friday september 19 - NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY AND INTEGRATED CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING TODAY

HEART FAILURE: CRYING FOR ATTENTION

SESSION IV

Heart Failure 1
Chairmen: A. Cuocolo (Federico II University-Naples)
R. Giubbini (Brescia University)

9.00 Candidate Targets for Earlier Imaging of Heart Failure
J. NARULA (University of California – Irvine)

9.20 Imaging of Metabolic Alterations in Heart Failure
        N. TAMAKI (Sapporo University)

9.40 Imaging of Myocardial Neuronal Dysfunction
        I. CARRIÒ (Barcelona University)

10.00 Mitral Regurgitation: Integrated Imaging Modalities
        to Guide Interventions
        G. LA CANNA (S. Raffaele Hospital – Milan)

10.20 Coffee break

SESSION V

10.25 Heart Failure II
Chairmen: J. Dalle Mule (Pieve di Cadore)
                    C. Marcassa   (Veruno)


10.40 Viability: a Perfect Candidate for all Imaging Modalities?
        P. PERRONE-FILARDI (Federico II University – Naples)

11.00 Feasibility of Imaging Subcellular Targets
        A. SINUSAS (Yale University – New Haven)

11.20 Lecture: Imaging as a Guide to Defibrillators and Resynchronization
        J. BAX (Leiden University)
        Introduced by: J. DALLE MULE

11.55 Panel discussion (Session IV & V)
        Chairmen:      A. CUOCOLO – DALLE MULE

        Panelists:       J. BAX, I. CARRIÒ, R. GIUBBINI, G. LA CANNA, C. MARCASSA,
                         J. NARULA, P. PERRONE-FILARDI, A. SINUSAS, N. TAMAKI



12.15   SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM
        Sponsored by GE Healthcare
             Nuclear Cardiology to Alleviate the Coronary Artery Disease
            and Heart Failure Burdens

Chairmen:    J. BAX (Leiden), P. L. PIERI (Cesena)

12.20 Detecting more ischemia faster
        A. GIORGETTI – P. MARZULLO (Pisa)

12.35 Sympathetic innervation in heart failure
        J. NARULA (University of California – Irvine)

12.50 Sympathetic innervation imaging to risk stratify heart failure patients:
         the European and the Japanese experience
        I. CARRIÒ (Barcelona) – N. TAMAKI (Sapporo)

13.10 Sympathetic innervation imaging can predict sudden death
        and identify appropriate candidates for ICD
        J. BAX (Leiden)

13.20 Discussion

13.30 Lunch

SESSION VI

Basics of imaging
Chairmen: G.Bisi (Turin University)
                    D. Salvo (Reggio-Emilia)

14.45 Instrumentation & Software for 2010: Nuke, CT, MR, Echo
       E. GARCIA (Atlanta University)

15.15 New Tracers: SPECT and PET
        M. SCHWAIGER (Munchen University)

15.45 Panel discussion

Chairmen:      G. BISI – D. SALVO
            Panelists:      A. BIGGI, E. GARCIA, R. GIUBBINI, A. ISKANDRIAN,
                            M. SCHWAIGER, H. W. STRAUSS, T. VARETTO,



16.15 Keynote lecture: Molecular Imaging: Scintillating Future
          H. W. STRAUSS (Cornell University – New York)
          Introduced by: P.L. PIERI (Cesena)



20.00 GALA DINNER