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Thursday 9^th February 2017

COPPER HALL		SILVER HALL
08:00-09:00	Registration & welcome coffee (Exhibition Hall)
09:00-10:30	Session 1: Diabetes and cardiovascular disease: current insights in diagnosis and treatment Working Group Session by the Young Cardiologists Club (YCC) Moderators: Steven Droogmans - UZ Brussels, BE Stéphanie Seldrum - UCL Mont-Godinne, BE New advances in treatment of diabetes: which action for which drug? Michel Hermans - UCL Brussels, BE Non-invasive evaluation of coronary artery disease in diabetes Johan De Sutter - AZ Maria Middelares, Ghent, BE Diabetic patient at the cardiology clinic: how to treat according to guidelines? Guntram Schernthaner - Rudolfstiftung Hospital, Vienna, AT Best Abstract presentation Effects of chemerin on rat pulmonary artery smooth muscle cell proliferation, resistance to apostosis and migration Alienor Hanthazi - ULB Brussels, BE	9:00-10:30	Session 2: NOACs from phase III trials to real world evidence Satellite Symposium organised by Bayer Moderators: Marc Claeys - UZ Antwerp, BE Patrizio Lancellotti - CHU du Sart Tilman, Liège, BE Short overview from phase III to real-life data with NOACs Torben Bjerregaard Larsen - Aalborg, DK “Pro and Contra” debate with controversial NOAC topics Hein Heidbüchel - UZ Antwerp, Hasselt, BE Jean-Benoît Le Polain de Waroux - UCL Brussels, BE
10:30-11:00	Coffee break (Exhibition Hall) & Best Poster Competition (DELVAUX Foyer) Jury: Agnès Pasquet - UCL Brussels, BE Marc Claeys - UZ Antwerp, BE
11:00-11:45	Session 3 : Keynote session Preparing for cardiology practice in the year 2020 Moderators: Agnès Pasquet - UCL Brussels, BE Marc Claeys - UZ Antwerp, BE Introduction : Agnès Pasquet - UCL Brussels, BE Healthcare vision and in particular cardiology health care, in the actual economic situation: where are we going? Minister Maggie De Block
11:45-13:15	Session 4: How to deal with the new guidelines in the clinical practice? Working Group Session by the Belgian Working Group on Heart Failure (BWGHF) Moderators: Wilfried Mullens - ZOL Genk, BE Pierre Troisfontaines - CHR Liège, BE Presentation of the new Heart Failure guidelines Stefan Anker - University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany, DE Two clinical cases regarding the new guidelines and the difficulties to implement these guidelines in Belgium Philippe Blouard - Clinique Saint-Luc, Bouge, BE Matthias Dupont - Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, Genk, BE Best Abstract presentation Prevalence and impact of iron deficiency with and without anemia on heart failure related outcome. Pieter Martens - Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg, BE	11:45-13:15	Session 5: Stroke Prevention and Devices Satellite Symposium organised by St. Jude Medical Moderators: Yves Vandekerckhove - AZ St. Jan Bruges, BE Joëlle Kefer - UCL Brussels, BE Stroke prevention and CRM devices Georges H.Mairesse - Cliniques du Sud Luxembourg, Arlon, BE PFO and stroke prevention Peter Ewert - Deutsches Herzzentrum, Munich, DE The use of LAAO devices to prevent the risk of stroke Werner Budts - UZ Leuven, BE TAVR and stroke prevention Axel Linke - Herzzentrum Leipzig, DE The risk of stroke in ventricular assist devices Bart Meyns - UZ Leuven, BE
13:15-14:15	Lunch (Exhibition Hall)	13:15- 14:15	PCSK9: what if we knew then what we know now? Lunch Satellite Symposium organised by Sanofi Moderators: Pierre Troisfontaines - CHR Liège, BE Olivier Descamps - Jolimont, BE An animated rewriting of lipid-lowering history Ernst Rietzschel - UZ Ghent, BE Peter Sinnaeve - UZ Leuven, BE
14:15- 15:45	Session 6: Good to know before implanting devices Working Group Session by the Belgian Heart Rhythm Association (BeHRA) Moderators: Ivan Blankoff - CHU Charleroi, BE Yves Vandekerckhove - AZ Sint-Jan Brugge, BE Best Abstract presentation Left Atrial Appendage Closure with the WATCHMAN Device in Europe and in Belgium: High Procedural Success Rate and Low Periprocedural Risk. Data from the Prospective 1000 Patients EWOLUTION Registry Tom De Potter - OLV Aalst, BE Indications for ICD and PM extraction Aldo Rinaldi - London Bridge Hospital, UK Prevention of pacemaker/ICD related complications Frank Bracke - Catharina Hart - en Vaaztzieken Centrum Eindhoven, NL	14:15- 15:45	Session 7: Long-term DAPT after MI: a Belgian position paper Satellite Symposium organised by Astra Zeneca Moderators: Walter Desmet - UZ Leuven, Be and Sofie Gevaert - UZ Ghent, BE What do we know about the first year after an ACS Christophe Beauloye - UCL Brussels, BE Who, when and why to treat beyond 1 year post-MI Peter Sinnaeve - UZ Leuven, BE
15:45- 16:00	Coffee break (Exhibition Hall)
16:00-17:30	Session 8: Hot topics in cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation Working Group Session by the Belgian Working Group on Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BWGCPR) in collaboration with the Belgian Lipid Club Moderators: Catherine De Maeyer – Cardiologisch Centrum Grens, BE Olivier Descamps – UCL Brussels, BE New ESC guidelines on prevention focus on the dyslipidemia Guy De Backer - UZ Ghent, BE Cardiac rehab: Working behind the scenes Raymond Kacenelenbogen - CHU Saint-Pierre, Brussels, BE The female heart Sofie Gevaert - UZ Ghent, BE Best Abstract presentation Is Myocardial Fibrosis A Hallmark Of Paradoxical Low Gradient Aortic Stenosis? Alisson Slimani - UCL Brussels, BE	16:00-17:30	Session 9: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) for the general cardiologist Working Group Session by the Belgian Working Group on Interventional Cardiology (BWGIC) Moderators: Walter Desmet - UZ Leuven, BE Joëlle Kefer - UCL Brussels, BE TAVI: Limitations, challenges and opportunities Christophe Dubois - UZ Leuven, BE TAVI: the minimalist approach Thierry Lefèvre - ICPS Massy, FR TAVI in difficult conditions Johan Bosmans - UZ Antwerp, BE Best Abstract presentation Thermodilution-derived measurement of absolute coronary flow and microvascular resistance: Principle and measurement repeatability Panagiotis Xaplanteris - OLV Aalst, BE
17:30-18:30	Networking Cocktail event

Friday 10^th February 2017

COPPER HALL		SILVER HALL
08:00- 09:00	Registration & welcome coffee (Exhibition Hall)
09:00-10:30	Session 11: The aortic valve disease Working Group Session by the Belgian Working Group on Non-invasive Cardiac Imaging (BWGNICI) Moderators: Bernard Cosyns - UZ Brussels, BE Guy Van Camp – OLV Aalst, BE The asymptomatic patient with severe aortic stenosis: what to do in 2017? Patrizio Lancellotti, CHU du Sart Tilman, Liège, BE Classification of aortic valve stenosis: something new? Bernhard Gerber - UCL Brussels, BE Role of imaging in TAVI in 2017 Jose Zamorano - University Hospital Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, SP Multivalvular disease in patients with aortic stenosis Philippe Unger - CHU Saint-Pierre, Brussels, BE Best Abstract presentation Reproducibility of Pressure-Flow relationship of the pulmonary circulation by exercise echocardiography in healthy volunteers Asma Rimouche - Erasme Brussels, BE	09:00- 10:30	Session 10: Genetics in the (Congenital) Heart Clinic - applications for daily practice Working Group Session by the Belgian Working Group on Adult Congenital Heart Disease (BWGACHD) Moderators: Julie De Backer - UZ Ghent, BE Sophie Pierard - UCL Brussels, BE Indications for referral to genetics in cardiology Dhavendra Kumar - University Hospital of Wales, UK What to do with the results from genetic testing? Antoine Bondue - Erasme Brussels, BE Recurrence risk and Prenatal diagnostics for cardiac diseases Maryse Bonduelle - UZ Brussels, BE Best Abstract presentation Pulmonary vascular resistance assessed by bicycle stress echocardiography in patients late after ventricular septal defect repair Gabriels Charlien - UZ Leuven, BE
10:30-11:00	Coffee break (Exhibition Hall) BSC & Acta Cardiologica General Assembly (COPPER HALL)
11:00-11:45	Session 12: Young Investigator Award presentations Moderators/jury: Guy Van Camp - OLVZ Aalst, BE Patrizio Lancellotti - CHU Liège, BE Dhavendra Kumar - University Hospital of Wales, UK 3 Best YIA Abstracts presentations Intravascular Volume Expansion in Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction is not Revealed by changes in Cardiac Filling Pressures Petra Nijst - Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg, BE Two-dimensional global longitudinal strain accurately predicts extensive diffuse myocardial fibrosis and myocardial histology and T1 mapping in aortic stenosis Tomas Ondrus - OLV Aalst, BE Interaction between acute and residual inflammation in acute coronary syndromes: a prospective cohort study Maarten Vanhaverbeke - KU Leuven, BE	11:00-12:30	Session 13: Setting new standards in cardiovascular protection Satellite Symposium organised by Boehringer Ingelheim Moderators: Georges H.Mairesse - Cliniques du Sud-Luxembourg Arlon, BE Jean-Benoît Le Polain de Waroux - UCL Brussels, BE Philippe van de Borne - Erasme Brussels, BE Introduction : Jean-Benoît Le Polain de Waroux - UCL Brussels , BE Achievement of optimal anticoagulation in real live and reversing anticoagulation : Why? Georges H.Mairesse - CSL Arlon, BE Reversing Anticoagulation: How? Peter Verhamme - UZ Leuven, BE Q&A Jean-Benoît Le Polain de Waroux - UCL Brussels, BE Cardiovascular outcome trials in diabetes type II Chantal Mathieu, - KU Leuven, BE Q&A Philippe van de Borne - Erasme Brussels, BE
11:45-13:15	Session 14: BSC-ESC joint session on evidence based medicine and quality assessment of cardiac care in Belgium College of Cardiology Moderators: Marc Claeys - UZ Antwerp, BE Agnès Pasquet - UCL Brussels, BE Quality assessment of cardiac care in Belgium (College of Cardiology) - Acute cardiology (STEMI registry) Marc Claeys - UZ Antwerp, BE - Interventional cardiology (PCI-TAVI registry) Claude Hanet - CHU Mont Godinne, BE - Electrophysiology (eg ICD -CRT - Ablation registries) Georges Mairesse - Cliniques du Sud-Luxembourg, Arlon, BE New ESC guidelines on Atrial Fibrillation Paulus Kirchhof - University of Birmingham, UK	12:30- 12:50	Session 15: Laureate lecture J. Bernheim Moderators: Patrizio Lancellotti - CHU Sart Tilman, Liège, BE Werner Budts - UZ Leuven, BE Dissection of genotypic and cardiovascular phenotypic features of heritage connective tissue disorders Laurence Campens - UZ Ghent, BE
	Award Ceremony: BSC Best Poster, Young Investigator Award, J. Bernheim Prize, change of BSC presidency
13:15-14:15	Lunch (Exhibition Hall)	13:15- 14:15	PCSK9i: translating LDL-C lowering into plaque regression ! ...and CV event reduction? Lunch Satellite Symposium organised by Amgen Moderators: Walter Desmet - UZ Leuven, BE Etienne Hoffer - CHR Citadelle Liège, BE Introduction : Walter Desmet - UZ Leuven, BE Impact of the PCSK9 inhibitor evolocumab on coronary atherosclerosis: results from the GLAGOV trial Edouard Benit - Jessa Ziekenhuis, Hasselt, BE PCSK9i: new horizons in CVD prevention Kausik Ray, Imperial College London, UK Conclusion : Walter Desmet - UZ Leuven, BE Etienne Hoffer - CHR Citadelle Liège, BE
14:15-15:45	Session 16: Accelerated diagnosis for patients presenting with chest pain Working Group Session by the Belgian Interdisciplinary Working Group on Acute Cardiology (BIWAC) Moderators: Christophe Beauloye - UCL Brussels, BE Patrick Coussement – AZ Sint-Jan Brugge-Oostende, BE Chest pain units in emergency department – task force of ACCA Maddalena Lettino, Humanitas Research hospital, IT Rule-in and rule-out algorithms – hsTroponin T Raphael Twerenbold - University Hospital Basel, CH Role of in-hospital triage in ED for patients with chest pain Alessandro Manarra - UCL Brussels, BE Mode of Admission and adherence to reperfusion Marc Claeys - UZ Antwerpen, BE Best Abstract presentation Clinical significance and predictors of coronary lesion progression as assessed by fractional flow reserve (FFR) Panagiotis Xaplanteris - OLV Aalst, BE	14:15-15:45	Session 17: Innovation in cardiovascular diagnosis and management Satellite Symposium organised by Philips Moderators: Paul Vermeersch - AZ Middelheim ZNA, BE Patrizio Lancellotti - CHU Liege, BE Innovation in cardiovascular diagnosis Live Case: LAA closure using 'innovative' advanced Live 3D ultrasound overlay Jacques Lalmand - CHU Charleroi, BE Adel Aminian - CHU Charleroi, BE Philips CT-FFR: Virtual Fractional Flow Reserve Patrick Donnelly – Southeastern Health & Social care Trust Belfast, UK
15:45-16:00	Coffee break (Exhibition Hall)
16:00-17:30	Session 18: General Closing Session Take home messages from the BSC Working Groups Moderators: Marc Claeys - UZ Antwerp, BE Agnès Pasquet - UCL Brussels, BE Patrizio Lancellotti - CHU du Sart Tilman, Liège, BE Working Group presentations BWGACHD - Julie De Backer BWGIC - Walter Desmet BeHRA -Yves Vandekerckhove BWGNICI - Bernard Cosyns BWGHF - Pierre Troisfontaines BWGCPR - Catherine De Maeyer BIWAC - Christophe Beauloye YCC - Stéphanie Seldrum BWGCVN - Eva Goossens

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