Antithrombotic therapy for cardiac arrhythmias
October 25 – Barbantini Room
October 26 – Barbantini Room
Program Chairs:
A. John Camm / London, UK
Gregory Y.H. Lip / Birmingham, UK
- Screening for AF and device detected subclinical atrial tachyarrhythmias
- A registry of AF registries
- Stroke prevention in AF: hot topics
- Antithrombotic therapy in valvular AF
- AF ablation update, joint document with HRS
Arrhythmias in the elderly
October 26 – Borges Room
Program Chairs:
Hugh Calkins / Baltimore, USA
Win-Kuang Shen / Phoenix, USA
Challenges and advances of arrhythmia management in older populations: a state-of-the-art update
Arrhythmogenic hereditary syndromes
October 25 – Capriate Room
October 26 – Photographs Room
Program Chairs:
Sami Viskin / Tel Aviv, Israel
Arthur A. Wilde / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Brugada syndrome
- Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia
- Genotype specific therapy: focus on LQT3
- Sudden cardiac death in the young
- Brain or heart? Syncope or epilepsy?
Cardiac arrhythmia surgery: where are we and where are we going
October 26 – Borges Room
Program Chairs:
Ralph J. Damiano Jr. / St. Luis, USA
James J. Edgerton / Dallas, USA
Domenico Mangino / Venice-Mestre, Italy
Controversies in VT arrhythmias ablation
October 27 – Cenacolo Room
October 27 – Photographs Room
Program Chair:
Antonio Rossillo / Venice-Mestre, Italy
Go back to the basic EP
October 25 – Consiglio Room
Program Chairs:
Warren M. Jackman / Oklahoma City, USA
Melvin M. Scheinman / San Francisco, USA
- Application of basic science to the clinical appraisal of mechanisms of tachycardias
- The role of electrogram analyses and anatomy in the ablation of complex arrhythmias
HF, CRT and… more: evolution of technology and impact on the outcome
October 25 – Cipressi Room
Program Chairs:
Giuseppe Boriani / Modena, Italy
Michael R. Gold / Charleston, USA
- Device based therapy for heart failure: the good, the bad and the ugly
- CRT in heart failure: quantifying the benefits
- CRT: can technology maximize the rate of responders?
How to predict and prevent sudden death in different clinical settings
October 26 – Capriate Room
Program Chairs:
Giovanni Luca Botto / Como, Italy
Eric N. Prystowsky / Indianapolis, USA
- How to predict and prevent sudden death in patients with normal hearts
- How to predict and prevent sudden death in patients with abnormal hearts
Lead extraction and device infection 2017 update
October 26 – Cipressi Room
October 27 – Cipressi Room
Program Chairs:
Maria Grazia Bongiorni / Pisa, Italy
Charles Kennergren / Gothenburg, Sweden
- Lead extraction today and in the future
- Taking lead extraction to the next level
- Case based lead extraction
Leadless pacemaker: pearls and pitfalls
October 25 – Cipressi Room
Program Chairs:
Andrew E. Epstein / Philadelphia, USA
Maurizio Lunati / Milan, Italy
Lifestyle modification as treatment for AF
October 25 – Barbantini Room
Program Chairs:
Michele Massimo Gulizia / Catania, Italy
Prash Sanders / Adelaide, Australia
New therapeutic solutions for the arrhythmic patient: promises and challenges
October 26 – Cipressi Room
PLACE Academy: the ECGs of my life
October 25 – Consiglio Room
Program Chairs:
Leonardo Calò / Rome, Italy
Fiorenzo Gaita / Turin, Italy
Remote monitoring of cardiac arrhythmias/device
October 27 – Cipressi Room
Program Chairs:
Cecilia Linde / Stockholm, Sweden
Renato Pietro Ricci / Rome, Italy
Remote monitoring: how, for whom and where are we aiming in the future
Simulation in electrophysiology: expectations and facts
October 27 – Photographs Room
Program Chairs:
R. De Ponti / Varese, Italy
R. Schilling / London, UK
Sport and arrhythmias
October 25 – Photographs Room
Program Chairs:
Franco Giada / Noale, Italy
Sanjay Sharma / London, UK
Strategies in stroke prevention: what’s new?
October 26 – Cenacolo Room
Syncope summit
October 25 – Photographs Room
October 26 – Photographs Room
Program Chairs:
David G. Benditt / Minneapolis, USA
Brian Olshansky / Iowa City, USA
- Syncope in athletes and pseudosyncope / pseudoseizures
- Orthostatic hypotension: an update on diagnosis and treatment
- Differential diagnosis of POTS, IST epilectic TLOC, and ictal asystole
- Pharmacological and non-pharmacological tratment of VVS
Update on clinical trials on cardiac arrhythmias
October 26 – Barbantini Room
October 27 – Capriate Room
Program Chairs:
Stuart J. Connolly / Hamilton, Canada
Stefan H. Hohnloser / Frankfurt, Germany
Value of cardiac MRI in the management of cardiac arrhythmias
October 26 – Consiglio Room
Program Chairs:
Cristina Basso / Padua, Italy
Henry R. Halperin / Baltimore, USA
Zoom in on VT ablation
October 27 – Capriate Room
Program Chairs:
Francis E. Marchlinski / Philadelphia, USA
William G. Stevenson / Boston, USA