Hot Topics from Asian Pacific and Latin American Regions
2:00 PM-6:00 PM, March 22, 2008, Hall #3
Section 1 Management of AMI / ACS
Moderator
Weifeng Shen
Joseph Varon
Sarana Boonbaichaiyapruck
Tangwei Liu
2:00 PM
AMI Management in Latin America Liliana R. Grinfeld
2:15 PM
Acute Coronary Syndrome: The Gap between Guidelines and Practice Nazir Ahmed Memon
2:30 PM
D2B-SHANGHAI: Bypassing Cardiac Ward Shortens the Door-to-Balloon Time and Improves the Outcomes in Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients - A Prospective, Multicenter, Randomized Clinical Trial Qi Zhang
2:45 PM
ENDEAVOR Stent in AMI: Multi-Center Study Eak-Kyun Shin
3:00 PM
Do ACS Risk Scores Work in Clinical Practice? Richard Lim
3:15 PM
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Section 2 DES Safety and Efficacy
Moderator
Robaayah Zambahari
Haichang Wang
Devang Maheshchandra
Kai Huat Lam
3:20 PM
Are Newer Drug-Eluting Stents Safer? Upendra Kaul
3:35 PM
The Importance of IVUS in the DES Era Costantino R. Costantini
3:50 PM
Insights from Drug Eluting and Bare Metal Stent Thrombosis in a Tertiary Teaching Hospital in Singapore Yean-Teng Lim
4:05 PM
Management of Non Cardiac Surgery after DES Stent Implantation Huay Cheem Tan
4:20 PM
Triple Antiplatelet Therapy after DES Implantation in Patients with High Risk of Restenosis Seong-Wook Park
4:35 PM
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Section 3 PCI in Complex Lesions and Patients
Moderator
Shaoliang Chen
Youfang Ni
Kam-Tim Chan
Tetsuya Hata
4:40 PM
Treatment of Aortocoronary Ostial Lesions in the DES Era Kenneth Chin
4:55 PM
New Techniques for Stenting of Distal Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis Teguh Santoso
5:10 PM
CTO Angioplasty: A Novice's Guide to Improve Success Sidney Tsz Ho Lo
5:25 PM
Current Strategy with Retrograde Approach for CTO: Lessons from Japanese Experience Toshiya Muramatsu
5:40 PM
PCI Adjunctive Oral Pharmacology to Inhibit Neointimal Hyperplasia Costantino O. Costantini
