Physicians and Researchers Present at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 66th Annual Scientific Session
March 2, 2017
The UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute will be well-represented at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 66th Annual Scientific Session in Washington, DC. Faculty research will be featured in both oral and poster presentations throughout the conference, including:
Friday, March 17
Session 1120: Novel Echocardiographic Methods for Assessing Cardiac Function
Racial Differences in Left Ventricular Recovery in Patients With Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Assessed by Global Longitudinal Strain
Presented by: Masataka Sugahara, Dennis McNamara, Joan Briller, Leslie Cooper, Julie Damp, Mark H. Drazner, James Fett, Eileen Hsich, Navin Rajagopalan, John Gorcsan
Session 1130: Innovations in Practice Management and Social Media
Formal CPR Status Policy and Process Increased Documentation Rates
Presented by: Joshua E. Levenson, Aken Desai, Karen Kelly, Emilie Prout, Joon Lee, Mark Schmidhofer, Winifred Teuteberg
Session 1149: Arrhythmias and Clinical EP: Devices 2
Persistent Gender Disparities in Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Therapy
Presented by: Shubash Adhikari, Andrew Althouse, Floyd Thoma, Oscar Marroquin, Stephen Koscomb, Leslie Hausmann, Larissa Myaskovsky, Samir Saba
Session 1150: Arrhythmias and Clinical EP: AF Ablation
Characterization of Pulmonary Vein Reconnection Post Cryoballoon Ablation
Presented by: Shivang Shah, Wenjie Xu, Evan Adelstein, Andrew Voigt, Samir Saba, Sandeep Jain
Session 1157: Complex Coronary Intervention: Left Main/Bifurcations and Multivessel Disease
Multivessel Versus Culprit-Only PCI in Patients With Non-ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Multivessel Disease: Results From the PROMETHEUS Study
Presented by: Birgit Vogel, Usman Baber, Samantha Sartori, Jaya Chandrasekhar, Serdar Farhan, Michela Faggioni, Sabato Sorrentino, Annapoorna Kini, William Weintraub, Sunil Rao, Samir Kapadia, Sandra Weiss, Craig Strauss, Catalin Toma, J. Muhlestein, Anthony C. DeFranco, Mark Effron, Stuart Keller, Brian Baker, Stuart Pocock, Timothy Henry, Roxana Mehran
Session 4101: Advanced heart Failure and VAD Therapy
Presented by:
Jeffrey Teuteberg
Saturday, March 18
Session 904: Highlighted Original Research: Pulmonary Hypertension and Venous Thrombo-embolic Disease and the Year in Review
Simplified Measures of Right Ventricular and Atrial Remodeling Are Predictive of Outcomes in Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension
Presented by: Masataka Sugahara, Keiko Ryo-Koriyama, Akiko Goda, Omar Batal, Marc Simon, John Gorcsan
Session 1196: Nuclear Cardiology: Beyond Perfusion
Regional Right Ventricular (RV) Function as Determined by Gated Blood Pool SPECT (GBPS) Provides Additive Value to Evaluation of Patients Undergoing Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Implantation
Presented by: Christopher B. Link, Aditi Nayak, Robert Kormos, Marc Simon, Jeffrey Teuteberg, Luigi Lagazzi, Andrew Althouse, Prem Soman
Session 1201: Advances in HCM, PPCM and Other Cardiomyopathies
Extended Course of Recovery in Patients With Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Assessed by Left Ventricular Wall Distensibility
Presented by: Masataka Sugahara, Dennis McNamara, Lori Blauwet, Rami Alharethi, Paul Mather, Kalgi Modi, Richard Sheppard, Vinay Thohan, Gretchen Wells, John Gorcsan
Session 669: Distinct Phenotypes in HFpEF: Beyond Ejection Fraction
669-03 – Diagnostic Evaluation of Patients with Dyspnea and Normal LVEF
Presented by: John Gorcsan
Session 1226: Put Your Codon! Genetic Insights Into Heart Failure
G-Protein Receptor Kinase 5 Polymorphisms and Outcomes in the African American Heart Failure Trial: Results From the Genetic Risk Assessment of Heart Failure in African-Americans Sub-Study
Presented by: Karen Hanley-Yanez, Clyde Yancy, Anne Taylor, Arthur Feldman, Dennis McNamara
Session 1242: Timely Topics in Acute Coronary Syndromes
Use of Potent P2y12 Inhibitors in African-American Patients Treated With Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Acute Coronary Syndromes
Michela Faggioni, Usman Baber, Jaya Chandrasekhar, Birgit Vogel, Samantha Sartori, Melissa Aquino, Annapoorna Kini, William Weintraub, Samir Kapadia, Sandra Weiss, Craig Strauss, Clayton Snyder, Catalin Toma, J. Muhlestein, Anthony C. DeFranco, Mark B. Effron, Stuart Keller, Brian Baker, Stuart Pocock, Timothy Henry, Sunil Rao, Roxana Mehran
Session 1257: FIT Clinical Decision Making: Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension
1257-408 / 408 – When the Liver Gets Sacked by the Heart Sac: A Diagnostic Challenge of Mixed Heart and Liver Pathology
Presented by: Ahmad Masri, John Gorcsan
Session 1245: New Technologies in Echocardiography
1245-219 / 219 – Assessment of Right Ventricular Energy Loss and Efficiency Using Novel Vector Flow Mapping
Presented by: Masataka Sugahara, Nina Hasselberg, Marc Simon, John Gorcsan
Session 1246: Nuclear Cardiology: Quality
Repeatability of Appropriateness Category Allocation by Trained Physicians
Presented by: Daniel Nguyen, Aditi Nayak, Christopher Pray, Christopher Link, Andrew Althouse, Prem Soman
Session 702: The Forgotten Chamber: The Right Ventricle in Heart Failure
RV Failure After LVAD: Predictable and Preventable?
Presented by: Jeffrey Teuteberg
Session 1235: Innovations in Cardiovascular Risk Assessment and Reduction
Ideal Cardiovascular Health Metrics in Couples: A Community-Based Population Study
Presented by: Oluremi Ajala, Sebhat Erqou, Claudia Bambs, Michael Sharbaugh, Andrew Althouse, Aryan Aiyer, Kevin Kip, Steven Reis
Session 1230: Predicting the Future: Observations and Discoveries From Registries and Databases
Pulmonary Vascular Resistance Predicts Mortality in End-Stage Renal Disease Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension
Presented by: Jonathan Wolfe, Gavin Hickey, Andrew Althouse, Michael Sharbaugh, Deepak Kumar Pasupula, Dustin Kliner, Michael Mathier, Prem Soman
Session 727: Aortic Stenosis: Overview of the Hemodynamics and Ventricular Response
Expanding the Diagnostic Toolbox for Aortic Stenosis
Presented by: João Cavalcante
Session 716: Pregnancy and Heart Disease
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy – Long term Outcomes and Management Options
Presented by: Dennis McNamara
Session 4103: Advanced Heart Failure and VAD Therapy
Presented by:
Jeffrey Teuteberg
Sunday, March 19
Session 732: Nuclear Cardiology: Current Applications and Best Practices: Joint Symposium of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and the American College of Cardiology
Nuclear Cardiology: Risk Stratification
Presented by: Prem Soman
Session 738: Controversies in Mitral Valve Surgery: Joint Symposium of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the American College of Cardiology
What to do if the left ventricle fails after mitral valve surgery
Presented by: Robert Kormos
Session 770: Great Debates in Cardiac MRI
Debate Con: Stress MRI is the Test of Choice for Ischemia Assessment
Presented by: Prem Soman
Session 4105: Advanced Heart Failure and VAD Therapy
Presented by:
Jeffrey Teuteberg
Session 1274: The Challenges of Outcome Prediction in Valvular Heart Disease
Poor Agreement Between Transthoracic Echocardiography and Right Heart Catheterization for Assessment of Pulmonary Hypertension Severity: Clinical Applications in the TAVR Era
Presented by: Islam Abdelkarim, Jeffrey Xu, Michael Sharbaugh, Andrew Althouse, William Katz, Frederick Crock, Matthew Harinstein, Dustin Kliner, Forozan Navid, Joon Lee, John Schindler, Thomas Gleason, João Cavalcante
Session 1282: Advances in Chronic Total Occlusion Intervention
The Impact of Epicardial Collateral Use on the Outcomes of Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights From a Contemporary Multicenter Registry
Presented by: Judit Karacsonyi, Khaldoon Alaswad, Farouc Jaffer, Robert Yeh, Dimitrios Karmpaliotis, Jeffrey Moses, Ajay Kirtane, Manish Parikh, Ziad Ali, David Kandzari, Nicholas Lembo, William Lombardi, R. Michael Wyman, Anthony Doing, Catalin Toma, James Choi, Mitul Patel, Ehtisham Mahmud, Barry Uretsky, Aris Karatasakis, Bavana Rangan, Imre Ungi, Craig Thompson, Subhash Banerjee, Emmanouil Brilakis
Session 1307M: Emerging Applications for Imaging Cardiac Amyloidosis: Nuclear Cardiology
Predictors of a Positive Technetium Pyrophosphate Scan in Patients With Suspected Cardiac Amyloidosis
Presented by: Ahmad Masri, Ricardo Nieves, Michael S. Sharbaugh, Andrew Althouse, William Follansbee, João Cavalcante, Prem Soman
Session 1221M: TAVR outcomes Prognostication
Prognostic Value of Right Ventricle-Pulmonary Artery Coupling in TAVR Patients: Time to Integrate the Right Side Unit
Presented by: João Cavalcante, Islam Abdelkarim, Michael Sharbaugh, Andrew Althouse, Jeffrey Xu, Wei Han, William Katz, Frederick Crock, Matthew Harinstein, Dustin Kliner, Forozan Navid, Joon Lee, John Schindler, Thomas Gleason
Session 769: Life After LVAD: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Right Ventricular Failure After LVAD
Presented by: Robert Kormos
Session 785: Radiation from Diagnostic Imaging: Risk-benefit Analysis
Panelist:
Prem Soman
