Topics by village

 
CPC Chairperson: 
M Böhm (Homburg, DE)

"Make sure to stop by the Central Village to participate in the hot topic sessions.
You will also find a series of special sessions that will highlight the most relevant issues in the diagnosis, management and treatment of cardiovascular disease, ranging from basic to clinical and population research.
The Central Village will cover the scientific highlights of the 9 main topics of ESC Congress 2012, you won't be disappointed."

Coordinators: B. Casadei (Oxford, GB) & J. Waltenberger (Muenster, DE)

"Basic Science Village: a place to exchange the latest ideas on the therapies of tomorrow and to get deeper insight into future concepts: collaterals, ion channels, regeneration, stem cells, oxidative stress, novel targets, nanotechnology, immuno-athero-thrombosis".

 
Coordinator: R Fagard (Leuven, BE)

'Hypertension affects more than one quarter of the adult population worldwide and appropriate management is mandatory to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease.

Sessions will focus on a better insight into the pathophysiology and on novel strategies for the adequate treatment of hypertension and associated cardiovascular risk factors and diseases in different patient subgroups'.

 Coordinator: V Conraads (Edegem, BE)

"Interventional cardiologists and cardiac surgeons have embraced the concept of medically supervised exercise training programmes and have adapted the most recent European Society of Cardiology Guidelines on revascularisation accordingly. Leaders in the field will discuss whether or not, and how these guidelines should be put into place in a dedicated debate session.

Another highlight of the Munich congress with regard to prevention will concentrate on secondary prevention following myocardial infarction and will update the recently issued 2010 ESC/EACTS Guidelines.

The "Eat, drink and be merry" session, organized by the  ESC and the Interamerican Society of Cardiology will provide hard evidence to stimulate patients on how to adopt a healthy lifestlye, without turning exclusively to pharmacological therapy; being healthy can be fun!

Welcome to the Coronary Artery Disease Village which, spanning from basic and translational to clinical research, will shed new light on:
- pathophysiology of coronary circulation leading to new diagnostic approaches;
- pathogenesis of acute and chronic coronary artery disease leading to new forms of treatment;
- mechanisms of thrombus formation leading to better utilisation of old and new anti-thrombotic drugs;
- management of complex patients in coronary care unit.

Welcome to the Heart Failure Village.
Heart Failure is a complex topic as it includes all “failures” of the efforts of medical science to prevent and treat the cardiovascular disease.

The best approach to Heart Failure investigation and clinical practice is to focus our attempts on “understanding”. Understanding what is going wrong and how we can impact on this. Understanding implies triple actions:
1) searching in the field of molecular biology
2) testing the clinical response to new treatments
3) capturing what is innovative and useful in the confounding ocean of new information.

Let’s try, all together to better “understand”!

 
Coordinator: E. Eeckhout (Lausanne, CH)

“This programme will not only cover major clinical subjects in intervention but will also address technical aspects of intervention. 

In 2012 our surgical colleagues will play a predominant role in the programme.  Debates will oppose surgeons and cardiologists to discuss constructively the best treatment options for our patients. 

The themes for this village will be coronary revascularisation strategies, carotid and mitral valve interventions, new concept on the vulnerable plaque” amongst all other topics.

"The world of electrophysiology and electrical device therapy is evolving everyday with new techniques and new indications.

Come to the Arrhythmias Village where you will get the unique opportunity to find new information about these fascinating changes and thus to update your clinical practice in atrial fibrillation, ventricular arrhythmias, CRT, ICDs.  Other hot clinical challenges such as arrhythmic risks in athletes or channelopathies will also be discussed."

Get first hand updates on how to deal with diagnostic challenges and evolving therapeutic frontiers related to the wide range of subjects covered by the 4 ESC Working Groups of this main topic.

When you come to this village you will learn more about the following important topics:
- Valvular diseases: challenges in evaluation and evolving therapies
- Cardiomyopathies and Myocarditis: diagnostic and therapeutic frontiers
- Pulmonary circulation: advances in  management of pulmonary embolism and pulmonary hypertension
- Congenitals: what general cardiologists should know about congenital heart diseases
- Pregnancy in patients with congenital and acquired heart diseases (belongs to GUCH).

“Come to the cardiac imaging village to learn more about Interventional Imaging and CT scan in the detection of complex lesions. See and learn how to obtain the most benefit from modern imaging modalities.”