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i2 Summit Program Overview

  • Late-Breaking Clinical Trials each morning
  • Late-Breaking Registries daily at noontime
  • State-of-the-Art Lectures, followed by Live Cases focusing on:
    •   Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Cardiovascular Intervention Center (Los Angeles, California)
    • Columbia University Medical Center (New York, New York)
    • Hamburg University Cardiovascular Center (Hamburg, Germany)
    • Helios Heart Center Siegburg (Siegburg, Germany)
    • Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota)
    • Oschner Heart and Vascular Institute (New Orleans, Louisiana)
    • Presbyterian Dallas Hospital (Dallas, Texas)
    • Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute (Kansas City, Missouri)
    • St. Paul’s Hospital (Vancouver, Canada
    • St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana (Indianapolis, Indiana)
  • Controversies and Debates
    • Multivessel diseas
    • Acute M
    • Stable angina, including silent ischemia
    • High-risk anatom
    • When to close atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale

i2 Summit for the Cardiovascular Clinician

  • Interactive cases, abstract presentations and expert-led discussions throughout the day
  • Evaluation and management of valvular disease
  • Pre- and post-PCI pharmacologic management
  • Diagnosis and treatment options for renal stenosis, aortic aneurysm
  • Diagnosis and treatment choices for carotid and peripheral arterial disease
  • Appropriate use of drug-eluting stents: High-risk, complex patients

Endovascular Procedures

  • Carotid artery disease
  • Subclavian, vertebral, neurovascular/intracranial, acute stroke
  • Ileofemoral disease
  • Infrapopliteal disease
  • Venous disease
  • Renal and mesenteric disease
  • Endovascular complication
  • Thoracic and abdominal aortic diseases

Structural Heart Disease

  • Closure of atrial septal defect, patent foramen ovale
  • Coarctation of the aorta, patent ductus arteriosus, ventricular septal defect
  • Aortic stenosis
  • Mitral regurgitation, including paravalvular leak
  • Left atrial appendix closure
  • Mitral stenosis, aortic regurgitation
  • Pulmonary and tricuspid valves
  • Hemodynamics
  • Acute CHF and chronic cardiomyopathy

Imaging Technology

  • Intravascular ultrasound
  • Optical coherence tomography and related technologies
  • Computed tomography, magnetic resonance and co-registration
  • Vulnerable plaque imaging and pathology
  • Intracoronary physiology
  • Noninvasive imaging for the interventionalist
  • Imaging for structural heart disease
  • Novel cath lab techniques — future concepts

Advanced Coronary Procedures

  • Complex lesions: Bifurcations, left main disease, chronic total occlusions
  • Drug-eluting stents, including saphenous vein grafts
  • Acute coronary syndromes, acute MI
  • Interventional cardiology complications
  • Complex patients: Renal failure, diabetes, advanced age
  • Interventional pharmacology
  • Refractory ischemia, CHF, cell therapy, angiogenesis