TRANSPLANT AND HEART FAILURE

Day 1: 17 July, 2017 Monday

Transplant & Heart Failure: 50 Years of Transplantation, What are Best Practices?
10:00 – 10:20 Management of the Sensitized Pre- and Post-Transplant Patient
Steve Webber, US
10:20 – 10:40 Surveillance Biopsies – do we still need them?
Francesco Parisi, Italy
10:40 – 11:00 Management of Coronary Artery Vasculopathy – State of the Art
Elfriede Pahl, US
11:00 – 11:20 Listing for Re-Transplantation: Indications and Outcomes
Anne Dipchand, Canada
11:20 – 11:40 When a Heart Transplant isn’t enough …. when are a Kidney or Liver Needed?
Jonathan Johnson, US
11:40 – 12:00 Discussion

Transplant & Heart Failure: Bridging Together: Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) & ICU: Controversies
13:30 – 13:50 VADs in Challenging Patients: Approaching the Tough Cases
Eugen Sandica, Germany
13:50 – 14:10 Making it Work: VADs in Patients with Univentricular Physiology
David Morales, US
14:10 – 14:30 Sweating the Details: How to Select the Patient to be Weaned?
Jennifer Conway, Canada
14:30 – 14:50 Management of Common VAD Complications in the ICU
Christina Vander Pluyme, US
14:50 – 15:10 Chronic VAD Therapy in Children
Antonio Amodeo, Italy
15:10 – 15:30 What’s Next: The Future of VAD Therapy in Children
Charles Fraser, US

Day 2: 18 July, 2017 Tuesday

Transplant & Heart Failure: Pushing the Limits in Pediatric Heart Transplantation
10:00 – 10:20 Transplant after Cancer and Chemotherapy: How Long do we Have to Wait?
Shigetoyo Kogaki, Japan
10:20 – 10:40 Transplant in Patients with Difficult Anatomy Including Single Lung
Linda Addonizio, US
10:40 – 11:00 Elevated Pulmonary Vascular Resistance – what can VADs do for you?
Christian Pizarro, US
11:00 – 11:20 Transplant in Patients with Genetic Syndromes and Autism
Elizabeth Blume, US
11:20 – 11:40 How Many Transplants do you get? 3rd, 4th, or More?
Massimo Griselli, France/Saudi Arabia
11:40 – 12:00 Discussion

Day 3: 19 July, 2017 Wednesday

10:00 - 10:10 O1500 - Global Burden of Congenital Heart Disease
Meghan Zimmerman, US
10:10 - 10:20 O1227 - The Humanitarian Footprint. Contributions of Global Pediatric Cardiac Surgery to the Human Development Index of Low and Middle Income Countries
Marcelo Cardarelli, US
10:20 - 10:30 O1739 - Humanitarian Model to Rescue the Invisible Child: Free Cardiac Care for Congenital Heart Disease in India
Ashish Katewa, India
10:30 - 10:40 O2273 - Successful Model of a Sustainable Program for Low Income Pediatric Children with Congenital Heart Diseases in Developing Countries
Néstor Fernando Sandoval Reyes, Colombia
10:40 - 10:50 O2299 - Performance of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Centers: a National Effort to reduce the gaps of burden of congenital heart disease in Colombia
Néstor Fernando Sandoval Reyes, Colombia
10:50 - 11:00 Discussion

Day 4: 20 July, 2017 Thursday

Transplant/HF: The Best of Heart Failure and Transplant – Hot Topics and Abstracts
10:00 - 10:10 O2336 - Neonatal Ebstein’s Anomaly – What’s to Expect?
Livia Kapusta, The Netherlands
10:10 - 10:20 O2823 - Heart Rate Reduction Strategy in Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy
Rachele Adorisio, Vatican City
10:20 - 10:30 O2391 - Short-Term Prognostic Indicators in ACHD Patients with Heart Failure
S. Lucy Roche, Canada
10:30 - 10:40 O1921 - Altered Aortic Valve Leaflet Gene Expression Following Continuous Flow VAD Therapy in Pediatric Patients
Katsuhide Maeda, US
10:40 - 10:50 O1628 - Continuing Challenges in Pediatric MCS: Analysis of the Pedimacs Registry
Elizabeth Blume, US
10:50 - 11:00 O1978 - Cardiac Regenerative Therapy Using Cardiac Progenitor Cell for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Shunji Sano, US
11:00 – 11:20 Pediatric Myocarditis – an update
Joseph Rossano, US
11:20 – 11:40 Medical Management of Childhood Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Juan Pablo Kaski, UK
11:40 – 12:00 ABO-Incompatible Transplantation – Lessons Learned and Future Directions
Lori West, Canada

Transplant & Heart Failure: Molecular and Genetic Basis of Heart Failure
13:30 – 13:50 Pediatric Cardiomyopathy – the Importance of Genetic and Metabolic Evaluation
Matthew Fenton, UK 
13:50 – 14:10 Proteomics of Heart Failure
Anne Murphy, US 
14:10 – 14:30 Mitochondria and Heart Failure
Gary Lopaschuk, Canada
14:30 – 14:50 Biomarkers in Pediatric Heart Failure – When and How to Use Them
Daphne Hsu, US
14:50 – 15:10 Clinical Diagnosis in the Genome Era – Challenges and New Horizons
Seema Mital, Canada
15:10 – 15:30 Discussion