Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this educational activity, participants will be able to:
  • Review the latest evidence to prevent heart failure including lessons learned from genetics and biomarkers
  • Discover the latest diagnostic and treatment recommendations for heart failure with reduced and with preserved ejection fraction
  • Describe the latest recommendations and emerging interventional therapies for heart failure
  • Outline surgical strategies for patients with advanced heart failure including heart valve repair and/or replacement, mechanical circulatory support (acute or durable), and heart transplantation
  • Examine aspects of heart failure that address decision making, support systems, caregiver issues and advanced therapies
  • Explore future directions in heart failure including big data analytics, right ventricle circulatory support, and gene therapy care in daily practice
Highlighted Topics Include:
  • Advances in heart failure prevention
  • State-of-the-Art reviews: Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction incorporating the latest approved therapies for heart failure; Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; and newly approved device therapies for heart failure
  • An update on percutaneous treatment of valvular heart disease
  • A glimpse of future therapies including gene therapy for heart failure
  • Coronary artery diseases 
  • Dyslipidemia 
  • Myocardial infarction
  • Hypertension complications
  • Diabetes and metabolic syndrome
  • Heart failure imaging
  • Biomarkers
  • Renal dysfunction
  • Lipid disorders
  • Overweight/Obesity
  • Novel heart failure therapies
  • Cardiogenic shock: how can we improve prognosis?
  • Individualising therapy in heart failure
  • Devices in acute heart failure 
  • How to manage acute right ventricular failure
  • Challenges in the management of heart failure
  • Cancer and heart failure
  • Organ dysfunction in acute heart failure
  • Management of atrial fibrillation in heart failure     
  • Imaging technique in the decision making of heart failure
  • Post myocardial infarction: what should be done to prevent heart failure
  • Challenging clinical scenarios in heart failure
  • Tele-medical management and remote care in heart failure
  • What a clinician should know about heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
  • Biomarkers in heart failure: what’s new?
  • Mitral and Tricuspid valvular interventions in heart failure
  • Cardiomyopathies: what are the mechanisms?
  • Sleep breathing disorders in heart failure
  • Imaging in heart failure: what does the future hold?
  • Cardiac challenges during pregnancy
  • Patient journey in acute heart failure

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