VENUE: PAULS STRADINS CLINICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Pilsoņu iela 13, Rīga
15th building, 0 floor, Conference Hall

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

09:40 – 10:20   CABG vs PCI in 2014: The surgeon’s perspective
David P. Taggart
Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery University of Oxford

VENUE: PAULS STRADINS CLINICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Pilsoņu iela 13, Rīga
15th building courtyard, Conference Tent

10:20 – 13:00    Registration

10:30 – 16:00    Workshop with interventional faculty
                          Paul Stradins Clinical University Hospital Intervetion Cardiology Lab.

                          LIVE CASES (6 – 8 cases)
                          Moderators: R. Benetis, A. Demaria, A. Erglis, S. Hoffmann,
I. Kumsars, R. Lacis, G. Latkovskis, A. Lismanis, I. Narbute,
 S. Nakamura, A. Rudzitis, P. Stradins,  D. P. Taggart,
K. Trusinskis, K. Zarins

Open Heart surgery with guest operators D.P. Taggart and R. Benetis
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 – 13:30    Diagnostic novelties in conorary athery disesases
                           Prof. Kristaps Zarins MD, PhD (USA)
Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University

13:30 – 14:00    Lunch

18:00 – 20:00    Basketball tournament 2014 for main program
                           Basketball foul shot tournament for nurses
Address: Viestura iela 6, Bulduri, 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, Majori, Jurmala, HALL JŪRA

08:00 – 09:30    Breakfast, check out

09:30 – 09:50    Welcome. Introduction. Cardiology in Latvia.   
Andrejs Erglis, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC (Latvia)
President, Latvian Society of Cardiology,
Chief, Latvian Center of Cardiology

09:50 – 10:20    Development of cardiology in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia.
The contribution to the development of cardiology.
Prof. David Iosseliani, MD, FESC  (Russia)
Editor in Chief, International Journal of Interventional Cardioangiology

10:20 – 10:40    ABSORB in real world practice: new insights from clinical evidence”
Paolo Pedeferri (Belgium)
 Marketing and Market Development Director, Emerging
Markets EMEA at Abbott Vascular

10:40 – 11:00    Development of cardiology and cardiac surgery over the next
10 years. Similarities and differences.
                          Prof. Anthony DeMaria, MD, FACC (USA)
Editor in Chief, Journal of the American College of Cardiology

11:00 – 11:20    Left Main Experience.
                          Prof. Sunao Nakamura, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC (Japan)
New Tokyo Hospital

11:20 – 11:40    History of PCI: From Werner Forßmann to todays complex
intervention
Dr. Stefan Hoffmann, MD, Phd (Germany)
                          Klinikum Barnim, Werner Forssmann Krankenhaus

11:40 – 12:00    Cardiac surgery in Latvia
                          Prof. Romans Lacis, MD, PhD (Latvia)
                          Head of Heart Surgery Centre, Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital

12:00 – 12:20    Coffee break

12:20 – 12:40    Mitral valve repair – indications and timing of surgery
Prof. Rimantas Benetis, MD, D.Sc. (Lithuania)
Director, Institute of Cardiology at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

12:40 – 13:00     Alternative access routes for TAVI – experience in Latvia
Dr. Martins Kalejs, MD, PhD (Latvia)
Pauls Stradins University Hospital

13:00 – 13:10    Surgical management of Heart Failure – Latvian Experience
Dr. med. Uldis Strazdins MD (Latvia)
Pauls Stradins University Hospital

13:10 – 13:50    Open Mic Session
Case reports and short presentations  

13:50 – 14:00    General Assembly of the Baltic Society of
Interventional Cardiology

14:00 – 15:00     Lunch

Departures

NORISES VIETA: BALTIC BEACH HOTEL, HALL JURMALA

09:30 – 09:40       Welcome
     Alona Grave, Head nurse of the Invasive cardiology
Sigita Sakne, Head nurse of the Latvian Centre of
Cardiology

09:40 – 10:10       Practical basics of radiation protection in Invasive radiology
Engineer J.Apinis

10:10 – 10:30        Intra-coronary assesments :why and how? (IVUS, FFR,IFR, OCT)
Sanda Jegere, MD, Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital

10:30 – 11:00        Complex and complicated cases How to manage PCI-related
complication
Karlis Strenge, MD, Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital

11:00 – 11:30        Do we need Drug Eluting Systems in PVI?
 Wilhelm Stahlhoff, MD, Klinikum Arnsberg, Karolinen Hospital

11:30 – 11:40        Smartflex – the latest inovation in self expanding stent
Zane Kaprale, Product Specialist in Cardiology Johnson&Johnson

11:40 – 12:00        Patient perspectives of outcome after TAVI
Alona Grave, RN
Zane Stelbauma, RN

12:00 – 12:20        Nursing responsibility in meeting patient rights
Dace Kancāne, RN, Head nurse of Pauls Stradins Clinical
University Hospital

12:30 – 13:00        Coffee break

YOU ARE WELCOME TO JOIN MAIN SESSION IN HALL JURA

14:00 – 15:00        Lunch

Departures