Sunday 2 September - morning
Chairpersons: Dr Olaf Schouten, Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Prof. Oztekin Oto Izmir (Turkey)
Session title: Cardiac surgery: Recent advances in coronary artery surgery and heart transplantation
Winner: Dr Stephan Jacobs, Leipzig, Germany
Rapid Prototyping of cardiac structures for guidance in heart surgery. --
Chairpersons: Dr Jan Erik Otterstad, Toensberg (Norway) and Dr Athanasios Kranidis, Athens (Greece)
Session title: Acute cardiac care, other
Winner: Dr Birke Schneider, Luebeck, Germany
Is transient left ventricular apical ballooning a benign disease? Comparison with anterior myocardial infarction.
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Sunday 2 September - afternoon
Chairpersons: Prof. Jean-Yves Le Heuzey, Paris (France) and Prof Karlheinz Seidl, Ludwigshafen (Germany)
Session title: Basic aspects of atrial fibrillation
Winner: Dr Stavros Chrysostomakis, Heraklion, Greece
Inhibition of angiotensin II type I receptors affects atrial fibrillation susceptibility and myocardial interstitial fibrosis in goats. --
Chairpersons: Prof. Christophe Tribouilloy, Amiens (France) and Dr A Pieter Kappetein, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Session title: Valve disease: Intervention and surgery
Winner: Dr Laurent Louis Andre De Kerchove, Brussels (Belgium)
Elective aortic valve repair for pure regurgitation: a tailored surgical approach to the individual pathology
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Monday 3 September - morning
Chairpersons: Prof. Werner Moshage, Traunstein (Germany) and Dr Heikki Ukkonen, Turku (Finland)
Session titles: New frontiers in imaging
Winner: Dr Fabien Hyafil, Paris (France)
Quantification of macrophages in atherosclerotic plaques of rabbits using the novel specific CT contrast agent N1177: a comparison with PET-CT and histology. --
Chairpersons: Prof. Claudio Ceconi, Ferrara (Italy) and Dr Dieter Roppers, Erlangen (Germany)
Session titles: Living with oxygen: Responses to hypoxia and reactive oxygen species
Winner: Mr Masaya Tanno, Sapporo (Japan)
Nuclear translocation of SIRT1 by PI3K/Akt-mediated phosphorylation affords cytoprotection against oxidant stress in post-MI failing hearts.
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Monday 3 September - afternoon
Chairpersons: Prof. Ran Kornowski Petach-Tikva (Israel) and Dr Dariusz Dudek, Krakow (Poland)
Session title: From prevention to treatment of drug-eluting stents restenosis
Winner: Dr Roman Arnold, Valladolid (Spain)
Less hyperplasia inside drug-eluting stents after intracoronary infusion of bone marrow derived stem cells in patients with acute myocardial infarction - analysis of the stented segment with IVUS.
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Chairpersons: Prof. Guillaume Jondeau, Paris (France) and Dr Ulf Landmesser, Hannover (Germany)
Session title:Exercise, metabolism and skeletal muscle in heart failure
Winner: Assoc. Prof. Stephan Gielen, Leipzig (Germany)
Anticatabolic effects of a 4-week training intervention in patients with chronic heart failure and in healthy subjects.
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Tuesday 4 September - morning
Chairpersons: Prof. Witold Ruzyllo, Warsaw (Poland) and Dr Albrecht Elsaesser, Bad Nauheim (Germany)
Session titles: Forgotten sub groups with acute myocardial infarction
Winner: Dr Mateusz Orzalkiewicz, Bydgoszcz (Poland)
Circadian rhythm of the right and the circumflex coronary artery involvement in the ST segment elevation myocardial infarction --
Chairpersons: Prof. Thomas H Marwick, Brisbane (Australia) and Prof. Patrizio Lancellotti, Liege (Belgium)
Session titles: Advances in the assesment of ventricular function
Winner: Dr Fausto Rigo Mestre, Venice (Italy)
Left ventricular contractility and coronary flow reserve mismatch: new stress echo insight in syndrome x. _____________________________________
Tuesday 4 September - afternoon
Chairpersons: Prof. Svetlana A Shalnova, Moscow (Russian Federation) and Assoc. Prof. Ozlem Soran, Pittsburgh (USA)
Session titles: Exercice/Epidemiology/Prevention/Pharma/Nursing
Winner: Dr Martyn Farrer, Sunderland (United Kingdom)
Reduction in CHD risk factors in first degree relatives of patients with premature MI. --
Chairpersons: Prof. Irene Marthe Lang, Vienna (Austria) and Prof. Nazzareno Galie, Bologna (Italy)
Session titles: Pulmonary Hypertension-Moving off the main road
Winner: Dr Nika Skoro-Sajer, Vienna (Austria)
Acute pulmonary vasoreactivity in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). _____________________________________
Wednesday 5 September - morning
Chairpersons: Prof. Frank Rademakers, Leuven (Belgium) and Dr Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner, Hannover (Germany)
Session titles: Novel insights in the pathogenesis of cardiomyopathies
Winner: Dr Alexander Staudt, Greifswald (Germany)
Fc receptors IIa on cardiomyocytes and their potential functional relevance in dilated cardiomyopathy. --
Chairpersons: Dr Pascale Benlian, Paris (France) and Prof. Zeljko Reiner, Zagreb (Croatia)
Session titles: How plaques develop: Basic aspects of atherosclerosis
Winner: Dr Dorothea Siegel-Axel, Tuebingen (Germany)
A new strategy for the specific inhibition of foam cell formation using the soluble immunoadhesin CD68-Fc. |