Oral Abstract Sessions

 

SUNDAY APRIL 2, 2006. 10:30am 12:00pm

 

Oral Abstract Session 1

Mechanism and genetic aspects of arrhythmias

 

Chairpersons: Reginald Nadeau (Montréal, CA), Nicholas S. Peters (London, GB)

 

10:30am

PLAKOPHILIN-2 MUTATIONS ARE THE MAJOR DETERMINANT OF FAMILIAL ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR CARDIOMYOPATHY IN THE NETHERLANDS

Peter van Tintelen, Z Bhuiyan, Roselie Jongbloed, Ans Wiesfeld, Pieter Doevendans, Luz Maria Rodriguez, Arthur Wilde, Isabelle van Gelder, Richard Hauer (Groningen, NL)

 

1-01

 PACE n°1

10:45am

SHORT-TERM MURINE VENTRICULAR PACING CAUSES GAP JUNCTIONAL REMODELLING

Riyaz Kaba, Andrianos Kontogeorgis, Jedd Sereysky, Steven Lewitton, Andrew Wit, Nicholas Peters, David Gutstein (London, GB)

 

1-02

PACE n°2

11:00am

INTRACELLULAR AND GAP-JUNCTION CONDUCTANCE CORRELATES WITH CONNEXIN43 QUANTITY IN LEFT VENTRICULAR SEPTAL MYOCARDIUM IN PATIENTS WITH HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY

Paramdeep Dhillon, Pravina Patel, Rosaire Gray, Adam Jacques, Steve Marston, Victor Tsang, Christopher Fry, William McKenna, Nicholas Peters (London, GB)

 

1-03

PACE n°3

11:15am

INCREASED CONNEXIN 43 EXPRESSION IN THE LEFT VENTRICULAR SEPTUM IS ASSOCIATED WITH A FAMILY HISTORY OF SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH IN PATIENTS WITH HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY

Paramdeep Dhillon, Pravina Patel, Rosaire Gray, Adam Jacques, Steve Marston, Victor Tsang, Christopher Fry, William McKenna, Nicholas Peters (London, GB)

 

1-04

 PACE n°4

11:30am

CONDUCTION PROPERTIES OF FIBRILLATION WAVES IN THE EPICARDIAL PLANE IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE AND CHRONIC ATRIAL FIBRILLATION.

Natasja de Groot, Schalij Martin, Maurits Allessie (Leiden, NL)

 

1-05

PACE n°5

11:45am

UNCOUPLING OF MEMBRANE VOLTAGE AND INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM TRANSIENT DURING ISCHEMIA/REPERFUSION INDUCED POLYMORPHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYARRHYTHMIAS

Gil Bub, Nabil El Sherif (New York, US)

 

1-06

PACE n°6

 


SUNDAY APRIL 2, 2006. 10:30am 12:00pm

Oral Abstract Session 2

Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation and flutter

 

Chairpersons: Franco Naccarella (Bologna, IT), Jean Ponsonnaille (Clermont-Ferrand, FR)

 

10:30am

EARLY EXPERIENCE OF PULMONARY VEIN ANTRAL ISOLATION USING AN OPEN IRRIGATION ABLATION CATHETER FOR THE TREATMENT OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: IMMEDIATE SHORT TERM RESULTS OF A RANDOMIZED STUDY

Mohamed Kanj, Ousama Wazni, Maurricio Arruda, Gemma Pelargonia, Antonio Dello Russo, Pietro Santarelli, Domenico Potenza, Raffaele Fanelli, Andrea Natale (Cleveland, US)

 

2-01

PACE n°7

10:45am

DIFFERENCES IN SUCCESS OF REPEAT ABLATION PROCEDURE FOR RECURRENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AFTER TWO DIFFERENT ABLATION STRATEGIES: RESULTS FROM A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED STUDY COMPARING PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION VERSUS CIRCUMFERENTIAL PULMONARY VEIN ABLATION

Isabel Deisenhofer, Heidi Estner, Martin R Karch, Armin Luik, Andreas Pflaumer, Gabriele Hessling, Bernhard Zrenner, Claus Schmitt (Munich, DE)

 

2-02

PACE n°8

11:00am

ESOPHAGEAL TEMPERATURE MONITORING DURING ABLATION USING AN OPEN IRRIGATED CATHETER FOR PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION IN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION PATIENTS

Ousama wazni, Dr. Mohamed Kanj, Murricio Arruda, Gemma Pelargonia, Antonio Dello Russo, Pietro Santarelli, Domenico Potenza, Raffaele Fanelli, Andrea Natale (Cleveland, US)

 

2-03

PACE n°9

11:15am

ONE-YEAR RESULTS OF LEFT ATRIAL RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION FOR CONTINOUS ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN PATIENTS WITH CONCOMITANT CARDIAC SURGERY: ONE YEAR EXPERIENCE

Krzysztof Szyndler, Rafal Pawlaczyk, Piotr Siondalski, Jaroslaw Jurowiecki, Andrzej Los, Jan Rogowski (Gdansk, PL)

 

2-04

PACE n°10

11:30am

SHOULD CAVOTRICUSPID ISTHMUS ABLATION BE A ROUTINE PART OF ABLATION FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION FOR EVERY PATIENT ?

Dipen SHAH, Henri Sunthorn, Haran Burri, Pascale Gentil-Baron (Geneve, CH)

 

2-05

PACE n°11

11:45am

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION NON-INDUCIBILITY AFTER DOUBLE LASSO PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION

Pedro Adragao, Diogo Cavaco, Antonio Pinheiro Vieira, Katya Reis Santos, Francisco Bello Morgado, Carlos Aguiar, Miguel Abecasis, Dipali Chotalal, Jose Aniceto Silva (Carnaxide, PT)

 

2-06

PACE n°12

 


 

MONDAY APRIL 3, 2006, 2:00pm 3:30pm

 

Oral Abstract Session 3

Advances in catheter ablation

 

Chairpersons: Luc De Roy (Yvoir, BE), Etienne Aliot (Nancy, FR)

 

2:00pm

IDENTIFYING FAR FIELD SVC POTENTIALS WITHIN THE RIGHT SUPERIOR PULMONARY VEIN

Dipen Shah, Haran Burri, Henri Sunthorn, Pascal Gentil-Baron (Geneve, CH)

 

3-01

PACE n°13

2:15pm

LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP OF PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION TREATED WITH A PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC LASER BALLOON ABLATION SYSTEM

Robert Schweikert, Vivek Reddy, Jeremy Ruskin, Sakis Themistoclakis, Antonio Raviele, Petr Neuzil, Sabine Ernst, Karl-Heinz Kuck, Andrea Natale (Cleveland, US)

 

3-02

PACE n°14

2:30pm

STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT TO REDUCE ARRHYTHMIA RECURRENCE THROUGH ASSESSMENT OF ATRIAL VULNERABILITY AND AGE-RELATED RISK FOLLOWING INFERIOR ISTHMUS ABLATION FOR COMMON TYPE ATRIAL FLUTTER

Ulrich Backenkoehler, Harald Tillmanns, Gerhard Schuler, Hans Kottkamp, Wolfram Terres (Celle, DE)

 

3-03

PACE n°15

2:45pm

TREATMENT OF CHRONIC ATRIAL FIBRILLATION BY CATHETER ABLATION IN PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE.

Mark O'Neill, Prashanthan Sanders, Yoshihide Takahashi, Anders Jonsson, Mélèze Hocini, Fréderic Sacher, Pierre Jaïs, Jacques Clémenty, Michel Haïssaguerre (Bordeaux, FR)

 

3-04

PACE n°16

3:00pm

PREDICTORS OF FREEDOM FROM ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN THE PULMONARY VEIN ANTRUM ISOLATION VS. AV NODE ABLATION WITH BI-VENTRICULAR PACING FOR TREATMENT OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN PATIENTS WITH CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE TRIAL (PABA CHF)

Mohammed Khan, Pierre Jais, Domenico Potenza, Paul Wang, Pietro Santarelli, Johannes Brachmann, Antonio Raviele, Michel Haissaguerre, Andrea Natale (Cleveland, US)

 

3-05

PACE n°17

3:15pm

RADIOFREQUENCY CATHETER ABLATION OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECT (ASD) REPAIR: A FEASIBILITY, SAFETY & EFFICACY STUDY

Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, Dimpi Patel, Thal Sergio, Oussama Wazni, Robert Schweikert, Walid Saliba, Andrea Natale (Cleveland, US)

 

3-06

PACE n°18

 


 

Oral Abstract Session 4

Sudden cardiac death and ICD I

 

Chairpersons: Robert Hauser (Minneapolis, US), Habib Haouala (Tunis, TN)

 

2:00pm

PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF PRO BNP TEST IN PATIENTS WITH CHF WITH AND WITHOUT AN ICD. HIGH VALUES ARE RELATED TO PROGNOSIS AND ICD DISCHARGES

Cristina Felicani, Franco Naccarella, Domenico Affinito, Giovannina Lepera, Elvira Moccia, Domenico Vasapollo (Bologna, IT)

 

4-01

PACE n°19

2:15pm

DEFIBRILLATION USING AN EXCLUSIVELY SUBCUTANEOUS APPROACH IN CANINES

Riccardo Cappato, Paul Erlinger, Alan Ostroff, William Rissman, Charles Gropper, Gust H. Bardy (San Donato Milanese, IT)

 

4-02

PACE n°20

2:30pm

ADVANCED VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION PREDICTS MORTALITY BUT NOT LIFE-THREATENING ARRHYTHMIC EVENTS IN ICD RECIPIENTS

David Luria, Ariel Gutstein, Osnat Gurevitz, David Bar-Lev, Micha Feinberg, Michael Eldar, Michael Glikson, Rafael Kuperstein (Tel Hashomer, IL)

 

4-03

PACE n°21

2:45pm

INDICATIONS AND OUTCOME IN PATIENTS IMPLANTED WITH AN INTERNAL CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR (ICD) BEFORE THE AGE OF FIFTY?

Frédéric Dumont, Dominique Blommaert, Pascal Defaye, Patrick Blanc, Thomas Arentz, Marc Zimmerman, Prof. Luc De Roy (Yvoir, BE)

 

4-04

PACE n°22

3:00pm

CURRENT EUROPEAN PRACTICE IN SEARCH-MI; INTERIM ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST 804 ICD PATIENTS AND 3,308 VT/VF EPISODES

Massimo Santini, Giuseppe Boriani, Maurizio Lunati, Gianluca Botto, Erhard Helmling, Alessandro Proclemer, Boris Schmidt, Werner Rauhe, Ali Erdogan (Rome, IT)

 

4-05

PACE n°23

3:15pm

PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF ICD IMPLANTATION IN A NEW ZEALAND POPULATION

Emma Newall, Nigel Lever, Sandy Prasad, Charles Hornabrook, Peter Larsen (Wellington, NZ)

 

4-06

PACE n°24

 


 

Oral Abstract Session 5

 

Cardiac pacing

 

Chairpersons: Neil Sulke (Eastbourne, UK), Francesco Furlanello (Milan, IT)

 

2:00pm

APPLICATION OF NATIONAL GUIDANCE ON PACING MODE

Chris Plummer, Janet McComb, Richard Charles, Morag Cunningham, David Cunningham (Newcastle upon Tyne, GB and Northern IE)

 

5-01

PACE n°25

2:15pm

FEASIBILITY AND SAFETY OF SELECTIVE SITE PACING USING A NEW LEAD PACING SYSTEM: DATA FROM THE SOUTH EUROPEAN SELECT SECURE REGISTRY

Andrea Colella, Massimo Santini, Ernesto Lombardo, Domenico Catanzariti, Antonio Sagone, Antonio Curnis, Francesco Cantù, Luigi Padeletti, Francesco Zanon (Florence, IT)

 

5-02

PACE n°26

2:30pm

AN ASSESSMENT OF ATRIAL ARRHYTHMIA SENSING ACCURACY USING MODERN DEVICES FROM THE PACEMAKER ATRIAL FIBRILLATION STUDY

John Silberbauer, Anita Arya, Rick Veasey, Kayvan Kamalvand, Vince Paul, Guy Lloyd, Nikhil Patel, Neil Sulke (Eastbourne, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

 

5-03

PACE n°27

2:45pm

EFFECTS OF CARDIOACTIVE MEDICATIONS ON RETROGRADE CONDUCTION: CONTINUING RELEVANCE FOR CURRENT DEVICES

John Fisher, John O'Mara, Sue Goldie, Soo Kim, Kevin Ferrick, Jay Gross, Eugen Palma (Bronx, NY, US)

 

5-04

PACE n°28

3:00pm

AN AUDIT OF AAI/R PACING FOR SINUS NODE DISEASE WITHOUT ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM - ARE WE WASTING MONEY?

Michael Gammage, Nick Battersby, Raoul Jacob (Birmingham, GB and Northern IE)

 

5-05

PACE n°29

3:15pm

REDUCTION OF LEFT VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW TRACT GRADIENT BY LEFT VERSUS RIGHT VENTRICULAR PACING IN HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY

Steve Hsu (Jacksonville, US)

 

5-06

PACE n°30

 


 

Oral Abstract Session 6

 

Atrial fibrillation: New features

 

Chairpersons: Bülent Görenek (Eskisehir, TR), R. Mal (Charleroi, BE) TBC

 

2:00pm

AUTONOMIC CHANGES AND ASSESSMENT OF LEFT ATRIAL SIZE AND FUNCTION IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS WITH A HISTORY OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

Réginald Nadeau, Georgeta Sas, Réal Lebeau, A-Robert Leblanc, Denis Roy, Pierre Larochelle, Jacques de Champlain (Montréal, Québec, CA)

 

6-01

PACE n°31

2:15pm

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY: PREVALENCE, PREDICTORS FOR NEW ONSET AND IMPACT ON MORTALITY

Aneta Aleksova, Marco Merlo, Andrea Di Lenarda, Massimo Zecchin, Alberto Pivetta, Daniela Chicco, Gianfranco Sinagra (Trieste, IT)

 

6-02

PACE n°32

2:30pm

DO SYMPTOMS PREDICT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION EPISODES IN PATIENTS WITH PAF?

Rick Veasey, John Silberbauer, John Vrahimides, Anita Ayra, Wasing Taggu, Vince Paul, Neil Sulke (Eastbourne, GB and Northern IE)

 

6-03

PACE n°33

2:45pm

INCREASED LEVELS OF PLATELET CD40 / CD40L AND ATRIAL ADHESION MOLECULES DURING PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

Matthias Hammwoehner, Annelore Ittenson, Jutta Dierkes, Alicja Bukowska, Helmut U. Klein, Uwe Lendeckel, Andreas Goette (Magdeburg, DE)

 

6-04

PACE n°34

3:00pm

PREDICTION OF TRANSITION FROM PAROXYSMAL TO PERMANENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION WITH CHEMOREFLEXSENSITIVITY AND P WAVE SIGNAL AVERAGED ECG: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY

Marco Budeus, Heinrich Wieneke, Shinga Röhlen, Raimund Erbel, Stefan Sack (Essen, DE)

 

6-05

PACE n°35

3:15pm

INTRAVENOUS MAGNESIUM THERAPY FOR ACUTE RATE OR RHYTHM CONTROL IN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: A META-ANALYSIS OF RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS

Orhan Onalan, Amin Daoulah, Ilan Lashevsky, Eugene Crystal (Toronto, CA)

 

6-06

 

PACE n°36

 

3:30pm     Coffee Break and Exhibits


 

MONDAY APRIL 3, 2006, 4:00pm 5:30pm

 

Oral Abstract Session 7

 

Advances in catheter ablation II

 

Chairpersons: Richard Schilling (London, UK), André Pisapia (Marseille, FR)

 

4:00pm

EPICARDIAL HIGH DENSITY MAPPING OF BACHMANN'S BUNDLE IN HUMANS WITH CHRONIC ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

Natasja de Groot, P Voigt, J Braun, M Schalij, M Allessie (Leiden, NL)

 

7-01

PACE n°37

4:15pm

EARLY RECURRENCE OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AFTER PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION: IMPACT OF INFLAMMATION

Sergio Thal, Mina Chung, Ouzama Wazni, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, Mohamed Khan, Mohammed Kanj, Robert Schweikert, Andrea Natale, Patrick Tchou (Cleveland, US)

 

7-02

PACE n°38

4:30pm

ROBOTIC MAGNETIC NAVIGATION FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION ABLATION

Carlo Pappone, Gabriele Vicedomini, Nicoleta Sora, Andrea Radinovic, Filippo Gugliotta, Alessandra Marzi, Giuseppe Augello, Enrico Frigoli, Vincenzo Santinelli (Milan, IT)

 

7-03

PACE n°39

4:45pm

CATHETER ABLATION OF PERMANENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION USING INTEGRATED CT IMAGE INTO AN ELECTROANATOMIC MAPPING SYSTEM.

Peter Kistler, Mark Earley, Kim Rajappan, Stuart Harris, Dominic Abrams, Dhiraj Gupta, Simon Sporton, Richard Schilling, Richard Schilling (London, GB and Northern IE)

 

7-04

PACE n°40

5:00pm

INTRAOPERATIVE COOLED-TIP RADIOFREQUENCY LINEAR ATRIAL ABLATION TO TREAT PERMANENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

Thomas Deneke, Krishna Khargi (Bochum, DE)

 

7-05

PACE n°41

5:15pm

LEFT ATRIAL REMODELING AFTER RADIOFREQUENCY CATHETER ABLATION FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

Laurens Tops, Jeroen Bax, Katja Zeppenfeld, Monique Jongbloed, Ernst van der Wall, Martin Schalij (Leiden, NL)

 

7-06

PACE n°42

 


MONDAY APRIL 3, 2006, 4:00pm 5:30pm

 

Oral Abstract Session 8

Sudden cardiac death and ICD II

 

Chairpersons: Antonio Curnis (Brescia, IT), Michaël Eldar (Tel Hashomer, IL)

 

4:00pm

CLINICAL PERFORMANCE OF FAILED AND RECALLED IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER-DEFIBRILLATORS

Robert Hauser, David Hayes, Andrew Epstein, David Cannom, Stephen Vlay, G. Frank Tyers, Susan Song, Linda Kallinen (Minneapolis, US)

 

8-01

PACE n°43

4:15pm

SINGLE CHAMBER ICD WITH SINGLE-PASS AV DEFIBRILLATION LEAD. OUTCOMES OF THE ADAMO ITALIAN REGISTRY.

Tiziano Toselli, Cesare Storti, Bortolo Martini, GianLuca Botto, Antonio Curnis, behalf in (Ferrara, IT)

 

8-02

PACE n°44

4:30pm

DISPERSION OF QRS COMPLEX AND TRANSMYOCARDIAL REPOLARISATION AS A NEW NON-INVASIVE SUDDEN DEATH RISK FACTORS

Artur Pietrucha, Danuta Mroczek-Czernecka, Marta Wegrzynowska, Marzena Bobrowska-Juszczuk, Andrzej Paradowski (Cracow, PL)

 

8-03

PACE n°45

4:45pm

SUDDEN DEATH IN ATHLETES: A TEN YEARS EXPERIENCE OF THE EMILIA ROMAGNA REGION

Elvira Moccia, Franco Naccarella, Domenico Vasapollo, Cristina Felicani, Domenico Affinito, Andrea Masotti, Giovannina Lepera, Massimo Jasonni (Bologna, IT)

 

8-04

PACE n°46

5:00pm

RISK FACTORS FOR RECEIVING THERAPY FROM INTERNAL CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATORS WITH 'REAL-LIFE' PROGRAMMING

Michael Koa-Wing, Prapa Kanagaratnam, Ian Wright, Sophie Blackman, Vias Markides, Nicholas Peters, D. Wyn Davies (London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

 

8-05

PACE n°47

5:15pm

DIFFERENTIAL INCIDENCES OF DISPATCHED AND EFFECTIVELY OCCURRING OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST IN LARGE URBAN AND RURAL TERRITORIES: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE BRESCIA EARLY DEFIBRILLATION STUDY (BEDS)

Tania Bordonali, Antonio Curnis, Paolo Marzollo, Giosué Mascioli, Adriana Carolei, Gust H. Bardy, Luigi De Ambroggi, Livio Dei Cas, Dr. Riccardo Cappato (Brescia, IT)

 

8-06

PACE n°48

 


MONDAY APRIL 3, 2006, 4:00pm 5:30pm

 

Oral Abstract Session 9

 

Cardiac Resynchronization therapy

 

Chairpersons: Serge Cazeau (St Cloud, FR), TBA

 

4:00pm

CARDIAC INTERVALS DETERMINED BY ACCELEROMETER ANALYSIS CORRELATE WELL WITH 2D ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY: POTENTIAL APPLICATION IN BIVENTRICULAR PACING

Frank Marcus, Gurpreet Baweja, Michael Bosnos, Ms. Kathleen Gear, Vincent Sorrell, Julia Indik, Peter Ott, Doug Perlick, John Zanetti (Tucson, US)

 

9-01

PACE n°49

4:15pm

POSTERO-LATERAL SCAR TISSUE AS A REASON FOR NON-RESPONSE TO CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY

Gabe Bleeker, Martin Schalij, Theodorus Kaandorp, Albert de Roos, Hildo Lamb, Paul Steendijk, Ernst van der Wall, Jeroen Bax (Leiden, NL)

 

9-02

PACE n°50

4:30pm

EFFICACY OF COMBINED RESYNCHRONIZATION-DEFIBRILLATOR THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH AND WITHOUT PRIOR VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS

Claudia Ypenburg, Lieselot van Erven, Gabe B. Bleeker, Jeroen J. Bax, Ernst E. van der Wall, Martin J. Schalij (Leiden, NL)

 

9-03

PACE n°51

4:45pm

VECTOR-CARDIOGRAPHY AS A PREDICTOR OF THE ACUTE HEMODYNAMIC IMPROVEMENT BY CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATIONS THERAPY

Karin Schmidt, Walter Koglek, Josef Brandl, Armin Oberbichler, Georg Grimm, Christian Butter (Klagenfurt, AT)

 

9-04

PACE n°52

5:00pm

ENDOCARDIAL TEMPERATURE SENSORS TO LOCATE THE CORONARY SINUS FOR CARDIAC RESYNCHRONISATION THERAPY (CRT) -A NEW APPROACH

David Fox, Rogier Receveur, Neil Davidson, Vincent Larik, Sanjiv Petkar, Adam Fitzpatrick (Manchester, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

 

9-05

PACE n°53

5:15pm

CAN CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY REDUCE VENTRICULAR REPOLARIZATION HETEROGENEITY IN DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY PATIENTS?

Vincenzo Russo, Lucio Santangelo, Ernesto Ammendola, Ciro Cavallaro, Filippo Vecchione, Salvatore Garofalo, Antonio D'Onofrio, Nicola Mininni, Raffaele Calabrò (Naples, IT)

 

9-06

PACE n°54

 


MONDAY APRIL 3, 2006, 4:00pm 5:30pm

 

Oral abstract 10

 

Syncope of cardiac and non cardiac origin

 

Chairpersons: Wieslawa Piwowarska (Cracow, PL),

Maurizio Santomauro (Naples, IT)

 

 

4:00pm

CARDIAC PARAMETERS IN POSTURAL ORTHOSTATIC TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME: IMPAIRED CARDIOVASCULAR DYNAMICS DURING ORTHOSTATIC STRESS

Juan Guzman, Isabel Cardona, Carlos Morillo (Hamilton, CA)

 

10-01

PACE n°55

4:15pm

INCREASED EXPRESSION OF ADENOSINE A2A RECEPTORS IN PATIENTS WITH SPONTANEOUS AND HEAD-UP TILT INDUCED SYNCOPE

Alain Saadjian, Samuel Lévy, Louis Carrega, Pascal Sbragia, Franck Paganelli, Régis P. Guieu (Marseille, FR)

 

10-02

PACE n°56

4:30pm

INCIDENCE OF ARRHYTHMIAS IN SYNCOPE ASSOCIATED WITH THE WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE SYNDROME. INFLUENCE OF AGE.

Béatrice Brembilla-Perrot, Frédéric Chometon (Vandoeuvre les Nancy, FR)

 

10-03

PACE n°57

4:45pm

PROARRHYTHMIC EFFECT OF METHADONE: AN ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION OF SUDDEN DEATH IN HEROIN ADDICTS.

Søren Fanoe, Gorm Boje Jensen, Peter Ege (Copenhagen, DK)

 

10-04

PACE n°58

5:00pm

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RESULTS OF CAROTIDS SINUS MASSAGE, ADENOSINE TEST AND HEAD-UP TILT TEST IN PATIENTS WITH SYNCOPE

Artur Pietrucha, Marta Wegrzynowska, Danuta Mroczek-Czernecka, Marzena Bobrowska-Juszczuk, Andrzej Paradowski, Wieslawa Piwowarska (Cracow, PL)

 

10-05

PACE n°59

5:15pm

INCIDENCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF ATRIAL TACHYARRHYTHMIAS IN SYNCOPE OF POST-MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION.

Béatrice Brembilla-Perrot, Olivier Marçon, Frédéric Chometon, Olivier Claudon, Etienne Aliot, Pierre Louis, Arnaud Terrier de la Chaise, Daniel Beurrier, Pierre Houriez (Vandoeuvre les Nancy, FR)

 

10-06

PACE n°60

 


 

MONDAY APRIL 3, 2006, 5:30pm 7:00pm

 

Oral abstract 11

Catheter ablation of supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias

 

Chairpersons: Andrey Ardashev (Moscow, RU), Beatrice Brembilla-Perrot (Nancy, FR)

 

5:30pm

RESCUE RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION OF ISCHEMIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA IN PATIENTS IMPLANTED WITH ICD.

Andrea Colella, Paolo Pieragnoli, Marzia Giaccardi, Loredana Pignatelli, Giuseppe Ricciardi, Alessia Pappone, Antonio Michelucci, Luigi Padeletti, Gian Franco Gensini (Firenze, IT)

 

11-01

PACE n°61

5:45pm

SUBSTRATE MODIFICATION USING ELECTROANATOMICALLY-GUIDED LINEAR ABLATION DURING SINUSRHYTHM TO TREAT VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA IN PATIENTS WITH REMOTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

Thomas Deneke, Thomas Lawo, Bernd Calcum, Andreas Mügge, Peter H. Grewe, Turgut Brodher, Laif-Ilja Bösche, Bernd Lemke (Bochum, DE)

 

11-02

PACE n°62

6:00pm

TRANSVENOUS CRYOABLATION FOR ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL RE-ENTRANT TACHYCARDIA: ARE THE RESULTS IN NORMAL PRACTICE AS GOOD AS IN PUBLISHED TRIALS?

Dhiraj Gupta, Rasha Al-Lamee, Mark J Earley, Stuart J Harris, S Sporton, Anthony Nathan, Richard J Schilling (London, GB and Northern IE)

 

11-03

PACE n°63

6:15pm

RADIOFREQUENCY CATHETER ABLATION OF VENTRICULAR PREMATURE BEATS ORIGINATING FROM THE HIS BUNDLE AREA

Andrey Ardashev, Eugeny Zhelyakov, Eugeny Gorbatov, Tatyana Sklyarova (Moscow, RU)

 

11-04

PACE n°64

6:30pm

CATHETER ABLATION OF RIGHT ATRIOFASCICULAR REENTRANT TACHYCARDIAS

Néstor Galizio, José Gonzalez, Luis Medesani, Pablo Dávila, Gustavo Fava, Alfonso Cerantonio, Javier Chaves (Capital Federal, AR)

 

11-05

PACE n°65

6:45pm

INCIDENCE OF HIGH DEGREE ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK IN A LARGE SERIES OF RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATIONS FOR ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRANT TACHYCARDIA

Sergio Thal, Mina Chung, Ouzama Wazni, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, Claude Elayi, Mandeep Bhargava, Walid Saliba, Robert Schweikert, Patrick Tchou (Cleveland, US)

 

11-06

PACE n°66

 


MONDAY APRIL 3, 2006, 5:30pm 7:00pm

 

Oral abstract 12

 

New mapping techniques for defining arrhythmia mechanisms and treatment

 

Chairpersons: Massimo Santini (Rome, IT), Dubravko Petrac (Zagreb, CR)

 

5:30pm

EPICARDIAL MULTI-SITE HIGH DENSITY MAPPING AS A NEW APPROACH TO CHARACTERIZE FRACTIONATION OF FIBRILLATION POTENTIALS

Natasja de Groot, Martin Schalij, Pieter voigt, Jerry Braun, Maurits Allessie (Leiden, NL)

 

12-01

PACE n°67

5:45pm

SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION USING NONCONTACT MAPPING TO STUDY THE IMPACT OF CIRCUMFERENTIAL ABLATION

Julian Jarman, Tom Wong, Hilmar Spohr, Pipin Kojodjojo, D. Wyn Davies, Darrel P. Francis, Justin E. Davies, Vias Markides, Nicholas S. Peters (London, GB and Northern IE)

 

12-02

PACE n°68

6:00pm

DYNAMIC SUBSTRATE MAPPING - A NOVEL TECHNIQUE TO DEFINE ARRHYTHMOGENIC SUBSTRATE FOLLOWING THE MODIFIED FONTAN PROCEDURE.

Dominic Abrams, Mark Earley, Simon Sporton, Michael Gatzoulis, Jan Till, Martin Lowe, Fiona Walker, Deanfield John, Richard Schilling (London, GB and Northern IE)

 

12-03

PACE n°69

6:15pm

VALIDATION OF 3-DIMENSIONAL CARDIAC CT IMAGE INTEGRATION INTO AN ELECTROANATOMIC MAPPING SYSTEM TO PERFORM CATHETER ABLATION OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION.

Peter Kistler, Mark Earley, Kim Rajappan, Stuart Harris, Dominic Abrams, Stephen Ellis, Simon Sporton, Richard Schilling (London, GB and Northern IE)

 

12-04

PACE n°70

6:30pm

RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION USING THE FUSION OF INDIVIDUAL 3D RECONSTRUCTED MULTI-SLICE COMPUTERTOMOGRAPHY ANATOMY WITH THE ELECTRO-ANATOMICAL CARTOMERGE(r) SYSTEM

Isabel Deisenhofer, Armin Luik, Alexander Pustowoit, Gabriele Hessling, Andreas Pflaumer, Heidi Estner, Bernhard Zrenner, Claus Schmitt (Munich, DE)

 

12-05

PACE n°71

6:45pm

3-D-CT / -MRT INTEGRATION INTO ELECTROANATOMICAL MAPPING (CARTO MERGE(r)) FOR ABLATION OF ATRIAL MACRO-REENTRANT TACHYCARDIAS (AMRT) AFTER SURGICAL REPAIR OF CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE (CHD)

Thomas Vogtmann1, Heinz Theres1, Gregor Krings2, Bernd Opgen-Rhein2, Ellen Roll1, Joachim Will (Berlin, DE)

 

12-06

PACE n°72