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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.
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
*
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
*
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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