BSC 2017
 

PROGRAMME    
                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Thursday 9th 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 10th 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