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Heart Failure Association (HFA) @ the ESC Annual Congress 2009 

Highlights of the HFA activities at the ESC Annual Congress in Barcelona.

Topics: Heart Failure (HF)
Date: 22 Jul 2009
heartfailurematters.org - Patient website The Heart Failure Association will launch the Spanish version of the patient website heartfailurematters.org during the ESC Annual Congress 2009.

The website will then be available in 4 languages, English, German, French and Spanish!

HFA at the ESC Stand

If you want to know more about the current HFA activities, just pass by the ESC stand in the Membership Zone (Zone 4) and you will be fully informed about the HFA activities on patient care, exercise rehabilitation in heart failure, education, external affairs, surveys & registries, national heart failure societies, translational research in heart failure acute heart failure, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, peripartum cardiomyopathy and industry relations!

You will get:

Free copies of the European Journal of Heart Failure HFA leaflets
Heart Failure Matters leaflets Heart Failure Congress brochures

Heart Failure Sessions

HFA Association Track: “Updates from the Heart Failure Association Winter and Summer meetings and European Journal of Heart Failure“
Tuesday 1 September 2009, 11:00 12:30 Stockholm Zone 4

Don’t forget to schedule the 25 Heart Failure Sessions in your congress agenda!

Sunday 30 August | Monday 31 August | Tuesday 1 September

Sunday 30 August 2009 
Cardio-renal syndrome in acute heart failure 8:30 10:00  
Athens Zone 4
How to optimise treatment for heart failure in the elderly What are we afraid of? 8:30 10:00  
Bucharest Zone 4
Multimodality imaging in heart failure 10:05 10:55
Helsinki Zone 1 
Refractory heart failure: challenges in 2009 11:00 12:30  
Athens Zone 4
Heart failure and cancer 11:00 12:30  
Bucharest Zone 4
Diabetes mellitus meets heart failure 14:00 15:30  
Athens Zone 4
The right ventricle: the neglected chamber in cardiology and cardiac surgery 14:00 15:30  
Bucharest Zone 4
Heart failure management in complex clinical situations 16:30 18:00  
The Hague Zone 3
Heart failure and anaemia: where are we in 2009? 16:30 18:00  
Athens Zone 4

 Monday 31 August 2009
Devices in heart failure Update 2009 8:30 10:00  
Bucharest Zone 4
Cardiogenic shock - an update 8:30 10:00  
Budapest Zone 4
Distilling from heart failure guidelines 11:00 12:30  
Berlin Zone 3
Challenging indications for implantable cardioverter-defibrillator/
cardiac resynchronisation therapy in heart failure
11:00 12:30  
Bucharest Zone 4
Autoantibodies in heart failure: bystanders, biomarkers or actors? 11:00 12:30  
Budapest Zone 4
Management of acute heart failure 12:45 13:45  
Stockholm Zone 4
The new ESC Guidelines on preoperative cardiac risk
assessment and perioperative cardiac management in
non-cardiac surgery
16:30 18:00  
Barcelona Zone 2
Non-industry sponsoring of cardiovascular trials 16:30 18:00  
Oslo Zone 6

 Tuesday 1 September 2009
Acute heart failure: why does a common problem have different
outcomes in Europe and in the United States? (ESC and AHA)
8:30 10:00  
Rome Zone 3 
Managing breathing disorders and sleep apnea in heart failure  8:30 10:00  
Bucharest Zone 4
What should the cardiologist know about the abdominal
aorta aneurysm?
8:30 10:00  
Stockholm Zone 4
Prevent the heart from remodelling 8:30 10:00  
Oslo Zone 6
Cardiopulmonary predictors of survival in chronic heart failure 11:00 12:30  
Ankara Zone 1
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure
(ESC and ERS)
11:00 12:30  
Bucharest Zone 4
Update from the Heart Failure Association winter and
summer meetings and the European Journal of Heart Failure
11:00 12:30  
Stockholm Zone 4
Myofilament proteins and heart failure 11:00 12:30  
Oslo Zone 6