Final Programme - World Heart Federation

tuesday, 20 May 2008
management of Patients With synCoPe
Chairs: Dario Sobral (BRAZIL), Riccardo Cappato (ITALY)
10:30 Inappropriate sinus node tachycardia
Carlos A. Morillo (CANADA)
10:52 Management strategies
Rafael Rabinovich (ARGENTINA)
11:14 Syncope and falls in the elderly
Antonio Gonzalez Hermosillo(MEXICO)
Rhine - yelloW Pavillion - 10:30-12:00
Clinical Seminar
missouRi - yelloW Pavillion - 10:30-12:00
Symposium
What’s neW in heaRt failuRe?
Chairs: Jay Cohn (UNITED STATES), Shigetake Sasayama (JAPAN)
10:30 New pharmacotherapies for chronic heart failure
Philip A Poole-Wilson. (UNITED KINGDOM)
10:52 What is new with currents agents
Henry Krum (AUSTRALIA)
11:14 Cardiac resynchronization therapy
John Cleland (UNITED KINGDOM)
11:36 New pharmacotherapies for decompensated heart failure
Mihai Gheorghiade (UNITED STATES)
Rio de la Plata - Red Pavillion - 10:30-12:00
Debate
ContRoveRsial issues RegaRding management and tReatment
of systoliC heaRt failuRe
Chairs: Sergio Varini (ARGENTINA), Hori Masatsugu (JAPAN)
Statement 1:
10:30 Patients with systolic heart failure in the New york Heart Class Association II should be treated
with aldosterone antagonist
Pro: Willem Remme (NETHERLANDS)
Contra: José Luis López-Sendón (SPAIN)
Statement 2:
11:15 Patients with heart failure and LV ejection fraction < 25% and sinus rhythm should receive
anticoagulant therapy
Pro: Guillermo Torre Amione (UNITED STATES)
Contra: Barry Massie (UNITED STATES)