2008 Topic Highlights

These are some of the highlights for the 24th Annual Cardiovascular Conference Lake Louise:

• PFO and Stroke: Guilt by Association
• Medical and Surgical Treatment of Stable Angina: Do We Have the Courage?
• Recent ACS Guidelines and Implications for Practice
• Systems Approach to STEMI
• Rescue PCI in STEMI: Outcomes and Evidence Re-visited
• Alcohol and Heart Disease
• Pros and Cons of Drug Eluting Stents
• VAD and Transplantation for End Stage Heart Failure
• Diastolic Heart Failure
• Identification and Management of Atrial and Ventricular Septal Defects in the Adult
• Resynchronization Therapy for Severe Heart Failure
• Medical Management for Chronic Heart Failure
• Bariaric Surgery and Other Treatments for Obesity
• Cardiac Cell Therapy - “Are Cells Really Necessary?”
• Global Burden of Coronary Artery Disease