Endorsed by
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Clinical
& Interventional
Cardiology
President:
Michele M. Gulizia, MD, FESC
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
2015
I would like to invite you to attend the 7th edition of the Mediterranean Cardiology
Meeting (MCM), April 18-20, 2015 in Catania (Italy).
Over 1200 participants attended our last meeting with also strong international participation
which confirmed the highest interest aroused by this biannual meeting.
An outstanding Faculty, selected between the leading experts on these fields, will provide the
highest quality teaching with new interactive programs and happenings.
Thorough multidisciplinary Courses, Symposia, Debates on Controversial Topics, Clinical
Tutorials, Luncheon Panels, Focus on, Meet-the-Expert Sessions, Interactive Cases-Review
from Faculty and Attendance,Televoter Sessions, Intercultural Exchanges,Abstract and Poster
Sessions the meeting will highlight the current state and the prospective developments for
the treatment of: Atrial Fibrillation, Sudden Cardiac Death, Heart Failure, Acute Coronary
Syndromes, Global Cardiovascular Prevention, Arterial Hypertension, Pharmacological
Therapy, Syncope, Congenital Heart Disease, Cardiac Monitoring Technologies and
Genetics.
The main target of the meeting is to give the latest update on Clinical &
Interventional Cardiology and it is addressed to cardiologists, internists, first aid
clinicians, physicians of general medicine, fellows, nurses and technicians with high interest
in the whole management of cardiac pathologies.
Catania,as one of the most famous historical and cultural locations in the whole Mediterranean
area, is the ideal setting for this meeting. It is a particularly lively and fascinating town,
rich in marvellous examples of typically Sicilian baroque style, as well as one of the main
economic and educational centres in the island, and a key hub of the technological industry.
This beautiful city, full of colours, perfumes and flavours, is suspended between the deep blue
of the Ionian Sea and the majestic shape of Etna
volcano, which dominates the town from afar.
Looking forward to seeing you in Catania,
sincerely
Michele M. Gulizia, MD, FESC
President Mediterranean Cardiology Meeting
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Scientific Committee
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Angelo Auricchio (Switzerland)
Gianluca Botto (Italy)
Eugene Braunwald (USA)
Michele Brignole (Italy)
Joseph Brugada (Spain)
Riccardo Cappato (Italy)
Paul Casale (USA)
Matteo Di Biase (Italy)
Giuseppe Di Pasquale (Italy)
Bulent Gorenek (Turkey)
Michele M. Gulizia (Italy)
Karl Heinz Kuck (Germany)
Aldo P. Maggioni (Italy)
Attilio Maseri (Italy)
Jay Metha (USA)
Andrea Natale (USA)
Ali Oto (Turkey)
Eli I. Ovsyshcher (Israel)
Fausto J. Pinto (Portugal)
Antonio Raviele (Italy)
Renato Pietro Ricci (Italy)
Francesco Romeo (Italy)
Massimo Santini (Italy)
Marino Scherillo (Italy)
Organizing Committee
Michele M. Gulizia
Concetto Cacia
Nunzia R. Cardillo
Giuseppe Di Guardo
Giuseppina Maura Francese
Daniele Mangiameli
Anna Portale
Salvatore Raciti
Natascia Savoca
Silvana Anastasi
Giuseppe Di Dio
Giuditta Gianì
Cardiology Division
Garibaldi – Nesima Hospital – Catania, Italy
Advisory Board (provisional)
Maurizio Abrignani (Italy)
Gianfranco Alunni (Italy)
Antonio F. Amico (Italy)
Fabrizio Ammirati (Italy)
Angelo Auricchio (Switzerland)
Alessandro Biffi (Italy)
Giuseppe Boriani (Italy)
Gianluca Botto (Italy)
Francesco Maria Bovenzi (Italy)
Michele Brignole (Italy)
Joseph Brugada (Spain)
Pasquale Caldarola (Italy)
Valeria Calvi (Italy)
Salvatore Campione (Italy)
Roberto Caporale (Italy)
Riccardo Cappato (Italy)
Paul Casale (USA)
Giancarlo Casolo (Italy)
Domenico Catanzariti (Italy)
Giacomo Chiarandà (Italy)
Gennaro Cice (Italy)
Furio Colivicchi (Italy)
Pietro Delise (Italy)
Matteo Di Biase (Italy)
Andrea Di Lenarda (Italy)
Giuseppe Di Pasquale (Italy)
Giuseppe Di Tano (Italy)
Francesco Furlanello (Italy)
Domenico Gabrielli (Italy)
Angelo Gambera (Italy)
Gianfranco Gensini (Italy)
Giovanna Geraci (Italy)
Franco Giada (Italy)
Bulent Gorenek (Turkey)
Michele M. Gulizia (Italy)
Giuseppe Inama (Italy)
Helmut Klein (Germany)
Karl Heinz Kuck (Germany)
Maurizio Eugenio Landolina (Italy)
Maurizio Lunati (Italy)
Aldo Pietro Maggioni (Italy)
Attilio Maseri (Italy)
Anna Vittoria Mattioli (Italy)
Gianfranco Mazzotta (Italy)
Jay Metha (USA)
Vincenzo Montemurro (Italy)
Loredana Morichelli (Italy)
Ernesto Mossuti (Italy)
Franco Naccarella (Italy)
Federico Nardi (Italy)
Andrea Natale (USA)
Salvatore Novo (Italy)
Ali Oto (Turkey)
Eli I. Ovsyshcher (Israel)
Giuseppe Palazzo (Italy)
Vittorio Panno (Italy)
Leonardo Patanè (Italy)
Pasquale Perrone Filardi (Italy)
Fausto J. Pinto (Portugal)
Salvatore Pirelli (Italy)
Calogero Puntrello (Italy)
Antonio Raviele (Italy)
Renato Pietro Ricci (Italy)
Carmine Riccio (Italy)
Carla Riganti (Italy)
Francesco Romeo (Italy)
Massimo Santini (Italy)
Maurizio Santomauro (Italy)
Marino Scherillo (Italy)
Gianfranco Sinagra (Italy)
Christian Sticherling (Switzerland)
Corrado Tamburino (Italy)
Pier Luigi Temporelli (Italy)
Sakis Themistoclakis (Italy)
Salvatore Tolaro (Italy)
Giovanni Battista Zito (Italy)
Massimo Zoni Berisso (Italy)
Guerrino Zuin (Italy)
Allied Professionals Course Coordinators
Giuseppina Maura Francese (Italy), Angelo Gambera (Italy),
Loredana Morichelli (Italy)
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ENDORSEMENT
& AUSPICES
Endorsed by:
EHRA - European Heart Rhythm Association,
a Registered Branch of the ESC
FIC - Federazione Italiana di Cardiologia
WSA - World Society of Arrhythmias
Under the auspices of:
GIEC - Gruppo Intervento
Emergenze Cardiologiche
AIAC - Associazione
Italiana di Aritmologia e
Cardiostimolazione
GISE - Società Italiana di
Cardiologia Invasiva
ANCE - Associazione
Italiana Cardiologi
Extraospedalieri
ISE - International Society
of Electrocardiology
ANMCO - Associazione
Nazionale Medici
Cardiologi Ospedalieri
SIC - Società Italiana di
Cardiologia
ARCA - Associazioni
Regionali Cardiologi
Ambulatoriali
SIC SPORT - Società
Italiana di Cardiologia
dello Sport
AA
Arrhythmia Alliance
SOLAECE - Sociedad
Latinoamericana de
Estimulacion Cardiaca y
Electrofisiologia
ECAS - European Cardiac
Arrhythmia Society
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PROGRAM
AT A GLANCE
Saturday, April 18
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Sat, April 18
PEGASO Room
ETNA Room
CALIPSO Room
Timo Alto Room
7.30 - 9.00
Registration
Registration
Allied Professional Registration
Registration
9.00 - 10.30
Minicourse
Electrical Cardioversion
in patients treated by NAO
Interactive Minicourse
Risk Stratification
in Primary Prevention
Allied Professional Program
Nursing management of
cardiovascular drugs
10.30 - 11.00
Exhibition Visit & Coffee Break
Exhibition Visit & Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.00
Focus on
Arrhythmias & Device
12.00 - 13.00
Controversies on
Dronedarone: Guide Lines and Therapeutic
Plan, a glaring dichotomy between Clinical
Evidences and Regulatory restrictions
13.00 - 14.30
Luncheon Panel
14.30 - 15.00
Exhibition Visit & Coffee Break
15.00 - 16.30
ESC-EHRA
Joint Symposium
16.30 - 17.00
Plenary Lecture
17.00 - 18.30
Opening Ceremony
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Interactive Symposium
Allied Professional Program
Organizational aspects and
The management of the patient with
Stable CAD: the benefits of the new management in arrhythmology Nursing in hemodynamic
therapeutic approach
Interactive Luncheon Panel
Different therapeutical approach in
patients with NSTEMI PCI and in
those with pharmacological therapy
Interactive Symposium
Rivaroxaban: practical experience
examples and sharing clinical cases
Luncheon Panel
Allied Professional Program
Update In Electrophysiology
And Cardiac Pacing
Allied Professional Program
Prevention of infection in
cardiology and cardiac surgery
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Casual Morning Meeting
Management of our patients in
Daily Clinical Practice: how to select
candidates to ECHO, MRI, TC
Casual Morning Meeting
“Navigating the evidence:
are all NOACs the same?”
PROGRAM
AT A GLANCE
Sunday, April 19
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Sun, April 19
PEGASO Room
9.00 - 10.30
Minicourse
Heart Failure with Preserved
Ejection Fraction: how to manage it?
ETNA Room
Interactive Symposium
Management of dyslipidemia in
high cardiovascular risk patients:
two clinical cases
10.30 - 11.00
Exhibition Visit & Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.30
Satellite Symposium
Getting the most out of the latest available
technologies in order to optimize
daily clinical practice
12.30 - 13.00
M. Lecture tbd
13.00 - 14.30
SJ. Luncheon Panel tbd
Interactive Luncheon Panel
14.30 - 15.00
Exhibition Visit
Exhibition Visit
15.00 - 16.30
Symposium
The Use of large Registries for Quality
Improvement for patients with Coronary Artery
Disease or Cardiac Arrhythmias
16.30 - 17.00
17.00 - 17.30
17.30 - 19.00
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Lecture
Thyroid hormone treatment in heart failure:
when and how?
Lecture
Inflammation in atherosclerosis- do we need to treat it?
Meet the Expert
The Heart in Neoplastic patients
Interactive Symposium
Unmet needs and current
practice of stroke prevention in
non valvular atrial fibrillation
Interactive Symposium
Novel trials and new horizons
with dabigatran: protecting
patients at high risk of stroke
CALIPSO Room
Timo Alto Room
Allied Professional Program
NAO in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation
Exhibition Visit & Coffee Break
Allied Professional Program
Joint Session:
Education as a tool to enhance the
health care allied professionals Nurse and heart failure
Allied Professional Program
Nursing care in non-invasive
ventilation
Lecture
A defibrillator to bring down mortality:
state of the art (S-ICD)
Interactive Meet the Expert
10 Interactive Question / Answers
on Pulmonary Hypertension &
Pulmonary Embolism
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Casual Morning Meeting
Longevity, Mini-ICD, S-ICD:
the right device for every
patient. What is the best
choice?
Casual Morning Meeting
Rivaroxaban: operating
instructions
Casual Afternoon Meeting
Beyond LDL cholesterol
control
PROGRAM
AT A GLANCE
Monday, April 20
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Mon, April 20
PEGASO Room
ETNA Room
CALIPSO Room
9.00 - 10.30
Minicourse
TAVI and MITRACLIP:
how to select the Ideal Candidate
Interactive Minicourse
Pediatric Cardiology: the real
needs for daily practice
BLS-D Course
physician
10.30 - 11.00
Exhibition Visit & Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.30
Symposium
Which Antiplatelet Agent in the treatment
of SCA patients?
Interactive Symposium
Heart & Sport: 10 Question /
Answers on Cardiac Evaluation at
Different Age and Different Sports
12.30 - 13.30
Focus on
Chest Pain: do we still need a CP Unit
or can we integrate it in Cardiology?
Lecture
Changing the face of
anticoagulation: 2 years of
Dabigatran in Italy
13.30 - 15.00
Luncheon Panel
Interactive Luncheon Panel
15.00 - 16.30
Symposium
Endocarditis, Miocarditis, Pericarditis &
surrounds: how is changed the clinical approach
to this patient
Interactive Symposium
Atrial Fibrillation & Heart Failure
Focus on
ICD implanted patients: balance between
Benefit & Complication
Interactive Focus On
Do we need Cardiopulmonary
Test in All Heart Failure
patients?
16.30 - 17.30
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Timo Alto Room
Casual Morning Meeting
New perspectives in the
prevention of thromboembolic
risk in Atrial Fibrillation
Exhibition Visit & Coffee Break
BLS-D Course
physician
Lunch
BLS-D Course
physician
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MAIN TOPICS
CATANIA APRIL 18-20
2015
Clinical Cardiology
• Epidemiology and risk stratification in healthy and sick population
• Expanding the target population for anti-platelet/coagulation
therapy
• Controversial issues: from clinical studies to real life
• Sport and cardiac pathologies
• Nuclear cardiology in CAD and CHF patients
Acute Coronary Syndromes
• Management of STEMI and non-STEMI patient
• Evolving therapies for Acute myocardial Infarction: when PTCA,
when stent?
• Hybrid myocardial revascularization
• Post-ACS patient’s route
• Anti-thrombotic therapy in STEMI and NSTEMI patient
• Fibrinolitics, IIb/IIIa inhibitors: a therapy beyond any expectation?
• New antiplatelet drugs
• Spinal Cord Stimulation in refractory CAD: the last resource?
Global Cardiovascular Risk Prevention
• Global Cardiovascular Risk assessment and prevention
• Insulin Resistance Syndrome, type 2 Diabetes and Atherosclerosis:
an explosive mixture
• Lipid-lowering therapy: do we need statins for all life long?
• Role of platelets in the atherosclerosis pathogenesis
• Drug interaction, gender, age and comorbidities
• Elderly and Cardiology: are all patients to be treated the same
way?
• Right pharmacological therapy in fragile patient
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MAIN TOPICS
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Clinical Arrhythmology
Atrial Fibrillation
• New insight into the electrophysiological mechanism of AF
initiation and perpetuation
• The ionic bases underlying the trigger of AF
• New experimental drugs for the treatment of recurrent AF
• Limitations of current guidelines for anticoagulation in AF
• The prevalence and clinical significance of silent AF
• Role of drug therapy in the prevention of recurrence of AF
• New drugs for stroke prevention
• New oral anticoagulants
• Atrial Fibrillation in children
Echocardiography
• Echocardiography in the evaluation of the induced AF-mechanical
remodelling
• Evaluation of thromboembolic atrial sources
• Echo optimisation of atrial-ventricular delay in paced AF
patients
• Doppler echocardiography in the management of the
resynchronization in HF
Genetic Arrhythmias
Guidelines in Cardiology
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Heart Failure
The interaction of AF and CHF and its clinical implications
Neurohumoral activation in CHF patients
Latest pharmacological therapy for CHF
The HF doctor: is there still a role for clinical cardiologists?
What lessons from the early completed trials?
Management of hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Non-Invasive Risk Stratification
• New non-invasive markers for risk stratification
Sudden Death
• Results of ten year experience of Cardiac AED Resuscitation
programs
• Advances in the prevention of SCD with non-antiarrhythmic drugs
• Home defibrillation strategy in high risk patients
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Syncope
Syncope: practical issues of diagnosis and treatment
Physical treatment of neurally-mediated syncope
Organizational models of Syncope Unit 2015
Modern management of chest pain and unexplained palpitations
The new generation implantable loop recordersili
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MAIN TOPICS
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Interventional Cardiology
Trans-Catheter Ablation
Supraventricular Arrhythmias
• Efficacy and safety of drug therapy vs trans-catheter ablation for
atrial flutter
• Pulmonary Veins anatomy variability
• Ablation of AF in Pulmonary and Non-Pulmonary Foci
• Circumferential PV isolation: morbidity, mortality, QoL and long
term outcomes
• The efficacy and safety of the cryosurgical maze procedure for
refractory AF
• Ablation of Atrial Flutter
Ventricular Arrhythmias
• Percutaneous trans-catheter ablation of ventricular arrhythmias
• How to manage non-inducibility
• Setting anti-tachypacing algorithms after ablation
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Implantable Pacing Device
Latest indication to Cardiac Pacing
Leadless pacemaker
Left ventricle endocardial cardiac pacing
New Pacing, Prevention and Cardioversion algorithms
Latest pacing and ICD leads technology
Telemedicine for the home follow-up of PM/ICD patients
New generation of implantable cardiac haemodynamic sensors
MR-conditional pacemaker systems
Cost-effectiveness of drug/devices interaction
Heart Failure & Cardiac Resynchronization
Hybrid therapy in CHF and AF
The optimal candidates to biventricular pacing
Complication of biventricular pacing
Optimizing CRT vector selection
ICD backup in biventricular paced CHF patients need of
multiples therapy in a single device
• Fluid & Congestion monitoring
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Supraventricular Arrhythmias
• Drug-device interaction in the management of pacing, prevention
and treatment of atrial tachyarrhythmias
• New atrial tachyarrhythmias detection algorithms
Implantable Defibrillators
• Electrical or chemical implantable atrial defibrillator: always fancy or
a new tool?
• Is there a role for atrial ICD or is dual ICD enough?
• New physiological ICD therapies
• Primary Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death in different
population
• Remote monitoring devices
• New MR-conditional implantable defibrillators
• New generation Subcutaneous ICD
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Hemodynamical & Surgical Therapies
New surgical strategies for AF
Surgical transepicardic approach to CRT
Role of surgery in end-stage CHF
The treatment of ischemic mitral valve
TAVI
MITRACLIP
Basic Cardiology & New Frontiers
New developments in cardiac imaging
Data-banks in cardiology: an useful tool in the follow-up
Genetics, arrhythmogenesis and cardiomyopathies
Cellular and molecular mechanism of conduction disease and
apoptosis
• Update on Guidelines in Cardiology
• Late-breaking and on-going clinical trials
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REGISTRATION
INFORMATION
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Individual Registration
Course Attendance Modalities
Participants are invited to register using the on-line service on the web
site: mcmweb.it. Alternately, the form can be downloaded from the web
site and faxed to the Organizing Secretariat. The registration will be confirmed only if accompanied by the payment.
BLS-D COURSE PHYSICIAN
Before November 30th 2014
From December 1st 2014
Group Registration
Companies have the opportunity to sponsor the registration of a group
of participants by contacting the Organizing Secretariat, Adria Congrex
(booking@mcmweb.it). A group consists of a minimum of 10 participants. Registration shall be coordinated by one identified contact person
representing a pharmaceutical/product company or a travel agency.
Congress Registration Modalities
DELEGATE Before November 30th 2014 € 550,00* Vat 22% not included
From December 1st 2014 € 620,00* Vat 22% not included
Registration fee includes: attendance to all the scientific sessions including the luncheon panels (limited to seat availability), entrance to the
exhibition area, meeting proceedings, attendance certificate, badge and
congress kit, welcome opening reception and coffee breaks at the Venue,
CME Certificate (for Italian participants).
€ 200,00* Vat 22% not included
€ 220,00* Vat 22% not included
Registration fee includes: participation to the Course, entrance to the
exhibition area, BLS-D licence, coffee break, CME Certificate (for Italian
participants).
Maximum 36 participants accepted on first come first served basis after
the full payment of the charge. Date and timetables must be respected.
ALLIED PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
Registration for 1 day
€ 60,00* Vat 22% not included
Registration for 2 days
€ 100,00* Vat 22% not included
Registration fee includes: attendance to all scientific sessions including
luncheon panel, entrance to the exhibition area, badge and conference kit,
attendance certificate, CME certificate (if entitled to - two-day attendance
is required), coffee breaks and welcome opening ceremony.
* VAT could be subjected to changes. The VAT rate will be applied depending on the Italian fiscal law at the time of payment of registration.
AFTER APRIL 10th, 2015 ALL REGISTRATIONS CAN BE MADE ON SITE
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SCIENTIFIC
INFORMATION
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Abstract Submission
DEADLINE: JANUARY 9th, 2015
Abstracts can only be submitted on-line on www.mcmweb.it and worded
in English.
You can find all the instructions on the website. The presentation of an abstract requires the registration of at least one of the authors. The Scientific
Committee will review all the submitted abstracts and the selected ones
will be accepted as oral communications or posters. The abstract authors
will receive notification of acceptance by February 13, 2015 together with
the information regarding their presentation. All the accepted abstracts
(if the presenter is regularly registered within February 27, 2015) will be
printed in a book available at the time of the Congress. There will be special awards given to “THE BEST COMMUNICATIONS” selected by the
Scientific Committee among accepted oral communications and posters.
Projection
PC data projection will be available in all the rooms. All projections must
be worded in English only.
Luncheon Panels
The admission to the luncheon panels (limited to seat availability) is free
for all the registered participants.
Attendance Certificates
Attendance certificates will be distributed to all the registered delegates at
the end of the Meeting.
Program Changes
The information published in this program is correct at time of print. The
Scientific Committee reserves the right to change the program at any time.
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LOCATION
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
Catania & Congress Venue
Catania is undoubtely one of the most important cities in the whole
Mediterranean area, both in terms of cultural and historical point of
view. It is one of the few cities in Italy that offers a variety of landscapes
condensed in one site. Located on the east coast of Sicily (which
represents the metropolitan area with the highest population density),
Catania has ancient origins since its foundation dates back to 729 BC.
During its history Catania has been a constant point of reference for
the entire Mediterranean area, especially from an artistic and cultural
point of view: it is here that in 1434 the oldest university of Sicily was
founded. The remains of several ruins still enrich the heritage of the
town and surrounding areas, despite Catania was repeatedly destroyed
by violent volcanic eruptions caused by the Etna volcano (the most
impressive occurred in 1669) and by devastating earthquakes (the more
catastrophic one occurred in 1693). It is from this tragic event that the
city and its people were able to get up in a truly unique and admirable
way. A work of reconstruction with few equals in the world led to the
blossoming of the famous “Sicilian Baroque” style of architecture that
identifies more than any other the fantasy, the imaginative power and the
passion for beauty of Catania and its inhabitants. Therefore in 2006 the
splendid baroque center of Catania became a UNESCO World Heritage
Site, along with seven towns of the Val di Noto, Sicily. Today, Catania is a
city full of colors, scents and flavors - a lively and surprising, suspended
between the magic of the blue Ionian Sea and the imposing outline of
Etna volcano and often snowy, which dominates the city from above.
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Sheraton Catania Hotel & Conference Center
Just few minutes from the historic center of Catania, the Sheraton Hotel
offers high level of hospitality with a wide range of business and spare time
facilities. The Sheraton Catania is one of the largest conference centers in
eastern Sicily, with an area of 724 square meters in 6 modular meeting
rooms of different sizes and acoustically isolated. All the 162 rooms and 7
suites - walking through a panoramic elevator - are characterized by colors
that come into perfect harmony with the landscape of the Mediterranean
area. Each room is equipped with all facilities and comforts offering the
highest standards of quality and safety. The conference area, personalized
for the Mediterranean Cardiology Meeting 2015, provides a great learning
experience in an extremely pleasant and comfortable site.
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CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
HOTEL
ACCOMMODATION
2015
The hotel reservation form can be filled out on line on the web site: www.
mcmweb.it. Alternately, the form can be downloaded from the web site
and faxed to the Organizing Secretariat. It is strongly recommended to
book well in advance.
Adria Congrex will make every effort to place you in the hotel category of
your choice. A confirmation will be sent starting from March 2015.
Please note that hotel categories and rooms are assigned on a first come
first served basis.
Hotel reservation can be made by:
− Sending your credit card details to be used as a guarantee. The
total amount will be paid to the hotel at the check out.
Rates* 5 Star Hotels *****
Double room as single use Double room
1) Romano Palace
146,50
183,00
136,50
131,50
110,50
131,00
110,50
131,50
171,50
158,00
153,00
153,00
165,00
137,00
163,00
198,00
100,50
112,00
4 Star Hotels ****
2) Aga Hotel
3) Grand Hotel Baia Verde
4) Liberty
5) Nettuno
6) NH Parco degli Aragonesi
7) Romano House 8) Una Hotel Palace 3 Star Hotels ***
9) Best Western Mediterraneo
Contracted hotels provisional list
* All prices include: taxes, VAT, service, continental breakfast and are per
room per night.
Transfer service is not available.
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SPONSORSHIP
(Main sponsor updated on August 2014)
CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
A. Menarini
Astrazeneca
Bayer
BMS - Pfizer
Boehringer Ingelheim
Boston Scientific
Daiichi Sankyo
IBSA
Medico
Medtronic
MSD
Sanofi
St Jude Medical
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CATANIA APRIL 18-20 ITALY
2015
ORGANIZED BY
Cardiology Division
“Garibaldi-Nesima” Hospital
SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT
Michele M. Gulizia
Cardiology Division
“Garibaldi-Nesima” Hospital
Via Palermo, 636
95122 Catania, Italy
Phone +39 095 7598502
Fax +39 095 7598505
e-mail: michele.gulizia@alice.it
CONGRESS VENUE
Sheraton Catania Hotel & Conference Center
ORGANIZING SECRETARIAT
Adria Congrex s.r.l.
Via Sassonia, 30
47922 Rimini, Italy
Phone +39 0541 305811
Fax +39 0541 305842
e-mail: info@mcmweb.it
www.mcmweb.it