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Would you recommend percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to a 60 year old man with single vessel disease and silent RCA ischemia and normal LVEF by perfusion scan?
Aggressive medical therapy only.
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PCI with bare metal stents (BMS) in addition to medical therapy.
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SIS Conference 2007
SIS 2007 Main Session: Thursday, August 2nd and Friday, August 3rd
 
Thursday, August 2nd
Grand Ballroom III, Grand Level
7:00 AMRegistration/Breakfast

Session I: Complex Coronary
7:30 AM

ANGIOPLASTY UNDER FIRE II:  CASE PRESENTATIONS FRAMING THE CONTROVERSIES

Lab: Maurice Buchbinder, MD, Mark Reisman, MD

Podium: John J. Young, MD

Panel: Steven R. Bailey, MD, Peter Casterella, MD, David J. Cohen, MD, Douglas K. Stewart, MD,

Gregg W. Stone, MD, and James P. Zidar, MD

8:45 AM DES: Real World Outcomes
Gregg W. Stone, MD
9:15 AM Should We Go Bare? (BMS)
James P. Zidar, MD

9:30 AM

Break / Visit Exhibits

10:00 AM

COMPLEX CORONARY CASES

Lab: Mark Reisman, MD

Podium: John J. Young, MD

Panel: Peter Casterella, MD, Larry Dean, MD,

Reginald Low, MD, Rajendra Makkar, MD,

Sunil V. Rao, MD, Douglas K. Stewart, MD and

R. Jeffrey Westcott, MD


Session II: Case-based PCI Challenges
Moderator: John J. Young, MD
11:00 AM Access Bleeding
Steven R. Bailey, MD and Sunil V. Rao, MD
11:15 AMMechanical Complications
Maurice Buchbinder, MD and David J. Cohen, MD
11:30 AMEarly and Late Thrombosis
David J. Cohen, MD
11:45 AMAvoidance and Management of Contrast Nephropathy
Peter Casterella, MD and S. Smiley Thakur, MD
12:00 PMClopidogrel: How much, how long?
Peter Casterella, MD and Rajendra Makkar, MD

12:15 PM

Lunch / Visit Exhibits

1:15 PM

Provocative Roundtables I

2:45 PM

Break / Visit Exhibits

3:00 PM

Provocative Roundtables II

4:30 PM

Adjourn / Reception

 

Friday, August 3rd
Grand Ballroom III, Grand Level
7:00 AM Registration/Breakfast

 

7:30 AM

 

Update: ACS/MI Therapies

David P. Lee, MD

 

7:50 AM

 

PERIPHERAL CASES

Lab: Robert M. Bersin, MD and John J. Young, MD
Podium: William A. Gray, MD

Panel: Tony Das, MD, John P. Reilly, MD,

Michael Zammit, MD, and James P. Zidar, MD

9:30 AMBreakthroughs of 2007
Mark Reisman, MD and Paul S. Teirstein, MD

10:00 AM

Break/ Visit Exhibits

10:30 AM

 

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND STRUCTURAL HEART CASES

Lab: Amish J. Desai, MD, Thomas K. Jones, MD, Kimberly Krabill, MD and Michael Mullen, MD
Podium: Mark Reisman, MD

Panel: Maurice Buchbinder, MD, Steven Goldberg, MD, Subbarao Myla, MD and John L. Petersen, MD and Jonathan M. Tobis, MD


Session III: Carotid Challenges
Moderator: Mark Reisman, MD
11:45 AMPatient Selection
William A. Gray, MD and Nathan Laufer, MD
12:00 PM Embolic Protection:  Optimizing Strategy
Robert M. Bersin, MD and Subbarao Myla, MD
12:15 PM Neurological Complications
Andrei V. Alexandrov, MD

 

12:30 PM

 

CAROTID CASES/ LUNCH

Lab: William A. Gray, MD and Paul P. Huang, MD
Podium: Mark Reisman, MD
Panel: Lance Diehl, MD, Kaj H. Johansen, MD, PhD, David K. Roberts, MD, David H. Robinson, MD and Michael Zammit, MD

1:15 PM

Provocative Roundtables or Faculty One-on-One Session

3:30 PM

Adjourn
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