.
The audience will be encouraged to contribute their questions and comments.

Evolving standards of care in patients with severe aortic valve stenosis: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)

Tuesday, 31 August, 16:00-17:30

Room Cairo, Zone A

Chairperson: R Lange (München, DE), A Vahanian (Paris, FR)

Satellite Symposium organised by Siemens AG, Healthcare Sector and Medtronic International Trading Sarl

Programme 3

Surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) is the guideline-recommended therapy of choice for patients with severe aortic valve stenosis. In clinical routine, however, roughly one-third of elderly patients with severe aortic stenosis are denied surgery due to co-morbidities and resulting high surgical risk.

Over the last few years transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has been emerging as a promising alternative to SAVR in these patients. This symposium will provide a comprehensive overview on:

Current TAVI indications
The role of preprocedural patient assessment
The TAVI implantation procedure and its follow-up

Introduction: Current situation for elderly patients with severe aortic stenosis.

R Lange (Munich, DE)

Patient selection as critical success factor for trans-catheter aortic valve implantation.

P P T De Jaegere (Rotterdam, NL)

Preprocedural accurate assessment of aortic and aortic valve anatomy and morphology, aortic diameters and also the peripheral arterial status is essential for successful TAVI procedures. Imaging is crucial for prosthesis sizing and for the appropriate access route. You will learn the multimodality approach for preprocedural patient assessment and the impact of specific results on the TAVI procedure.

Trans-femoral aortic valve implantation (TAVI) - The procedure step by step.

G C Schuler (Leipzig, DE)

TAVI may be done as pure interventional procedure or minimally invasively by a transapical access. The transcatheter procedure will be described step-by-step.

Clinical outcome of TAVI with CoreValve: latest results from registries.

S Windecker (Bern, CH)

TAVI gets performed for about 5 years and a lot of data from studies and registries have been collected meanwhile. You will get to know the latest results of studies and registries, demonstrating the current clinical status of TAVI.

How to follow-up TAVI patients?

S J D Brecker (London, GB)

Similar to other therapies, follow-up in TAVI is important for sustainable positive patient outcome. Multi-modality imaging plays an important role, besides clinical evaluation and lab testing. Get the latest status of recommended supportive drug therapy, with an emphasis on antiplatelet therapy.

Concluding remarks: Outlook on future developments in the field of interventional aortic stenosis therapy.

A Vahanian (Paris, FR)

The presentations will be followed by a 20-minute panel discussion. The discussion will evaluate how new standards of care in management of severe aortic stenosis may change clinical routine.

The audience will be encouraged to contribute their questions and comments.

Visit us at ESC Congress 2010 in Stockholm, Siemens booth C16:30

Get trained in new techniques such as Cardiovascular CT and MR and new possibilities in Interventional Cardiology and Echocardiography. Clinical experts will share their experience and deliver a comprehensive hands-on experience.

To register for the Hands-On Tutorials, please visit us at the Hands-On Tutorials, Room 1, Zone C, starting Saturday 28 August 2010, 15:00.

Interview with Prof. Herbert Frank

Chair-elect of the ESC Cardiovascular MR Working Group
Department Chair of Internal Medicine & Cardiology
Landesklinikum Niederösterreich, Donauklinikum Tulln, Austria
Interviewer: Okan Ekinci, Head of Clinical Competence Center Cardiology,
Siemens AG, Healthcare Sector

Cardiovascular CT

Technical principles, clinical indications and analysis of datasets

T Pflederer (Erlangen, DE)

Computed Tomography (CT) plays a steadily increasing role in the field of CVD imaging. The noninvasiveness of the method and recent major technological advances in scanner and software development make CT an especially appealing modality to detect atherosclerosis in early stages. Dr. Tobias Pflederer from Erlangen University will give you an introduction about technical principles of CT and dose-reduction possibilities in Cardiac CT. During the Hands-on Session you will have the opportunity to discover how to utilize the brand new processing platform syngo.via through case-based demonstrations.

Saturday 28 August, 16:00 - 17:30
Sunday 29 August, 09:00 - 10:30
Monday 30 August, 10:45 - 12:15
Tuesday 31 August, 12:30 - 14:00

To register for the Hands-On Tutorials, please visit us at the Hands-On Tutorials, Room 1, Zone C, starting Saturday 28 August 2010, 15:00.

Cardiovascular MR

CMR in Coronary Artery Disease

G von der Recke (Bonn, DE)

Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is one of the two top indications for Cardiac MR as this is the most versatile tool in the diagnosis of such. Following the practical approach of all the HOT sessions this topic is covered during the demonstration of several cases representing a wide spectrum of routine findings such as CAD follow-up after coronary stenosis and after CABG.
The various imaging techniques (function, perfusion, viability) are explained. Special topics such as the apparative requirements and the contrast dose are covered as well.

Sunday 29 August, 14:15 - 15:45
Monday 30 August, 09:00 - 10:30

To register for the Hands-On Tutorials, please visit us at the Hands-On Tutorials, Room 1, Zone C, starting Saturday 28 August 2010, 15:00.

CMR in Cardiomyopathies and Myocarditis

O Bruder (Essen, DE)

In the differential diagnosis of Myocarditis and other Cardiomyopathies Cardiac MR can play a decisive role in prognosis and risk stratification. Following the practical approach of all the HOT sessions this topic is covered during the demonstration of several cases representing a wide spectrum of findings such as Myocarditis, Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy (HOCM) and Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy.

Sunday 29 August, 16:00 - 17:30
Tuesday 31 August, 10:45 - 12:15

To register for the Hands-On Tutorials, please visit us at the Hands-On Tutorials, Room 1, Zone C, starting Saturday 28 August 2010, 15:00.

Echocardiography

Right Ventricular Analysis with Full Volume Echocardiography

H B van der Zwaan (Rotterdam, NL)

The assessment of right ventricular size and function based on 2-dimensional echocardiography is used as a decision-making tool, for example in patients with congenital heart disease. The accurate quantification of RV volumes and ejection fraction is therefore essential. Volumetric calculations based on 2-dimensional echocardiography turned out to be unreliable however, because of the need of geometric assumptions that were impossible to fit onto the complex shaped right ventricle. Therefore, a 3-dimensional image technology, such as real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography, is mandatory. Various studies have shown that real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography can assess right ventricular volumes and ejection fraction in various patient groups. If proven to be a robust and reliable technique, real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography might replace cardiac magnetic resonance imaging for right ventricular functional assessment in a substantial proportion of the patients. The goal of the Hands on tutorial will be to get a good understanding of the clinical potential of the assessment of the right ventricle and to understand the workflow of the RVA analysis with Full Volume RV data.

Sunday 29 August, 12:30 - 14:00
Tuesday 31 August, 16:00 - 17:30

To register for the Hands-On Tutorials, please visit us at the Hands-On Tutorials, Room 1, Zone C, starting Saturday 28 August 2010, 15:00.

Left Ventricular Analysis with Full Volume Echocardiography

M J Monaghan (London, GB)

3D LV Analysis – why and how! 3D analysis of left ventricular morphology and function is more accurate and reproducible than 2D. Within a few minutes it is possible to obtain detailed information on left ventricular size, global function and sophisticated parameters of global function. This session will demonstrate why you should be performing this type of LV evaluation on your patients regularly and how to do it in a few simple steps. Your patients can’t afford you not to attend!

Monday 30 August, 14:15 - 15:45

To register for the Hands-On Tutorials, please visit us at the Hands-On Tutorials, Room 1, Zone C, starting Saturday 28 August 2010, 15:00.

Valve Assessment with Full Volume Color Flow Echocardiography

A Goncalves (Madrid, ES)

Three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) is becoming part of everyday clinical practice worldwide. In this tutorial we will review the contribution of 3DE to our knowledge of anatomic and functional valvular anatomy and the potential advantages of instantaneous full-volume color Doppler echocardiography. The complex anatomy of the mitral valve gets simpler with 3DE examination from the left ventricle or with the generation of “surgeon’s eye” views images. Mitral regurgitation is assessed with colour flow in “One Heartbeat”, and the entire surface of a jet separately analyzed with the desired view orientated according to the preferred direction. The 3DE visualization of PISA surface and vena contracta, allows to evaluate if its real configuration is spherical or either elliptical. This same principle is applied for tricuspid and aortic regurgitation. In this “Hands on tutorial” this new approach for valvular disease evaluation will be performed and the concept of 3DE in valve disease will be finally clarified.

Tuesday 31 August, 09:00 - 10:30

To register for the Hands-On Tutorials, please visit us at the Hands-On Tutorials, Room 1, Zone C, starting Saturday 28 August 2010, 15:00.

Interventional Cardiology

3D guided Aortic Valve Implantation

G Brockmann (Munich, DE)

Almost 30% of aortic valve replacements are due to aortic stenosis; therefore, certain groups of patients present high operative risk. This session describes transapical aortic valve implantation, a minimally invasive off-pump procedure. This technique represents a new alternative for patients with advanced age and increased operative risk, severe calcifications of the aorta, or previous coronary revascularization. Delineation of the aortic root geometry is essential. The use of DYNA CT Cardiac allows for intra-procedural 3D imaging directly in the hybrid operating room using the C-arm of the imaging system. It allows determining the width of the aortic annulus and has the added ability of measuring the distance from the aortic annulus to the coronary ostia. In addition the 3D information can be overlaid to live fluoroscopy to not only determine the optimal projection angle but to also guide the actual valve deployment.

Sunday 29 August, 09:00 - 10:30
Monday 30 August, 12:30 - 14:00
Monday 30 August, 16:00 - 17:30
Tuesday 31 August, 14:15 - 15:45

To register for the Hands-On Tutorials, please visit us at the Hands-On Tutorials, Room 1, Zone C, starting Saturday 28 August 2010, 15:00.

3D guided Structural Heart Interventions

H Rittger (Coburg, DE)

Structural heart disease interventions are a growing field of invasive cardiology and good quality imaging is one of the cornerstones for planning and performing these procedures. Angiography alone suffers from the intrinsic limitation of projective 2-dimensional imaging and does not offer three-dimensional volumetric appreciation needed to image complex and abnormal anatomies. The use of DYNA CT Cardiac allows for intra-procedural 3D imaging directly in the cath-lab using the C-arm of the imaging system. The derived three-dimensional information can be used to perform quantitative measurements for proper device selection and can be overlaid to live fluoroscopy to guide the actual device implantation. This session describes the use of DYNA CT Cardiac in a variety of different structural interventions.

Visit us at ESC Congress 2010 in Stockholm, Siemens booth C16:30

European Society of Cardiology Congress
Stockholm, Sweden
28 August - 1 September 2010

Visit us at ESC Congress 2010 in Stockholm, Siemens booth C16:30

Floor Plan

ESC Congress 2010

ESC Congress 2010

European Society of Cardiology

Evolving standards of care in the management of heart failure patients

Interview with Josep Brugada

Interview with Josef Kautzner

Evolving standards of care in chest pain patients

Interview with Christopher DeFilippi

Interview with Christian Hamm

Evolving standards of care in patients with severe aortic valve stenosis

Interview with Gerhard Schuler

Interview with Alec Vahanian

Evolving standards of care in the management of heart failure patients

Programme 1

Evolving standards of care in chest pain patients

Programme 2

Evolving standards of care in patients with severe aortic valve stenosis: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)

Programme 3

Interview with Prof. Herbert Frank

Cardiovascular CT

Technical principles, clinical indications and analysis of datasets

Cardiovascular MR

CMR in Coronary Artery Disease

CMR in Cardiomyopathies and Myocarditis

Echocardiography

Right Ventricular Analysis with Full Volume Echocardiography

Left Ventricular Analysis with Full Volume Echocardiography

Valve Assessment with Full Volume Color Flow Echocardiography

Interventional Cardiology

3D guided Aortic Valve Implantation

3D guided Structural Heart Interventions

Floor Plan

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