Update Cardiology 2008 - What is New on Horizon?

Main topics:

• Management of hypertension: From guidelines to contemporary clinical practice (B. Dahlof, Sweden)
• Inplementation of ESC Guidelines 2007 (ACS, diabetes, CVD prevention)
• Metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular diseases

• Non-invasive and invasive diagnostics of coronary artery disease - conditio sine qua non for optimal therapeutic approach
• Management of stable coronary artery disease: from PCI to life style modification
• Primary PCI versus thrombolysis (hospital and prehospital)
• Antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy in different and challenging clinical scenarios: to whom, when and how long (DES, atrial fibrilation, previous bleeding, acute myocardial infarction...)

• Sport cardiology: guidelines through case report prezentations
• Cardiovascular diseases and drugs in pregnancy
• Renal isufficiency and cardiovascular diseases. Contrast induced nephropathy
• Erectile dysfunction and the quality of life

• New generations of cardiovascular dugs (calcium antagonists, beta blockers, sartans, anti factor Xa inhibitors, antiplatelet drugs...)
• Regenerative cardiology: what is new on horizon?

• How to write a manuscript, how to interpret results of great clinical trials, how to propose and write a project (E. Picano, Italy)
• Effects of radiation in catheterzation laboratory (E. Picano, Italy)