18th Annual Meeting of the Mediterranean Association of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 5 October 2006
13.00 – 15.30 Registration
15.30 – 18.00
Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery in patients with renal failure
Kaoutzanis G. (Cyprus)
Up-date on our experience with microwave ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
Kabbani S. (Syria)
Arrhythmias – Atrial Fibrillation
Markides V. (UK)
New advances in surgical treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
Muneretto C. (Italy)
Surgical Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation
Trachiotis G. (USA)
18.00 – 18.30 Coffee Break
18.30 – 19.30
Operative Strategies for high risk Surgical Revascularization
Trachiotis G. (USA)
Optimal Management of patients with acute Coronary Syndrome
Papademetriou V. (USA)
19.30 – 20.00 Opening Ceremony
Friday, 6 October 2006
09.00 – 11.00
9 years follow up on the Mitral Pulmonary Autograft
Kabbani S. (Syria)
Mitral valve repair using a Biodegradable Ring in pediatric and adult population
Kalangos A. (Switzerland)
Aortic and Mitral Surgery on the Beating Heart
Gersak B. (Slovenia)
Post-Stenotic Dilatation
Jahangiri M. (UK)
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.30
Thoracoabdominal Aortic Surgery
Safi H. (USA)
New imaging tools for the assessment of aortic dissection
Spanos G. (Greece)
Surgical approach and treatment in the ascending aortic dissection and aortic arch
Papakonstantinou Ch. (Greece)
Endovascular treatment of thoracic aortic aneurysms
Papazoglou K. (Greece)
13.00 – 14.00 Business Session of the MACCS
13.30 – 15.00 Lunch Break
15.00 – 17.00
Initial experience of combined approach for the treatment of the end stage of ischemic cardiomyopathy
Prapas S. (Greece)
Ð – Circuit in opcab surgery: Analysis of the mid term results (5 years data)
Prapas S. (Greece)
Past present and future of cardiac transplantation
Rabago G. (Spain)
New approach for immunosupression therapy in cardiac transplantation
Rabago G. (Spain)
17.00 – 17.30 Coffee Break
17.30 – 19.30
Blunt and Penetrating Cardiac Trauma
Demetriades D. (USA)
Thoracic Aortic Injuries
Demetriades D. (USA)
Current management of dyslipidemia in high risk patients
Papademetriou V. (USA)
Resistant hypertension. Devices and pharmacologic therapy
Papademetriou V. (USA)
Prosthetic Heart Valves: Echo Assessment of Normal Prosthesis function and the
problem of Patient-Prosthesis mismatch
Maalouf J. (USA)
21.00 Gala Dinner
Saturday, 7 October 2006
09.00 – 11.00
Atherosclerosis and lipid profile in the Mediterranean area
Abdel Aziz O. (Egypt)
Cardiovascular diseases in the elderly - an ongoing problem
M.F. Kenda (Slovenia)
Metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease
Manolis A. (Greece)
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.30
Post Infarct LV remodeling: cause assessment and surgical enhancement
Dor V. (Monaco)
Ischemic congestive heart failure: the LV remodeling is surgical reversible
Dor V. (Monaco)
Surgery of left Ventricular Outflow Disease
Vidne B. A. (Israel)
Viross Procedure: Enthusiasm Diminishing;
Shore D. (UK)
13.30 – 15.00 Lunch Break
15.00 – 17.00
Devices (ICDs or Biventricular ICDs etc.)
V. Markides (UK)
The A Fib epidemiology, post-operative A Fib etc.
E. Crystal (Canada)
It is safe to operate patients under clopidogrel without the use of platelets perfusion
G. Tedy (Lebanon)
