9:00-11:30 Workshop session - parallel to the morning sessions

Contemporary approaches to quantitative assessment of cardiac function. Principles of speckle tracking echocardiography (myocardial deformation assessment) and 3D volumetry.

Hands-on session using GE workstations ; individual analysis of clinical cases. T. Witkowski, M. Obremska

 

Echocardiography not only for cardiologists - morning sessions 10:00-12:15

 

10:00-11:00 Cardiac ultrasound for internists and general practitioners

  • Revolutions in acquisition? Handheld devices, robotic echo, Artificial intelligence-guided acquisition. Can ultrasound be performed by anyone? Piotr Lipiec (Lodz, Poland) (15’)
  • AI-guided interpretation –how far away are we? Tom Marwick (Hobart/Melbourne, Australia) (15’)
  • Can a general practitioner be the first line of cardiac ultrasonography? Piotr Polański (Wroclaw, Poland) (10’)

 

11:00-12:15 Echocardiography in intensive care unit

  • Non-invasive Swan-Ganz catheter Andrzej Szyszka (Poznan, Poland) (15’)
  • Which organ to image? Role of lung ultrasound Robert Olszewski (Warsaw, Poland) (15’)
  • Valve disease or heart muscle disease?
    • Discrepancies in AS quantitation Edyta Płońska-Gościniak (Szczecin, Poland) (15’)
    • Discrepancies in valvular regurgitation quantitation Bożena Sobkowicz (Bialystok, Poland) (15’)

 

12:15-12:30 Coffee break

 

Cardiovascular imaging for all interested - afternoon sessions 12:30-17:00

 

12:30-13:45 Imaging in chronic coronary artery disease

- Can we expect anything new from echocardiography? Erwan Donal (Rennes, France) (15’)

- Viability imaging versus scar imaging by CMR: does it matter in the post-REVIVED landscape? Mateusz Śpiewak (Warsaw, Poland) (15’)

- Is the role of cardiac CT limited to non-invasive angiography? Plaque characterization and pericoronary fat – the new kids on the block Tomasz Baron (Uppsala, Sweden) (15’)

- FFR and myocardial perfusion by CT – ready for prime time? Interventional CT for guiding PCI procedures Gianluca Pontone (Milan, Italy) (15’)

 

13:45-14:15 Lunch break

 

14:15-15:30 Cardiomyopathies anno 2024

- Role of imaging in defining, phenotyping and follow-up: when do we need to go beyond echocardiography? Wojciech Kosmala (Wroclaw, Poland) (15’)

- Cardiac genetics – a partner with imaging Tom Marwick (Hobart/Melbourne, Australia) (15’)

- Predicting sudden cardiac death by multimodality imaging: time to support EF? Piotr Niewiński (Wroclaw, Poland) (15’)

- Targeted treatments in HCM, amyloidosis and Fabry-Anderson disease – for whom, when and how to track responses? Zofia Oko-Sarnowska (Poznan, Poland) (15’)

 

15:30-15:45 Coffee break

 

15:45-17:00 Fifty shades of mitral regurgitation

- Primary or secondary MR – similarities and differences Zbigniew Gąsior (Katowice, Poland) (15’)

- Atrial functional MR – underappreciated category Frank Flachskampf (Uppsala, Sweden) (15’)

- Mitral valve surgery: what information from imaging is needed pre- and intraoperatively? Roman Przybylski (Wroclaw, Poland) (15’)

- Mitral clipping – first choice or last chance treatment? Andrzej Gackowski (Cracow, Poland) (15’)