BSC 2019
 

THURSDAY 7th FEBRUARY 2019
COPPER HALL SILVER HALL

08:00-09:00

Registration & Welcome Coffee (Exhibition Hall)
09:00-10:15
Session 1
Preventive Cardiology: what we should know!
Belgian Working Group on Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BWGCPR)

Moderators:
Paul Dendale - UZ Hasselt, BE
Johan De Sutter - AZ Maria Middelaris Ghent, BE

Lipid control after an ACS, what should we know?
Olivier Descamps - Jolimont Hospital, BE

The tobacco paradox & the e-cigarette hype
Isabelle Jamin - CHR Citadelle, BE

Arterial hypertansion management: ESC Guidelines 2018 update
Raymond Kacenelenbogen - CHU Saint-Pierre Brussels, BE

Best abstract presentation:
PATHway-I: feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a technology-enabled home-based cardiac rehabilitation system
Roselien Buys – KULeuven, BE


09:00-10:15
Session 2
Industry Sponsored Symposium

10:15-10:45
Coffee Break (Exhibiton Hall)

10:45-11:30

Session 3:
Keynote Session "Modern Cardiology in the picture"

Moderators:
Marc Claeys - UZ Antwerp, BE
Patrizio Lancellotti - CHU Sart Tilman Liège, BE

Word of the President
Marc Claeys - UZ Antwerp, BE

Is cardiology practice different in Belgium as compared to Europe: insights from the ESC-ATLAS project
Chris Gale - Leeds University, UK






11:30-12:45
Session 4
Percutaneous treatment options for stable coronary disease
Belgian Working Group on Interventional Cardiology (BWGIC)

Moderators:
Walter Desmet - UZ Leuven, BE
Claude Hanet - CHU-UCL Namur, BE

The patients with stable CAD: long term outcomes
Bernard De Bruyne - OLV Aalst, BE

The importance of complete revascularization
Adel Aminian - CHU Charleroi, BE

PCI for CTO: which are the good indications?
Jo Dens - ZOL Genk, BE

Best abstract presentation:
Temporal trends in 10 years of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: 30-day outcomes in a single Belgian center
Henri Gruwez – UZ Leuven, BE


11:30-12:45 Session 5
Industry Sponsored Symposium

12:45-13:45
Session 6
Best Poster Competition
 
Moderators:
Philippe Van De Borne - Erasme Hospital, BE
Michel De Pauw - UZ Ghent, BE
 

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Lunch (Exhibition Hall)

12:45-13:45
Session 7
Industry Sponsored Symposium


13:45-15:00
Session 8
Invasive management in the elderly - How far should we go
Young Cardiologists Club

Moderators:
Fabian Demeure - CHU UCL Namur, BE
Ward Heggermont - OLV Aalst, BE

Coronary artery disease
Benjamin Scott - ZNA Middelheim, BE

Valvular heart disease
Simon Sundermann - Charité University Hospital Berlin, DE

Best abstract presentation:
Real-world Usage of Glucose Lowering Agents in Heart Failure Patients with type 2 Diabetes
Pieter Martens - Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg, BE

13:45-15:00 Session 9
Industry Sponsored Symposium

15:00-16:15
Session 10
Cardiovascular Imaging in Stroke
Belgian Working Group on Non-invasive Cardiac Imaging

Moderators:
Bharati Shivalkar - UZ Antwerp, BE
Bernhard Gerber - UCL St-Luc Brussels, BE

Is TEE necessary after every ischemic stroke? What the neurologist wants to know!
André Peeters - UCL St-Luc Brussels, BE

Atrial function analysis after stroke? Are there functional markers of AF?
Ariel Cohen - St-Antoine Hospital Paris, FR

Role of multimodality imaging in stroke? Do we need complex imaging techniques?
Philippe Debonnaire - AZ Saint-Jan, BE

Best abstract presentation:
Impaired biventricular contractile reserve in patients with diastolic dysfunction
Mathias Claeys - UZ Leuven, BE


15:00-16:15
Session 11

Pregnancy: when the heart matters...

Belgian Working Group on Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Moderators:
Agnès Pasquet - UCL St-Luc, BE
Marielle Morissens - CHU Brugmann, BE

Hemodynamic changes during pregnancy: what should we worry about?
Els Troost - UZ Leuven, BE

Heart diseases and pregnancy: what's new in the guidelines?
Jolien Roos-Hesselink - Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, NL

Assessing the tranmission risk for cardiac conditions: how and when to counsel?
Julie De Backer - UZ Ghent, BE

Best abstract presentation:
Quality of life after surgical and transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients and their informal caregivers: real-world data contributing to establish value-based medicine in East Denmark
Liesbeth Rosseel – Rigshospitalet, DK

16:15-16:30
Coffee Break (Exhibiton Hall)


16:30-17:30
Session 12
CLASH OF THE TITANS - The Revenge

Moderators:
Patrizio Lancellotti - CHU Sart Tilman, BE
Bernard Cosyns - UZ Brussels, BE

Jury:
Marc Claeys - UZ Antwerpen, BE
Agnès Pasquet - UCL St-Luc Brussels, BE

Team Beers VS Team Wines with active audience participation



17:30-18:30
Networking Cocktail





FRIDAY 8th FEBRUARY 2019
 COPPER HALLSILVER HALL 
08:00-09:00
Registration & Welcome Coffee (Exhibition Hall)

09:00-10:15
Session 13
YIA presentations

Jury:

Antoine Bondue – Erasme Hospital Brussels, BE
Ward Heggermont – OLV Aalst, BE
Richard Schilling - St Barts Hospital London, UK


Platelet acetyl-CoA carboxylase phosphorylation: A risk stratification marker evidencing platelet-lipid interplay in CAD patients
Shakeel Kautbally - UCLouvain, BE

An Exercise Hemodynamic Evaluation of the Acute and Chronic Effects of CRT on Right Ventricular-Arterial Coupling and Pulmonary Vascular Reserve.
Pieter Martens - Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg, BE

Phenotyping Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Focus on Fibrosis Markers (Extracellular Volume by cMR and Biomarkers) and Their Prognostic Impact
Clotilde Roy – UCL St-Luc, BE

Laureate’s presentation of the Jacqueline Bernheim prize
Guido Claessen – KU Leuven, BE



09:00-10:15
Session 14

Industry Sponsored Symposium


10:15-10:45

BSC & Acta Cardiologica General Assembly
(BSC Members only)

Coffee Break (Exhibition Hall)

10:45-12:00

Session 15
Update on AF ablation
Belgian Heart Rhythm Association

Moderators:
Ivan Blankoff - CHU Charleroi, BE
Yves Vandekerckhove - AZ Sint-Jan Brugge, BE

Catheter ablation in patients with atrial fibrillation: the evidence anno 2019
Richard Schilling - St Barts Hospital London, UK

Medical therapy after catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation
Sebastien Knecht - AZ Sint-Jan Brugge, BE

Best abstract presentation:
The detrimental effect of right atrial pacing on left atrial function and clinical outcome in cardiac resynchronization therapy
Pieter Martens - Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg, BE
 
 10:45-12:00 Session 16
Industry Sponsored Symposium
12:00-13:00
Session 17
BSC-ESC Joint Session

Moderators:
Marc Claeys - UZ Antwerp, BE
Agnès Pasquet - UCl St-Luc Brussels, BE

Case based challenging of the new ESC guidelines on Myocardial Revascularisation
Franz-Josef Neumann, University Heart Center Freiburg, DE

Awards Ceremony
BSC Research Grant, Best Poster Award, Best Young Investigator Award


13:00-14:00
Lunch (Exhibition Hall)

13:00-14:00

Lunch Session 18
Industry Sponsored Symposium

14:00-15:30
Session 19
Acute coronary syndromes without significant coronary lesions
Belgian Interdisciplinary Working Group on Acute Cardiology
in collaboration with
Belgian Working Group Cardio Vascular Nursing
 
Moderators:
Patrick Coussement - AZ Sint-Jan Brugge, BE
Eva Goossens - UZ Leuven, BE

Triage of chest pain: role of the ER nurse
Alexandre Ghuysen - CHU Sart Tilman, BE

Early detection and management of complications in the ICCU
Hannah Schaubroeck - UZ Gent, BE
Filip Haegdorens - UZ Antwerp, BE

Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissections, a practical guide
Alexandre Persu - UCL St-Luc Brussels, BE

State of the art on MINOCA
David Adlam - Leicester University, UK

Best abstract presentation:
Time quality indicators for ST elevation myocardial infarction and relation to in hospital mortality: results from the Belgian STEMI database
Marc Claeys - UZ Antwerp, BE

14:00-15:30
Joint Session 20
HF and cardiac research in the picture
Belgian Working Group on Heart Failure
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Belgian Working Group Basic research in Cardiology

Moderators:
Pierre Troisfontaines - CHR Citadelle, BE
Philippe Timmermans - Jessa Ziekenhuis, BE

Cardiovascular "omics" in heart remodelling
Manuel Mayr - King's College London, UK

How to treat acute heart failure?
Matthias Dupont - ZOL Genk, BE

Artificial heart today
Walter Droogne - UZ Leuven, BE

New in HF
Anne-Catherine Pouleur - UCL St-Luc Brussels, BE

Cardio-oncology
Lucas Van Aelst - UZ Leuven, BE

Best abstract presentation:
Cardiac fibroblast specific invalidation of AMPK alpha1 exacerbates left ventricular remodeling in mice via a Connexin43 mechanism
Evangelos-Panagiotis Daskalopoulos– UCLouvain, BE
15:30-16:00
Wrap up