Topic List Heart Failure 2009

Topic List

• Acute heart failure
• Animal models and experimentation
• Arrhythmias and treatment
• Beta blockers
• Cardiac resynchronisation therapy
• Cardiomyopathy
• Cellular biology & cellular electrophysiology
• Cell signalling
• Coronary circulation
• Cytokines and inflammation
• Devices / Artificial heart / CRT / ICD
• Diagnosis
• Disease management programmes
• Diuretics
• Drug therapy, other
• Echocardiography
• Exercise testing
• Gene and cell therapy
• Haemodynamics and peripheral circulation
• Heart transplantation
• Hormones / neurohumoral regulation
• Hypertension / LV hypertrophy
• Left ventricular function
• Metabolism, ischaemia
• Molecular biology / genetics
• MRI & Cardiac radiology
• Natriuretic peptides
• Nuclear cardiology
• Nursing
• Other
• Pathophysiology
• Population studies / Epidemiology
• Prognosis
• Psychosocial / ethical concepts
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone antagonists
• Surgery
• Vascular Biology