INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY

Trans-Catheter Ablation
  • Supraventricular Arrhythmias
  • Efficacy and safety of drug therapy vs trans-catheter ablation for atrial flutter
  • Pulmonary Veins anatomy variability
  • Ablation of AF in Pulmonary and Non-Pulmonary Foci
  • Cryoablation and circumferential PV isolation: morbidity, mortality, QoL and long-term outcomes
  • The efficacy and safety of the cryosurgical maze procedure for refractory AF
  • Ablation of Atrial Flutter
  • Ventricular Arrhythmias
  • Percutaneous trans-catheter ablation of ventricular arrhythmias
  • How to manage non-inducibility
  • Setting anti-tachypacing algorithms after ablation
Implantable Pacing Device
  • Latest indication to Cardiac Pacing
  • Leadless pacemaker
  • Left ventricle endocardial cardiac pacing
  • New Pacing, Prevention and Cardioversion algorithms
  • Latest pacing and ICD leads technology
  • Telemedicine for the home follow-up of PM/ICD patients
  • New generation of implantable cardiac haemodynamic sensors
  • Remote control and telemedicine by implantable device
  • MR-conditional pacemaker systems: are they all alike?
  • Cost-effectiveness of drug/devices interaction
Heart Failure & Cardiac Resynchronization
  • Hybrid therapy in CHF and AF
  • The optimal candidates to biventricular pacing
  • New-found complications of biventricular pacing
  • Optmizing CRT vector selection
  • ICD backup in biventricular paced CHF patients need of multiples therapy in a single device
  • Fluid & Congestion monitoring
Supraventricular Arrhythmias
  • Drug-device interaction in the management of pacing, prevention and treatment of atrial tachyarrhythmias
  • New atrial tachyarrhythmias detection algorithms
Implantable Defibrillators
  • Newer-generation ICDs
  • Is there a role for atrial ICD or is dual ICD enough?
  • New physiological ICD therapies
  • Primary Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death in different population
  • Remote monitoring devices
  • MR-conditional implantable defibrillators: what makes some of them really innovative
  • The second generation Subcutaneous ICD
Hemodinamical & Surgical Therapies
  • New surgical strategies for AF
  • Surgical transepicardic approach to CRT
  • Role of surgery in end-stage CHF
  • The treatment of ischemic mitral valve
  • TAVI
  • MITRACLIP
  • The new mitral and tricuspid endoprosthesis