BC Presentations at the CCC

Members of the BC cardiovascular community are participating in many aspects of the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress. Take time to see what your colleagues are doing and learn more about the excellent research and innovation underway in BC. Check back often for more updates. Don’t see your abstract on the lists? Please email [email protected].

BC Abstracts at CCC (Excel file)

Nursing & Allied Health Abstracts 2014 (PDF file)

Sunday, October 26, 2014

9:00 – 10:30
Session: CACPR Panel Session – A Change of Heart: Managing the Transplant Recipient from Heart Failure to Healthy Living

Andy Ignaszewski
Annemarie Kaan

9:00 – 12:00
Session: CHRS Allied Health Education Session

MRI in Patients with Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Devices: Role of the Allied Professional in the Development and Implementation of an Interdisciplinary Guideline
J. Forman, S. Flavelle, E. Hahn, C. McIlroy, O. Van Breemen, J. Carleton

Sudden Unexplained Death in the Young: As an Allied Health Professional, What you need to know
K. Gibbs, J. Forman, S. Flavelle, E. Hahn, C. McIlroy, O. Van Breemen, J. Carleton

9:00 – 10:30
Session: Clinical Aspects of Atrial Fibrillation (Oral)

Matthew Bennett: Co-Chair

Ashkan Parsa: 251 - PREDICTORS OF DEATH AND STROKE IN PATIENTS WITH PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: RESULTS FROM THE CANADIAN REGISTRY OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
9:00 – 10:30
Session: Updates in Structural Interventions (Oral)

John Webb: Co-Chair

John Webb: 225 - A PROVINCIAL APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION PROGRAM: SUPPORTING PATIENT ACCESS AND QUALITY OF CARE

Sandra Lauck: 227 - TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: RISK STRATIFICATION AND CLINICAL PATHWAYS TO OPTIMIZE LENGTH OF STAY

10:00 – 18:00
Session: General Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease (Poster)

Anita Cote: 268-072 - CARDIOVASCULAR RISK IN CHILDREN WITH MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS: A PILOT STUDY

Darryl Wan: 271-075 - ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN ADULTS WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE : SAME WINE IN DIFFERENT BOTTLE?

Session: Heart Failure: Imaging, Treatment and Outcomes (Poster)

Frances Simpson: 281-009 - HEART FAILURE SUPPORTIVE CARE CLINIC: DOES IT IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE?

Session: Imaging Poster Session I

Peggy DeJong: 321-049 - CHANGES IN LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE DIMENSIONS FOLLOWING VOLUME LOADING DURING PERCUTANEOUS CLOSURE

Session: Imaging Poster Session II

Teresa Tsang: 322-050 - ECG CRITERIA FOR LEFT ATRIAL ENLARGEMENT LACKS SENSITIVITY

Jacqueline Saw: 324-052 - CARDIAC CT ANGIOGRAPHY IS A USEFUL NON-INVASIVE SURVEILLANCE IMAGING TEST AFTER PERCUTANEOUS LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE CLOSURE

Teresa Tsang: 327-055 - PREVALENCE OF RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION IN PERMANENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND CHANGE OVER TIME

Amit Khosla: 328-056 - DIAGNOSIS OF LV THROMBUS: A DEFINITE ROLE FOR CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY?

Session: Translational Approaches to Hypertension (Poster)

Brice Nouthe: 307-035 - HIV-INDUCED HYPERTENSION MAY NOT BE RELATED TO IMPAIRED GLUCOSE METABOLISM IN SUB SAHARAN AFRICAN PATIENTS ON HAART: RESULTS FROM CAMEROON

Session: Pulmonary Hypertension and Cardiac Failure: Basic Mechanisms (Poster)

Charles Stevens: 295-023 - MOLECULAR DYNAMICS-BASED PREDICTIONS OF THE STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL EFFECTS OF CARDIAC TROPONIN MUTATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH FAMILIAL HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY

Michael Bround: 297-025 - INDUCIBLE, HETEROZYGOUS RYR2 KNOCKOUT MICE REVEAL A KEY ROLE FOR SR CA2+ RELEASE IN CARDIAC METABOLISM

Session: Surgery Poster Session II

Doson Chua: 352-095 - EPOETIN DOSING FOR BLOOD CONSERVATION IN JEHOVAH’S WITNESS PATIENTS UNDERGOING CARDIAC SURGERY - A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Hilary Wu: 354-097 - COMPARISON OF WARFARIN DOSAGE REQUIREMENTS BEFORE AND AFTER CARDIAC SURGERY

10:30 – 11:30
Session: Surgical/Interventional Treatments for Heart Failure: Physiology to Outcomes

Mustafa Toma and Sean Virani: Co-Chairs

Anna Meredith: 368-H003 - CIRCULATING BIOMARKER RESPONSES TO MEDICAL MANAGEMENT VERSUS MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT IN SEVERE INOTROPE-DEPENDENT ACUTE HEART FAILURE

11:00 – 12:30
Session: Primary PCI (Oral)

Annie Chou: 382 - CORRELATION OF CARDIAC RISK FACTORS WITH INCOMPLETE ST-ELEVATION RECOVERY AND IN-HOSPITAL ADVERSE OUTCOMES AFTER PRIMARY PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION IN AN ST-ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION POPULATION

12:30 – 13:30
Session: Cardiovascular Imaging: Clinical Applications (Highlighted Poster)

Ammar Chaudhary: 390-H007 - CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF FDG-PET IN SUSPECTED CARDIAC SARCOIDOSIS

12:30 – 14:00
Session: Trainee Research Award Final – Clinical Science

Thomas Roston: 509 - CATECHOLAMINERGIC POLYMORPHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA IN THE YOUNG: AN ANALYSIS OF GENETIC DATA FROM AN INTERNATIONAL, MULTICENTRE REGISTRY

14:00 – 15:30
Session: CCS Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines: Management of AF in 2014: Putting the new guidelines into practice (Workshop)

John Cairns

14:00 – 15:30
Session: CSATVB Symposium: Vascular Injury and Remodeling

David Granville: Co-Chair
Stephanie Sellers: Presenter

14:00 – 15:30
Optimal Care of the Post Arrest Patient Revisited: The Evolution of Therapeutic Hypothermia and Other Contemporary Technologies in Cardiac Arrest Management (Workshop)

Graham Wong: Faculty

14:00 – 15:30
Session: Portrait of TAVI Programs and Outcomes From Three Canadian Provinces: Working Towards National Quality Indicators

John Webb and Sandra Lauck: Faculty

14:00 – 15:30
Session: Update in Pulmonary Hypertension for the Clinician

John Swiston: Faculty

16:00 – 17:30
Session: CCS/CAIC/CSCS Position Statement on Revascularization – Multivessel CAD Followed by Highlighted Research Posters

James Abel: 396 - COMPARISON OF RISK-ADJUSTED MODELS FOR EARLY AND LATE MORTALITY FOLLOWING CABG SURGERY

16:00 – 17:30
Session: Closing the Gap: Transitioning Adolescents with Cardiac Disease to Adult Care (Workshop)

Lynn Straatman and Jasmine Grewal: Faculty

16:00 – 17:30
Session: Difficult Cases from the Device Clinic: Troubleshooting Pacemakers, Defibrillators and CRTS

Matthew Bennett: Faculty

18:00 – 21:00
Session: Working Together to Improve Stroke Prevention in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation (Accredited Symposium)

Ken Gin: Faculty