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Cardiovascular Updates 2022

Course Description.

Cardiovascular Updates 2022 will feature a wide variety of the latest updates in congestive heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, coronary artery disease, cardiac arrhythmias, congenital heart disease, anticoagulation, preventive cardiology, and valvular heart disease, among others.

Upon conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:

  • Assess indications, use, and limitations of different types of anticoagulants in a diverse spectrum of cardiovascular diseases.
  • Evaluate peri-procedure management of anticoagulation in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.
  • Recite the current indications and contra-indications for TAVR, mitral valve clip and potential new indications for percutaneous tricuspid valve replacement.
  • Apply the latest hypertension and cardiovascular (CV) guidelines to improve overall morbidity/mortality rates.
  • Describe practice changes to improve care for patients with congenital heart disease.
  • Summarize guidelines to increase preventive care for patients with CV diseases.
  • Apply current guidelines for the treatment of congestive heart failure (CHF).
  • Describe clinical features of primary pulmonary arterial hypertension.
  • Describe cardiovascular adaptation to exercise and review risks and benefits of exercise in patients with cardiovascular diseases.
in congestive heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, coronary artery disease, cardiac arrhythmias, congenital heart disease, anticoagulation, preventive cardiology, and valvular heart disease, among others.

Scientific Program

Agenda

Saturday, February 19, 2022
(All times are Central Standard Time)
7:45 am
Welcome
7:50 am
Agenda and introduction: Dr. Srini Potluri and Dr. Rob Smith
8:00 am
Coronary Artery Disease Section
Moderators: Dr. Karim Al-Azizi and Dr. Mike DiMaio
  • CAD screening (when, why and how?)
    • Coronary CTA for assessing CAD – are we there yet? – Dr. Matt Budoff
  • Revascularization
    • Revascularization Guideline updates – Dr Roxana Mehran
    • PCI optimization updates – Dr. Sukh Nijjer
  • Medical therapy
    • Updates on management of dyslipidemia – Dr. Marc Shalek
  • Discussion
8:50 am
Vascular Section
Moderators: Dr. Dennis Gable and Dr.Tony Das
  • Occlusive Aortoiliac disease- Endovascular and Surgical Options for Complex disease – Darren Schneider
  • Long Segment SFA Disease- What are the role of Atherectomy, Drug-Eluting Balloons and Newer Stent Designs – Lawrence Garcia
  • Tibial and Below the Ankle Disease- How far Can We go to Recanalize the Pedal Arch – John Rundback
  • Roundtable Discussion
9:50 am
Break
10:00 am
Live Surgery – Pulmonary Vein Isolation – Dr. Brian Deville and Dr Adam Shapira
10:30 am
Electrophysiology Section
Moderators: Dr. Mustafa Dohadwala and Dr. Kelley Hutcheson
  • Hit me with your best shock. ICD therapy in all its glory – Dr. Ryan Mandell
  • Small but mighty: when the LAA just has to go! – Dr. Scott Greenberg
  • Is this feeling nonsustained VT, or am I just excited to see you? Holter results: what to do with them. – Dr. Ali Yousif
11:20 am
Heart Failure Section
Moderators: Dr. David Rawitscher and Dr. Tim George
  • Gliflozins for the failing heart. Who wouldn’t want them with that name? – Dr. Kabra
    • Studies, dosing, side effects, place in the neurohormonal blockade spectrum
  • My heart is too strong for it’s own good: learning to relax with cardiac myosin inhibitors for symptomatic HOCM – Dr. David Rawitscher
    • Discuss mavacamten and other newer agents in the pipeline
  • A heart-to-heart conversation: expanding the cardiac transplantation donor pool. – Dr. Afzal
    • Newer UNOS guidelines, allowing older doners, donation after circulatory death, organ preservation strategies
  • Bringing fanny packs back one LVAD at a time! The current and future state of LVAD therapy. – Dr. Tim George
    • Outcomes, traditional patients failing medical therapy as well as patients in shock, older patients and valve patients
12:10 pm
Break
12:30 pm
Live Surgery – Mitral Clip
1:00 pm
Structural Heart Section
Moderators: Dr. Molly Szerlip, Dr. Zuyue Wang, and Dr. Katherine Harrington
  • Aortic Valve
    • Case Presentation - Structural Fellow – Dr. Alice Chang
    • Heart surgery used to be hard. Now we have TAVR for all. Low-risk TAVR data. – Dr. Justin Schaffer
    • Who stole my 3rd cusp??? Lifetime management of bicuspid AoV disease – Dr. Bob Stoler
    • Discussion
  • Mitral/Tricuspid
    • Case Presentation - Structural Fellow – Dr. Imran Baig
    • When functional is nonfunctional. Management of functional MR – Dr. Paul Grayburn
    • Case presentation - Structural Fellow – Dr. Arthur Lee
    • I can’t fight this feeling anymore, my legs are swollen and my belly is sore. Symptomatic tricuspid regurgitation and when to treat it. – TBD
    • Discussion
1:50 pm
Question & Answer
2:00 pm
Adjourn

Target Audience

This course is designed for cardiologists, internists, emergency physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, and all other providers who care for patients in any setting in which critical care is provided.

Accreditation & Credit Designation

The Foundation for Advanced Cardiovascular Education and Training (FACET), Provider #0007001, has approved this program for 6 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. The Foundation for Advanced Cardiovascular Education and Training (FACET) was reviewed by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) and awarded accreditation status as a provider of continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. To receive credit, attendees must complete the following steps: sign-in, attend the program, and complete an evaluation.

Course Directors

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Srini Potluri, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular Disease

Baylor Scott & White Legacy Heart Center - Plano

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Robert Smith, MD

Cardiac Surgery, Thoracic Surgery

Baylor Scott & White Cardiac Surgery Specialists - Plano

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