Program

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (February 7, 2012)

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Program structure

The meeting will include Plenary Sessions, Workshops, Symposia and Abstract & Poster sessions on various topics of cardiac arrhythmias:

-          Mechanisms of Cardiac Arrhythmias
-          Molecular Basis of Arrhythmogenic Mechanisms
-          Genetic Aspects of Arrhythmias
-          Role of the Autonomous Nervous System
-          Techniques and Tools for Arrhythmia Documentation and Analysis
-          Implantable Diagnostic Devices
-          Underlying Heart Diseases and Risk Stratification
-          Conduction Disturbances and their significance
-          Sinus Node Function and Dysfunction
-          Syncope
-          Vaso-vagal Syncope and Tilt Testing
-          Narrow QRS tachycardias
-          Preexcitation Syndromes
-          Atrial Arrhythmias
-          Atrial Fibrillation
-          Wide QRS Tachycardias
-          Ventricular Arrhythmias
-          Catheter Ablation of Arrhythmias
-          Sudden Cardiac Death and Implantable Defibrillators (ICDs)
-          Pharmacological therapy and New Antiarrhythmic Agents
-          Large Clinical Trials and Their Impact on Clinical Practice
-          Technical Advances in Cardiac Pacing
-          Cardiac Pacing and Pacemakers
-          Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
-          Prophylactic ICDs
-          Cost-Effectiveness of Arrhythmia Therapies
-          Atrial-synchronized devices and atrial defibrillators
-          New Mapping Techniques
-          Surgery for Cardiac Arrhythmias
-          Stem cells Therapy for Cardiac Arrhythmias

Plenary Sessions and Symposia will cover the various hot topics of modern arrhythmology and will be addressed by internationally known speakers. Two major topics will be highlighted this year Arrhythmias from mechanisms to management and Implantable device therapy: Current and future role.

Workshops: Workshops on practical aspects of clinical arrhythmology seven of which were particularly successful in previous years will be part of the 2012 program:

-          Update on catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation
-          Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT)
-          CRT and Pacemaker ECG interpretation
-          Techniques and tools for AF ablation
-          Recent developments in anticoagulation for stroke prevention

Abstracts for oral or poster presentation

Abstracts on all cardiac arrhythmia are welcomed and will be presented during simultaneous oral sessions entirely devoted to the most recent research and will not compete with plenary lectures or workshops. The accepted poster presentations will be chaired and the presenting author will highlight their work to the chairpersons.