Hot Topics
Thursday Through Saturday, September 23-25
12:15 pm-1:45 pm
- Chronic Kidney Disease and Contrast Nephropathy: Implications for the PCI Patient
- Clinical Research in the United States: Why to Participate and How to Succeed
- Conflict of Interest Disclosure and Management: Current Directions and the Potential Impact of “Sunshine”
- Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: New Therapeutic Approaches
- Guidelines and Appropriateness Criteria Discussions: PCI in the United States and Europe
- How to Manage, Maintain, and Expand Your Clinical Practice
- New Guideline Directions: STEMI and NSTEMI
- Open Issues in Adult Congenital and Acquired Structural Heart Disease
- Open Issues in Endovascular Intervention
- Optimizing Care for Women with Cardiovascular Disease
- Reimbursement Issues in Interventional Cardiology
Organized by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions - Special Fellows Lunch: Medical Education, Clinical Research, and Job Satisfaction
Case Reviews with the Experts
Thursday, September 23
12:15 pm-1:45 pm
- Bifurcation Disease: The Step-by- Step Approach
Sponsored by the Nordic-Baltic Study Group of Interventional Cardiology - Chronic Total Occlusions I. Advanced Treatment Strategies
Sponsored by the Tokyo Percutaneous Cardiovascular Intervention Conference - My Worst Complications: Carotid and Peripheral Intervention
Sponsored by the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy - My Worst Complications: Structural Heart Disease
Sponsored by the Pediatric Interventional Cardiac Symposium - SFA Occlusions and Infrapopliteal Disease
Sponsored by the Society of Vascular Medicine - Unprotected Left Main Disease I. Patient Selection and Technique
Sponsored by the TCT Asia-Pacific Summit
Friday, September 24
12:15 pm-1:45 pm
- Acute Infarct Angioplasty and the Thrombus-Containing Lesion I
Sponsored by the Association on Cardiovascular Interventions of the Polish Cardiac Society - Carotid, Vertebral, and Subclavian Intervention
Sponsored by the Society of Vascular Medicine - Chronic Total Occlusions II. Advanced Treatment Strategies
Sponsored by the Euro CTO Club - My Worst Complications: Coronary Intervention I
Sponsored by China Interventional Therapeutics - Transcatheter Valve Therapy I. Aortic Stenosis
Sponsored by Transcatheter Valve Therapies - Transradial Intervention: Complex Case Reviews
- Unprotected Left Main Disease II. Patient Selection and Technique
Sponsored by the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand
Saturday, September 25
12:15 pm-1:45 pm
- Acute Infarct Angioplasty and the Thrombus- Containing Lesion II
Sponsored by the Working Group of Interventional Cardiology of the Czech Society of Cardiology - Acute Stroke and Intracranial Intervention
Sponsored by All That Jazz - My Worst Complications: Coronary Intervention II
Sponsored by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions - My Worst Complications: Coronary Intervention III
Sponsored by the Sociedad Latino Americana de Cardiología Intervencionista - Retrograde Recanalization of Occluded Coronary Arteries
Sponsored by Complex Catheter Therapeutics - Transcatheter Valve Therapy II. Mitral Regurgitation
Sponsored by Transcatheter Valve Therapies
Twilight Sessions
Thursday, September 23
6:00 pm-8:00 pm
- Cardiovascular Genetics and the Era of Personalized Medicine
- Endovascular Therapies for Venous Disease: An Emerging Subspecialty
Friday, September 24
6:00 pm-8:00 pm
- Practicalities and Pitfalls of Platelet Function Testing




