Preliminary Scientific Programme available here ( PDF 113 Kb ).
Saturday 11 June, Afternoon
14:30 -18:00
Satellite Symposia
18:15
Opening Ceremony - Welcome Address
18:30
The WGHF Honorary Lecture “Acute Heart Failure a challenge for the next decade”
Sunday 12 June, Morning
08:30 - 10:00
- Acute heart failure: a complex condition
- Cardiac resynchronisation therapy. How important is the method used to select patients?
- Cardiac fibrosis and remodelling - pathophysiology and opportunities for pharmacological intervention
- Update on endothelial mechanisms in heart failure *
- Modulation of myocardial gene expression *
- Oral Abstracts
11:00 - 12:30
- Optimal use of BNP in heart failure patients
- Surgery for chronic heart failure. Redefining the limits
- Which is the best method for detecting hibernating myocardium in heart failure patients?
- Cachexia in chronic heart failure
- Intracellular signalling in failing myocardium *
- Oral Abstracts
Sunday 12 June, Lunch
12:35 -13:50
Satellite Symposia
Sunday 12 June, Afternoon
14:00 - 15:30
- Sudden death in heart failure: risk stratification
- Rehabilitation in heart failure
- Hotline session - Ongoing European projects
- Update on diastolic heart failure *
- Cellular and gene therapy in heart failure *
- Oral Abstracts
16:00 - 17:30
- Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of diastolic heart failure
- Prevention of malignant ventricular arrhythmias in heart failure: from randomised studies to clinical practice
- Joint session with the Heart Failure Society of America
- Chronic heart failure and exercise: a friendly relationship
- Calcineurin signalling in cardiac failure *
- Oral Abstracts
Monday 13 June, Morning
08:30 - 10:00
- Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT): the evidence and controversies
- Diuretics or acquaretics in heart failure: the old and the new
- Hyde Park Corner
- Young Investigator Award (basic science)*
- Stem cells in heart failure: the repair of broken hearts? *
- Oral Abstracts * Basic Science Sessions
11:00 - 12:30
- Three “hearty“ subjects
- The diagnosis and treatment of CHF: the guidelines revisited - Debate
- Hotline session - Ongoing European projects
- Young Investigator Award (clinical science)
- Diabetic cardiomyopathy: the crossroads between metabolic signalling and cardiac function *
- Oral Abstracts
Monday 13 June, Lunch
12:35 -13:50
Satellite Symposia
Monday 13 June, Afternoon
14:00 - 15:30
- Heart failure clinics: bridging the gap between guidelines’ recommendations and clinical reality
- Late Breaking Trials
- Genetics of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in 2005
- Anaemia in heart failure
- Clinical research methodology in heart failure - Workshop
- Oral Abstracts
16:00 - 17:30
- New modalities for the treatment of severe heart failure
- Atrial fibrillation in heart failure: which therapies are appropriate?
- Cine-magnetic resonance imaging for heart failure
- Donor shortage in heart transplantation: let’s allocate better the hearts
- Heart Failure in AIDS: a sleeping giant?
- Oral Abstracts
Monday 13 June, Late Afternoon
18:00 -19:30
Satellite Symposia
Tuesday 14 June, Morning
08:30 - 10:00
- Guidelines on acute heart failure
- The difficult task of prognostication in heart failure
- Chronic heart failure and common co-morbidities: prognostic impact and therapeutic targets
- Familial dilated cardiomyopathies
- Heart failure challenges in congenital heart disease
- Oral Abstracts
11:00 - 12:30
- The octagenerian failing heart
- Organising the care of heart failure patients
- CHF and the brain: “les liaisons dangereuses“
- Quality of life in heart failure - a possible target for treatment?
- Mechano-sensing in heart failure *
- Oral Abstracts
* Basic Science Sessions