Stockholm, Sweden
28 August - 1 September 2010

Evolving standards of care in the management of heart failure patients

Satellite Symposium organised by Siemens AG, Healthcare Sector

Short introduction to current challenges in HF management

Instantaneous full volume echocardiography for accurate assesment of heart failure

Magnetic resonance imaging for differential diagnosis of heart failure

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

Imaging to improve cardiac resynchronization therapy implantation

Natriuretic peptides guided heart failure management

Summary and discussion

Evolving standards of care in chest pain patients 
Chairperson: C W Hamm (Bad Nauheim, DE), V Dor (Monaco, MC) 
Satellite Symposium organised by Siemens AG, Healthcare Sector. 

Introduction: Importance of guideline-adherent CAD patient management

Coronary intervention in the era of SYNTAX and FAME

Instantaneous full volume stress echocardiography for myocardial ischemia diagnosis

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

Cardiac PET-CT

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

Summary on how innovative methods help to improve CAD care

Evolving standards of care in patients with severe aortic valve stenosis: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) 
Chairperson: R Lange (München, DE), A Vahanian (Paris, FR) Satellite 
Symposium organised by Siemens AG, Healthcare Sector and Medtronic International Trading Sarl. 

Introduction: Current situation for elderly patients with severe aortic stenosis

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

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

Clinical outcome of TAVI with CoreValve: latest results from registries

How to follow-up TAVI patients?

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