Heart failure is becoming a modern-day epidemic. Learn what you need to know to effectively manage patients with acute and chronic heart failure — not just the latest diagnostic techniques, surgical procedures, medications and devices, but also successful ways to get patients involved in healthy living. Programming for cardiologists, Fellows in Training, and Cardiac Care Associates.

HOT TOPICS
Advances in the Treatment of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

• New biological insights
• Role of biomarkers in diagnosis and management
• Managing volume overload
• Emerging role of percutaneous ventricular assist devices
• Novel drug therapies

New Frontiers in the Treatment of Heart Failure

• Metabolic modulation: New drug therapies
• Neuromodulation: What do European device trials tell us?
• Novel therapeutic strategies: Tissue engineering, stem cells

Chemotherapy-Related Heart Failure

• Mechanisms of cancer cardiotoxicity
• Tyrosine kinase inhibitor cardiotoxicity
• Monitoring and treatment of chemotherapy-induced heart failure
• Radiation-induced heart disease

Update on Diastolic Heart Failure

• Modulating the extracellular matrix: It’s all the RAGE
• New cardiac imaging techniques, including speckle Doppler
• What do clinical trials tell us about treatment?

• Prevention of heart failure: Screening and management of Stage A patients
• Integrated disease management programs: What works, how to manage costs
• The continuum of care: What every clinician needs to know from the ER to hospital discharge
• Novel surgical options in heart failure: Ventricular reconstruction, cardiac restraint devices, continuous flow vs. rotary LVADs
• Genetic testing in heart failure

Learn from the Experts

• Anemia in heart failure: What every clinician should know
• Best treatment strategies for cardiorenal syndrome
• End-of-life care: Who should manage it, what is best for patients?
• Management of right ventricular heart failure
• Cardiogenic shock: PVADs vs. drug therapy
• Managing “Broken Heart Syndrome”

ClinCard Spotlight

• Acute decompensated heart failure: Diuretics, vasodilators, ultrafiltration, inotropes, invasive monitoring
• Chronic heart failure: Indications, mitral valve repair, CABG
• Case presentations

PLUS
With Full-Access registration, i2 Summit also offers:

• Interventional strategies in complex patients
• Treatments for cardiomyopathy
• Interventional advances in structural heart disease
• Lunchtime case reviews with international experts
• Interactive case presentations and discussions throughout the day on clinical strategies of importance to both interventional and general cardiologists