Physicians and Researchers Present at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 65th Annual Scientific Session
March 22, 2016
The UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute will be well-represented at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 65th Annual Scientific Session in Chicago. Faculty research was featured in both oral and poster presentations throughout the conference, including:
Saturday, April 2
ACC.i2 Aortic and Mitral Disease, AMI: Innovation, Outcomes, and Practice
Early Recovery of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction After CoreValve TAVR: Findings From the CoreValve Pivotal Trials
Presented by: Harold Dauerman, Michael Reardon, Jeffrey Popma, Stephen Little, João Cavalcante, David Adams, Neal Kleiman, Jae Oh
ACC.i2 Interventional Cardiology: Complex Patients/Comorbidities
Use of Clopidogrel Versus Prasugrel in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Factors Influencing Real-World Therapeutic Decision-Making
Presented by: Olga Salianski, Usman Baber, Samantha Sartori, Melissa Aquino, Jaya Chandrasekhar, Annapoorna Kini, Sunil Rao, William Weintraub, Sandra Weiss, Timothy Henry, Samir Kapadia, Kanhaiya Poddar, Anthony DeFranco, J. Muhlestein, Catalin Toma, Mark Effron, Stuart Keller, Brian Baker, Stuart Pocock, Roxana Mehran
ACC.i2 Interventional Cardiology: Translation and Pre-Clinical Research
Low Dose tPA Improves Reperfusion Efficacy of Microvascular Obstruction Using Ultrasound With Microbubbles
Presented by: Akash Goyal, Francois Yu, Mathea G. Tenwalde, Xucai Chen, Flordeliza Villanueva, John Pacella
Sonoreperfusion for Microvascular Obstruction Using Ultrasound and Microbubbles: Role of Nitric Oxide
Presented by: Francois Yu, Xucai Chen, Flordeliza Villanueva, John Pacella
Acute Myocardial Infarction
Incidence, Predictors and Impact of Stroke After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Acute Coronary Syndromes: Results From the PROMETHEUS Registry
Presented by: Gennaro Giustino, Usman Baber, Samantha Sartori, Shunsuke Aoi, Melissa Aquino, Jaya Chandrasekhar, William Weintraub, Sunil Rao, Sandra Weiss, Timothy Henry, Samir Kapadia, Kanhaiya Poddar, Anthony DeFranco, J. Muhlestein, Catalin Toma, Mark Effron, Stuart Keller, Brian Baker, Stuart Pocock, Roxana Mehran
Can We Do Better with Atrial Fibrillation Ablation?
Incidence and Predictors of Complications and Phrenic Nerve Injury During Cryoballoon Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
Presented by: Emily Guhl, Donald Siddoway, Evan Adelstein, Andrew Voigt, Samir Saba, Sandeep Jain
Changing the Treatment of Heart Failure
Tools for Real-Time Patient Management
Presented by: Jeffrey Teuteberg
Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies: Basic
Cardiac Gene Expression Profile Distinguishes African-American and European-American Heart Failure Profiles
Presented by: Indrani Halder, Victoria Causer, Charles McTiernan, Bonnie Lemster, Ravi Ramani, Sumanth Prabhu, Mark Slaughter, Daniel Dries, George Tseng, Dennis McNamara
Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies: Medical Therapy
Genomic Score to Target Therapy with a Fixed Dose Combination of Hydralazine and Isosorbide Dinitrate
Presented by: Dennis McNamara, Arthur Feldman, Clyde Yancy, Anne Taylor, Daniel Dries, Karen Hanley-Yanez, Indrani Halder
Joint Symposium of the American Association for Thoracic Surgeons and the American College of Cardiology
Nikaidoh Operation (Video)
Presented by: Victor O. Morell
Lipids, Diabetes Mellitus and Inflammation in Stable Ischemic Heart Disease
Lower Circulating Levels of Tumor Necrosis Factor Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand (TRAIL) Are Associated With Increased Sub-Clinical Coronary Atherosclerosis in Smokers
Presented by: Oluremi Ajala, Divay Chandra, Yingze Zhang, Steven Reis, Samir Saba, Frank Sciurba
New Insights into Device Therapy
Left Ventricular Lead Related Complications in Quadripolar Versus Bipoloar Leads
Presented by: Shasank Rijal, Jonathan Wolfe, Andrew Althouse, Rohit Rattan, Sandeep Jain, Samir Saba
Novel Echocardiographic Methods for Evaluating Cardiac Function
Association of Global Longitudinal Strain with Severity of Neurocardiac Injury in Patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Presented by: Zhi Qi, Masataka Sugahara, Elizabeth A Crago, Yuefang Chang, Theodore F Lagattuta, Khalil Yousef, Robert M Friedlander, Marilyn T Hravnak, John Gorcsan
Novel Prognostic Markers in Pulmonary Vascular Disease
PVR but Not DPG Predicts Cardiac Hospitalizations in Left Heart Disease-Associated Pulmonary Hypertension
Presented by: Rebecca R. Vanderpool, Melissa Saul, Seyed-Mehdi Nouraie, Mark Gladwin, Marc Simon
Nuclear Cardiology in 2015 and 2025: Joint Symposium of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and the American College of Cardiology
Cardiomyopathies: Why Nuclear Cardiology Will Not Fail
Presented by: Prem Soman
Pulmonary Hypertension and Pulmonary Thrombo-Embolic Disease I
Correlation of a New Echocardiographic Index of Right Ventricular Remodeling in Pulmonary Hypertension With Invasive Hemodynamics in Rat Model
Presented by: Akiko Goda, Masataka Sugahara, Antonia Delgado-Montero, Bhupendar Tayal, Dmitry Goncharov, Rebecca Vanderpool, Jeffrey Baust, Elena Goncharova, John Gorcsan
Self-Paced Learning Lab: Heart Songs and ECG Practice
Moderated by: John Power
TAVR World – Trials and More of Interest to All
Pacemaker Dependency After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Is Associated With Reduction in Global Left Ventricular Function
Presented by: Masataka Sugahara, Antonia Delgado-Montero, John Schindler, Thomas Gleason, João Cavalcante, William Katz, Frederick Crock, David Schwartzman, Lisa Henry, Joon Lee, John Gorcsan
Vascular Medicine: Aortic and Peripheral Artery Diseases
Demographic Differences in the Interventional Therapy of Acute Aortic Dissection
Presented by: Uchenna C. Okoro, Ali Khoynezhad, Marek Ehrlich, Mark Peterson, Anil Bhan, Himanshu Patel, Truls Myrmel, Thomas Gleason, Marco Di Eusanio, Lori Conklin, Khaled Abdul-Nour, Nathaniel I. Costin, Daniel Montgomery, Teng Lee, Eric Isselbacher, Christoph A. Nienaber, Eduardo Bossone
Onset of In-Hospital Complications in Acute Type B Aortic Dissections Initially Uncomplicated
Presented by: Arnoud Kamman, Alan Braverman, Eduardo Bossone, Thomas Gleason, Toru Suzuki, Reed Pyeritz, Kevin Harris, Hans-Henning Eckstein, Udo Sechtem, Gilbert Upchurch, Kevin Greason, Daniel Montgomery, Eric Isselbacher, Christoph A. Nienaber, Kim Eagle, Santi Trimarchi
Sunday, April 3
Advances in Echocardiography
An Echocardiographic Risk Score for Prediction of Mortality in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension
Presented by: Rishin Handa, Srinivas Vunnam, Masataka Sugahara, Akiko Goda, Omar Batal, Michael Mathier, John Gorcsan
Better Diagnosis and Treatment for AF and SVT
Depression Predicts All-Cause 2-Year Mortality in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure
Presented by: Bruno Lima, Tianxiu Wang, Chung-Chou Chang, Samir Saba, Bruce Rollman
Changing the Treatment of Heart Failure
Tools for Real-Time Patient Management
Presented by: Jeffrey Teuteberg
Clinical and Therapuetic Factors Affecting Outcome After Acute Coronary Syndromes
Predictors of 1 Year Net Adverse Cardiovascular Events (NACE) Among ACS Patients Undergoing PCI With Clopidogrel or Prasugrel: Analysis From the PROMETHEUS Registry
Presented by: Siddharth A. Wayangankar, Usman Baber, Kanhaiya Poddar, Sandra Weiss, Timothy Henry, J. Muhlestein, Brian Baker, Roxana Mehran, Annapoorna Kini, Samantha Sartori, Sunil Rao, William Weintraub, Craig Strauss, Anthony DeFranco, Catalin Toma, Stuart Keller, Mark Effron, Samir Kapadia
Discoveries in Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
Global Longitudinal Strain at Presentation Is Prognostic of Subsequent Left Ventricular Recovery in Patients With Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
Presented by: Masataka Sugahara, Dennis McNamara, Navin Rajagopalan, Joan Briller, Julie Damp, Gretchen Wells, Mark Drazner, Lori Blauwet, Leslie Cooper, John Gorcsan
Emerging Applications in Echocardiography: Part I
Does Echo Equipment Vintage Reflect Commitment to Quality? Assessment by IAC Accreditation Status
Presented by: Saurabh Malhotra, Mary Beth Farrell, William Katz, Prem Soman
Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies: Transplantation/Stem Cells/Catheter Based Therapies
The Final Results of the IxCell-DCM Trial: Transendocardial Injection of Ixmyelocel-T in Patients With Ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Presented by: Timothy D. Henry, Arshed Quyyumi, Gary Schaer, R. David Anderson, Catalin Toma, Cara East, David Recker, Ann Remmers, James Goodrich, Amit Patel
Multimodality Imaging in Cardiomyopathy
Fibrosis Imaging in Cardiomyopathy
Presented by: Erik B. Schelbert
Multimodality Imaging in Cardiomyopathy
Pathophysiology of Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: Implications for Diagnosis
Presented by: Prem Soman
Novel Approaches to HFpEF and Other Common Dilemmas
Neurocardiac Injury in Patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage is Associated with Regional Left Ventricular Discoordination
Presented by: Zhi Qi, Masataka Sugahara, Elizabeth A Crago, Yuefang Chang, Theodore F Lagattuta, Khalil Yousef, Robert M Friedlander, Marilyn T Hravnak, John Gorcsan
Preventive Cardiology Potpourri
Endothelial Dysfunction and Racial Disparities in Mortality and Adverse Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes
Presented by: Sebhat Erqou, Kevin Kip, Suresh Mulukutla, Aryan Aiyer, Steven Reis
Pulmonary Hypertension and Pulmonary Thromo-embolic Disease II
Echocardiographic Prognostic Markers in Connective Tissue Disease Associated Pulmonary Hypertension Differ from Idiopathic Pulmonary Hypertension
Presented by: Srinivas Vunnam, Rishin Handa, Masataka Sugahara, Akiko Goda, Omar Batal, Michael Mathier, John Gorcsan
What Is New in Device Technology
Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of CRT-P Versus CRT-D Recipients in Patients 80 Years and Older
Presented by: Muhammad Bilal Munir, Andrew Althouse, Shasank Rijal, Maulin B. Shah, Hussein Abu Daya, Evan Adelstein, Samir Saba
Monday, April 4
Beyond the Usual Suspects: The Atypical Cardiomyopathies
Galectin-3 Levels and Outcomes in Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: Results From the Multicenter IPAC Investigation
Presented by: Kate Elizabeth Groh, Rami Alharethi, Gregory Ewald, Michael Givertz, G. Michael Felker, Jessica Pisarcik, Karen Hanley-Yanez, Indrani Halder, Charles McTiernan, Dennis McNamara
Soluble IL2 Receptor and Survival in Recent Onset Cardiomyopathy Results of IMAC2
Presented by: Dennis McNamara, Leslie Cooper, Richard Sheppard, Jeffrey Alexis, Daniel Pauly, Karen Hanley-Yanez, Indrani Halder, Charles McTiernan
Cardiac Molecular Imaging
Echo Based Molecular Imaging Approaches
Presented by: Flordeliza S. Villanueva
Future of Cardiovascular Imaging: A Report From the ACC Think Tank
The Cardiovascular Imager of the Future
Presented by: Prem Soman
Late-Breaking Clinical Trials
The Final Results of the IxCell-DCM Trial: Transendocardial Injection of Ixmyelocel-T in Patients with Ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Timothy D. Henry, Arshed A. Quyyumi, Gary L. Schaer, David R. Anderson, Catalin Toma, Cara East, David A. Recker, Ann Remmers, James Goodrich, Amit Patel
Managing Cardiogenic Shock – Drugs to ECMO
Determining Candidacy for DT VAD or Transplant in the Setting of Cardiogenic Shock
Presented by: Jeffrey Teuteberg
Nuclear Cardiology: Beyond Perfusion Imaging
Feasibility and Value of Gated Blood Pool SPECT (GBPS) Assessment of RV Function in Patients Undergoing LVAD Implantation
Presented by: Christopher B. Link, Aditi Nayak, Luigi Lagazzi, Andrew Althouse, Jeffrey Teuteberg, Marc Simon, Robert Kormos, Prem Soman
Intra-Individual Comparison of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Volumes Derived from Solid State and Anger SPECT Imaging
Presented by: Christopher B. Link, Aditi Nayak, Luigi Lagazzi, Andrew Althouse, Jeffrey Teuteberg, Marc Simon, Robert Kormos, Prem Soman
Treatment of Patients with Stage D Heart Failure and Shock
Case Presentation – LVAD selection
Presented by: Jeffrey Teuteberg
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