Main Scientific Sessions

 

26 September 2019

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FCT da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Polo Caparica)   
26/09/2019

Target audience:

Cardiology
Interventional cardiology
Cardiac surgery
Internal medicine
Intensive care medicine

General practice
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Neurology
Interventional neuroradiology

Coordenadas GPS 38º 39' 36'' N/ 9º 12' 11'' W

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  • De Lisboa: Ponte 25 de Abril. Desvio "Caparica", IC 20 (via rápida da Caparica) (saída "Porto Brandão, Universidade"). Aprox. 20 minutos. Depende do local de saída de Lisboa.
  • De Setúbal: Autoestrada A2 no sentido de Lisboa. Desvio "Caparica", IC 20 (via rápida da Caparica) (saída "Porto Brandão, Universidade"). Aprox. 30 minutos.

CAMPUS
Onde estacionar: Parque da Biblioteca
Sala 1 – Auditório Caixa Geral de Depósitos (edifício V)
Sala 2 – Auditório 202 (edifício IV)
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  ROOM I
LIVE IN A BOX
  MORNING SESSIONS:
THE FLOW
08:30 Opening
09:00 Live in a box 1: ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) “fast-track”
  Chairpersons: Hélder Pereira, Pedro Farto e Abreu
  Facilitators: Gonçalo Morgado, Rita Calé
  Panellists: Ângela Bento, Pedro Cardoso, Pedro Jerónimo de Sousa, Sérgio Baptista
  Objectives:
  • To update the best current primary PCI practice based on the latest recommendations;
  • To present what is the current strategy for STEMI with multivessel disease with and without shock;
  • To discuss the value of nonculprit stenosis evaluation using instantaneous wave-free ratio in patients with STEMI;
  • To discuss the best management of this patient after STEMI: antithrombotic strategy and lipid-lowering therapy intensity.
09:50 Key learnings
10:00 Live in a box 2: acute pulmonary embolism (PE) “fast-track”
  Chairpersons: David Jiménez, Maria José Loureiro
  Facilitators: Filipa Ferreira, Pablo Salinas, Rita Calé
  Panellists: Duarte Cacela, Hugo Côrte Real, Hugo Moreira, Melanie Ferreira, Pedro Coelho
  Objectives:
  • To be aware of the main updates of high and intermediate-high risk PE treatment in latest ESC guidelines;
  • To understand the main value of Pulmonary Embolism Response Teams (PERT); How to build an acute PE team and management pathway;
  • Understand the advantages of catheter directed treatment versus systemic lysis in intermediate-high risk PE; Discuss the options of high-risk PE treatment when there is contraindication to lysis;
  • To have knowledge of the main catheter-based therapies: its results and complications;
  • Discuss the role of surgical embolectomy in the era of catheter-based intervention.
10:50 Key learnings
11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 Live in a box 3: acute ischemic stroke “fast track”
  Chairpersons: Miguel Rodrigues, Pedro Vilela
  Facilitators: Lígia Neves, Liliana Pereira
  Panellists: Fernando Pita, Gabriel Branco, Miguel Viana Baptista, Teresa Mesquita
  Objectives:
  • To understand which patient benefit from interventional reperfusion in acute ischemic stroke;
  • To be aware of the challenges to implement the network to interventional reperfusion in stroke;
  • To know the technique and the results of percutaneous treatment of stroke.
12:20 Key learnings
12:30 Lecture: Cardiogenic shock in acute myocardial infarction and acute pulmonary embolism: best approach.
  Chairpersons: Manuel Pedro Magalhães, Rui Gomes
13:00 Sharing Session: Education and Training in Interventional Cardiology
  Chairpersons: Hélder Pereira, Rui Campante Teles
  Coordinators Cardiac Cath Labs: Lino Patrício, Manuel Almeida, Pedro Braga
  Fellows in Interventional Cardiology: Gonçalo Morgado, Luís Morais, Sérgio Madeira
  Topics:
  • EAPCI Core Curriculum and Syllabus for Interventional Cardiology Subspeciality Training;
  • European Certified in Interventional Cardiology;
  • Future of Training in Interventional Cardiology in Portugal
13:30 LUNCH
  AFTERNOON SESSIONS:
THE RHYTHM
14:30 Lecture: Direct Oral Anticoagulant (DOAC) peri-procedural management
  Chairpersons: Daniel Caldeira, Luis Brandão
15:00 Live in a box 4: learning how to perform a left atrial appendage (LAA) closure in difficult anatomies: tips and tricks.
  Chairpersons: Pedro Braga, Pedro Canas da Silva
  Facilitators: Eduardo Oliveira, Hélder Pereira, Regina Ribeiras
  Panellists: Ana Rita Francisco, António Fiarresga, Cláudia Jorge, Isabel João, Lino Santos
  Objectives:
  • To present what is the current evidence for LAA closure for stroke prevention;
  • To learn the basic procedural steps for LAA closure;
  • To understand the importance of echocardiographic guidance to perform a successful LAA closure;
  • To recognize the anatomical subsets that challenge successful LAA closure;
  • Tips and tricks to perform LAA closure in difficult anatomies.
15:50 Key learnings
16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:30 Live in a box 5: individualizing cardiac resynchronization therapy
  Chairpersons: Mário Oliveira, Pedro Adragão
  Facilitators: Juan Manuel Fernández-Gómez, Luís Brandão, Rita Miranda
  Panellists: Bruno Valente, Francisco Costa, Pedro Cunha, Rui Candeias
  Objectives:
  • To review clinical scenarios where the use of cardiac resynchronization therapy or alternative technologies, like direct His bundle pacing, should be considered.
  • To identify the pro-contra of each technology in specific clinical setting.
  • To discuss patient selection, procedure technique, complications and pitfalls.
17:20 Key learnings
17:30 Roundtable: controversies in atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation
  Chairpersons: Francisco Morgado, João de Sousa
  Panellists: Catarina Sousa, Guilherme Portugal, Otília Simões, Pedro Cunha
17:30 Heart failure and AF: when to ablate?
17:45 AF ablation in asymptomatic patient
18:00 How CABANA trial changed my clinical practice?
18:15 Discussion
18:30 CLOSING
   
  ROOM II
CASE-BASED INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
  MORNING SESSIONS:
ARRHYTHMIAS IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
  Moderadores: Alexandra Reis, Luís Brandão
  Painel: Filipe Gonzalez, Inês Rangel, Salomé Carvalho
09:00 Wide complex tachycardia
Ana Marques, Sofia Almeida
09:30 Narrow complex tachycardia
Ana Rita Pereira, Luís Brandão
10:00 Syncope – is it secure to discharge?
Catarina Valadão, Sílvia Pereira
10:30 Electrical storm.
Daniel Sebaiti, Rita Miranda
11:00 COFFEE BREAK
  SUDDEN DEATH PREVENTION
  Moderadores: Isabel João, Luís Brandão
  Painel: Dinis Mesquita, Inês Cruz, Rita Miranda, Susana Castela
11:30 Alarming electrocardiogram features in athletes
Hélder Dores
11:50 Premature sudden cardiac death in first degree relative. How to manage?
Ana Lousinha
12:10 Sudden death in non-ischemic cardiomyopathy: role of imaging tools in risk stratification
António Ferreira
13.00 LUNCH
  AFTERNOON SESSIONS:
THE BRAIN AND THE HEART
  Moderadores: Luísa Branco, Miguel Rodrigues
  CARDIAC INJURY ON THE BRAIN
14:30 Cardioembolic stroke
Miguel Rodrigues
14:50 Evaluation of a cardiac source of embolism
Ana Rita Almeida, Ana Rita Pereira
15:10 Anticoagulation after stroke - when to start?
Liliana pereira
15:30 Patent foramen oval (PFO) closure – will the recent studies change the practice?
- Cardiologist perspective - Filipa Ferreira
- Neurologist perspective - João Pedro Marto
16:00 COFFEE BREAK
  BRAIN INJURY ON THE HEART
16:30 Neurogenic heart disease: stroke induced ECG changes and myocardial dysfunction
Elisa Campos Costa
17:00 New onset heart failure: when the brain is in charge
Tiago Geraldes