Friday, February 26, 2010

07:30 - 18:30 Registration
08:45 - 09:55 Opening Ceremony
Chair: Norbert Gleicher

Welcome Address
Prof. Maria Jesus Salvador, Past President of the Spanish Cardiology Society
Prof. Uri Elkayam, Chair
Dr. Avraham Shotan, Co-chair
Award Ceremony

09:05  Opening Lecture:

09:15  Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - State of the Art
Uri Elkayam

09:55-11:20 PL1 - Cardiac Evaluation of the Pregnant Woman
Chairs: Avraham Shotan
Thomas  Easterling

09:55  Hemodynamics and Cardiac Function during Pregnancy and the Puerperium
Joseph Ouzounian
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

10:10  Maternal Hemodynamics in Normal Pregnancy and Impact on Heart Disease
Thomas Easterling
University of Washington, USA

10:25  Pre Eclampsia and Future Heart Disease
Lee Padove
Nortside Hospital, Atlanta, USA, St. Joseph's Hospital, Atlanta, USA

10:40  Echocardiographic Changes During Pregnancy: What is Normal and What is Not?
David S Blondheim
Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel

10:55  Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Pregnant Women: Supine or Left Lateral Position?
Alexia Rossi
Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

11:05  Cardiac Markers in Pregnancy
Afshan B Hameed
University of California, Irvine, USA

11:20-11:45  Coffee Break

11:45-13:15  PL2 - Preconception Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Cardiac Patient
Chairs:
Citania Tedoldi
Jack M Colman

11:45  Preconception Evaluation of the Woman with Congenital Heart Disease
Marla Mendelson
North Western University, Chicago, USA

12:00  Preconception Counseling of the Patient with Congenital Heart Disease
Mary M Canobbio
University of California, Los Angeles, USA

12:15  Preconception Evaluation of Women with Valvular Heart Disease
Jack M Colman
Mount Sinai Hos pital and Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada

12:30  Initial Experience of a Designated Preconception Counselling Service for Women with Heart Disease at University College London Hospitals (UCLH), UK
Ruth Brooks
University College London Hospitals, London, UK

12:40  Preconceptional Counselling Clinic for Young Women with Congenital Heart Disease
Maria Antonia Pijuan-Domenech
Hospital Vall d´Hebron, Barcelona, Spain

12:50  Reproductive Health and Contraception in Women with Congenital Heart Disease
Nicole Nagdyman
Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

13:00  Preconception Risk Assessment in Patients with Heart Disease
Samuel Siu
Mount Sinai Hos pital University of Toronto, Canada

13:15 - 14:30 Light Lunch

14:30 - 15:45 Parallel Sessions S1-2

14:30 - 15:45 S1 - Fetal Heart Disease
Chairs: Simcha Yagel
Mordechai Hallak

14:30  Cardiac Function in Normal and Growth Restricted Fetuses
Eduard Gratacos
Barcelona Hospital Clinic, USA

14:45  3D/4D Ultrasound in Fetal Echocardiography: A New Look at the Fetal Heart
Simcha Yagel
Hadass ah-Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

15:00  Diagnosis of Congenital H eart Disease in Utero
Jack Rychik
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA

15:15  Technical Advances in Fetal Echocardiography
Boris Tutschek
Dusseldorf University, Switzerland

15:30  Fetal Venous System: Sonographic Evaluation and Assessment of Fetal Growth and
Well Being
Simcha Yagel
Hadass ah-Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

14:30-15:45 S2- Acute Myocardial Infarction and Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation
Chairs: Athena Pappas
Arie Roth

14:30  Acute Myocardial Infarction in Pregnancy: Incidence and Pathopysiology
Uri Elkayam
University of Southern California, Los Angeles California, USA

14:45  Acute Myocardial Infarction and Pregnancy: Clinical Profile
Arie Roth
Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center & Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

15:00  Anesthetic Management of a Parturient with an Antenatal Myocardial Infarction and
Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Presenting for Cesarean Section
Lisa Councilman
Scott & White Hospital/Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA

15:10  Pre-Pregnancy Consultations & Management of Pregnancy in Women Treated with
Coronary Angioplasty for Coronary Artery Disease
Eli Gutterman
Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Isr ael, Zvulun Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

15:20  Peri-post Partum Coronary Complications
Avraham Shotan
Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel

15:30  Resuscitation of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction during Pregnancy
Arie Roth
Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center & Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

15:45 - 16:10 Coffee Break

16:10 - 16:45 PL3 - Guidelines, Surveys and Databases on CV Diseases in Pregnancy
Chairs: Uri Elkayam
Roger Hall

16:10  Cardiac Causes of Maternal Death in the UK Catherine Nels on-Piercy Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
Catherine Nelso-Piercy
Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK

16:25  European Survey On CV Disease In Pregnancy
Roger Hall
Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK

16:45 - 18:10 PL4 - Congenital Heart Disease
Chairs: Jane Somerville
Carole Warnes

16:45  Pregnancy in Women with Non-Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease
Heidi Connolly
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

17:00  The Right Ventricle in Congenital Heart Disease and Pregnancy
Sara Thorne
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK

17:15  Pregnancy in Women with Complex Congenital Heart Disease
Carole Warnes
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

17:30  Pregnancy Related Complications in Congenital Heart Disease: European Experience
Petronella G Pieper
University hospital Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

17:45  The Incidence of Congenital Heart Disease in the Offspring of Women with Heart Defects
Jane Somerville
Imperial College, UK

18:00  Prospective Evaluation from Single Center of Pregnancy in Women with Congenital Heart Disease
Vlasta Fesslova
Policlinico San Donato IRCCS, Milan, Italy

18:10-19:30 Guided Poster Session
Chairs: Uri Elkayam
Avraham Sotan

saturday, February 27, 2010

08:30-10:00 PL5-Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
Chairs: James D Fett
Dennis McNamara

08:30  Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Is an Auoimmune Disease.
Norbert Gleicher
Center for Human Reproduction, New York, USA, Foundation for Reproductive Medicine, New York, USA, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

08:45  The Prolactin Hypothesis and Results of Clinical Trials
Hatice Yamac
Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

09:00  Myocardial Recovery in Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: Lessons from IMAC2 and Study Design of IMAC3
Dennis McNamara
University of Pitts burgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, UAS

09:15  Racial Differences in Phenotypic Expression of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
Sorel Goland
Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel

09:30  Recovery of Heart Function in Women With Severe Heart Failure from Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: An 8-Year Longitudinal Study from Haiti
James D Fett
Hopital Albert Schweitzer, Deschapelles, Haiti

09:45  Nationwide Survey of Peripertum Cardiomyopathy in Japan
Kamiya Chizuko
National Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Os aka, Japan

09:55  Risk Factors for Peripartum Cardiomyopathy, Prognosis  for Recovery and Recurrence in Subsequent Pregnancies
Hagit Shani
Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Gan, Isr ael

10:05  Peripartum Cardiomyopathy as a Part of Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Karin van Spaendonck-Zwarts
University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

10:15  Panel Discussion

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:40 PL6 - Other Cardiomyopathies
Chairs: Sorel Goland
Marla  Mendelson

11:00  Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Pregnancy. What is the Risk?
Fiona Walker
The Heart Hospital, UK

11:15  Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Pregnancy: Hemodynamic and Physiological Observation and Clinical Implications
Thomas Easterling  
University of Washington, USA

11:30  The Risk of Pregnancy in the Patient with Dilated, Non Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
Candice Silversides
Mount Sinai Hos pital and University Health Network, Toronto, Canada

11:45  Chagas Disease and Pregnancy. Alleatory Study in Barcelona
Oswald Londono
Cardiology Medical Center, Barcelona, Spain

11:55  Left Ventricular Non-compaction and Pregnancy
Radha Sarma
USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA

12:10  Pregnancy after Heart Transplantation: Is It Safe?
Tuvia Ben Gal
Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel

12:25  Case Report - Nonischemic Dilated CMP: Multidisciplinary Approach
Avraham Shotan
Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel, Medical School Technion, Haifa, Israel

12:40-14:00 Light Lunch

14:00-16:00 PL7 - Valvular Heart Disease  
Chair: Afshan Hameed

14:00  Candice Silversides Rheumatic Heart Disease and Pregnancy
Citania Tedoldi
Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceicao, Brazil

14:15  Mitral Stenosis
Uri Elkayam
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

14:30  Aortic Stenosis
Candice Silversides
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

14:00-16:00 PL7 - Valvular Heart Disease (Cont.)

14:45  Pulmonary Stenosis
Afshan B Hameed
University of California, Irvine, USA

15:00  Prosthetic Heart Valves and Pregnancy
Jolien Roos-Hess elink
Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands

15:15  Selection of Prosthetic Heart Valve in Pregnancy
Uri Elkayam
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

15:25  Debate - Low Molecular Heparin is the Anticoagulation of Choice in Pregnant Women with Mechanical Heart Valve
Pro: Andra James
Con: Carole Warnes

16:00-16:25 Coffee Break

16:25-17:25 Parallel Session S3-4

16:25-17:10 S3 - Thromboembolic Complication and Pregnancy
Chairs:
Benjamin B renner

16:25  Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnancy
Citania Tedoldi
Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceicao, Brazil

16:40  Hypercoagulability and Pregnancy
Benjamin Brenner
Rambam  Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

16:55  Amniotic Fluid Embolism
Michael Belfort
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

17:10  Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pregnancy
Karen Rosene-Montella
Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Chief of Medicine, Women & Infants

16:25-17:25 S4 - Valvular and Congenital Heart Diseases
Chairs: Joseph Murphy
Fiona Walker

16:25  Management of Cardiac Pregnant Patients with Prosthetic Valves : Five Years Experience
Maged Abd El Raouf
Kasr Al Aini Hospital, Cairo, Egypt

16:35  Successful Pregnancy Following Relief of Pulmonary Regurgitation Using a Percutaneous Pulmonary Valved Stent
Louise Coats , Fiona Walker
University College Hospitals, London, UK

16:45  Risk Factors Associated with Cardiac Surgery during Pregnancy
Renato T Arnoni
Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Car diologia, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Hospital Prof. Edmundo Vasconcelos, Sao Paulo, Brazil

16:55  Does Pregnancy Contribute to Systemic RV Dysfunction in Adults  with the Atrial Switch Operation?
Dominica Zentner
Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

17:05  Anesthetic Implications for Labor and Delivery in a Single-Ventricle Parturient
David Mann
Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, USA, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

17:15  Pregnancy Outcome in Women with Single Ventricle Physiology and Fontan Circulation
Raquel Prieto, Fiona Walker
University College of London Hospitals, London, UK

17:25-17:35 BREAK

17:35-18:35 Parallel Sessions S5-6

17:35-18:30 S5 - Congenital and Fetal Heart Disease
Chairs: Boris Tutschek
Jack Rychik

17:35  Cardiovascular Manifestations of the Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome
Jack Rychik 
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA

17:55  Fetal Surgical Interventions
Thomas Kohl
University of Bonn, Germany

17:35-18:30 S5 - Congenital and Fetal Heart Disease (Cont.)

18:10  Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring In Cases of Congenital Heart Disease.
Keiko Ueda
National Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Os aka, Japan

18:20  Fetal and Perinatal Factors Influence Neurocognitive Outcome in Congenital Heart Disease
Jack Rychik
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA

17:35-18:20 S6 - Vascular Disease and Pregnancy
Chairs: Heidi Connolly
Leisa Freeman

17:35  Aortic Aneurysm, Dissection and Pregnancy
Jolien Roos-Hess elink
Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands

17:50  Approach to the Pregnant Patient with Marfan Syndrome
Heidi Connolly
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

18:05  Pregnancy in Women with Takayasu’s Arteritis
Nudrat Khatri
University of Southern California, Los Angeles California, USA

Sunday, February 28, 2010

08:30 - 09:50 PL8 - Drugs and Arrhythmias in Pregnancy  
Chairs: Amos Katz
Gideon Koren

08:30  Cardiac Arrhythmias and Pregnancy. Incidence, Prognosis, Diagnosis and Management
Amos Katz
Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon, Israel

08:45  Fetal Safety of Cardiovascular Drugs
Gideon Koren
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

09:15  Maternal Outcome in Women with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) - A Single Centre Experience, at University College London Hospitals (UCLH)
Pia Schuler
University College London Hospitals, London, UK

09:25  Cardiopulmonary Arrest in Pregnancy. Case Report.
Susana Manrique Munoz, Sonia Frances Gonzalez
Vall D´Hebron Hospital, Barcelona, Spain

09:35  Fetal Arrhythmias: Diagnosis and Management
Ulrich Gembruch
University of Bonn, Germany

09:50-10:20  PL9 - Pulmonary Hypertension in Pregnancy
Chair: Dianne Zwicke

09:50  Pulmonary Hypertension and Pregnancy – Why Do Women Die?
Thomas Easterling
University of Washington, USA

10:05  Pregnancy and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Successful Management of 37
Consecutive Patients
Dianne L Zwicke
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health-Milwaukee Clinical Campus, Milwaukee, WI, USA

10:20-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:00 PL10 - Cardiac Anesthesia and Surgery
Chairs: Leonid Eidelman
Ismael Nuno

10:45  Choice of Uterotonic Drugs in the Cardiac Patient: What We Do and Don’t Know
Katherine Arendt
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

11:00  Cardiovascular Surgery During Pregnancy and Postpartum - An Update 1997-2009
Branko M Weiss
University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

11:15  Cardiac Surgery in the Pregnant Patient: The View of the Surgeon.
Ismael Nuno
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States

11:30  Key Questions in Planning for Delivery of the Cardiac Patient
Katherine Arendt
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

11:45  How to Deliver an Effective Anesthesia for the Delivery of a Cardiac Patient?
Leonid A Eidelman
Rabin Medical Center/Beilinson Hospital, Petach Tikva, Israel

12:00-13:10 PL11 - Hypertension and Pregnancy
Chairs: Michael Belfort
Lee B Padove

12:00  Hypertension and Pregnancy: Classification, Diagnosis and Treatment
Joseph Ouzounian
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

12:15  Pre Eclampsia: Can It Be Prevented?
Silvia Hoirisch Clapauch
Hospital dos Servidores do Estado, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

12:30  Cardiovascular Catas trophes in Pregnancy
Michael Belfort
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

12:45  Preterms Delivered Because of Early-onset Pre-eclampsia Show Increased Risk of Metabolic Disturb and Death, When Compared to Untreated Normotensive
Thombophilic Mothers
Silvia Hoirisch Clapauch
Hospital dos Servidores do Estado, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

12:55  Cardiac Evaluation During Pregnancy
Lee Padove
Northside Hospital, Atlanta, USA, St. Joseph Hospital, Atlanta, USA