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