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Education & Awareness is the main purpose of the Anthony Bates Foundation.
There is a wide bridge between wisdom gained from parents that have lost
a child to Sudden Cardiac Arrest and the knowledge of medical professionals.
Our goal in this section is to share our wisdom to bridge the gap!
Sharon Bates has had eight years of immersion
as it relates to the cardiac
condition known as Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy,
HCM. Recently while
in Italy, Sharon heard Dr. Arbustini, Florence, Italy state,
“Medical school
& specialty school students
are lucky to have 1 hour of
cardiomyopathy training and barely have a genetic subject.” This
made an impression on her to share what she learns to doctors and medical
professionals everywhere.
These notes were taken during the Florence International
Course on Advances
in Cardiomyopathies – May 22/24, 2008. There is a wealth of information
and contacts to professionals in the field that
are making a difference in this
“not so rare” condition.
Share this web-sites and these notes
with your colleagues!
Part 1 Contains 10 pages that include:
* Intro
* Table of Contents
* Guest Faculty Contact Information
* May 22 Pre-Opening Sessions
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Advances in Cardiomyopathy Part 1
Part 2 Contains 10 pages that includes:
* Official Opening
Session 1
* General principles: nomenclature,
classification, mechanisms
* The contemporary classifications of cardiomyopathies
* Genetic
basis of cardiomyopathies: an overview
* Molecular mechanisms of dysfunction
and failure
* Contribution of pathology
to the understanding of cardiomyopathies
* Role of endomyocardial biopsy in 2008
Session 2
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HCM diagnosis and clinical assessment
* Diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis and clinical spectrum
* Cardiac involvement in Anderson Fabry disease
* Pathophysiology of symptoms
and disease progression
* Echo verses MRI for clinical management
* Assessment of microvascular dysfunction and significance of ischemia
* Future
applications of cardiac MRI imaging
Session 3
*
HCM translational research: insights from basic science and clinical genetics
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Advances in Cardiomyopathy Part 2
Part 3 Contains 10 pages that includes:
* Lessons from mouse models
* Biophysical
consequences of sarcomere gene mutations
* Old genes, new genes and correlations with phenotype
*
Disease mechanisms in inherited DCM
Session 4
* HCM clinical management
* An
overview of contemporary treatment options
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State-of-the-art management of atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmias
* Prevention of systemic embolism: old and new drugs * Round
Table: How to relieve LVOT obstruction
* Lessons
learned from four decades of surgical myectomy
* Lessons
learned from a decade of alcohol septal ablation
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Advances in Cardiomyopathy Part 3
Part 4 Contains 10 pages that include:
* Restorative tailored surgical
approach * Panel discussion
* LV dysfunction, dilated Cardiomyopathy
and ARVC
* Genetic screening in the clinical setting: state-of-the-art
* Update on ARVC: morphological spectrum and outcome
* Clinical
management of ARVC
*
Restrictive cardiomyopathies and children
* Cardiomyopathies in
children including LV non compaction
* Differential diagnosis and management of cardiac amyloidoses
* Tropical neglected cardiomyopathies
Session 7
* Round Table: How to implement education and translational research in cardiomyopathies
* The Italian perspective
Session 8
*
Sudden death prevention: ICD patient selection
and risk/benefit ratio
* In HCM
* In DCM and ARVC
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Advances in Cardiomyopathy Part 4
Part 5 Containes 10 pages that contain:
* In athletes and in the young
* Prevention and management of ICD-related complications
* Discussion
* Young Investigator Awards
* New advances in CRT, LVAD, heart transpland and regenerative medicine
* New directions for cardiomyopathies: what’s next
* Patient selection and expected benefits of cardiac resynchronization therapy * Gene therapy and stem cells:
dream or reality
* Lecture:
New advances in reverse remodeling and regenerative
medicine
* Conclusion
and final remarks
* Poster
Session: P1 through P14
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Advances in Cardiomyopathy Part 5
Part 6 Contains 4 pages that include:
* Poster Session: P14 through P26
* Poster Session:
P27 through P38 * Poster Session: P39 through P51
* Poster Session: P48 through P60
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Advances in Cardiomyopathy Part 6
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