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The American College of Cardiology will host ACC.18 - the 67th Annual Scientific Session and Expo from March 9-12 in Orlando, Fl. The UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute will be well represented in over 35 poster presentations, panels, case studies, and educational discussions where our physicians, researchers, and cardiovascular support teams will highlight the numerous ways in which UPMC is continuing its legacy as a leader in cardiovascular care. Some of these presentations include:
100-04 Q1 – Presented by: Joshua E. Levenson
101-07 - Balance of Wellness Versus Resiliency
Presented by: Kathryn L. Berlacher
603-07 – Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: Clinical outcomes in IPAC
Author: Dennis M. McNamara
Flordeliza Villanueva – Panelist
Co-Chair: Kathryn L. Berlacher
621-10 – Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch: Avoidance, Detection, Management, and Outcomes
Author: Kathryn L. Berlacher
624-04 – Debate – PDA: PDA Stent vs. Shunt; Interventional Closure vs. Surgical Ligation
Author: Jacqueline Kreutzer
634-06 – Stroke Systems of Care & Interventional Options
Authors: Tudor Jovin
Daniel E. Forman – Panelist
João L. Cavalcante – Co-Chair and Panelist
Ahmad Masri – Co-Chair
648-11 – How MRI Can Inform the Pre and Post-Procedural Evaluation of Patients With AS
Author: João L. Cavalcante
804-04 – Testing Wisely, AUC, RUC: What Cardiologists Need to be Mindful Of
Author: Prem Soman
1101-012/012 – Effectiveness and Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulants Compared to Warfarin: The Real World Experience
Authors: Immaculada Hernandez, Yuting Zhang, Samir Saba
1137M-15 – Quantification of Reverse Takotsubo Pattern in Patients With Subarachnoid Hemorrhage by Longitudinal Strain
Authors: Nobuyuki Kagiyama, Yuko Soyama, Elizabeth A. Crago, Masataka Sugahara, Nina E. Hasselberg, Theodore Lagattuta, Khalil Moh'd Yousef, Marilyn Hravnak, John Gorcsan III, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
1151-210/210 – A Quality Improvement Educational Program For Cardiac Auscultation Skills When Assessing the Severity of Aortic Stenosis
Authors: John Power, Andrew Althouse, Juliette Power, Michael J. Barrett, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
1151-212/212 – Implementing a Flipped Classroom Cardiology Curriculum For Internal Medicine Residents
Authors: Jill Allenbaugh, Carla Spagnoletti, Kathryn Berlacher
1169-401/401 – Lactation and Maternal Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease Among Women With and Without a History of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy
Authors: Malamo Countouris, Claudia Holzman, Gabrielle Snyder, Andrew Althouse, Steven Reis, Janet Catov, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
1172-481/481 – Characterizing the Microbiome in Patients With and Without Coronary Artery Disease
Authors: Robert Anton Ulrich Baumgartner, Adam Fitch, Barbara Methe, Kelvin Li, Brian Firek, Sandeep Patel, Alison Morris, Michael Morowitz, Catalin Toma
1500-02 – John A. Power – Heart Song Moderator
Suresh Mulukutla – UPMC Interventionalist
Danny Chu – UPMC Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Lisa Henry – UPMC CV team Member
Brian Feingold – Co-Chair
Flordeliza Villanueva – Co-Chair
Prem Soman – Co-Chair
668-06 – Left Ventricular Dyssynchrony: CON
Presented by: Samir F. Saba
670-07 – Multivessel PCI in 2018: Heart Team, AUC, and Shared Decision Making
Author: Suresh Mulukutla
Michael Mathier – Co-Chair
Daniel E. Forman – Co-Chair
Raymond L. Benza – Co-Chair
902-14 – Right Atrial Strain by Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography Predicts Mortality in Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Authors: Nina E. Hasselberg, Masataka Sugahara, Nobuyuki Kagiyama, Akiko Goda, Marc Simon, John Gorcsan III
1188-073 / 073 – The Prognostic Value of Left Atrial Function by Speckle Tracking Strain Imaging in Patients With Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
Authors: Yuko Soyama, Dennis McNamara, Masataka Sugahara, Joan Briller, Leslie Cooper, Julie Damp, Mark Drazner, James Fett, Eileen Hsich, Navin Rajagopalan, Nobuyuki Kagiyama, John Gorcsan III, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
1210-382/382 – Determination of Long- Term Variability of Endothelial Function as Measured by Pulse Amplitude Tonometry
Authors: Sebhat Erqou, Kevin Kip, Sanjay Patel, Suresh Mulukutla, Steven Reis
Kathryn L. Berlacher – ACC Poster Moderator
1238-064/064 – Percent African Genomic Ancestry and LVEF at Presentation in Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
Authors: Dennis M. McNamara, Karen Hanley-Yanez, Indrani Halder, for the IPAC and IMAC Investigators
1238-073-073 – Impact of Diabetes on Myocardial Recovery in Women With Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
Authors: Neethu Abraham, Esa Davis, Karen Hanley-Yanez, Uri Elkayam, James Fett, Dennis McNamara
1247-292/292 – Sonoreperfusion of Microvascular Obstruction: A Step Towards Clinical Translation
Authors: Filip Istvanic, Francois Yu, Xucai Chen, Flordeliza Villanueva, John Pacella
1260-404/404 – Association Among Cumulative Social Risk, Ideal Cardiovascular Health and Exposure to Environmental Pollutants
Authors: Ann Canterbury, Sebhat Erqou, Jane Clougherty, Claudia Bambs, Ellen J. Kinnee, Sheila Tripathy, Daniel Shpilsky, Jared Magnani, Aryan Aiyer, Steven Reis
1260-423/423 – Association Between Ideal Cardiovascular Health and Markers of Subclinical Atherosclerosis
Authors: Daniel Shpilsky, Sebhat Erqou, Claudia Bambs, Kevin Kip, Jared Magnani, Sanjay Patel, Aryan Aiyer, Steven Reis
Prem Soman – Co-Chair and Panelist
723-10 – In Sync: Nuclear Techniques to Evaluate Dyssynchrony
Author: Prem Soman
909-08 – Diffuse Myocardial Fibrosis Measured by Extracellular Volume Associates With Incident Ventricular Arrhythmia in Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Recipients More Than Focal Fibrosis
Authors: Eric Olausson, Fredrika Fröjdh, Maren Maanja, Louise Niklasson, Yaron Fridman, Patrick Bering, Jonathan Wertz, Timothy Wong, Peter Kellman, Chris Miller, Samir Saba, Martin Ugander, Erik Schelbert, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Karolinska Institute and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
1275-007/007 – Determinants of Cost in Patients Hospitalized With Atrial Fibrillation
Authors: Rohit Rattan, Evan Adelstein, Sandeep Jain, Samir Saba
1295-354/354 – Prognostic Value of Persistently Abnormal Left Ventricular Global Longitudinal Strain in Patients With Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Authors: Nobuyuki Kagiyama, Yuko Soyama, Elizabeth A. Crago, Masataka Sugahara, Nina E. Hasselberg, Theodore Lagattuta, Khalil Moh'd Yousef, Marylin T. Hravnak, John Gorcsan III, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA