Course programme with presentations

4th Nordic Symposium on Cardiac CT

Faculty and Programme:

Stephan Achenbach, Germany;  Koen Nieman, Holland;
Jonathon Leipsic, Canada; Guy Weigold, USA;
Juhani Knuuti
, Finland; Ricardo Cury, USA; Klaus Kofoed, Denmark

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Thursday, October 1st, 2015

09.00 - 09.15  

 

Welcome (Jess Lambrechtsen and Christian Gerdes)

  Fundamentals of Cardiac CT:
09.15 - 09.40 - Modern Scan Protocols and recent advancement (Guy Weigold) 
09.40 - 10.00 - Perfect Patient Preparation - “how to” guide (Koen Nieman)
10.00 - 10.20 - Dose reduction - Still an issue? (Klaus Kofoed)
 
  Use of CTA in screening?
10.20 - 10.40 - Calcium score in Clinical Cardiology (Koen Nieman)
     
10.40 - 11.10   Coffee
 
  Therapy Based on Coronary CTA?
  Anatomic:
11.10 - 11.35 - The basics: Ruling out and ruling in stenosis (Guy Weigold)
11.35 - 12.00 - Identification of high risk plaques - Ready for prime time? (Koen Nieman)
  Functional:
12.10 - 12.35 - Ischemic Evaluation with CT-FFR (Jonathon Leipsic)
12.30 - 13.00 - Myocardial CT-Perfusion (Klaus Kofoed)
 

13.00 - 13.45

 

Lunch

  READ WITH THE EXPERTS 2015:
13.45 - 14.45   Parallel sessions:
    Room 1: Ricardo Cury (GE)
    Room 2: Klaus Kofoed (Toshiba)
    Room 3: Koen Nieman (Siemens)
    Room 4: Guy Weigold (Philips)
 

14.45- 15.00

 

Coffee

  Game Changers in Cardiac CT 2015:
15.00 - 15.30 - Perfusion and Other Novel Techniques/Hybrid Imaging ((Juhani Knuuti)
15.30 - 15.50   - Cases with fusion of the different modalities (Johani Knuuti)
15.50 - 16.20 - TAVI-CT (Jonathon Leipsic)
16.20 - 16.50  - Cardiac CT in the ED (Ricardo Cury)
 
17.00  Nyborg Castle and Symposium Dinner at Nyborg Strand
 

Friday, October 2nd, 2015 

  Appropriate Use for Cardiac CT 2015:
09.00 - 09.35 - CT support for coronary and cardiac interventions (Stephan Achenbach)
09.35 - 10.10 - Pre- and Post Revascularization (Guy Weigold)
10.10 - 10.45 - Valvular Disease beyond TAVI (Jonathon Leipsic)
 

10.45 - 11.15

 

Coffee

  READ WITH THE EXPERTS 2015:
11.15 - 12.15   Parallel sessions:
    Room 1: Jonathon Leipsic (GE), Guy Weigold (Philips)
    Room 2: Stephan Achenbach (Siemens), Klaus Kofoed (Toshiba)
 

12.15 - 13.00

 

Lunch

  Latest Science:
13.00 - 13.25 - Current Guidelines and Glimpse into the Future (Stephan Achenbach)
13.25 - 13.50  - The top 5 papers of the past 12 months (Ricardo Cury)
13.50 - 14.30  - Case-based learning in Cardiac CT: What's your diagnosis? (Stephan Achenbach)
     
14.30 - 15.00    - Adjourns (Axel Diederichsen)