VII Iberoamerican Congress of Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac Imaging
Havana, Cuba – April 14-16, 2016
Thursday 14 April
Room Vedado
08:00-09:00 Registration
09:00-10:30 Inaugural Session
09:00-09:10 Welcome from the Organizing Committee
Amalia Peix (Cuba)
09:10-09:25 Welcome from National Ministry of Health Representative
09:25-09:35 Welcome from IAEA Representative
Maurizio Dondi (Austria, IAEA)
09:35-09:45 Welcome from the ASNC President
Brian Abbott (USA)
09:45-10:30 Keynote Lecture
Nuclear Cardiology facing emergent imaging modalities
Marcelo Di Carli(USA)
10:30-11:00Coffee break / Posters (Taganana Room)- Chairpersons: Teresa Massardo
(Chile) / Luis M. Rochela (Cuba)
11:00-12:30Session 1 –Myocardial perfusion: clinical value
Chairpersons: Erick Alexanderson (Méjico), Eduardo Álvarez Acevedo (Cuba)
• Getting the most out of exercise testing during exercise MPI.
Gregory Thomas(USA)
• Value of quantitative MPI in clinical practice.
Daniel Berman(USA)
• Risk stratification in coronary heart disease.
Teresa Massardo (Chile)
• Clinical Cases – RWTE.
Lázaro Omar Cabrera (Cuba)
• Questions & Answers (10’)
12:30-13:30Lunch break
13:30-14:40Session 2 – Nuclear Cardiology in special populations
Chairpersons: Leslee Shaw (USA), Kenia Padrón (Cuba)
• Risk stratification in the diabetic patient.
Brian Abbott (USA)
• Gender differences and interpretation criteria.
Amalia Peix (Cuba)
• Clinical Cases – RWTE (2 cases of 10’ each).
Néstor Vita (Argentina) / Sonia Merlano (Colombia)
• Questions & Answers (10’)
14:40-15:50 Session 3 – Ventricular function
Chairpersons: Julio Pérez (USA), Ángel Abreu (Cuba)
• Clinical value and methods of ventricular function analysis by nuclear cardiology techniques.
Fernando Mut (Uruguay)
• Clinical value and methods of ventricular function analysis by echocardiography techniques.
Antonio Arias (Méjico)
• Clinical Cases – RWTE (2 cases of 10’ each).
Aylen Pérez (Cuba) / Raúl Araujo (Bolivia)
• Questions & Answers (10’)
15:50-16:10Coffee break
16:10-17:20Session 4 – Pitfalls and artifacts: how to recognize and prevent them
Chairpersons: ErnestGarcia (USA) /Adlin López (Cuba)
• Recognizing normal and pathological variants.
Juan Batista (Cuba)
• Technical artifacts that influence imaging interpretation.
Mayka Guerrero (Cuba)
• Clinical Cases – RWTE (2 cases of 10’ each).
Marcos Montecinos (Argentina) / Isabel Berrocal (Costa Rica)
• Questions & Answers (10’)
09:00-17:00 Exhibition (Taganana Room)
Friday 15 April
RoomVedado
8:30-10:30Session 5 – Ischemia-guided therapy
Chairpersons: Néstor Vita (Argentina), Lorenzo Llerena (Cuba)
• Ischemia-guided therapy.
LesleeShaw (USA)
• Guideline-based imaging in chest pain centers.
Richard Chazal (USA)
• Present role of myocardial viability imaging in clinical practice.
Gabriel Grossman (Brasil)
• Clinical Cases – RWTE (2 cases of 10’ each).
Rafael Lopes (Brasil) / Lázaro Omar Cabrera (Cuba)
• Questions & Answers (10’)
10:30–11:00Coffee break / Posters (Taganana Room) – Chairpersons: Claudia Gutiérrez
(Colombia) / Lázaro Omar Cabrera (Cuba)
11:00-12:10 Session 6 – Complementary role of hybrid imaging
Chairpersons: Rafael Lopes (Brasil), Luis Roberto Llerena (Cuba)
• What is the contribution of CT to SPECT or PET imaging?
Aloha Meave (Méjico)
• CT for calcium scoring: clinical usefulness beyond the score.
Randall Thompson (USA)
• Clinical Cases – RWTE (2 cases of 10’ each).
Erick Alexanderson (Méjico) / Gregory Thomas(USA)
• Questions & Answers (10’)
12:10–13:10Lunch break
13:10-14:40Session7 – Cardiac PET: perfusion and metabolism
Chairpersons: Daniel Berman (USA) / Gabriel Grossman(Brasil)
• Tracers and protocols for myocardial perfusion. Myocardialbloodflowmeasurement.
Erick Alexanderson (Méjico)
• Tracers and protocols for metabolism.
JamshidMaddahi (USA)
• PET imaging and interventionism. What can we learn?
Kim Williams (USA)
• Clinical Cases – RWTE (2 cases of 10’ each).
Marcelo DiCarli (Estados Unidos) /Marcos Montecinos(Argentina)
• Questions & Answers (10’)
14:40-16:10Session8–Nuclear cardiology in heart failure
Chairpersons: Robert Hendel (USA), Fernando Mut (Uruguay)
• What should we assess in the HF patient?
Néstor Vita (Argentina)
• Value of adrenergic innervation assessment.
Mark Travin (USA)
• Intraventricular synchronism assessment: methodology and clinical value.
Ernest Garcia (USA)
• Clinical Cases – RWTE (2 cases of 10’ each).
Raúl Araujo (Bolivia) / Ernest Garcia(USA)
• Questions & Answers (10’)
16:10-16:20Coffee break
16:20-17:30Session9 – New applications in cardiac imaging
Chairpersons: Marcelo Di Carli (USA) / Claudia Gutiérrez (Colombia)
• The vulnerable plaque: visualization with cutting-edge imaging techniques (nuclear, CT & MRI).
Aloha Meave (Méjico)
• Amyloidosis and sarcoidosis.
David Wolinsky (USA)
• Hardware, software and protocols to reduce dosis.
Ernest Garcia (USA)
• Clinical Case – RWTE (1 case of 10’).
MarceloDiCarli (USA)
09:00-17:00 Exhibition (TagananaRoom)
Saturday 16 April
RoomVedado
08:30-09:15Keynote Lecture
The right test for the right patient.
Robert Hendel (USA)
09:15-10:35Session 10 – Quality assurance in nuclear cardiology
Chairpersons: Maurizio Dondi (Austria) / Leonel Torres (Cuba)
• Quality assurance concepts and international experience.
Leonel Torres (Cuba)
• How to translate concepts to clinical practice?
Sonia Merlano (Colombia)
• How to prepare a clinically relevant report?
ClaudiaGutiérrez (Colombia)
• Clinical Cases – RWTE (2 cases of 10’ each).
Teresa Massardo (Chile) /Juan Batista (Cuba)
• Questions & Answers (10’)
10:35-11:00Coffee break
11:00-12:30Session 11 – Echocardiography
Chairpersons: Jorge Vázquez (Méjico) / José Abreu (Cuba)
• Contrast echocardiography: state of the art.
Julio Pérez (USA)
• 3D echocardiography
Ángel Abreu (Cuba)
• Early detection by echo of chemotherapy cardiotoxicity. What can we
learn from recent guidelines?
Jorge Vázquez (Méjico)
• E-Health and its impact on cardiac imaging.
Juan Prohías (Cuba)
• Questions & Answers (10’)
12:30-13:30 Round Table
How to harmonize Nuclear Cardiology in Iberoamerica?
Chairperson: Maurizio Dondi (OIEA, Austria)
Fernando Mut, Gabriel Grossman, Erick Alexanderson, Brian Abbott, Kathy Flood
09:00-13:00 Exhibition (Taganana Room)
12:30-14:00Closing Session
13:30-13:45 Highlights
Amalia Peix (Cuba)
13:45-14:00 Closing Remarks
Eduardo Rivas, President of the Cuban Society of Cardiology