VENUE: PAULS STRADINS CLINICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

09:00 – 09:30    Registration

09:30 – 09:40    Welcome
                          Ruta Valtere, Chairperson of the Board,
Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital   
Andrejs Erglis, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC,
President, Latvian Society of Cardiology,
Chief, Latvian Center of Cardiology                                      

09:40 – 10:20    Intracoronary Imaging and Imaging of Structural Heart Disease
 Hiram Bezerra, MD, Phd,
Case Western Reserve University, Cliveland, Ohio, USA

10:20 – 16:00    Workshop with interventional faculty
                          Paul Stradins Clinical University Hospital Intervetion
Cardiology Lab.

LIVE CASES (6 – 8 cases)
Complex lesions (left main, total occlusions, bifurcations etc.)
plaque modification and DES types
scoring devices (cutting balloon, angiosculpt, etc.)
protection devices
closure devices for congenital heart diseases
QCA, IVUS, Virtual histology, OCT
structural heart disease

13:00 – 14:00    Lunch

17:00                 Departures from hospital to the Jurmala

18:00 – 20:00    All-Star Game 2012
Basketball foul shot tournament for nurses
(5 nurses from each country)
Address: “Taurenitis”, Kļavu iela 29/31, Dubulti, Jurmala

20:30                 Dinner in Caviar Club Restaurant
Address: “Baltic Beach Hotel”, Jūras iela 23/25,
Majori, Jurmala

VENUE Baltic Beach Hotel, Jūras iela 23/25, Dubulti, Jurmala

08:00 – 09:30    Breakfast. Check out

09:30 – 09:40    Welcome
                          Andrejs Erglis, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC,
President, Latvian Society of Cardiology,
Chief, Latvian Center of Cardiology

09:40 – 10:00    Interventional Cardiology in Baltics – Three Small Bossy
Ships in the Blue World Ocean
                          Andrejs Erglis, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC,
President, Latvian Society of Cardiology,
Chief, Latvian Center of Cardiology

10:00 – 10:40   TAVI: From Dream to Reality – The PVT Story
Stan Rabinovich, Vice President,
Advanced Technology & Discovery,
Edwards Lifesciences LLC

10:40 – 11:00    Structural Heart New Technologies 
Jan Kovac, MD, PhD,
Spire Leicester Hospital, Leicester, UK

10:00 – 11:20   New Technologies: Next Generation DES –
first experiences with Orsiro
Stefan Hoffmann MD, Phd
Vivantes Klinikum im Friedrichshain,Germany

11:20 – 12:00   Scientific presentations with case reports
and discussions
Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian lecturers

12:00 – 12:30   Coffee Break

12:30 – 14:00   Scientific presentations with case reports
and discussions
Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian lecturers

14:00 – 14:30   General Assembly of the Baltic Society of
Interventional Cardiology

14:30 – 15:30   Lunch

Departures