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Monday, 19 May 2008<br />

PilComayo - yelloW Pavillion - 16:00-17:30<br />

How-to & Workshop Session<br />

oPtimum tReatment foR heaRt failuRe<br />

Chairs: Krauss Juan (ARGENTINA), Roberto Ricca (URUGUAY)<br />

16:00 How to prevent heart failure?<br />

Jay Cohn (UNITED STATES )<br />

16:45 How to achieve guidelines recommendations in patients with heart failure?<br />

Philip A Poole-Wilson. (UNITED KINGDOM)<br />

seine - gReen Pavillion - 16:00-17:30<br />

Clinical Seminar<br />

suRgiCal tReatment foR Congestive heaRt failuRe<br />

Chairs: Hector Ventura (UNITED STATES ), Ernesto Weinschelbaum (ARGENTINA)<br />

16:00 Surgical correction of mitral regurgitation in end stage cardiomyopathy<br />

Enio Buffolo (BRAZIL)<br />

16:22 Surgical strategy for non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy<br />

Hisayoshi Suma (JAPAN)<br />

16:44 Ventricular restoration for ischaemic heart failure<br />

Noedir Groppo Stolf (BRAZIL)<br />

17:06 Left ventricular assist device<br />

José Luis Navia (UNITED STATES )<br />

missouRi - yelloW Pavillion - 16:00-17:30<br />

Symposium<br />

heaRt failuRe With noRmal ejeCtion fRaCtion<br />

Chairs: Mihai Gheorghiade (UNITED STATES ), Miguel Gonzalez(ARGENTINA)<br />

16:00 Diastolic heart failure: Is it a disease?<br />

Marvin Konstam (UNITED STATES )<br />

16:22 Prevalence and etiologies<br />

16:44 How to diagnose in clinical practice<br />

Jorge Thierer (ARGENTINA)<br />

17:06 How to treat<br />

John Cleland (UNITED KINGDOM)<br />

thames - yelloW Pavillion - 16:00-17:30<br />

Special Featured Joint Session<br />

Whfs: the failing heaRt aRound the WoRld<br />

Chairs: Shahryar A. Sheikh (PAKISTAN), Grancelli Hugo (ARGENTINA)<br />

16:00 Chagas' disease, or hypertension and IHD: Which are the driving factors of heart failure in Latin America?<br />

Bocchi E. A. (BRAZIL)<br />

16:22 HIV-related heart failure in Africa<br />

Mayosi Bongani (SOUTH AFRICA)<br />

16:44 <strong>Heart</strong> failure due to virus infection in Asia<br />

Matsumori Akira (JAPAN)<br />

17:06 What we have learned from heart failure registries in Europe<br />

Willem Remme (NETHERLANDS)

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