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Sunday,
July 14, 2002
Monday,
July 15, 2002
Tuesday,
July 14, 2002
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  Satellite Symposium  
SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2002
09:00 - 9:35   COLUMBIA B
  OC OPENING CEREMONY

 

Chairperson: J.A. Elefteriades, New Haven, CT, USA

 
  GREETINGS
Asher Kimchi
, USA
Founder and Chairman
International Academy of Cardiology
8th World Congress on Heart Failure

John A. Elefteriades, USA
Member, Scientific Executive Committee
Chairman, Awards Committee
Chairman, Section of Cardiovascular Surgery
International Academy of Cardiology
8th World Congress on Heart Failure

Herbert J. Geschwind, France
Member, Scientific Executive Committee
Chairman, Section of Bioethics
International Academy of Cardiology
8th World Congress on Heart Failure

Pawan K. Singal, Canada
Member, Scientific Executive Committee
Chairman, Section of Cellular Biology of the Heart
International Academy of Cardiology
8th World Congress on Heart Failure

PRESENTATION OF 2002 AWARDS
John A. Elefteriades
, USA

 
09:35 - 10:15   COLUMBIA B
  OL OPENING LECTURE

 

Chairperson: J.S. Borer, New York, NY, USA

 
09:35 INTRODUCTION
J.S. Borer
, USA
Member, Scientific Executive Committee
Chairman, Section of Valvular Heart Disease
International Academy of Cardiology
8th World Congress on Heart Failure
 
09:40 The Thomas W. Smith Memorial Lecture:
GENETIC MECHANISMS OF HEART FAILURE
J.A. Towbin, Houston, TX, USA
 
10:15 COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION  
SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2002
10:45-13:30   COLUMBIA B
  PL01 Plenary Session:
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Chairpersons: W.J. Koch, Durham, NC, USA
J.L. Mehta, Little Rock, AR, USA

 
10:45 TARGETING THE BETA-ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR KINASE IN HEART FAILURE (INVITED LECTURE)
W.J. Koch, Durham, NC, USA
 
11:00 PRESERVATION OF LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION FOLLOWING ISCHEMIA-REPERFUSION BY PPAR-GAMMA LIGAND (INVITED LECTURE)
J.L. Mehta, B. Molavi, H.J. Chen, D.Y. Li, Little Rock, AR, USA
 
11:15 DEFECTIVE SARCOLEMMAL PHOSPHOLIPID-MEDIATED SIGNALING IN THE FAILING HEART (INVITED LECTURES)
P.S. Tappia, G.N. Pierce, N.S. Dhalla, V. Panagia, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
 
11:30 ALTERATIONS IN SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION IN HEART FAILURE (INVITED LECTURE)
T. Netticadan, R. Temsah, N.S. Dhalla, Winnipeg, MB, Canada 
 
11:45 ANTIOXYDANTS AND CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE (INVITED LECTURE)
A. Ducharme, Montreal, QC, Canada
 
12:00 A DIRECT REQUIREMENT OF NUCLEAR FACTOR KAPPA BETA FOR SUPPRESSION OF APOPTOSIS IN VENTRICULAR MYOCYTES (INVITED LECTURE)
K.M.Regula , K Ens, C Robinson, J Roth, L.A Kirshenbaum, Winnipeg, MB Canada
 
12:15 IS CELL TRANSPLANTATION A VIABLE TREATMENT FOR END-STAGE HEART DISEASE? (INVITED LECTURE)
D.A. Taylor, Durham, NC, USA
 
12:30 MYOBLAST CELL TRANSPLANTATION TO REPAIR MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, PERCUTANEOUS AND SURGICAL DELIVERY (INVITED LECTURE)
N. Dib, Phoenix, AZ, USA
 
12:45 TRANSPLANTATION THERAPY WITH ALLOGENEIC MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS PREVENTS DETERIORATION OF LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION FOLLOWING MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (INVITED LECTURE)
M.S.Qayyum , K. Takizawa, M. Frantzen, R. MacLellan, M. Lill, T. Miyamoto, R. Makkar, Los Angeles, CA, USA
 
13:00 AUTOLOGUS BONE MARROW FOR ANGIOMYOGENESIS (INVITED LECTURE)
R. Waksman, Washington, DC, USA
 
13:15 SUPPORT FOR MYOCARDIAL REGENERATION BY STEM CELLS (INVITED LECTURE)
V.Regitz-Zagrosek , B. Nasseri, Berlin, Germany
 
13:30 LUNCH BREAK  
SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2002
10:45-13:30   COLUMBIA A
  PL02 Plenary Session:
CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AND HEART FAILURE: PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND CLINICAL ASPECTS
 
  Chairpersons: B.I. Jugdutt, Edmonton, AB, Canada
C. Rosendorff,
New York, NY, USA 
 
10:45 VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION IN THE COMMUNITY: HOW MUCH IS THERE AND HOW DO WE IDENTIFY IT? (INVITED LECTURE)
R.J. Rodeheffer, Rochester, NM, USA
 
11:00 DIFFERENCES IN CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS AND STOCHASTIC MODELS, AT POPULATION LEVEL (INVITED LECTURE)
C. Pitsavos, Athens, Greece
 
11:15 ANTITHROMBOTIC PROTECTION FOR CORONARY INTENSIVE CARE UNIT ARTERY DISEASE WITH LV DYSFUNCTION (INVITED LECTURE)
J.H. Chesebro, Jacksonville, FL, USA
 
11:30 THE JAK-STAT PATHWAY AND POST-INFARCTION REMODELING (INVITED LECTURE)
N.E. El-Sherif, Brooklyn, NY, USA
 
11:45 AT1 BLOCKADE BY LOSARTAN IMPROVES ANTIOXIDANT STATUS AND HEART FUNCTION AFTER MI IN RATS (INVITED LECTURE)
P.K. Singal, N. Khaper, K. Kaur, Winnipeg, MB, Canada 
 
12:00 VASCULAR REMODELING AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: BENEFITS OF ACE-INHIBITORS AND CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS (INVITED LECTURE)
B.I. Jugdutt, Edmonton, AB, Canada
 
12:15 PLEIOTROPIC EFFECT OF STATINS IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (INVITED LECTURE)
R. Paoletti, Milan, Italy
 
12:30 DO STATINS WORK BY LIPID-LOWERING ALONE? (INVITED LECTURE)
C. Rosendorff, New York, NY, USA
 
12:45 LONG-TERM CLINICAL EXPERIENCE OF ATORVASTATIN FOR ATHEROSCLEROSIS TREATMENT (INVITED LECTURE)
N.N. Kipshidze, Tbilisi, Georgia
 
13:00 INTERVENTION INDUCED MICROVASCULAR DYSFUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASES
J. Qian, J. Ge, G. Zhang, L. Ge, H. Chen, D. Baumgart, M. Haude, R. Erbel, Shanghai, China, Essen, Germany
 
13:15 PCI VS THROMBOLYSIS IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
H Kelbaek, on behalf of The DANAMI-2 Invetigators, Denmark
 
13:30 LUNCH BREAK  
SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2002
10:45 - 13:00   COLUMBIA C
  S51 Session:
HYPERTROPHIC AND DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHIES

Chairpersons: N.J. Angomachalis, Thessaloniki, Greece
M. Hori,
Osaka, Japan

 
10:45 GENE REGULATION IN CARDIAC HYPERTROPHY
C.C. Strom, S. Haunso, S. Sheikh, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
11:00 IMPACT OF CATHETER INTERVENTIONAL TREATMENT OF HOCM IN PATIENTS WITH RECURRENT SYNCOPE
F. Lieder, F. Gietzen, C. Strunk-Mueller, G. Beer, B. Gockel, H. Kuhn, Bielefeld, Germany
 
11:15 COMPARISON OF LEFT VENTRICULAR REMODELING IN SECONDARY AND ESSENTIAL ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION
K.R. Sahakyan, S.V. Gurgenyan, S.K. Vatinyan, L.B. Edilyan, Yerevan, Armenia
 
11:30 ICD-THERAPY IN HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY AFTER TRANSCORONARY ABLATION OF THE SEPTAL HYPERTROPHY
T. Lawrenz, L. Obergassel, F. Gietzen, C. Strunk-Mueller, D. Meyer Zu Vilsendorf, H. Kuhn, Bielefeld, Germany
 
11:45 PREVALENCE AND CLINICAL PREDICTORS OF TACHYCARDIA-MEDIATED CARDIOMYOPATHY IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION FOR ATRIAL FLUTTER
R.Patel , D. Calnon, K.S. Grewal, Columbus, OH, USA
 
12:00 SPONTANEOUSLY OCCURRING ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR CARDIOMYOPATHY IN SMALL ANIMAL A NEW ANIMAL MODEL FOR HUMAN DISEASE
S.-K. Liu, P.R. Fox, New York, NY USA,Miaoli, Taiwan, ROC 
 
12:15 MYOCARDITIS AND DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY: DOES IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPY AFFECT OUTCOME?
E. Winkel, M. McLeod, A. Heroux, W. Kao, S. Pamboukian, J. Parrillo, Chicago, IL, Camden, NJ, USA
 
12:30 RIGHT VENTRICULAR EJECTION FRACTION AND PULMONARY VASODILATOR RESERVE IN END-STAGE HEART FAILURE
L. Zisman, K. Nair, S. Hussain, M.-A. Norton, K. Deming, C. Canver, Albany, NY, USA
 
12:45 ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF HEART FAILURE IN HIV POSITIVE PATIENTS
B. Dalal, P. Garg, S. Surti, A. Goel, R. Parmar, S. Agarwal, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
 
13:00 LUNCH BREAK  
SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2002
14:00 - 16:15   COLUMBIA B
  PL03 Plenary Session:
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN CARDIAC IMAGING

Chairpersons: D.S. Berman, Los Angeles, CA, USA
F.J. Pinto, Lisbon, Portugal

 
14:00 NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ASSESSMENT OF LV FUNCTION BY ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY (INVITED LECTURE)
F.J. Pinto, Lisbon, Portugal
 
14:15 ROLE OF GATED MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION SPECT IN CHF (INVITED LECTURE)
D. Berman, G. Beller, R. Hachamovitch, R. Bonow, Los Angeles, CA, USA 31
 
14:30 NUCLEAR-BASED METHODS FOR ASSESSING MYOCARDIALVIABILITY IN HEART FAILURE (INVITED LECTURE)
V. Dilsizian, Baltimore, MD, USA
 
14:45 STATE OF ART IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE FOR ASSESSING PULMONARY EMBOLISM (INVITED LECTURE)
D. Agostini, Caen, France
 
15:00 CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE AND HEART FAILURE (INVITED LECTURE)
D. Pennell, London, UK
 
15:15 METAANALYSIS OF SIDE-EFFECTS OF ADENOSINE STRESS TESTING IN DIFFERENT POPULATIONS (INVITED LECTURE)
M.Mortada , R. Gal, Milwaukee, WI, USA
 
15:30 NEW DIAGNOSTIC METHODS FOR HEART DISEASES (INVITED LECTURE)
T. Tomaru, M. Kanai, Y. Sugiyama, Chiba, Japan
 
15:45 IN VIVO MR AND ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF CATHETER-BASED VASCULAR GENE DELIVERY
X. Yang, Baltimore, MD, USA
 
16:00 A NOVEL APPROACH TO IMPROVE ACCURACY IN MEASUREMENT OF LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH SUBOPTIMAL ECHO IMAGES
M.J. Holmberg, S. Abdul-Aziz, X.D. Shen, C. Price, H.G. Li, T.C. Johnson, M.D. Core, A.N. Mooss, M.M. Mohiuddin, Omaha, NE, USA
 
16:15 COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION  
SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2002
14:00 - 16:15   COLUMBIA A
  PL04 Plenary Session:
MANAGEMENT OF HEART FAILURE: RENAL ASPECTS, ROLE OF BETA-BLOCKERS

Chairpersons: W.T. Abraham, Lexington, KY, USA
S. Goldstein
, Detroit, MI, USA

 
14:00 CARDIAC PERFORMANCE AND MORPHOLOGY IN END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE (INVITED LECTURE)
M.A. Alpert, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A
 
14:15 ULTRAFILTRATION FOR CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE (INVITED LECTURE)
W.T. Abraham, Lexington, KY, USA
 
14:30 THE ROLE OF RENAL ARTERY REVASCULARIZATION FOR PATIENTS WITH CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE (INVITED LECTURE)
W.A. Tan, Chapel Hill, USA
 
14:45 BETA BLOCKER THERAPY IN HEART FAILURE: ITS UNLIMITED DIMENSION (INVITED LECTURE)
S. Goldstein, Detroit, MI, USA
 
15:00 DOBUTAMINE ECHO AND CONTRAST-ENHANCED MRI CAN PREDICT IMPROVEMENT IN LV FUNCTION IN HEART FAILURE PATIENTS TREATED
WITH BETA-BLOCKERS (INVITED LECTURE)

M.R. Johnson, Chicago, IL, USA
 
15:15 ARE ACE INHIBITORS AND BETA-BLOCKERS BENEFICIAL IN WOMEN WITH HEART FAILURE (INVITED LECTURE)
J.K. Ghali, Shreveport, LA, USA
 
15:30 IMPACT OF BETA-BLOCKER TREATMENT ON THE PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF CURRENTLY USED RISK PREDICTORS IN CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE (INVITED LECTURE)
C. Zugck, M. Haass, Heidelberg, Germany
 
15:45 EFFECT OF BETA-BLOCKER THERAPY ON THE PROGRESSION OF ASYMPTOMATIC LEFT VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION
R.R.Gaudette , P. Arpino, J. Shin, R. Stafford, M. Semigran, Boston, MA, USA
 
16:00 THE SAFETY AND TOLERABILITY OF BETA BLOCKER THERAPY IN CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE PATIENTS WITH SEVERE CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE
K. Akosah, A. Schaper, P. Havlik, A. Lenton, J. Wypyzynski, S. Devine, LaCrosse, WI, USA
 
16:15 COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION  
SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2002
14:00 - 16:00   COLUMBIA C
  S52 Session:
VASCULAR BIOLOGY, ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION, BASIC RESEARCH

Chairpersons: J.M. Hare, Baltimore, MD, USA
J.A. Towbin
, Houston, TX, USA 

 
14:00 SICAM-1 LEVELS CORRELATE WITH INTRAMYOCARDIAL ICAM-1 EXPRESSION IN DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY
M. Noutsias, M. Pauschinger, C. Hohmann, R. Warraich, M.H. Yacoub, U. Kuhl,
H.-P. Schultheiss, Berlin, Germany, Middlesex, UK
 
14:15 ENDOTHELIUM-MEDIATED VASORELAXATION AND FIBRINOLYSIS ARE IMPAIRED IN HYPERINSULINEMIC WOMEN
F. Carmassi, F. De Negri, R. Fioriti, A. De Giorgi, C. Giannarelli, Pisa, Italy
 
14:30 SPACE FLIGHT-RELATED ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION WITH POTENTIAL CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
W.J. Rowe, Keswick, VA, USA
 
14:45 A VASCULARIZED BIOLOGICAL SCAFFOLD WITH ARTERIAL AND VENOUS PEDICLES
H.Mertsching , O. Brenning, T. Kofidis, A. Haverich, Hannover, Germany 
 
15:00 CENTRAL HYPOTENSIVE ACTION OF CLONIDINE REQUIRES NITRIC OXIDE
L.W.Dobrucki , C.L. Cabrera, D.F. Bohr, T. Malinski, Athens, OH, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
 
15:15 ABNORMAL ENDOTHELIAL-DEPENDENT VASOREACTIVITY OF CORONARY MICROCIRCULATION RELATED TO EXERCISE-INDUCED SCINTIGRAPHIC MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION DEFECTS
T.H. Schindler, P.P. Buser, M. Olschewski, J. Mueller-Brand, M. Pfisterer, E.U. Nitzsche, Basel, Switzerland, Freiburg, Germany
 
15:30 MECHANISMS OF MYOBLAST TREATMENT IN HEART FAILURE
P.K. Law, K.H. Haider, S.J. Jiang, L. Zhang, F.L. Chua, G. Fang, E. Sim, Memphis, TN, USA, Singapore
 
15:45 CRYOENERGY CAN REDUCE REPERFUSION INJURY IN AN ISCHEMIA-REPERFUSION PORCINE MODEL
V.H.Quan , P. Geoffroy, J. Lebel, N. Jacob, Y. Merhi, J.F. Tanguay, Montreal,
PQ, Canada
 
16:00 COFFEE BREAK, VISIT POSTERS & EXHIBITION  
SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2002
16:15 - 18:15   COLUMBIA B
  PL05 Plenary Session:
DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION, HYPERTENSION, LVH AND HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY

Chairpersons: H.J. Kuhn, Bielefeld, Germany
P.R. Liebson
, Chicago, IL, USA

 
16:15 FROM HYPERTENSION TO HEART FAILURE (INVITED LECTURE)
V.Papademetriou, Washington, DC, USA
 
16:30 LEFT VENTRICULAR STRUCTURE AND DYSFUNCTION IN HYPERTENSION (INVITED LECTURE)
P.R. Liebson, Chicago, IL, USA
 
16:45 NOVEL ASPECTS OF HYPERTENSION CONTROL BY VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE (INVITED LECTURE)
I. Rubinstein, Chicago, IL, USA
 
17:00 DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS (INVITED LECTURE)
M. Klapholz, New York, NY, USA
 
17:15 CARDIAC HYPERTROPHY AND FAILURE: MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF REMODELING (INVITED LECTURE)
J.A. Hill, Iowa City, IA, USA
 
17:30 A NOVEL SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAY IN GPCR-INDUCED CARDIAC HYPERTROPY; INVOLVEMENT OF HB-EGF (INVITED LECTURE)
M. Hori, H. Asanuma, S. Takashima, M. Kitakaze, Osaka, JAPAN
 
17:45 CATHETER BASED TREATMENT FOR HOCM: TECHNIQUE, COMPLICATIONS AND PROGNOSIS (INVITED LECTURE)
H.J. Kuhn, T. Lawrenz, F. Gietzen, L. Obergassel, F. Lieder, C. Leuner, Bielefeld, Germany
 
18:00 DIASTOLIC FUNTION IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS: HOW DOES LEG-LIFTING AND HANDGRIP AFFECTS TRANSMITRAL AND LEFT VENTRICULAR TISSUE DOPPLER VELOCITIES?
L.C. Danzmann, M.A. Torres, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil
 
SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2002
16:15 - 18:15   COLUMBIA A
  S53 Session:
DRUG THERAPY IN HEART FAILURE

Chairpersons: R. Bourge, Birmingham, AL, USA
M.R. Johnson
, Chicago, IL, USA

 
16:15 NESIRITIDE IN AN OUTPATIENT INFUSION CLINIC SETTING - CASE STUDIES OF 8 PATIENTS
L. Altschul, M. Masciello, R. Massaro,West Islip, NY, USA
 
16:30 BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE AND HIV-RELATED CARDIOMYOPATHY
R. Carrillo-Jimenez, T.L. Treadwell, H. Goldfine, G. Lamas, C.H. Hennekens,
Miami Beach, FL, USA, Framingham, MA, USA, Miami, FL, USA 
 
16:45 EFFECTS OF FUROSEMIDE PLUS SMALL-VOLUME HYPERTONIC SALINE IV INFUSION IN REFRACTORY CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
S.Paterna , P. Di Pasquale, G. Parrinello, L.J. Dominguez, G. Licata, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
 
17:00 INITIATION AND UP-TITRATION OF BETABLOCKADE BY A HEART FAILURE NURSE SPECIALIST
P. Warburton, E. Rose, P.G. Reid, J.D. Somauroo, Chester, UK, Halton, UK
 
17:15 EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF BERBERINE FOR CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
X.H. Zeng, X.J. Zeng, Y. Li, Y.H. Huang, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
 
17:30 RELATIONSHIP AMONG BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, EJECTION FRACTION(EF) AND AGING EFFECTS IN LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION
F.N. Savioli, J.L. Borges, S.M. Grespan, M. Batlouni, L. Piegas, H.M. Magalhaes, J.E.M.R. Souza, Cotia SP, Brazil
 
17:45 COMPARISON OF LOSARTAN VERSUS FOSINOPRIL FOR SEVERE ISCHEMIC HEART FAILURE WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE: EFFECTS ON MORTALITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE
X.H. Zeng, Y.Y Li, X.J. Zeng, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
 
18:00
 
COMPARISON OF PERINDOPRIL VERSUS ENALAPRIL FOR CHRONIC CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE: EFFECTS ON MORTALITY AND PLASMA ENDOTHELIN LEVEL
Y.H. Zeng, Y.Y. Li, X.H. Zeng, X.J. Zeng, Y.H. Huang, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
 
Sunday,
July 14, 2002
Monday,
July 15, 2002
Tuesday,
July 14, 2002
Oral Presentations Oral Presentations Oral Presentations
Poster Sessions Poster Sessions Poster Sessions
  Satellite Symposium