Program
Joint Sessions
Joint Session with Heart Rhythm Society
What is the Future of EP Intervention? Lessons Learned From the Recent Past,
and the Emerging Technologies
Friday, 25 February 2011 (10:30 - 12:00) - N202
Chairpersons: Carmen Chan (Hong Kong), David Foo (Singapore), Shu-Lin Wu
(China), Anna Chan (Hong Kong)
- What has been learned from ablating the toughest AF cases with rings, lines, or CFAES? (Wing-Hong Fung, Hong Kong)
- Does 4-5D imaging with ICE and CT / MR make life any easier? (Prash Sanders, Australia)
- What does cellular therapy in biopolymer scaffolds do? (Douglas Packer, USA)
- What improvement in outcome will arise from RF guided contact imaging? (Andrea Natale, USA)
- Imaged guided VT ablation (Kyoko Soejima, Japan)
Joint Session with ISHNE
Identification and Management of High-Risk Post-MI Patients
Friday, 25 February 2011 (14:00 -15:30) - N202
Chairperson: Mario Evora (Macau), Luis Molina (Mexico), Teruhisa Tanabe
(Japan)
- Use of Clinical Factors to Identify Patients Who Do and Do Not Benefit from ICD Therapy (David Burkhardt, USA)
- Role of Multislice CAT-coronary angio in Identification of High-risk Post-MI Patients (Carmen Chan, Hong Kong)
- Update on Therapy for High-risk Post-MI Patients: Drugs & Devices (David Cannom, USA)
- New risk factors in Holter Monitoring for prediction of ischemic stroke in patients with persistent atrila fibrillation (Teruhisa Tanabe, Japan)
- Does ICD guideline apply to Asian Population (David CW Siu, Hong Kong)
Joint Session of WSA (World Society of Arrhythmias)
Remote Monitoring in Implantable in CIED
Friday, 25 February 2011 (16:00 - 17:00) - N202
Chairpersons: Shu Zhang(China), Massimo Santini (Italy), Panos Vardas (Greece)
- Definition and rationale of Remote monitoring (Ali Oto, Turkey)
- Remote monitoring in implantable pacemakers (Richard Sutton, UK)
- Remote monitoring in implantable defibrillators (David Benditt, USA)
- Remote monitoring in implantable diagnostic devices (Carsten Israel, Germany)
Joint Session with Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society
Inherited Arrhythmic Disorders in the Asia Pacific Region
Saturday, 26 February 2011 (08:30 - 10:00) - N202 - N203
Chairpersons: Masayasu Hiraoka (Japan), Chu-Pak Lau (Hong Kong)
- Genetic heterogeneity and phenotype correlation in the long QT syndrome (Ruey Sung, Taipei)
- Molecular genetics of ARVC (Minoru Horie, Japan)
- Clinical manifestation and risk stratification of Brugada syndrome (Wataru Shimizu, Japan)
- Catheter ablation of inherited arrhythmic disorders (Hong Jiang, China)
- Device treatment in inherited arrhythmic disorders (Ngai Shing Mok, Hong Kong)
Joint SOLAECE Symposium
Sunday, 27 February 2011 (10:30 - 12:00) - N102
Chairpersons: Mario Evora (Macau), Cong-Xin Huang (China), Diego Vanegas
(Columbia)
- Which is the reality of AF treatments in Latin-America? (Diego Vanegas, Columbia)
- AV nodal ablation & pacemaker or CRT in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, left atrial enlargement and chronic atrial fibrillation. A Latin-American point of view (Luis Molina, Mexico)
- AF Register in Brazil (Guiherme Fenelon, Brazil)
