RHYTHM Congress
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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 2013
Friday May 31
08:30 Opening adress
André Pisapia
08:40 Atrial fibrillation, from signal to imaging
Chairmen: Patrick Attuel, Mélèze Hocini
08:40 Deciphering body surface data reveals moving rotors during AFib
Remi Dubois
09:00 Cellular approach
Thomas Desplantez
09:20 Controversy
Can we treat AFib without veins disconnection
- No, Sabine Ernst
- Yes: atrial substrate ablation by defragmentation, Koonlawee Nademanee
10:00 Discussion
   
10:15 Coffee break on the exhibition hall
   
10:45 Video: Mediguide, the medical GPS, in practice for AFib Ablation and CRT applications
Massimo Saviano
11:00

Controversy - Mechanisms of persistent Afib: do rotors have a role?
- Yes, Omer Berenfeld
- No, Maurits Allessie
11.40 Discussion
   
12:00 Lunch in exhibition hall
   
12.00 Luncheon symposium
  seated lunch included - « Joliette » room - level 1
 

How to improve CRT response ?
- Interest of spontaneous QRS / paced QRS fusion, Serge Cazeau
- Benefits of the quadripolar technology, Julien Seitz
   
13:30 Clinical approach to treat atrial fibrillation
Chairmen: Fiorenzo Gaita, Mélèze Hocini
13:30 Rotor mapping from body surface recording
Mélèze Hocini
13:50 Faster PV isolation Franck Halimi
  - Video: Using cryotherapy
  - Using multi-electrode ablation catheter PVAC
  - Video: Using nMarq
  - Discussion
14:35 How to prevent reconnection after PV isolation?
Riccardo Cappato
14:50 Video: Substrate ablation on Carto 3
Julien Seitz
15:05 Symposium: Advances in the treatment of Complex ablations
Chairmen: Jean-Pierre Cebron, Pierre Fiorello
- Mediguide: towards fluorless ablation procedures, Massimo Saviano
- Latest imaging and lesion assessment advances, Julien Seitz
- Steerable sheath, benefits for VT and complex ablations, Bertrand Pierre
   
16:05 Coffee break on the exhibition hall
   
16:35 Ablation of ventricular tachycardia
Chairmen: Jean-François Leclercq, Jean-Claude Deharo
16:35 Video: A totally sub-cutaneous ICD
Jean-Claude Deharo
16:50 Endocardial and epicardial ablation in ARVD: the scar dechanneling technique
Antonio Berruezo
17:10 Preventing VF episodes in Brugada syndrome by RF ablation
Koonlawee Nademanee
17:30 Discussion
   
18:00 End of the sessions

Saturday June 1st
08:30 Imaging
Chairmen: André Pisapia, Maurits Allessie
08:30 MRI, Atrial fibrillation & fibrosis
Julien Seitz
08:45 Type of left atrial appendage and embolic risk
Luigi Di Biase
09:00 How to decrease thrombo-embolic risk after AFib ablation?
Fiorenzo Gaita
09:15 Discussion
   
09:20 Technical devices’ Innovations
Chairman: Nadir Saoudi, Hervé Poty
09:20 Video: Percutaneous left atrial appendage closure
- by Amplatzer cardiac plug, Nicolas Lellouche
- by the Watchman device, François Brigadeau
10:00 Vagus nerve stimulation
Jacques Clémenty
   
10:15

Coffee break on the exhibition hall
   
10:45 Renal denervation: its impact on arrhythmias
Dominik Linz
11.00 Video: CRT efficiency from implant to follow up
Cathy Bertrand
   
11:20 Antithrombotic treatments of AFib
Chairmen: Jacques Clémenty, Jean-Pierre Cebron
11:20 New oral anticoagulants (NOACs)
Jean-Yves Le Heuzey
11:35 Monitoring, follow up
Pierre Sié
11:50 The role of anticoagulants in peri-ablation AFib treatment
Nadir Saoudi
12:05 Latest trials and results about Dabigatran
André Pisapia
12:20 Discussion
   
12:30 Lunch on the exhibition hall
   
13:30 Session francophone Trans-méditerranéenne
Modérateurs: Patrick Attuel, Claude Barnay

13:30

 Cours ECG
Fiorenzo Gaita, Martin Borggrefe, Jean-François Leclercq
14:30 Trucs et astuces pour parvenir à 100% de resynchronisation ventriculaire
Cathy Bertrand
14:45 L'état de l'ablation par radiofréquence en Tunisie
Rafik Chettaoui
15:00 Les techniques ablatives : l’expérience de la clinique Agdal au Maroc
Salima Abdelali
   
15:30 Questions to experts about difficult cases
  Experts: Patrick Attuel, Fiorenzo Gaita, Koonlawee Nademanee,
Mélèze Hocini
- Case #1, Jérôme Taieb
- Case #2, Nicolas Johnson
- Case #3, Marco Scaglione
   
16:00 Free papers
Chairmen: Cathy Bertrand, Jean-François Leclercq
   
17:00 Adjournment

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