Moderators: M.S. Nieminen, G. Filippatos, M. Deljanin-Ilić, B. Putniković

08:30 Management of renal insufficiency in patients with advanced heart
failure: Renal function as a predictor of outcome.
M.S. NIEMINEN, Helsinki, FI

08:50 Incidence & clinical predictors of pulmonary embolism in severe heart failure.
M. DELJANIN-ILIĆ, S. ILIĆ, Niška banja, RS

09:10 Pathophysiology, management & prognosis of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
B. PUTNIKOVIĆ, V. ČVOROVIĆ, Belgrade, RS

09:30 Acute pulmonary edema: hemodynamic assessment & contemporary
management.
G. FILIPPATOS, Athens, GR

09.50 Panel Discussion

Panel: B. Vujisić-Tešić, B. Gligić, M. Dekleva, J. Peruničić, I. Mrdović,
B. Stefanović, D. Dinić, N. Antonijević, A. Vlahović, D. Gordić,
S. Bošković, B. Živanović.

Moderators: D.L. Brutsaert, H. Madeira, B. Obrenović-Kirćanski, S. Simeunović

10:30 Endocardial endothelial dysfunction and heart failure: a prognostic
implication?
D.L. BRUTSAERT, Antwerp, BE

10:50 Congestive heart failure after coronary by-pass surgery or valve replacement.
B. OBRENOVIĆ-KIRĆANSKI, Belgrade, RS

11:10 Predictors of mortality from congestive heart failure in hypertrophic
cardiomyopathy.
H. MADEIRA, Lisbon, PT

11:30 Hemodynamic and neurohormonal prognostic predictors in heart failure due to dilated cardiomyopathy.
D.S. SIMEUNOVIĆ, Belgrade, RS

11:50 Panel Discussion

Panel: B. Vujisić-Tešić, M. Dekleva, J. Peruničić, D. Seferović, M. Knežević, I.
Mrdović, B. Stefanović, M. Vuković, R. Lasica, N. Antonijević, P. Ivanović.

Moderators: M. Böhm, M. Ristić, A. Nikolić, Ž. Jonjev, D. Sakač

13:00 Preoperative risk assessment and perioperative therapy in patients with advanced heart failure.
M. BÖHM, Homburg/Saar, DE

13:20 Off-pump revascularization in patients with severe ischemic cardiomyopathy and LVEF <25%.
M. RISTIĆ, Belgrade, RS

13:40 STICH, the largest ever randomized cardiac surgery trial: preliminary results.
S. GRADINAC, Belgrade, RS

14:00 Bilateral sceletonized IMA grafting: Is it applicable in end-stage ishemic heart disease?
Ž. JONJEV, Sremska Kamenica, RS

14:20 Acute heart failure in infective endocarditis: surgical treatment.
A. NIKOLIĆ, Sremska Kamenica, RS

14:40 Panel Discussion

Panel: P. Petrović, M. Ristić, P. Đukić, A.N. Nešković B. Đukanović, R. Ilić,
M. Vraneš, M. Velinović, I. Stojanović, M. Kočica, S. Putnik, S. Kačar,
P. Vukićević.

Moderators: P.H. Kann, S. Damjanović, N.M. Lalić, M. Dekleva

15:30 Diabetes in heart failure: epidemiology, clinical correlates and consequences.
J. DEJANOVIĆ, Sremska Kamenica, RS

15:50 Endocrine-related heart failure.
P.H. KANN, Marburg, DE

16:10 Myocardial disease in diabetes mellitus: diabetic cardiomyopathy-fact or fiction?
N.M. LALIĆ, Belgrade, RS

16:30 Acromegaly and the heart.
S. DAMJANOVIC, Belgrade, RS

16:50 Panel Discussion

Panel: K. Lalić, D. Seferović, D. Simić, S. Stojković, M. Petrović, I. Nedeljković,
J. Stepanović, Z. Petrašinović, P. Mitrović, G. Radovanović, G. Draganić,
J. Seferović.