Four out of every 1,000 children born each year have congenital heart disease severe enough to require surgery or catheter intervention. Survival rates are so high — an estimated 85 percent — more adults than children are living with congenital heart disease today. Many patients face lifelong challenges, and cardiologists, surgeons and nurses with experience and expertise in meeting those challenges are in great demand.

Stay on the leading edge with the latest information on congenital heart disease. At ACC.09, the focused Congenital Cardiology Solutions track offers the exciting opportunities to learn about new surgical and interventional techniques for treating adult, pediatric — and even fetal — patients. Explore advances in genetic testing. Share insights with colleagues on life long challenges, including when to reoperate, how to safely manage the physiological stresses of pregnancy, neurodevelopmental problems in children with congenital heart disease and best practices for helping patients and families through critical life transitions.

You know the management of congenital heart disease is both complex and rewarding. That’s why ACC.09 is the place to come for premier educational programming. And with a Full-Access pass, you can take advantage of all i2 Summit 2009 has to offer, including special sessions dedicated to the latest catheter treatments for congenital heart disease.

In a single venue, you can not only learn the latest in interventional and surgical procedures, you can catch up on advances in other areas of cardiology pertinent to the care of patients with congenital heart disease, including diagnostic imaging, heart failure, pharmacology, electrophysiology and preventive cardiology.

Congenital Cardiology Solutions Spotlight
Tuesday, March 31
8 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Join your colleagues for a full day of groundbreaking live cases by master interventionalists at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, New York, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. See cutting-edge technology in action. Put it all in perspective with in-depth educational sessions led by on-site experts. 

Live Cases and Discussion with the Experts
Secundum ASD Closure with Absent Aortic Rim

• Case and device selection
• Avoiding erosion and embolization
• Long-term follow-up of ASD device closure
• The Helix device: Case selection and utility

Pulmonary Artery Stenting and/or Angioplasty

• What to stent and what to balloon
• When to use new techniques: Cutting balloons, very-high-pressure balloons, covered stents
• Long-term follow-up of pulmonary artery stents

Percutaneous Pulmonary Valve Implantation: Melody Valve

• Status of the Edwards pulmonary valve

Coarctation of the Aorta: CP Stent Implant

• Progress and early results of the COAST study

• Does fetal intervention improve neonatal outcomes
• Should hybrid palliation be offered as an equal option with Sano/Norwood palliation?

Congenital Cardiology Solutions Learning Pathway
HOT TOPICS

Factors Impacting Neurodevelopmental Outcomes after Cardiac Surgery

• Perfusion strategies: Do they affect neurodevelopmental outcomes of neonates?
• Impact of patient-specific factors
• Impact of perioperative factors
• How do we measure quality of life?

Advances in the Care of the Fetus with Congenital Heart Disease

• Detection of fetal genetic abnormalities using maternal blood sampling
• Role of echocardiography
• Surgical options
• Fetal interventions for hypoplastic left heart syndrome

Fontan Late Outcome and Management of the Failing Circulation

• Late outcome of Fontan palliation
• Protein losing enteropathy: Etiology and management
• Multisystem organ involvement
• Arrhythmia management in the Fontan patient
• Fontan conversion for late Fontan failure
• Transplantation for failing Fontan

Complex Transposition of the Great Arteries

• Management of late problems after atrial switch operations
• Aortic translocation for D-transposition with VSD and pulmonary stenosis
• Management of late complications of the arterial switch operations
• Retraining the morphologic left ventricle in preparation for anatomic biventricular repair
• The anatomy of D-TGA and CCTGA

• Repair of Ebstein’s anomaly using the cone procedure
• Staging of patients with HLHS: What we know about outcomes
• Adult congenital heart disease for general cardiologists
• Pregnancy and contraception in women with CHD

 
Learn from the Experts

• Management of patients with late sequelae of tetralogy of Fallot
• Advances in cardiopulmonary support

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

• Live cases from leading medical centers worldwide
• Dedicated structural heart disease track with focused symposia, interactive discussions and case reviews on latest interventions for atrial septal defect, patent foramen ovale, coarctation of the aorta, patent ductus arteriosus, ventricular septal defect and more!
• Original research on pediatric and adult congenital heart disease
• Hemodynamics intensive
• Late Breaking Clinical Trials each morning
• Interactive case presentations and discussions throughout the day on clinical strategies of importance to both interventional and general cardiologists