ESC Heart & Stroke 2020 Resources

Read the article from Markus Schwerzmann, ESC Council on Stroke Communications & Young Community Officer.

Friday 24 January 2020

Welcome by the Chairperson and the Vice-Chairperson of the Council on Stroke (Wolfram Doehner and Jan Kovac)

Plenary session 1 - Hot line clinical trials reflections

Chairpersons: Alison Halliday (United Kingdom) and Natan Bornstein (Israel)

• Update from ESOC and WSC (Natan Borstein - Israel)
• Update from ESC (Petr Widimsky - Czech Republic)
• Update from AHA (Sven Wassmann - Germany)

Joint session - ESC Council on Stroke and ESC Council for Cardiology
Practice: stroke work-up

Chairpersons: Marc Ferrini (France) and Marta Rubiera (Spain)

Great debate Pro/Contra I: Tracking arrhythmias

• Tracking arrhythmias after Stroke – Implantable devices, Yes (Afzal Sohaib - United Kingdom)
• Tracking arrhythmias after Stroke – Implantable devices, No (Hein Heidbuchel - Belgium)
• AF and Implantable devices: which AF definition to characterize the risk? (Afzal Sohaib - United Kingdom)

Great debate Pro/Contra I: Looking for the source: the Heart

• TEE in the work-up is mandatory: Yes (Wolfram Doehner - Germany)
• TEE in the work-up is mandatory: No (George Ntaios - Greece)

Lunch Industry Satellite Symposium by Bayer - Optimizing care for patients with AF: Think kidney, protect the brain, it’s the heart of the matter

• Welcome and introduction (Wolfram Doehner - Germany)
• Anticoagulation in a patient with AF and co-morbid diabetes and renal function decline: A case-based approach (Craig Coleman - United States and Marcelo Sanmartin Fernandez (Spain)
• Closing remarks (Wolfram Doehner - Germany)

Keynote lecture - Is there a future for the ESUS concept? (Hans-Christoph Diener - Germany)

Chairpersons: Petr Widimsky (Czech Republic) and Jan Kovac (United Kingdom)

Scientific session 1 - How-to -session: Acute stroke reperfusion

Chairpersons: Peter Vajkoczy (Germany), Christophe Cognard (France) and Dmitry Skrypnik (Russia)

• Patient selection incl. imaging and interhospital transfers (Marc Ribo - Spain)
• Thrombolysis, heparin, aspirin, other antithrombotic drugs (Petr Widimsky - Czech Republic)
• Guiding catheters, stent-retrievers, aspiration catheters, techniques (Christophe Cognard - France)
  Analysis of Angiograms and its pitfalls (Christophe Cognard - France)
• Periprocedural patient care: What is the blood pressure optimal target? (Thomas Kahan - Sweden)
• Complications and their management (Peter Vajkoczy - Germany)

Scientific session 2 - Complex stroke patient management

Chairpersons: Magnus Back (Sweden) and Jean-Claude Barthelemy (France)

• CV outcome after stroke – what do patients die from? (Mikhail Loukianov - Russia)
• Cancer and Stroke: not a so strange liaison (Iris Parrini - Italy)
• Stroke in the elderly: specificities and challenges (Marc Ferrini - France)
• Management of a stroke patient with Heart Failure (Wolfram Doehner - Germany)

Saturday 25 January 2020

Scientific session 3 - Interventions for secondary prevention

Chairperson: Markus Schwerzmann (Switzerland)

• LAA occlusion – Should we treat patients at high thrombotic risk? (Apostolos Tzikas - Greece)
• Which anti-thrombotic treatment after TAVI? (Viktor Kocka - Czech Republic)
• PFO Closure: Tips and tricks (Jan Kovac - United Kingdom)
• Ablation for atrial fibrillation: can it really prevent stroke? (Pavel Osmancik - Czech Republic)

Scientific session 4 - Great debate Pro/Contra II : Carotid stenosis challenges

Chairpersons: Wolfram Doehner (Germany), and Dmitry Skrypnik (Russia)

• Combined Carotid and Cardiac surgery : Yes (Barbara Rantner - Austria)
• Combined Carotid and Cardiac surgery : No (Martin Czerny - Switzerland)
• Carotid revascularization: Surgery is usually the best option (Alison Halliday - United Kingdom)
• Carotid revascularization: Stenting is the least invasive option (Peter Lanzer - Germany)

Workshop session: Clinical cases and Guidelines

• Workshop 1 - PFO closure: for which patient? (Jan Kovac - UK and Markus Schwerzmann - Switzerland)
• Workshop 2 - Which antithrombotic therapy after a TIA or minor stroke? (Sven Wassmann - Germany and Marta Rubiera - Spain)
• Workshop 3 - Infective endocarditis: Choosing the best timing for surgery (Gilbert Habib - France and Martin Czerny - Switzerland)

Plenary Session: Summary and take home

Chairs: W Doehner / P Widimsky

Wrap-up of Workshops (Workshop leaders)

Summary and concluding remarks (W Doehner)