Final Programme - World Heart Federation

Wednesday, 21 May 2008
PaRaná - oChRe Pavillion - 16:00-17:30
Symposium
gRoWing PRaCtiCe of non-PhaRmaCologiCal tReatment in Congestive heaRt failuRe
Chairs: Barry Massie (UNITED STATES), Javier Marino (ARGENTINA)
16:00 Exercise I therapy: Application to mild to severe heart failure
Ileana Piña (UNITED STATES)
16:22 Treatment of heart failure patients with central sleep apnea syndrome by nasal oxygen
Shigetake Sasayama (JAPAN)
16:44 Waon Therapy : soothing warmth therapy
Chuwa Tei (JAPAN)
17:06 Device monitoring of heart failure
Cheuk-Man Yu (CHINA, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF)
missouRi - yelloW Pavillion - 16:00-17:30
Clinical Seminar
PRognostiC faCtoRs foR heaRt failuRe in the betabloCkeR eRa:
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Chairs: Marcos Amuchastegui (ARGENTINA), Marcelo Montera (BRAZIL)
16:00 How to predict sudden death?
Guillermo Bortman (ARGENTINA)
16:22 Are scores useful in advance heart failure?
Nadine Clausell (BRAZIL)
16:44 Biomarkers for risk stratification
Eduardo Perna (ARGENTINA)
17:06 State of the art of VO2 max exercise test
Ileana Piña (UNITED STATES)
euPhRates - oChRe Pavillion - 16:00-17:30
Clinical Seminar
myoCaRditis and dilated CaRdiomyoPathies: hoW aRe they Related?
Chairs: Hector Delgado Osorio (PUERTO RICO), Mitsuaki Isobe (JAPAN)
16:00 Difference in presentation timing of pregnancy-related heart failure
Karen Sliwa (SOUTH AFRICA)
16:30 Characterization of post part time cardiomyopathy
Carlos Dumont (ARGENTINA)
17:00 Pathogenesis of myocarditis
Peter Liu (CANADA)