TRANSPLANT AND HEART FAILURE

Day 1: 17 July, 2017 Monday

10:00 – 12:00 Transplant/HF: 50 Years of Transplantation, What are Best Practices?
10:00 – 10:20 Management of the Sensitized Pre- and Post-Transplant Patient
10:20 – 10:40 Surveillance Biopsies – do we still need them?
10:40 – 11:00 Management of Coronary Artery Vasculopathy – State of the Art
11:00 – 11:20 Listing for Re-Transplantation: Indications and Outcomes
11:20 – 11:40 When a Heart Transplant isn’t enough …. when are a Kidney or Liver Needed?
11:40 – 12:00 Discussion
13:30 – 15:30 Transplant/HF: Bridging Together: VAD & ICU: Controversies
13:30 – 13:50 VADs in Challenging Patients: Approaching the Tough Cases
13:50 – 14:10 Making it Work: VADs in Patients with Univentricular Physiology
14:10 – 14:30 Sweating the Details: How to Select the Patient to be Weaned?
14:30 – 14:50 Chronic VAD Therapy in Children
14:50 – 15:10 What’s Next: The Future of VAD Therapy in Children
15:10 – 15:30 Discussion

Day 2: 18 July, 2017 Tuesday

10:00 – 12:00 Transplant/HF: Pushing the Limits in Pediatric Heart Transplantation
10:00 – 10:20 Transplant after Cancer and Chemotherapy: How Long do we Have to Wait?
10:20 – 10:40 Transplant in Patients with Difficult Anatomy Including Single Lung
10:40 – 11:00 Elevated Pulmonary Vascular Resistance – what can VADs do for you?
11:00 – 11:20 Transplant in Patients with Genetic Syndromes and Autism
11:20 – 11:40 How Many Transplants do you get? 3rd, 4th, or More?
11:40 – 12:00 Discussion

Day 4: 20 July, 2017 Thursday

10:00 – 12:00 Transplant/HF: The Best of Heart Failure and Transplant – Hot Topics and Abstracts
10:00 – 11:00 ABSTRACTS (4)
11:00 – 11:20 Pediatric Myocarditis – an update
11:20 – 11:40 Medical Management of Childhood Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
11:40 – 12:00 ABO-Incompatible Transplantation – Lessons Learned and Future Directions
13:30 – 15:30 Transplant/HF: Molecular and Genetic Basis of Heart Failure
13:30 – 13:50 Proteomics of Heart Failure
13:50 – 14:10 Pediatric Cardiomyopathy – the Importance of Genetic and Metabolic Evaluation
14:10 – 14:30 Mitochondria and Heart Failure
14:30 – 14:50 Biomarkers in Pediatric Heart Failure – When and How to Use Them
14:50 – 15:10 Clinical Diagnosis in the Genome Era – Challenges and New Horizons
15:10 – 15:30 Discussion