SA HEART CONGRESS 2015 –PROVISIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMME
Provisional Scientific Programme as at 29 May 2015
SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER
POST-GRADUATE COURSES – PROVISIONAL
12h00-13h00: REGISTRATION
PCSSA
PAEDIATRIC HEART
FAILURE
HeFSSA
CARDIAC UPDATE FOR
NON -CARDIOLOGIST
SASCI
CISSA
IMAGING
SCTSSA
CARDIAC SURGERY
CASSA
PERFUSION COURSE
13h00 – 16h45
Full Day
13h00 – 16h45
13h00 – 16h45
13h00-15h00
13h00 – 16h45
13h00 – 16h45
Organisers:
Stephen Brown &
Andre Brooks
Organiser:
HeFSSA
Organiser:
Sajidah Khan
Organisers:
Edwin Turton & Alfonso
Pecoraro
Organisers
Marius Swart & Francis
Smit
Organiser: Andrew
Thornton
Organiser:
Marilee Janse van
Rensburg
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13h00 – 13h30
Coronary Artery Surgery
Future Challenges
- Syntax the guidelines and
arterial revascularisation
- Martin Sussman
13h00 – 13h05
Opening
-Stephen Brown
13h05 – 13h20
Overview of paediatric
cardiac failure – Lungile
Pepeta
13h20 – 13h50
Echocardiographic
evaluation of the child
presenting with cardiac
failure: what should I do?
- Mayo Clinic
USA/Antoinette Cilliers
13h50 – 14h20
Biochemical evaluation
and monitoring of heart
failure
- Ebrahim Hoosen
14h20 – 14h50
Progress in the treatment
of paediatric cardiac
failure – John
Lawrenson
Alfonso Pecoraro
Edwin Turton
Justiaan Swanevelder
Eric Klug
Mayo Clinic USA
International Faculty TBA
Perfusion Wet-Labs
13h30 – 14h00
- The Off Pump CABG -a
passing fad?
- Robbie Kleinloog
14h00 – 14h20
Constrictive Pericarditis
- Diagnostic Challenges &
timing interventions - Alfonso
Pecoraro
14h20 – 14h40
- Surgical & Peri-operative
Challenges
- Francis Smit & Justiaan
Swanevelder
14h40 – 15h00
- Pericarditis – Perspectives
from the Industrialized World
- Carlos Mestres (Spain)
14h50 – 15h00
Q&A
15h00 – 15h30: REFRESHMENT BREAK
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SA HEART CONGRESS 2015 –PROVISIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMME
Provisional Scientific Programme as at 29 May 2015
SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER CONTINUED
PCSSA
PAEDIATRIC HEART
FAILURE
HeFSSA
CARDIAC UPDATE FOR
NON -CARDIOLOGIST
SASCI
CISSA
IMAGING
Organisers:
Stephen Brown &
Andre Brooks
15h30- 15h50
Resynchronisation for
treatment of heart failure
–CASSA
Organiser:
HeFSSA
Organiser:
Sajidah Khan
Organisers:
Edwin Turton & Alfonso
Pecoraro
SCTSSA
CARDIAC SURGERY
MITRAL VALVE
SURGERY
Organisers
Marius Swart & Francis
Smit
15h30 - 17h00 Panel:
Martin Sussman & Francis
Smit, Jacques Schermann
& Jacques van Wyk
15h50 – 16h20
Surgical options for
treatment of in paediatric
heart failure – Christian
Brizard (Australia)
15h30 – 16h15
Minimally invasive mitral
valve surgery
- Volkmar Falk
(Germany)
15h50 – 16h20
Exercise for children with
heart failure
- John Lawrenson
16h15 – 17h00
Mitral valve repair in 2015
- Manuel Antunes
(Portugal)
CASSA
PERFUSION COURSE
Organiser: Andrew
Thornton
Organiser:
Marilee Janse van
Rensburg
16h20 – 16h45
Q&A
Closure
16h45 - 17h45
PCSSA AGM
18h30-19h00
17h00 - 18h00
HeFSSA AGM
17h00 - 18h00
SASCI AGM
17h00 - 18h00
CASSA AGM
WELCOME
Welcome by Congress Chair: Francis Smit & SA Heart President - Karen Sliwa
Entertainment by - TBC
Official Opening: Free State MEC of Health, Bennie Malekoane
19h00-21h00
WELCOME FUNCTION & TRADE PREVIEW – SUPERBOWL
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SA HEART CONGRESS 2015 –PROVISIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMME
Provisional Scientific Programme as at 29 May 2015
MONDAY 26 OCTOBER
07h00 – 08h00
PLENARY SESSION
1
08h00-10h15
Breakfast Symposium
ETHICS SESSION
Hearts In Sight: The African Perspective
Chairs: Karen Sliwa &
Francis
Smit
08h00 - 08h10
Welcome – Karen Sliwa President SA Heart
08h10 – 08h40
Cardiac Medicine in the Developing World in the 21st Century – changing epidemiology, technology application (leapfrog), expectations, training and service delivery challenges –
Bernard Gersh (USA): Honoured Guest Lecture
Service Delivery - The State of the Nation
08h40 - 08h50
Paediatric: Paediatric cardiac disease in SA – Service delivery, training & research perspectives - Liesl Zϋhlke
08h50 - 09h00
Adult: Adult cardiac disease in SA – Service delivery, training & research perspectives - Karen Sliwa
09h00 - 09h10
Surgery: Cardiac surgery in SA – Service delivery, training and research perspectives - Robbie Kleinloog
09h10 - 09h20
CASSA: Arrhythmia treatment in Africa - Development and roll out of treatment strategies - Andrew Thornton
Cardiology and Surgery in Africa
09h20 - 09h35
PASCAR: Cardiac Medicine in Africa – What can South Africa contribute? - Bongani Mayosi
09h35 - 09h50
PASCATS: An approach to cardiac surgery development in Africa - Charles Yankah (Germany)
09h50 - 10h15
Discussion
10h15 - 10h45
REFRESHMENT BREAK – SUPERBOWL
PLENARY SESSION
2
10h45-13h00
ETHICS SESSION
Hearts In Sight: The African Perspective
Chairs: Karen Sliwa &
Francis Smit
Training of Cardiac Practitioners in South Africa – a private sector perspective
10h45 - 10h55
Cardiology: A Fellowship in interventional cardiology in the private sector – results and future developments – Farrel Hellig
10h55 - 11h05
Surgery: The development of a surgical fellowship in the private sector – common sense? - Martin Sussman
Training of Cardiac Practitioners in South Africa – a public sector perspective
11h05 - 11h15
Cardiology: The adult cardiology challenge – How, where, what & how many should we teach? – Andrew Sarkin
11h15 - 11h30
Surgery: The African cardiac interventionist of the future – Francis Smit
11h30 - 11h45
Discussion
South African Funders & the Government
11h45 - 12h05
A funders view on Cardiac Health Economics and Service Delivery in South Africa – Jonathan Broomberg
12h05 - 12h30
Cardiac Medicine in South Africa - The Government Perspective – Ministry of Health
12h30 - 13h00
Panel Discussion
13h00 -14h00
LUNCH – SUPERBOWL
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SA HEART CONGRESS 2015 –PROVISIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMME
Provisional Scientific Programme as at 29 May 2015
MONDAY 26 OCTOBER CONTINUED
SESSION 3
PLENARY
14h00 – 15h30
Diagnosis in Sight: Imaging in
Cardiology
PAEDIATRIC
Paediatric Imaging
ALLIED
Heart in Shock
Chairs: Mokoali Makotoko, Nico van
der Merwe & Marius Swart
Chairs:
Chairs:
14h00 – 14h30
FFR / OCT / IVUS – Which one to pick and
when
– Fausto Pinto (Portugal)
14h00-14h30
Optimising your machine for live 3D TTE
Echo –
14h00 14h10
Session Introduction – speaker tbc
14h30 – 15h00
CT angiography for CAD – are we there
yet?
– Jeroen Bax (Netherlands)
15h00 – 15h30
Cardiac MRI – Gold standard for Risk
Stratification in CAD?
– Leone Scholtz
15h30 – 15h50
REFRESHMENT BREAK – SUPERBOWL
SESSION 4
PLENARY
15h50 – 17h00
PARALLEL 1
14h30-15h00
Echocardiographic evaluation of prosthetic
valves - Mayo Clinic USA
15h00 -15h30
Foetal cardiac ultrasound: How to do it,
step by step - Jeff Harrisberg
PARALLEL 1
PARALLEL 2
14h10 – 15h00
Diagnosis and management of patients presenting with cardiogenic shock – speaker
tbc
15h00 – 15h30
Pharmacological management of patients with cardiogenic shock – speaker tbc
PARALLEL 2
Diagnosis in Sight: Imaging in
Cardiology
PAEDIATRIC
Paediatric Imaging
ALLIED
Chairs:
Chairs:
Chairs:
Intraoperative TEE: How to help your
surgeon – Justiaan Swanevelder
15h50 - 16h00
3D and Rotational angiography in CHD
– Elchanan Bruckheimer (Israel)
16h00 – 16h50
Revascularisation and haemodynamic support – speaker to be confirmed
Imaging in Prosthetic Valve Dysfunction:
Role of Echo –
Alfonso Pecoraro / Vusi Nkomo
(USA)?
16h30 – 17h00
Echocardiographic evaluation of the heart
of an athlete
- Mayo Clinic USA
16h50 – 17h00
Review of key messages and closing – speaker to be confirmed
Revascularisation in Patients with Severe
LV Dysfunction: The role of Viability
Testing / Which modality is best? –
Bernard Gersh (USA)
17h30-19h00
SA Heart AGM
19h30
Faculty Dinner
Free evening for delegates
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SA HEART CONGRESS 2015 –PROVISIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMME
Provisional Scientific Programme as at 29 May 2015
TUESDAY 27 OCTOBER
07h30 - 08h30
Breakfast Symposium
SESSION 5
PLENARY
08h30-10h15
ESC Hot messages from ESC
London 2015,
An African Perspective
Chairs: Fausto Pinto
(Portugal) & SA Heart KOL
08h30 – 08h45
Heart Failure 2015
– Johann Bauersachs
(Germany)
08h45 – 08h55
The African Perspective
- SA Heart KOL
08h55 – 09h10
Imaging
– Fausto Pinto
(Portugal)
09h10 – 09h20
The African Perspective
- SA Heart KOL
09h20 – 09h35
Intervention
– Carlos Aguiar (Portugal)
09h35 – 09h45
The African Perspective
- SA Heart KOL
PARALLEL 1
PARALLEL 2
SCTSSA
TAVI Mini Symposium
PAEDIATRIC SESSION
Chairs: Jacques Scherman &
Tom Mabin
08h30 – 09h15
Perspectives on development,
results and future of TAVI
- Volkmar Falk (Germany)
09h15 – 09h30
Valve assessment and
placement
- Jacques Scherman
To be confirmed
To be confirmed
Chair
Chairs:
08h30-08h55
Surgical decision making and the
approach to LVOTO in different
CHD
– Christian Brizard
(Australia)
09h00-09h25
Percutaneous intervention for
neonatal aortic stenosis and
coarctation
– Elchanan Bruckheimer
(Israel)
09h45 – 10h00
Long term outcomes of TAVI and
TAVI in the young
- Helmuth Weich
09h30 – 09h45 Management of
hypoplastic aortic arch complex
– Christian Brizard
(Australia)
10h00 – 10h15
Management of paravalvular
leak and valve failure
- Farrel Hellig
09h50-10h05
How I treat a 6 year old with
native coarctation of the aorta
– Lungile Pepeta
10h00 – 10h10
The African Perspective
- SA Heart KOL
PARALLEL 4
LVOTO AND COARCTATION
09h30 – 09h45
TAVR and sutureless aorta
valves – complimentary or
competition
- Pascal Dohmen (Germany)
09h45 – 10h00
Valvular Disease
– Jeroen Bax (Netherlands)
10h15 – 10h45
Chairs:
PARALLEL 3
10h10 – 10h25
Coarctation of the aorta:
outcome of registries
– Elchanan Bruckheimer
(Israel)
REFRESHMENT BREAK – SUPERBOWL
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SA HEART CONGRESS 2015 –PROVISIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMME
Provisional Scientific Programme as at 29 May 2015
TUESDAY 27 OCTOBER CONTINUED
SESSION 6
10h45-12h30
PLENARY
PARALLEL 1
PARALLEL 2
PARALLEL 3
PARALLEL 4
Infective Endocarditis Mini
Symposium
Interventional Cardiology
STEMI UPDATE
PAEDIATRICS
To be confirmed
To be confirmed
Chairs: Carlos Mestres &
Klaus-Friedrich Bodmann
10h45 – 11h00
Sero negative infective
endocarditis
Cloete van Vuuren
Chairs: Tom Mabin & Sajidah
Khan
10h45 – 11h00
Reperfusion therapy for STEMI
in 2015: The critical importance
of systems for the delivery of
care
– Bernard Gersh (USA)
Chairs:
Chairs:
Chairs:
11h00 – 11h15
Pharmaco – invasive strategy:
Which combination is best? –
Fausto Pinto (Portugal)
11h30-11h55
Single vs biventricular repair:
technical failure or safer? Christian Brizard (Australia)
11h15 – 11h30
The use of Homografts in
infective endocarditis
Charles Yankah (Germany)
11h15 – 11h30
What if aspiration thrombectomy
fails?
- Robert Byrne (Germany)
12h00-12h25
Evaluating quality of life after
congenital heart surgery
– Andre Brooks
11h30 – 11h45
Device Endocarditis
Pascal Dohmen (Germany)
11h30 – 11h45
PCI in STEMI
– Graham Cassel
11h45 – 12h00
An overview of infective
endocarditis in South Africa
Francis Smit
11h45 – 12h00
Management of cardiogenic
shock in STEMI patients
– Carlos Aguiar (Portugal)
12h00 – 12h15
Infective endocarditis in then
TAVI patient
Volkmar Falk (Germany)
12h00 – 12h30
DEBATE:
(a) Multi-vessel PCI during
STEMI: Should we stent it?
(b) Multi-vessel PCI during
STEMI: We should stent
only the culprit lesion (and
FFR the rest?)
– Farrel Hellig and
Robert Byrne (Germany)
11h00 – 11h15
Infective endocarditis – micro
biology and medical
management
Klaus-Friedrich Bodmann
(Germany)
12h15 – 12h30
Evolving surgical indications in
infective endocarditis and valve
repair
Carlos Mestres (Spain)
12h30 -14h00
POTPOURRI
11h00-11h25
Dangers in the cathlab: the
unnoticed and unexpected
- John Lawrenson
LUNCH / POSTER PRESENTATIONS – SUPERBOWL
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SA HEART CONGRESS 2015 –PROVISIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMME
Provisional Scientific Programme as at 29 May 2015
TUESDAY 27 OCTOBER CONTINUED
SESSION 7
14h00 – 15h20
PLENARY
PARALLEL 1
PARALLEL 2
VALVULAR MINI
SYMPOSIUM
Chair:
PERFUSION
PAEDIATRICS
Chair:
Chair:
14h00 – 14h20
The multi-disciplinary Heart
Valve Team: Is it necessary for
optimal care
– Jeroen Bax (Netherlands)
/
Manuel Antunes (Portugal)
/ Mayo
14h00 – 14h15
Isolated liver perfusion
– A Klopper (Netherlands)
DORV
14h20 – 14h40
Combined MR and AS: defining
severity and treatment targets
– Martin Sussman /
Anton Doubell /
Alfonso Pecoraro
14h40 – 15h00
MR in the elderly – how to
evaluate and when to intervene
– Manuel Antunes
(Portugal) / Vusi Nkomo
(USA)
14h15 – 14h30
HIPEC perfusion
– Liesl Thompson Jooste
14h30 – 14h55
Black seed oil, a new therapy for
VW ECMO – a case report (25
min)
– A Klopper (Netherlands)
14h55 – 15h10
Workshop: Infant ECMO – Our
experience
– Eddie Zwicky / M Magotsi
15h10 – 15h25
MUF – the simpler way to go
– Eddie Zwicky
15h00 – 15h20
Anticoagulation in valvular
heart disease: changing
concepts
– Bernard Gersh (USA)
15h20 – 15h40
14h00-14h25
Echocardiographic evaluation of
DORV
– Lungile Pepeta
14h30-15h00
Selected abstracts x 3
15h00-15h30
Surgical anatomy and decision
making in the spectrum of
DORV
– Christian Brizard
(Australia)
PARALLEL 3
Chairs: Francis Smit / Peter
Ziller / Pascal Dohmen
Basis Science Workshop
Tissue Engineering
Francis Smit
Peter Zilla
Pascal Dohmen (Germany)
Charles Yankah (Germany)
PARALLEL 4
ALLIED
Mastering Challenging Cases
Chair:
14h00 – 14h10
Session Introduction – speaker
tbc
14h10 – 14h30
Challenging cases: what factors
contribute to making them so
tough? – speaker tbc
14h30 – 14h45
Challenging cases: how does the
cathlab nurse contribute to
ensuring a successful patient
outcome? – speaker tbc
14h45 – 15h00
Challenging cases: how does the
EP nurse contribute to ensuring a
successful patient outcome? –
speaker tbc
15h00 – 15h15
Challenging cases: how does the
clinical technologist contribute to
ensuring a successful patient
outcome? - speaker tbc
15h15 – 15h30
Challenging cases: how does the
radiographer contribute to
ensuring a successful patient
outcome? – speaker tbc
REFRESHMENT BREAK – SUPERBOWL
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SA HEART CONGRESS 2015 –PROVISIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMME
Provisional Scientific Programme as at 29 May 2015
TUESDAY 27 OCTOBER CONTINUED
SESSION 8
15h40 – 17h00
PLENARY
PARALLEL 1
PARALLEL 2
PARALLEL 3
PARALLEL 4
ESC
Management of Valvular
Heart Diseases – A
Global Perspective
Chairs: Jeroen Bax
(Netherlands) & SA
Heart KOL
15h40 – 16h00
Discussion:
Valvular heart disease in
pregnancy – SA Heart
KOL
PERFUSION
PAEDIATRICS
To be confirmed
ALLIED
Mastering Challenging Cases
Chair:
Chair:
Chair:
Chair:
15h40 – 15h55
MUF in adult cardiac surgery
patients: a literature review
– I Muller Groote Schuur
Hospital
15h30-16h30
Selected abstracts x 6
16h00 – 16h20
Discussion:
Valvular heart disease in
Europe: reality &
challenges – Carlos
Aguiar (Portugal)
15h55 – 16h10
Is hospital St Thomas
crystalloid cardioplegia superior
to warm microplegia in
paediatric patients undergoing
cardiopulmonary bypass?
– S Pretorius /
Red Cross Hospital
16h20 – 16h40
Discussion:
Valvular heart disease in
Africa: reality & challenges
– SA Heart KOL
16h40 – 17h00
Discussion:
New Endocarditis
Guidelines – Jeroen Bax
(Netherlands)
16h30-16h45 What I learned in Las
Vegas - Fellows
16h00 – 16h50
A picture tells a thousand words:
what can we learn from these
challenging cases? – speakers tbc
16h50 – 17h00
A review of key messages and
closing – speaker tbc
16h10 – 16h25
Reduction of myocardial edema
by addition of mannitol and
albumin – H Moselelane / Dr
Georg Mukhari Hospital
Johannesburg
16h25 – 16h40
Perfusion curriculum for South
Africa – the road ahead –
Z Musa / Groote Schuur
Hospital
16h40 – 16h55
An evaluation and comparison
of metabolic and clinical
changes in patients with acute
coronary syndromes undergoing
on- and off-pump coronary
artery bypass surgery – second
phase–
A Crous
19h30
CELEBRATION DINNER EVENING
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SA HEART CONGRESS 2015 –PROVISIONAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMME
Provisional Scientific Programme as at 29 May 2015
WEDNESDAY 28 OCTOBER
SESSION 9
08h30-10h35
PLENARY
PARALLEL 1
Heart Failure in Sight
PAEDIATRICS
Chairs: Eric Klug & Martin Sussman
Chairs:
08h30 – 08h50
Chronic heart failure – from established to new drugs
– Alexandre Mebazaa (France)
08h30-08h55
Advances in the pathophysiology of PHT – John Lawrenson
08h50 – 09h10
When pills are not enough: Mechanical support (Echmo, VAD’s)
– Volkmar Falk (Germany)
09h10 – 09h30
Patient selection and timing issues – Charles Yankah (Germany)
09h00-09h25
Assessment of PHT in the cathlab - Antoinette Cilliers
09h30-09h55
Long-term treatment of PHT – Ebrahim Hoosen
10h00-10h35
Selected Abstracts
09h30 – 09h50
The pathophysiology and management of AF in patients with LV
dysfunction – Bernard Gersh (USA)
09h50 – 10h10
Management of VT/VF Storm in advanced heart failure – what to think
about, what works & what doesn’t – Mathias Roser (Germany)
10h10 – 10h30
Discussion
10h35-11h00
REFRESHMENT BREAK - SUPERBOWL
SESSION 10
Heart Failure in Sight continued
PAEDIATRICS
11h00-12h00
Chairs:
Chairs:
11h00-11h15
Steel does heal: The emerging role of devices in heart failure
- Andrew Thornton
Pulmonary Hypertension
11h00-11h20
How & when should I close a PF0 – Jeff Harrisberg
11h15-11h30
Should MR be fixed in heart failure – Martin Sussman/
Mayo Clinic
11h20-11h40
How to close coronary artery fistulae – Antoinette Cilliers
11h30-11h45
Mitral valve repairs vs replacement in functional MR –
Volkmar Falk (Germany) & Justiaan Swanevelder
11h40-12h00
Managing complications of percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation
– Elchanan Bruckheimer (Israel)
11h45-12h00
When to consider Tricuspid repair in heart failure –
Manuel Antunes (Portugal) & Mayo Clinic
12h00
Conference Closes
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