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1 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 07:00 Registration 07:00-08:5 Cardiothoracic Surgery Workshop Hall J 06:5 Workshop Registration 07:00 Gathering and Coffee 07:0-07:0 Lecture by Josef Haik 07:0-08:5 Wetlab Practice of Wound Closure Tutors - Gil Bolotin, Oz Shapira, Yanai Ben-Gal, Erez Kachel 08:0-0:00 S - Interventional Cardiology I Hall A Chairs: Ariel Finkelstein, Ran Kornowski, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 08:0. Transcatheter Treatment of Degenerated Bioprosthetic Valves: Patients Characteristics, Procedural Details and Outcomes - A Multicenter Israeli Registry. Uri Landes, Amit Segev, Israel Barbash, Yaron Almagor, Haim Danenberg, Ronen Jaffe 5, Ram Sharony 6, Katia Orvin, Amos Levi, Abid Assali, Hana Vaknin-Assa, Nader Khader 5, Ashraf Hamdan, Yaron Shapira, Ehud Raanani, Alexander Sagie, Victor Guetta, Ran Kornowski Department of Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Department of Cardiology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel Department of Cardiology, Hadassah Medical Center, Israel 5 Department of Cardiology, Carmel Medical Center, Israel 6 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 08:9. A Validation Study of Image-Based Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR angio ) during Coronary Angiography. Ran Kornowski, Mariano Pellicano, Ifat Lavi,5, Hana Vaknin-Assa, Abid Assali, Orna Valtzer,5, Yonit Lotringer 5, Giora Weisz, Yaron Almagor, Panagiotis Xaplanteris, Ajay Kirtane, Pablo Codner, Martin B. Leon, Bernard De Bruyne Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV Hospital, Belgium Cardiology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center, USA 5 CathWorks Ltd, Israel The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

2 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 08:8. Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Futility Risk Model - Development and Validation among Treated Aortic Stenosis Patients. Oren Zusman, Uri Landes, Katia Orvin, Amos Levi, Guy Witberg, Adi Lador, Abid Assali, Hana Vaknin-Assa, Ram Sharony, Ashraf Hamdan, Yaron Shapira, Mordehay Vaturi, Shmuel Schwartzenberg, Alexander Sagie, Ran Kornowski Department of Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 08:57. Unidentified Renal Dysfunction among Patients Undergoing Trans- Catheter Aortic Valve Implantation. Zach Rozenbaum,, David Pereg,, Asta Balchyunayte, Jeremy Ben Shoshan,, Shmuel Banai,, Ariel Finkelstein, Cardiology, Sourasky Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, Meir Medical Center, Israel Internal Medicine D, Sourasky Medical Center, Israel Sackler Medical School, Tel Aviv University, Israel 09:06. Long-Term Outcomes of 560 Consecutive Patients Treated with Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation and Propensity Score Matched- Analysis of Early Versus New Generation Valves. Amos Levi,, Uri Landes,, Abid R Assali,, Ashraf Hamdan,, Yaron Shapira,, Shmuel Schwartzenberg,, Ram Sharony,, Katia Orvin,, Aviv A Shaul,, Mordechai Vaturi,, Ariel Gutstein,, Alexander Sagie,, Ran Kornowski, Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 09:5. Predictors for Stent Thrombosis in Treated Bifurcation Lesions. Gabriel Greenberg, Ran Kornowski, Hana Vaknin Assa, Eldad Rechavia,. Tamir Bental, Eli I. Lev, Abid Assali Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel 09:. Anticoagulation after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation is Associated with Higher Bleeding Risk but no Thromboembolic Benefit. Fernando Chernomordik,, Victor Guetta,, Paul Fefer,, Anat Bercovitch,, Yoni Grossman,, Elad Asher,, Dan Elian,, Isaac Mizrahi, Israel M. Barbash,, Amit Segev, The Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel

3 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 09:. TAVI in Patients who Underwent Mitral Valve Interventions. Yoni Grossman,, Amit Segev,, Paul Fefer,, Fernando Chernomordik,,. Anat Berkovitch,, Elad Asher,, Orly Goitein,, Yafim Brodov,, Dan Elian,, Isaac Mizrahi,, Victor Guetta,, Israel Barbash, Olga & Lev Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 09:. BIOFLOW-III Satellite One Year Clinical Outcomes of Diabetic Patients Treated with a Biodegradable Polymer Sirolimus-Eluting Stent and Comprehensive Medical Surveillance. Ran Kornowski 7, Ariel Roguin, Haim Danenberg, Hana Vaknin Assa,. Eitan Abergel, Eliezer Rozenbaum, Victor Guetta 5, Uri Landes, Refat Jabara, Amnon Merdler 6, Amit Segev 5, Morris Mosseri, Abid Assali Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, Rambam Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, Hadassah Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, Meir Medical Center, Israel 5 Cardiology, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 6 Cardiology, Carmel, Israel 7 Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel 09:5. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Left Main Coronary Artery Disease: A Real Life Experience. Amos Levi,, Ran Kornowski,, Hanna Vaknin-Assa,, Gabriel Greenberg,,. Eli I. Lev,, Ofer Sela,, Eldad Rehavia,, Abid R. Assali, Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 08:0-0:00 S - Joint Session: WG on Heart Failure and Advanced Hall B Therapy & (ISCTS) Chairs: Offer Amir, Jacob Lavee, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 08:0. A Comparative Analysis between HeartMate II/III and HeartWare LVAD. Victor Rubichevski, Ari Naimark, Tuvia Ben Gal, Ram Sharoni, Eitan Snir, Miri Abu Chazira, Dmitry Golubov, Benjamin Medalion, Reut Shavit, Dan Aravot Cardiology, Beilinson, Israel Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Beilinson, Israel The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

4 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 08:9. The Impact of management in a Heart Failure Center within a Primary Care Clinic on Clinical Outcome in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure. Elisha Ouzan,, Yafit Duani, Michal Shani, Orna Gutman, Chaim Lotan, Andre Keren,, Israel Gotsman Heart Institute, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel Primary Care Clinic and Heart failure Center, Clalit Health Services, Israel 08:8. Elevated Blood Urea Nitrogen to Creatinine Ratio and the Risk for Long- Term (0-year) Mortality among Patients Hospitalized with Heart Failure. Hagai Yavin, Tuvia Ben Gal, Ilan Goldenberg, Robert Klempfner,. Ran Kornowski, Alex Omelchenko, Ehud Kadmon, Gustavo Goldenberg, Osnat Itzhaki Ben Zadok, Gregory Golovchiner, Alon Barsheshet Department of Cardiology, Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, affiliated with the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Leviev Heart Center, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer, Ramat Gan, affiliated with the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 08:57. The Characteristics of Heart Failure Ambulatory Patients with Reduced Ejection Fraction who Attend a Specialized Heart Failure Clinic Compared to Those who Decline Such Follow-Up. Daniel Murninkas, Zaza Iakobishvili, Avital Porter, Henry Jino,. Shlomo Birkenfeld, David Hasdai Heart Failure Unit, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv-Jaffa District, Israel Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center- Beilinson, Israel 09:06. A Patient-Specific Tailored Intervention Improves INR Time in Therapeutic Range and Variability in Heart Failure Patients: A Randomized Control Trial. Israel Gotsman, Orly Ezra,, Bruria Hirsh-Rokach,, Dan Admon,. Chaim Lotan, Freda DeKeyser Ganz Heart Institute, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel School of Pharmacy, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel School of Nursing, Hadassah-Hebrew University - Faculty of Medicine, Israel 09:5. Risk of Early, Intermediate, and Late Rejection Following Heart Transplantation: Trends Over the Past 5 Years and Relation to Changes in Medical Management. Yael Peled, Moshe Katz, Jacob Lavee, Michael Arad, Elad Asher, Dan Elian, Yedida Shemesh, Yedael Har-Zahav, Nir Shlomo, Dov Freimark,. Ilan Goldenberg Heart Failure Institute and Heart Transplantation Unit, Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 5

5 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 09:. Early Aspirin Initiation Following Heart Transplantation Decreases the Risk of Allograft Vasculopathy during Long-Term Follow-Up. Yael Peled, Jacob Lavee, Eugenia Raichlin,, Moshe Katz, Michael Arad, Yedida Shemesh, Yigal Kassif, Elad Asher, Dan Elian, Yedael Har-Zahav,. Nir Shlomo, Ilan Goldenberg, Dov Freimark, Robert Klempfner Heart Failure Institute and Heart Transplantation Unit, Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, Israel Heart Failure, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA 09:. Fully Magnetically Levitated Centrifugal Flow HeartMate Left Ventricular Assist Device The Sheba Medical Center Experience. Eyal Ran Nachum, Avishay Grupper, Yigal Kassif, Yedida Shemesh,. Alex Kogan, Leonid Sternik, Alex Lippey, Sergey Preisman, Dov Freimark, Jacob Lavee Heart Transplantation Unit, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Leviev Heart Center, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Department of Cardiology, Leviev Heart Center, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel- Hashomer, Affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Department of Anesthesiology, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 09:. Malnutrition Assessment by the Nutritional Risk Index and Associated Mortality in Ambulatory Heart Failure Patients. Tal Hasin Tze ela Zanbar, Tatyana Weitsman, Liat Pshedetzky, Adina Niazov,. Rivka Farkash, Giora Weisz, Cardiology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel 08:0-0:00 S - Hot Topics in CIED Treatment Hall C Chairs: Roy Beinart, Avishag Laish-Farkash, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 08:0. The Benefit of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators in Asymptomatic Patients (NYHA I) with Left Ventricular Dysfunction. Avi Sabbag, Roy Beinart, Michael Glikson, Mahmoud Suleiman,,. Nimer Samania, Monther Boulos, Ilan Goldenberg, Ayal Nof Davidai Arrhythmia Center and Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Cardiology Department, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel Cardiology Department, Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 6 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

6 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 08:9. Generator Replacement Outcomes with or Without Capsule Debridement. Gustavo Goldenberg, Alon Barsheshet, Ehud Kadmon, Jairo Kusniec, Alexander Omelchenko, Boris Strasberg, Gregory Golovchiner Cardiology Department, Rabin Medical Center, affiliated to the Sacker Faculty of Medicine, Israel 08:8. Five Year Clinical Outcome of a Randomised Comparison between Right Ventricular Apical (RVA) or High Septal Pacing (RVHS) in Patients with High Grade Atrioventricular Block. Gerald Kaye, Nicholas Linker, Laura McKie, Erika Pouliot Department of Cardiology, Princess Alexandra Hospital and University of Queensland Medical School, Australia Department of Cardiology, James Cook University Hospital, UK Clinical Research, Medtronic Ltd, UK Statistics, Medtronic, USA 08:57. The Management of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device (CIED) Lead Perforation: A Multicenter Study. Moshe Rav Acha, Allon Raphael, Yair Elitzur, John Keanney, Asaf Danon, Ayelet Shauer 5, Luay Taha, Michael Ilan, David Luria, Sheldon Singh 5, Theofania Mella, Giora Weisz, Aharon Medina Cardiology Dept., Shaare Zedek Hospital, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Harvard University, USA Cardiology Dept., Hadassah Hospital, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Cardiology Dept, Carmel Medical Center, Technion, Israel 5 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center,, University of Toronto, Canada 09:06. Is Permanent Pacing Indicated in Patients who Develop LBBB and Long PR Following TAVI?. Anat Berkovitch,, Israel Mazin,, Israel Barbash,, Paul Fefer,, Eyal Nof,, Noam Fink,, Roy Beigel,, Shlomo Matetzky,, Victor Guetta,, Amit Segev,, Michael Glikson,, Roy Bienart, Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 09:5. Early Mobilization after Cardiac Implantable Electrical Device Implantation (EMCIEDI Trial). Alexander Feldman,, Nahum Adam Freedberg,, Dante Antonelli,,. Vladimir Poletaev, Ehud Rosner,, Yoav Turgeman, Heart Institute, HaEmek Medical Center, Israel The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 7

7 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 09:. Predicting Venous Obstruction in Patients with an IECD. Emmanuel Samuel Sirat, David Elitzur, David Orenstein, Zehava Sharon,. David Luria Cardiology, Hadassah Medical Centers, Israel 09:. Paced Lead Surface ECG Criteria during Pacemaker Implantation are not Predictive of Right Ventricular Septal Pacing Lead Position Compared to Post Implant Cardiac CT. Gerald Kaye, Matthew Rowe, Peter Moore 5, Jit Pratap, John Coucher, Paul Gould 6 Department of Cardiology, Princess Alexandra Hospital and University of Queensland Medical School, Australia 09:. Performance of LINOX ICD Leads: A Single Center Experience. Ibrahim Marai, Eyal Nof, Roy Beinart, Osnat Gurevitz, David Barlev,. Igor Lipchenka, Ofer Rap, Michael Glikson Davidai Arrhythmia Center, Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Cardiac Devices, MEDLAB, Israel 09:5. Death with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator. A MADIT II Sub Study. Fernando Chernomordik,, Christian Jons, Arthur J. Moss, Wojciech Zareba, James Daulbert, Mark Andrews, Scott McNitt, Eyal Nof,, Michael Glikson,, Ilan Goldenberg,,, Roy Beinart, The Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Heart Research Follow-up Program, Rochester University Medical Center, USA The Sacker Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 8 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

8 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 08:0-0:00 S - Echocardiography and Valvular Heart Diseases Hall H Chairs: Alik Sagie, Yan Topilsky, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 08:0. Third Decade of Percutaneous Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty. Patient Characteristics, Echocardiography and Early Results. Ofir Koren, Doron Sudarski, Menahem Nahir, Alexander Feldman, Mohamed Jabaren, Ehud Rozner, Or Zafrir, Lev Bloch, Yoav Turgeman, Heart Institute, HaEmek MC, Israel Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel 08:9. Severe Symptomatic Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation due to Permanent Pacemaker or Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Leads. Eyal Ran Nachum, Ronny Ben Avi, Shany Levin, Alexander Kogan,. Ori Vatury, Boris Orlov, Ehud Raanani Department of Cardiac Surgery, Leviev Heart Center, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Department of Cardiology, Leviev Heart Center, Chaim Sheba Medical Center,. Tel-Hashomer, Affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 08:8. Clinical Outcome of Isolated Tricuspid Regurgitation in Patients with Normal Ejection Fraction and Pulmonary Hypertension. Nir Bar, Gad Keren, Simon Biner, Dov Wexler, Yan Topilsky Internal Medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel 08:57. Does Compensatory Tricuspid Valve Leaflet Enlargement Prevent Tricuspid Regurgitation in Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension? A -Dimensional Echocardiographic Study. Yoram Agmon,,, Denisa Muraru, Elena Surkova, Luigi Badano Cardiology, Rambam Medical Center, Israel Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova, Italy April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 9

9 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 09:06. Tricuspid Valve Remodeling in Pressure versus Volume Overload and its Relationship with Tricuspid Regurgitation Severity: A -Dimensional Echocardiographic Study. Yoram Agmon,,, Denisa Muraru, Elena Surkova, Luigi Badano Cardiology, Rambam Medical Center, Israel Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova, Italy 09:5. Blood Urea Predicts all-cause Mortality in Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis. Dan Haberman, Sara Shimoni, Jacob George Heart Center, Kaplan Medical Center, Affiliated to Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 09:. The Effect of Sedation on the Assessment of Aortic Stenosis. Shmuel Schwartzenberg, Daniel Monakier, Yaron Shapira, Mordehay Vaturi, Andrei Valdman, Idit Yedidya, Shirit Kazum, Ran Kornowski, Alexander Sagie Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel 09:. Correlations of Leaflet-Prolapse Location with Progression of Primary Mitral Regurgitation and Left Ventricular Fractional Shortening: An Observation Echocardiographic Study. Shirit Kazum, Idit Yedidia, Tamir Ben-Tal, Yaron Shapira, Shmuel Schwartzenberg, Mordechai Vaturi, Andrei Valdman, Daniel Monakier, Ran Kornowski, Alexander Sagie Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel 09:. Incidence, Etiology and Mechanisms of Mitral Regurgitation Among an Adult Population. Inbar Kobal, Sergio Kobal,, Avraham Shimony, Efrat Mazor Dray,. Osvaldo Slutzky, Noah Liel-Cohen Cardiology, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel Hadassah Medical School, The Hebrew University, Israel 09:5. Variability in the Indexed Left Atrial Volume after Exercise Among Asymptomatic Patients with Severe Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation. Mordehay Vaturi,, Yaron Shapira,, Andrei Valdman,, Idit Yedidyah,,, Shmuel Schwartzenberg,, Alik Sagie, Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Israel Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Hasharon Hospital, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 0 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

10 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 08:0-0:00 S5 - Kellerman Award Competition Hall I Chairs: Josheph Shemesh, Israel, Amir Lerman, USA This Session will be held in Hebrew 08:0. Biodegradable Polymer Drug Eluting Stents versus Durable Polymer Drug Eluting Stents for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Propensity Score Matched Analysis. Amos Levi,, Tamir Bental,, Abid R. Assali,, Hanna Vakin - Assa,,. Gabriel Greenberg,, Eli I. Lev,, Ofer Sela,, Eldad Rehavia,, Ran Kornowski, Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel The Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 08:5. Loss of Macrophage Wnt Secretion Improves Remodeling and Function after Myocardial Infarction in Mice. Dahlia Palevski,, La-Paz Levin-Kotler,, David Kain,, Nili Naftali-Shani,, Natalie Landa,, Tammy Ben-Mordechai,, Tal Konfino,, Natali Molotski,,. Rina Rosin-Arbesfeld, Richard A Lang, Jonathan Leor, Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Tamman Cardiovascular Research Institute, Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel The Visual Systems Group Divisions of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center Research Foundation, USA 09:00. Prominent Differences in Cardiac Performance and Myocardial Properties between Right Ventricular and Left Ventricular-based Pacing Modes in Rats. Wesam Mulla, Sharon Etzion, Sigal Elyagon, Sabina Sapunar,. Yuval Konstantino, Noah Liel-Cohen, Yoram Etzion, Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Laboratory, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Research Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Cardiology Department, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel

11 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 09:5. Effects of a Vildagliptin vs. Metformin on Markers of Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Inflammation in Diabetic Patients with Coronary Artery Disease. Arwa Younis, Dana Eskenazi, Jonathan Leor, Alexander Tannenbaum,. Ilan Goldenberg, Robert Klempfner Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Internal Ward, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 09:0. Acute and Long-Term Optical Mapping of hipsc-derived Cardiac Sheets Expressing Genetically-Encoded Voltage Indicator for Drug Testing and Arrhythmia Monitoring. Naim Shaheen, Assad Shiti, Irit Huber, Idit Goldfracht, Rami Shinnawi,. Gil Arbel, Amira Gepstein, Lior Gepstein, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Department of Cardiology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel 09:5. Predictive Value of Circulating Progenitor Cell Apoptosis on Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve Degeneration. Shimon Kolker, Valery Meledin, Gera Gandelman, Jacob George, Sara Shimoni Cardiology, Kaplan Medical Center, Israel 08:0-0:00 S6 - (ISCTS): Hall J Ami Cohen Award Competition Chairs: Dan Aravot, Gideon Sahar, Oz Shapira, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 08:0. Should Bilateral Internal Thoracic Artery Grafting be Used in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus?. Nadav Teich, Benjamin Medalion,, Rephael Mohr, Yanai Ben-Gal,. Adam Laub, Avner Nevo, Amir Kramer, Yosef Paz, Nachum Nesher,. Dmitry Pevni Cardiothoracic Surgery, Ichilov - Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel Cardiothoracic Surgery, Belinson, Israel 08:9. One or Two Internal Thoracic Grafts? Long-Term Follow-up of 957 Off Pump Coronary Bypass Surgeries. Amit Gordon, Nahum Nesher, Yanai Ben Gal, Rephael Mohr, Amir Ganiel, Gideon Uretzki, Yosef Paz, Amir Kramer, Dmitry Pevni Cardiothoracic Surgery, Sourasky Medical Center, Israel The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

12 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 08:8. Thiamine Status Predicts Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery. Michal Fertouk, Oved Cohen, Zvi Peled, Ronit Tamir, Shmuel Kwartin, Sophie Polisman, Keren Bitton-Worms, Gil Bolotin Cardiac Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel Clinical Biochemistry Lab, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel 08:57. Impact of Onsite Cardiac Surgery Service on Revascularization Strategy in Patients with Left Main and Multi-Vessel Coronary Artery Disease - A Single Center Experience. Eilon Ram, Sammer Diab, Ronny Ben-Avi, Eyal Nahum, Roman Altshuler, Khaled Taha, Diab Ghanim, Ofer Amir, Ehud Raanani, Erez Kachel, Cardiac Surgery, Leviev Heart Center, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel The Baruch Padeh Medical Center, Cardiovascular institute, Israel 09:06. d Compared to d Video Assistance Improves Early Outcomes in Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair Surgery. Eilon Ram, Ami Shinfeld, Eyal Nahum, Ronny Ben-Avi, Alexander Kogan, Sergey Preisman, Shany Levin, Sagit Ben Zekry, Ehud Raanani Cardiac Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel Cardiology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel Anesthesiology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel 09:5. Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio: Prognostic Significance in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery- Early Results and Long-Term Survival. Shuli Silberman, Ulfat Abu-Yunis, Rachel Tauber, Tal Grenader, Daniel Fink, Daniel Bitran, Ofer Merin Cardiothoracic Surgery, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel 09:. Cardiac Surgery in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis: A High Risk Operation Even in Low Grade Liver Disease. Dan Gorfil, Marius Braun, Israel Kuznitz, Victor Rubchevsky, Eitan Snir,. Dan Aravot, Ram Sharony Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Internal Medicine, Unit of Liver Disease, Rabin Medical Center, Israel 09:. A Comparison between Cryoablation and Radiofrequency Ablation for Treating Concomitant Atrial Fibrillation during Cardiac Surgery. Ari Naimark, Victor Rubichevsky, Dan Aravot, Eitan Snir, Ram Sharoni,. Reut Shavit, Inbal Baruch, Israel Kusnitz, Dan Gurfil, Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Beilinson, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel

13 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 09:. Comparison of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Logistic EuroSCORE I and EuroSCORE II in Israeli Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: Progress Towards a National STS-Linked Database. Harry Flaster, Orit Blumenfeld, Arturo Carranza, Ayelet Shapira-Daniels,. Eli Levy, Amit Korach, Uzi Izhar, Oz Shapira The Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel The Israel Center for Disease Control, The Gertner Institute, Israel 09:5. Biocompatible vs. Conventional Perfusion Strategy in Patients Undergoing Surgery of the Proximal Aorta. Harry Flaster, Oz Shapira Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hadassah Ein Kerem, Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 08:0-0:00 S7 - Pediatric Cardiology & Adult Congenital Heart Diseases Hall Chairs: Avraham Lorber, Nili Zucker, Israel This Session will be held in English 08:0. The QT Interval: Too Hot, Too Cold, Just Right. Michael J. Ackerman Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA 08:57. Congenital Valvular Defects Associated with Deleterious Mutations in the PLD Gene. Asaf Ta-Shma,, Kai Zhang, Ekaterina Salimova, Alma Zernecke 5,. Daniel Sieiro-Mosti, David Stegner 5, Milena Furtado, Avraham Shaag,. Zeev Perles, Bernhard Nieswandt 5, Azaria JJT Rein, Nadia Rosenthal,. Aaron M Neiman, Orly Elpeleg Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Hadassah, Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel Monique and Jacques Roboh Department of Genetic Research, Hadassah, Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, USA Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Australia 5 Institute of Experimental Biomedicine, University Hospital Würzburg, Germany The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

14 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 09:06. Very Low Radiation Dosage in Cardiac Gated Computerized Tomography in the Comprehensive Evaluation of Complex Congenital Heart Disease in Children & Infants. Yishay Salem, Jeffrey Jacobson,, Amir Vardi, Orly Goitein, David Mishaly, Alain Seraf, Elio Disegni, Eli Konen Safra Center for Congenital Heart Disease, Institute, Sheba Medical Center,. Tel Hashomer, and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Diagnostic Imaging, Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 09:5. Minimal Invasive Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: Clinical and Aesthetic Results. Shai Tejman Yarden, Tal Netser, Sharon Borik, Eitan Keizman, Uriel Katz, Amir Vardi, Jonathan Buber, Alexander Lipey, Allain Serraf, David Mishali The Edmond J. Safra International Congenital Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 09:. Leadless Pacemaker Implantation in an y.o. Patient with Recurrent Vasovagal Syncope. Shai Tejman Yarden, Eyal Nof, Roy Beinart, Nadav Ovadia, Yuval Goldshmit, David Mishali, Michael Glikson The Levaiev Heart Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Cardiac Pacing, Medtronic INC, Israel 09:. Circulating mir08a: A Post-operative Biomarker for Predicting Complications after Cardiac Surgery in Pediatric Patients. Tal Tirosh-Wagner, *Keren Zloto, Yoav Bolkier, Yishay Salem, Sharon Borik, Amir Vardi, David Mishali, Gideon Paret, Yael Nevo-Caspi Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Safra Children s Hospital, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel Department of Pediatric Critical Care, Safra Children s Hospital,The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Safra Children s Hospital, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel 09:. Impact of Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation Severity on Exercise Performance among Adults with Unoperated Ebstein s Anomaly. Yonatan Buber,, Ori Vaturi, Orly Goitein, Robert Klempner, Shai Tejman Yarden Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel International Congenital Heart Center, Edmond and Lily Safra Children s Hospital, Israel Diagnostic Imaging, Sheba Medical Center, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 5

15 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 09:5. Comparison of Two PDA Severity Scores. Daniel Fink,, Afif El-Khuffash,, Patrick McNamara 5,6, Itamar Nitzan,. Cathy Hammerman,7,8 Department of Pediatrics, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel Department of Neonatology, The Rotunda Hospital, Ireland Department of Pediatrics, The Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland 5 Division of Neonatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada 6 Departments of Physiology and Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Canada 7 Department of Neonatology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel 8 Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Israel 08:0-0:00 S8 - Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Prevention, Rehabilitation Hall and Pharmacotherapy- I Chairs: Robert Klempfner, Michael Schechter, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 08:0. The Impact of Cardiac Rehabilitation on Mental Health, Cardiac-Related Quality of Life and Mortality Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) Surgery: A -Year Multicentre Study. Galit Geulayov, Yaacov Drory, Ilya Novikov, Arnona Ziv, Uri Goldbourt, Ehud Schwamenthal, Rachel Dankner, Unit for Cardiovascular Epidemiology, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Sheba Medical Centre, Israel School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Unit for Biostatistics, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Sheba Medical Centre, Israel Information and Computerization Unit, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Sheba Medical Centre, Israel 6 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

16 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 08:9. Impact of Physical Activity on Dynamics of Intrapericardial and Extrapericardial Fat Tissues during Long-Term Dietary Intervention. Gal Tsaban, Arik Wolak 6, Hila Avni-Hasid, Yftach Gepner, Ilan Shelef, Yaakov Henkin, Dan Schwarzfuchs 5,7, Noa Cohen, Nitzan Bril, Michal Rein, Dana Serfaty, Shira Kenigsbuch, Lilac Tene, Hila Zelicha, Anat Yaskolka Meir, Oded Komy, Avital Bilitzky, Yoash Chassidim, Uta Ceglarek 9, Michael Stumvoll 9, Matthias Blüher 9, Joachim Thiery 9, Dror Diker 8, Asaf Rudich, Meir J Stampfer 0, Iris Shai Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Division of Radiology, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel Department of Cardiology, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel Research, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel 5 Department of Emergency Medicine, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel 6 Cardiac Imaging Unit, Department of Cardiology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel 7 Department of Medicine, Nuclear Research Center Negev, Israel 8 Internal Medicine D, Rabin Medical Center, Campus Golda, Israel 9 Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Germany 0 Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health, USA 08:8. A Novel Wearable Chest-Strap for Non-Invasive and Non-Laboratory Identification of the Respiratory Compensation Point during Running Exercise Stress Test. Mickey Scheinowitz,, Giuora Harel,, Gal Dubnov-Raz, Omri Inbar, Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel Sports and Exercise Medicine Service, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 08:57. Referral, Utility and Outcome of Multidisciplinary Cardiac Rehabilitation after Elective PCI. Jacob Klein, Rivka Farkash, Noa Raviv Abeles, Ariel Karawan, Allon Kirschner, Zviya Mizrachi, Rachel Aran, Jonathan Balkin, Marc Klutstein, Dan Tzivoni, Giora Weisz Cardiology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel 09:06. Validation of a Computerized Module for the Interpretation of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Stress Test. Or Inbar, Mickey Scheinowitz, Ronen Reuveny, Michael Segel, Omri Inbar, Hayit Greenspan, Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel Pulmonology, Sheba Medical Center, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 7

17 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 09:5. Contemporary Risk Stratification after Myocardial Infarction in the Community: Performance of Scores and Incremental Value of Soluble ST. Yariv Gerber,, Susan A. Weston, Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, Allan S. Jaffe, Sheila M. Manemann, Ruoxiang Jiang, Véronique L. Roger Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, USA 09:. Gender Differences in Efficacy and Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Atrial Fibrillation Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials. Bruria Raccah,, Amichai Perlman, Donna Zwas,, Mordechai Muszkat, Ilan Matok Division of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Department of Cardiology, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel Department of Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel Department of Cardiology,, Linda Joy Pollin Cardiovascular Wellness Center for Women, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel 09:. Desalinated Seawater Supply and All-Cause Mortality in Hospitalized Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients from the Acute Coronary Syndrome Israeli Survey Meital Shlezinger,, Yona Amitai, Ilan Goldenberg,, Michael Shechter, Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Department of Management, Bar Ilan University, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 09:. Pre-admission CHADS-VASc Score and Outcome of Patients with Acute Cerebrovascular Events. Guy Topaz, David Pereg, Stefan Mausbach, Itzhak Kimiagar,. Gregory Telman 5, Yona Kitay-Cohen, Dina Vorobeichik 6, Nir Shlomo 6,. David Tanne Department of Internal Medicine C, Meir Medical Center, Israel Department of Cardiology, Meir Medical Center, Israel Sagol Neuroscience Center, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel Department of Neurology, Asaf Harofeh Medical Center, Israel 5 Department of Neurology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel 6 Israeli Association for Cardiovascular Trials, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 0:00-0:0 Coffee Break, Exhibition & Poster Visit Exhibition Area 8 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

18 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 0:0-:0 PL - Plenary I - Opening Ceremony & Neufeld Awards Hall ABC Chairs: Michael Glikson, Ronen Rubinshtein, Israel Heart Society Gil Bolotin, Erez Kachel, The Plenary will be held both in English and Hebrew 0:0-:0 Opening Introductions Michael Glikson President, Israel Heart Society Gil Bolotin - Chairman, Recognition of the Industry Round Table of the Israel Heart Society Michel Mirowski Excellence in Cardiology Award Richard, Hilda and Ezra Meltzer Memorial Award Fellowship Award by Pfizer-Israel Fellowship Award by Orbotech Fellowship Awards of the Israel Heart Society Research Grant of the Israel Heart Society: Lankenau-Israel Strategic Alliance (LISA) Arieh Rot Acute Cardiac Care Grant Recognition of the Industry Round Table of the Israel Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery :0-:0. Henry Neufeld Awards :0-:0. Neufeld Memorial Lecture. Clinical Decision Making in Medicine: Lessons from History. Charanjit S. Rihal Mayo Clinic. Rochester, MN, USA :0-:0. The Needs for Valve Interventions in the Developing Countries: Africa, Russia and China, Past, Present and Future. Peter Zilla University of Cape Town. Cape Town, South Africa April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 9

19 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 :0-:0 Lunch Break, Exhibition & Poster Visit Exhibition Area :0 :0 Lunch - Annual Meeting of the :0-:0 LS- Lunch Satellite Session- Sponsored by Pfizer Hall H Unresolved Issues in Anticoagulation Management of Patients with Atrial Fibrillation The Lunch Session will be held in English Guest Speaker: Professor Hans-Christoph Diener University Duisburg-Essen Essen, Germany Panel chairperson: Prof Michael Glikson, MD, FESC, FACC Director of Davidai Arrhythmia Center, Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center President, Israel Heart Society Prof. Shaul Atar, MD, FACC, FESC Director, Division of Cardiology, Galilee Medical Center, Associate Professor Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University :0-:00. Lunch First and Main courses :00-:5. Which Anticoagulant To Whom?. Professor Hans-Christoph Diener, MD, PhD. Department of Neurology, University Duisburg-Essen,. Essen Germany :5-:0. NOACs Dose Selection; Real Life Considerations or Adherence to GL?. Prof. Eli Lev. Director, Interventional Cardiology Unit Hasharon Hospital Rabin Medical Center :0-:5. My patient is Well Controlled on VKA; Why Switch?. Prof. Doron Zahger. Director, Department of Cardiology Soroka Medical Center :55-:0. Panel discussion/ Q&A 0 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

20 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 :0-:0 LS - Lunch Satellite Session- Sponsored by Medison Hall I Evolocumab (PCSK9i) The Evidence-Based Medicine is Already Here Chairs: Ran Kornowski, Chaim Lotan, Israel The Lunch Session will be held in Hebrew Keynote speaker: :00-:5. Dror Harats - President of the Bert Strassburger Lipid Center, Chairman of the IRB, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer Panel Discussion: :5-:00. Ran Kornowski, Chaim Lotan, Dror Harats, Israel :0-:0 LS - Lunch Satellite Session- Sponsored by Novartis Hall J The Silent Majority: Are we Doing Enough for NYHA Class II HFrEF Patients? The lunch session will be held in Hebrew Panel chairperson: Dr. Israel Gotsman, Chairman-elect, Israeli Heart Failure working group, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem :0-:00. Lunch- first and main courses :00-:5. The paradox of NYHA class II HFrEF patients: The Gap Between Perception and Prognosis. Dr. Idit Dobrecky-Mery. Director of ICCU,Bnai-Zion hospital Technion institute, faculty of medicine,haifa :5-:0. Entresto- Time to do More for NYHA Class II HFrEF Patients. Dr. Tamir Bental Head of Dgani Cardiology Clinic, Clalit Health Services :0-:5. Beyond the PARADIGM HF- Are Stable Patient Stable? Dr. Israel Gotsman :5-:0. Discussion/ Q&A Dr. Tuvia Ben Gal Heart Failure Unit, Director, Cardiology Department, Rabin Medical Center,. Dr. Gotsman, Dr. Bental, Dr. Dobrecky- Mery April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel

21 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 :0-6:00 PL - Plenary II - Joint Session: European Society of Cardiology Hall ABC (ESC) - Israel Heart Society (IHS) Chairs: Michael Glikson, Israel, Barbara Casadei, UK The Plenary will be held both in English and Hebrew :0-:50. Atrial Fibrillation and Cardiac Remodelling: The Chicken or The Egg?. Barbara Casadei President Elect, European Society of Cardiology. Oxford, UK :50-5:0. PCSK9 Inhibitors: Is Victory over Atherosclerosis at Hand?. Doron Zahger. Beer Sheva, Israel 5:0-5:0. Updates on Controversies Heart Failure. Stefan A. Anker Vice President, National Affairs, European Society of Cardiology Göttingen, Germany 5:0-5:50. Inflammation and atherosclerosis a 0 year perspective Jacob George Rehovot, Israel 6:00-6:0 Coffee Break, Exhibition & Poster Visit Exhibition Area 6:0-8:00 S9 - Interventional Cardiology II Hall A Chairs: Eli Lev, Ariel Roguin, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 6:0. Clinical Outcomes of Atherectomy Prior to Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients with Radial Access. Evan Shlofmitz, Rajkumar Doshi, Perwaiz Meraj Cardiology, Northwell Health, USA 6:9. Usefulness of the CHADS-VASC Score to Predict Death or Stroke Risk Regardless of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. Katia Orvin, Amos Levi, Tamir Bental, Uri Landas, Hana Vaknin-Assa, Yaron Shapira, Alon Barsheshet, Abid Assali, Alik Sagie, Ran Kornowski Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

22 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 6:8. Aortic Annulus Compliance Assessment Using Annular Deformation Dynamics in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Treated Patients. Uri Landes, Ashraf Hamdan, Tamir Bental, Rami Haj Ali, Karin Lavon, Adi Morany, Ariel Gutstein, Amos Levi, Katia Orvin, Abid Assali, Hana Vaknin- Assa, Ram Sharony, Yaron Shapira, Alexander Sagie, Ran Kornowski Department of Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Faculty of Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Israel 6:57. Total Ischemic Time and Short, Intermediate and Long Term Mortality of Patients with STEMI Treated by PPCI. Alla Lubovich, Gassan Muady, Michael Gelbstein, Shlomi Matetzky, Ilan Goldenberg, Shaul Atar Cardiology, Western Galilee Medical Center, Israel Heart Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 7:06. Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction in Nonagenarians: A Multicentre Study. Gerard Helft, Thibaut Petroni, Azfar Zaman, Jean Louis Georges, Nadjib Hammoudi, Amit Segev, Claude Le Feuvre Cardiology Institute,France Department of Cardiology, Freeman Hospital and Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, UK Heart Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel 7:5. High Incidence and Predictors of Acute Kidney Injury in Patients with STEMI Treated with Primary PCI. Meir Tabi, Yaron Almagor, Jonathan Balkin, Adi Butnaru, Dmitry Dratva, Tal Hasin, Michael Ilan, Rami Jubeh, Mark Klutstein, Zahi Khoury, Aharon Medina, Mady Moriel, David Rosenmann, Joseph Shaheen, Rafael Wolff, Rivka Farkash, Giora Weisz Cardiology Department, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 7:. Comparison of Quality Parameters, Among Different Coronary Beds, in Patients with ST Segment Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Primary Coronary Intervention. Doron Sudarsky, Vered Bieber, Inna Schnaider, Yoav Turgeman, Heart Institute, Ha Emek Medical Center, Israel Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel

23 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 7:. Efficacy of Pre-Treatment with Prasugrel vs. Clopidogrel in Patients with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Chava Chezar-Azerrad, Ran Kornowski, Amir Abu-Hussien, Hana Vaknin-Assa, Gabi Greenberg, Eli Lev, Abed Assali Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel 7:. Predictors of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction during a First STEMI Treated by Early Revascularization: Can We Modify the Left Ventricular Outcome?. Hana Vaknin-Assa,, Abid Assali, Gabriel Grinberg,, Zaza Iakobishvili,. Katia Orvin,, Alon Eizen,, Avital Porter,, Eli Lev,, Ran Kornowski, Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Tel-Aviv Univesity, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Israel 6:0-8:00 S0 - Echocardiography Hall B Chairs: Ronen Beeri, Rafael Kuperstein, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 6:0. Left Atrial Function in Patients in Sinus Rhythm, Normal Left Ventricular Function and Indeterminate Diastolic Function. Matan Shimron, Yevgeni Hazanov,, Diab Ghanim,, Wadi Kinany,,. Offer Amir,, Shemy Carasso, Faculty of Medicine in The Galilee, Bar Ilan University, Israel Cardiovascular Institute, B Padeh Medical Center, Israel 6:9. Left Atrial Function and Mortality in the Elderly. Jonathan Koslowsky, Dan Gilon, Jochanan Stessman, Jeremy J Jacobs, David Leibowitz Department of Cardiology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel Heart Institute, Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel Department of Geriatrics and Rehabilitation, Hadassah Medical Center, Israel 6:8. Evaluation of Routine Use of Global Longitudinal Strain for the Early Detection of Subclinical Left Ventricular Dysfunction in Cancer Patients. Michal Laufer Perl, Dor Ravid, Nadav Amrami, Matthew Derakhshesh,. Gad Keren, Yaron Arbel, Yan Topilsky Cardiology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

24 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 6:57. Echocardiography Parameters as Predictors of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Reduction in Cancer Patients. Michal Laufer Perl, Gad Keren, Nadav Amrami, Dor Ravid, Yan Topilsky,. Yaron Arbel Cardiology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel 7:06. Assessment of the Mitral Valve Mechanical Properties using the Damped Harmonic Oscillator Model. Shai Tejman Yarden,, Roni Gurvich, Ofer Barnea, Yisrael Parmet,. Raphael Kuperstein, Uriel Katz, Eitan Keizman 5, David Mishali, The Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, The Biomedical Engineering Unit, Israel Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel The Leviev Cardiovascular Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel The Edmond J. Safra International Congenital Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 5 Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 7:5. LV Mechanics in HF Patients at Different Pacing Modalities and Long Term Responsiveness. Shai Tejman Yarden, Offir Ertracht, Noa Bachner-Hinenzon, Maayan Pery, Stephan Bogdan 6,7, Yuval Pinto,5, David Mishali, Michael Glikson The Levaiev Heart Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Eliachar Research Lab, Galilee Medical Center, Israel Migal Computation and Bioinformatics Inst., Tel Hay College, Israel Cardiac Pacing, Gamida Ltd, Israel 5 Student, Sackler School of Medicine, Israel 6 Cardiology, University of Bucharest, Romania 7 Cardiology, University of Bucharest, Romania 7:. Incremental Value of Aortic Stenosis Assessment through Adjunctive Trans-Esophageal Echocardiography versus Transthoracic Echo Only in Sedated Patients. Shmuel Schwartzenberg, Mordehay Vaturi, Daniel Monakier, Andrei Valdman, Shirit Kazum, Idit Yedidia, Ran Kornowski, Alexander Sagie, Yaron Shapira Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 5

25 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 7:. Decline in Effort Capacity with Age: Echocardiographic Stress Analysis in the Elderly. Anat Milman, Gad Keren, Yan Topilsky Department of Cardiology, Tel Aviv Medical Center and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 7:. Coronary Flow and Cardiac Function During Dialysis. Isis ABU-Mokh, Yasmine Sharif, Amal Sharif-Rasslan, Shimon Storch,. Uri Rosenschein,, Dawod Sharif, Cardiology, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Israel Nephrology, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Israel Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Mathematics, The Academic Arab College, Israel 7:5. Structural and Functional Echocardiographic Changes Following Kidney Transplantation The Role of Allograft Function. Shai Shimony, Hefzi Green,,, Gidi Stein,, Eitan Mor,, Ruth Rahamimov,, Shmuel Fuchs, Internal Medicine B, Rabin Medical Center Beilinson Hospital, Petach Tikva, Israel Nephrology and Hypertension, Rabin Medical Center Beilinson Hospital, Petach Tikva, Israel Department of Transplantation, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Petah Tikva, Israel Faculty of Medicine, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 6:0-8:00 S- Acute Coronary Syndrome Hall C Chairs: Zaza Iakobishvili, Idit Dobrecky-Mery, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 6:0. Characteristics and Outcomes Associated with 0-day Readmissions Following Acute Coronary Syndrome over the Past Decade. Sa ar Minha,, Ilya Litovchik,, David Pereg,, Nir Shlomo,, Dina Vorobeichik,, Zvi Vered,, Ilan Goldenberg,, Cardiology, Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center, Israel Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Cardiology, Meir Medical Center, Israel Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 6 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

26 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 6:9. Prediction of Mortality in Hospital Survivors of STEMI: External Validation of a Novel Acute Myocardial Infarction Prognostic Score. Arthur Shiyovich, Tamir Bental, Ygal Plakht, Hana Vaknin-Assa, Gabriel Greenberg, Eli I. Lev, Ran Kornowski, Abid Assali Medicine E, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Cardiology Department, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 6:8. Incidence and Outcomes of Early Left Ventricular Thrombus Formation Following ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Treated with Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Shafik Khoury,, Sarit Carmon, Gilad Margolis,, Gad Keren,,. Yacov Shacham, Cardiology, Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 6:57. Relation of Positive Fluid Balance to the Severity of Renal Impairment and Recovery Among ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock. Yacov Shacham, Gilad Margolis, Natalia Kofman, Yaron Arbel, Amir Gal-Oz, Shafik Khoury, Gad Keren Cardiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel 7:06. Prognostic Implications of Chronic Kidney Disease on Patients Presenting with ST- Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction with vs. without Stent Thrombosis. Gilad Margolis, Shahar Vig, Nir Flint, Shafik Khoury, Michael Barkagan,. Gad Keren, Yacov Shacham Cardiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel 7:5. Ethnic Differences among Israeli Patients Presenting with Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Report From the Israeli ACSIS Registry. Basheer Karkabi, Moshe Y. Flugelman, Jacob Goldstein, Lena Rosenblum, Ayman Jubran, Ronen Jaffe, Avinoam Shiran, Zaza Iakobshvilly, Roy Beigel, Dikla Geva, Ilan Goldenberg, Ronen Rubinshtein Cardiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Israel ACSIS Registry, ACSIS Council, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 7

27 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 7:. Early versus Delayed Angiography in Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Insights from ACSIS. Aviv A. Shaul,, Roy Beigel, Nir Shlomo, Michal Einhorn, David Hasdai,,,. Ilan Goldenberg, Shlomi Matetzky, Avi Shimony, Shaul Atar, Shmuel Gottlieb, Ronny Alkalai, Ran Kornowski,, Zaza Iakobishvili,, Department of Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel ACSIS Study Group, The Israeli Association for Cardiovascular Trials, Israel Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel 7:. Determinants of Delayed Benchmark Timelines in Acute Coronary Syndrome -Insights from the Acute Coronary Syndrome Israeli Survey (ACSIS) 00-0 Registries. Hilmi Alnsasra, Doron Zahger, Diklah Geva, Shlomi Matetzky, Roy Beigel, Zaza Iokobishvili, Ronny Alcalai, Shaul Atar 5, Avi Shimony Division of Cardiology, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel Division of Cardiology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel Division of Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Israel Division of Cardiology, Hadassah Medical Center, Israel 5 Division of Cardiology, The Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya, Israel 7:. Endothelial Function Predicts -year Adverse Clinical Outcome in Patients Hospitalized in Chest Pain Unit. Michael Shechter,, Shlomi Matetzky,, Megha Prasad, Orly Goitein,,. Ronen Goldkorn,, Michael Naroditsky,, Nira Koren-Morag, Amir Lerman Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic and College of Medicine, USA Diagnostic Imaging, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 7:5. Endogenous GLP- Response to Acute Coronary Event in Patients with and without TDM. Ilya Kumets, Gabby Elbaz-Greener, Olga Bloch, Zvi Vered, Micha Rapoport, Alex Blatt Department of Internal Medicine C, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Israel Department of Cardiology, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Israel Diabetes Laboratory, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Israel 8 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

28 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 6:0-8:00 S - Career Related Endeavors and Challenges Hall H Chairs: Avital Porter, Israel Barbara Casadei, UK This session will be held in English 6:0-6:5. Introduction: Why is it So Important to Have This Women in Cardiology Career- Related Session?. Avital Porter Petach Tikva, Israel 6:5-6:50. This Woman in Cardiology: What I Have Learnt in the Past 5 Years Barbara Casadei President Elect, European Society of Cardiology. Oxford, UK 6:50-7:05. Women in Cardiology: The Past, Present and the Future: US Perspectives. Leslee Shaw President, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. Atlanta, GA, US 7:05-7:0. Is There a Glass Ceiling for Women in Medical and Academic Management Positions in Israel. Donna R. Zwas Jerusalem, Israel 7:0-7:5. The Toughest Decision: How to Maintain the Balance Between a Personal Life and Demanding Medical Career Among Women. Katia Orvin Petach Tikva, Israel 6:0-8:00 S - Various Topics in Electrophysiology Hall I Chairs: Moti Haim, Mahmoud Suleiman, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 6:0. Do Episodes of Atrial Fibrillation within First Week after Surgical Ablation Predict Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation in the Mid-Term Follow-up?. Leonid Sternik, Alexander Kogan, Roy Beinart, Michael Glikson,. Shany Levin, Ehud Raanani Department of Cardiac Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Tel Aviv University, Israel Department of Cardiology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Tel Aviv University, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 9

29 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 6:9. Hybrid Approach for IC Flutter- Is It Worthwhile?. Lior Grossman, Roy Beinart, Osnat Gurevitz, Michael Eldar, Michael Glikson, Eyal Nof Davidai Arrhythmia Center, Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 6:8. Warfarin Treatment, Time in Therapeutic Range, Bleeding and Stroke Risk Among Elderly Patients with Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation. Hilmi Alnsasra, Meytal Avgil-Tsadok, Orna Reges, Ran Balicer, Morton Leibowitz, Moshe Hoshen, Moti Haim Division of Cardiology, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel Health Services Research Institute, Clalit, Israel 6:57. Differentiating Posterior Fascicular Ventricular Tachycardia from Right Bundle Branch Block and Left Anterior Hemiblock Aberrancy. Yoav Michowitz, Oholi Tovia-Brodie, Ishai Heusler, Avi Sabbag,. Michael Rahkovich, Hezzy Shmueli, Aharon Glick, Bernard Belhassen Cardiology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel- Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel Cardiology, Sheba Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel 7:06. Gram Negative Bacterial Infections in CIED Infection-Related Extractions Clinical Course and Outcome. Amit Meitus, Shelly Kagan, Anat Wieder-Finesod, Galia Rahav, David Barlev, Igor Lipchenca, Osnat Gurevitz, Amit Segev, Roy Beinart, Michael Glikson, Eyal Nof Infectious Diseases Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 7:5. Temporary Device Implantation in CIED-Dependent Patients Safety and Outcomes. Amit Meitus, Shelly Kagan, Anat Wieder-Finesod, Galia Rahav, David Barlev, Igor Liphcenca, Osnat Gurevitz, Amit Segev, Roy Beinart, Michael Glikson, Eyal Nof Infectious Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 7:. Effectiveness and Cost-Efficacy of Syncope Workup of Military Personnel in a Dedicated Outpatient Syncope Center. Alexey Naimushin, David Bar-Lev, Ekaterina Naimushin, Igor Lipchenca, Osnat Gurevitz, Roy Beinart, Eyal Nof, Michael Glikson Lev Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 50 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

30 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 7:. Prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism Among Patient with Intermediate Risk Syncope, Evaluated in Syncope Unit. Alexey Naimushin, David Bar-Lev, Gay Rozen, Shoshi Laufer, Jacob Or,. Ilan Goldenberg, Michael Glikson Lev Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Emergency Department, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 7:. Continuous Heart Rate Monitoring for Automatic Detection of Life- Threatening Arrhythmias with Novel Bio-Sensing Technology/h. Ehud Chorin, Aviram Hochstadt, Raphael Rosso, Lorin Schwartz, Gil Matz, Natan Lubman, Liat Shemesh, Eldad Shemesh, Sami Viskin Cardiology, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel CardiacSense, Israel 7:5. Continuous Heart Rate Monitoring for Automatic Detection of Atrial Fibrillation with Novel Bio-Sensing Technology. Ehud Chorin, Aviram Hochstadt, Raphael Rosso, Lorin Schwartz, Gil Matz, Natan Lubman, Liat Shemesh, Eldad Shemesh, Sami Viskin Cardiology, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel CardiacSense, Israel 6:0-8:00 S - Imaging of Structual Heart Disease Hall J Chairs: Galit Aviram, Aryeh Shalev, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 6:0. Normal Reference Values for Chamber Size and Function in Elite Athletes: A Meta-Analysis of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Studies. Aryeh Shalev, Avi Shimony, Jonathan Afilalo, Lawrence Joseph 5, Yang Zhan, Arik Wolak Division of Cardiology, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben Gurion University, Israel Divisions of Cardiology and Clinical Epidemiology, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Canada Cardiology, McGill University Health Centre, Canada Cardiology, Sha are Zedek Medical Center, Ben Gurion University, Israel 5 Division of Clinical Epidemilogy, McGill University Health Center, Canada April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 5

31 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 6:9. Very Low Left Atrial Volume and Mortality in Patients Submitted to Pulmonary CT Angiography: A Clue to the Presence of a Blocked Pulmonary Circulation. Zach Rozenbaum,5, Yoav Granot, Paul Turkeltaub, Tzahi Hadad, Moshe Iluz, Hezzi Shmueli,5, Tomer Ziv-Baran, Shlomo Berliner,5, Galit Aviram,5 Internal Medicine, Sourasky Medical Center, Israel Radiology, Sourasky Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, Sourasky Medical Center, Israel Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 5 Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 6:8. Improved Quantitative Assessment of Left Ventricular Volumes and Chamber Dimensions Using Iterative Model Reconstruction Algorithm. Ziad Aro, Ariel Gutstien, Yoav Hamer, Gideon Shafir, Ran Kornowski,. Ashraf Hamdan Department of Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel 6:57. An Automatic Four Chamber Volumetric Analysis (CVA) Discloses Myocardial Stress in Individuals without Known Cardiac Disease. Zach Rozenbaum,5, Yaron Arbel,5, Yoav Granot,5, Tomer Ziv-Baran,. Ehud Chorin,5, Shlomo Berliner,5, Haim Shmilovich,5, Dotan Cohen,5,. Ofer Havakuk,5, Galit Aviram,5 Internal Medicine, Sourasky Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, Sourasky Medical Center, Israel Radiology, Sourasky Medical Center, Israel Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 5 Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 7:06. Automated Cardiac Chamber Volumetry of Pre Trans-Catheter Aortic Valve Replacement CT Angiography Predicts Mortality. Zach Rozenbaum,5, Shlomo Berliner,5, Ariel Finkelstein,5, Dotan Cohen,5, Haim Shmilovich,5, Yan Topilsky,5, Dominik Fleischmann, Galit Aviram,5 Cardiology, Sourasky Medical Center, Israel Internal Medicine, Sourasky Medical Center, Israel Radiology, Sourasky Medical Center, Israel Radiology, Stanford Medical Center, Israel 5 Sackler Medical School, Tel Aviv University, Israel 5 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

32 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 7:5. Validation of and Comparison between Methods to Assess Diastolic Function by Cardiac CT. Hayley-Ann van der Veen, Diab Mutlak, Sobhi Abadi, Jonathan Lessick Cardiology, Rambam Medical Centre, Israel Radiology, Rambam Medical Centre, Israel Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 7:. Insights into the Hypertrophied Hearts: A Cardiac Computed Tomography Study of Myocardial Crypts. Ziad Aro, Ariel Gutstien, Daniel Monakier, Gideon Shafir, Yoav Hamer, Abid Assali, Hana Vaknin-Assa, Uri Landes, Ran Kornowski, Ashraf Hamdan Department of Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel 7:. Effectiveness of Prone Imaging for Spect Myocardial Perfusion According to Gender and Artifact Location. Ariel Gutstein, Nili Zafrir, Tamir Bental, Israel Mats, Alejandro Solodky, Ran Kornowski, Ashraf Hamdan Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel 6:0-8:00 S5 - Joint Session: Israel Heart Society (IHS) and L Association Hall Franco Israélienne de Cardiologie (AFICARDIO)- Endocarditis Chairs: Bernard Belhassen, Israel David Messika-Zeitoun, France This Session will be held in English 6:0-6: 50. What is New in the Recent ESC Endocarditis Guidelines. Xavier Duval. France 6:50-7:0. Implantable Device Related Endocarditis. Michael Glikson.Israel 7:0-7:0. Imaging Techniques in Endocarditis. François Rouzet. France 7:0-7:50. Update on Antibiotic Treatment. Jacob Strahilevitz.Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 5

33 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 6:0-8:00 S6- Joint Session: Hall (ISCTS) and Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of South Africa (SAACTS) Chairs: Erez Sharoni, Gil Bolotin, Israel, Peter Zilla, South Africa This Session will be held in English 6:0. Nexus tm Novel Total Aortic Arch Endograft: Midterm Results. David Planer, Yaniv Marmur, Mario Lachat Cardiology, Hadassah Medical Center, Israel Endospan Ltd, Israel Cardiovascular Surgery, Zurich University Hospital, Switzerland 6:9. Non-occlusive, Self-homing Deployment of Durable TAVIs in Compliant Aortic Roots: A Paradigm-Shift for Countries with Limited Access to Cardiac Surgery?. Jacques Scherman,, Chima Ofoegbu,, Giuseppe Geldenhuys, Pete Haw, Fourie Gildenhuys, Braden van Breda, Grant Nelson, Peter Zilla, University of Cape Town, Chris Barnard Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery,. South Africa University of Cape Town, Strait Access Technologies (SAT), South Africa 6:8. Selection and Outcomes of MCS in Patients with Bi-Ventricular Heart Failure. Francisco A. Arabia Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Los Angeles, CA, USA 6:57. Radial Artery the Second Best Conduit, our 0 years Experience. Shlomo Yaron Ishay, Oren Lev-Ran, Menachem Matsa, Dan Abramov, Mahmoud Abu-Salah, Sahni Kaptzon, Zvi Perry, Carlos Cafri, Gideon Sahar Cardiothoracic Surgery, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel 7:06. Concomitant Elective Ascending Aortic Surgery: Circulatory Arrest Does Not Affect Morbidity or Mortality. Daniel Fink, Shuli Silberman, Joseph Atlan, Ofer Merin, Rachel Tauber, Dani Bitran Cardiothoracic Surgery, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel 7:5. Post-CABG CVA in the Era of Single Aortic Clamp and Arterial Revascularization. Shani Kaptzon, Leonid Ruderman, Menachem Matza, Oren Lev-ran,. Yaron Ishay, Dan Abramov, Mahmoud Abu-Salah, Zvi Perry Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel 5 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

34 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 7:. Surgical Experience with Chronic Invasive Constrictive Pericarditis in an African Setting: A 6 Year Retrospective Review. Elias Zigiriadis, G Faqaawi, K Van der Donck, A Patel Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa 7:. Initial Experience with Multiple VEST Implants for Supporting Vein Grafts in CABG Surgery. Henning Johannes Du Toit CardioThoracic Surgery, Windhoek Academic Hospitals, Namibia 7:. Back to the Future Fast Track or Not?. Henning Johannes Du Toit CardioThoracic Surgery, Windhoek Academic Hospitals, Namibia 7:5. Mechanical Circulatory Support Saves Lives Five Years Experience of Eurotransplant Membership and Assist Device Program in Hungary. Levente Fazekas, István Hartyánszky, Miklós Pólos, Ferenc Horkay,. Balázs Sax, Alexandra Assabiny, Endre Németh, Kristóf Rácz, Tamás Varga, Andrea Székely, Krisztina Heltai, Endre Zima, Zoltán Szabolcs, Béla Merkely Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Hungary Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Therapy, Semmelweis University, Hungary April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 55

35 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 07:00 Registration: 07:00-08:5 Cardiothoracic Surgery Workshop Hall J 06:5 Workshop Registration 07:00 Gathering and Coffee 07:0-07:0 Lecture by Josef Haik 07:0-08:5 Mitral Valve Repair and Replacement Workshop 08:0-0:00 S7 -Joint Session: WG on Interventional Cardiology Hall A & (ISCTS) Chairs: Victor Guetta, Erez Sharoni, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 08:0. Trends in Coronary Revascularization and Ischemic Heart Disease- Related Mortality in Israel. Orit Blumenfeld, Wasef Na amnih, Ayelet Shapira-Daniels, Chaim Lotan, Tamy Shohat,, Oz. M Shapira Israel Center for Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Israel Cardiothoracic surgery, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical center, Israel Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 08:9. Coronary Bypass Graft Surgery in Patients on Ticagrelor Therapy Is Not Associated with Adverse Postoperative Outcomes. Sammer Diab, Shemy Carasso, Ahmad Blawona, Diab Ghanim, Marwan Armaly, Wadi Kinany, Leonid Sternik, Dahud Qarawani, Alexander Lipey, Fabio Kusniec, Nizar Andria, Ronny Ben-Avi, Yevgeny Hazanov, Eyal Ran Nachum, Ehud Raanani, Offer Amir, Erez Kachel Cardiovascular institue, The Baruch Padeh Medical Center, Israel Cardiac Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Anesthetic department, The Baruch Padeh Medical Center, Israel 08:8. Real-Life Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Cabg or Pci Intervention for Coronary Disease Involving The Left Main Coronary Artery. Eilon Ram, Ilan Goldenberg, Nir Shalom, Alexander Lipey, Ronny Ben-Avi, Ehud Raanani Cardiac surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel Cardiology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel 56 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

36 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 08:57. Single Center Experience in Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass grafting (MIDCAB) procedures, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. Nadav Teich, Gideon Uretzky, Ram Sharony, Amir Kramer, Dmitry Pevny, Nachum Nesher, Yossef Paz, Yanai Ben-Gal The Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Israel 09:06. A Decade Trends in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Practice: Insights from 8,6 Patients registry. Uri Landes, Tamir Bental, Abid Assali, Hana Vaknin-Assa, Eli Lev,. Eldad Rechavia, Ofer Sela, David Hasdai, Shmuel Fuchs, Gabriel Greenberg,. Gideon Paul, Amos Levi, Katia Orvin, Ran Kornowski Department of Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 09:5. Impact of Diabetic Status on Repeat Revascularization Following Coronary Angiography. Ady Orbach,Barak Zafrir, Ronen Jaffe, Johnny Shala, Ronen Rubinshtein, Basheer Karkabi, Jacob Goldstein, Nader Khader, Nissan Yaniv, Amnon Merdler, Moshe Y Flugelman, David A Halon Cardiovascular Division, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Israel 08:0-0:00 S8 - Joint Session: WG of Echocardiography and Valvular Heart Hall B Diseases & (ISCTS) Chairs: Ehud Raanani, Yaron Shapira, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 08:0. Tricuspid Valve Surgery Should we Lower the Threshold for Surgery. Yaron Shapira. Petach Tikva, Israel 08:57. Does the Type of Prosthesis affect Clinical Outcomes after Valve Replacement in Patients with Rheumatic Heart Disease?. Ronny Ben-Avi, Alexander Kogan, Leonid Sternik, Eilon Ram, Alexander Lipey, Sergey Amunts, Shany Levin, Micha Feinberg, Ehud Raanani Cardiac Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, Sheba Medical Center, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 57

37 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 09:06. Does the use of Suture-less Prosthesis increase the Risk for Permanent Pacemaker Implantation following Aortic Valve replacement?. Sergei Amunts, Alexander Lipey, Roy Beinart, Leonid Sternik, Boris Orlov, Alexander Kogan, Michael Glikson, Shany Levin, Eilon Ram, Ehud Raanani Cardiac Surgery department, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Arrhythmia Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 09:5. Treatment of Mitral Bio-Prosthetic Valve Deterioration Using Trans Apical Valve in Valve Technique: Intermediate-term Outcomes. Ram Sharony, Eyal Nahum, Abid Assali, Viktor Guetta, Hana Vaknin Assa, Israel Barbash, Yaron Shapira, Alexander Sagie, Israel Kuznitz, Dan Aravot, Amit Segev, Ran Kornowski, Ehud Raanani Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Department of Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Department of Cardiology, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 09:. Baseline Patient Characteristics and their Association with Biological Prosthetic Aortic Valve Degeneration in Patients Following Aortic Valve Replacement.. Shimon Kolker, Valery Meledin, Sorel Goland, Jacob George, Sara Shimoni Cardiology, Kaplan Medical Center, Israel 09:. Surgical Technique for Tricuspid Valve Replacement Supra-Annular Position: The Hemodynamic Effects, Morbidity and Mortality. Sergei Amunts, Boris Orlov, Ori Vatury, Alexander Kogan, Shany Levin, David Volvovitch, Ehud Raanani Cardiac Surgery department, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Cardiology department, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 09:. Clinical and Echocardiographic Outcomes after Aortic Valve Repair in Patients with Bicuspid or Unicuspid Aortic Valve. Eilon Ram, Alexander Kogan, Ami Shinfeld, Alexander Lipey,. Sagit Ben Zekry, Ronny Ben-Avi, Shany Levin, Ehud Raanani Cardiac surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel Cardiology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel 09:5. Intervention Versus Observation in Symptomatic Patients with Normal Flow-Low Gradient Severe Aortic Stenosis. Oren Zusman, Shmuel Banai, Ariel Finkelstein, Yan Topilsky Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Israel 58 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

38 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 08:0-0:00 S9 - Genetics and other Predispositions Factors to Life Hall C Threatening Arrhythmias Chairs: David Luria, Ayelet Shauer, Israel This Session will be held in English 08:0. The Cardiac Channelopathies: Who Needs an ICD?. Michael J. Ackerman Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA 08:57. A Novel Variant in RYR Causes Autosomal Recessive Catecholamineric Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia, Presenting with Cardiac Arrest & Ventricular Fibrillation. Ayelet Shauer, Zeev Perles, Yair Elitzur, Asaf Tashma, Orli Elpeleg, David Luria Cardiac electrophysiology, Cardiac institute, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel Pediatric Cardiology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel Monique and Jacques Roboh Department of Genetic Research, Hadassah- Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 09:06. Appropriate Primary Prophylactic Implantation of Defibrillator in Brugada Syndrome: Is There Difference between Patients from Western and Asian countries? 6 Patients with Arrhythmic Events. Anat Milman, Antoine Andorin, Jean-Baptiste Gourraud, Frederic Sacher, Philippe Mabo, Sung-Hwan Kim 5, Shingo Maeda 6, Yoshihide Takahashi 6, Tsukasa Kamakura 7, Takeshi Aiba 7, Giulio Conte 8, Eran Leshem,9, Michael Rahkovich,0, Yuka Mizusawa, Pieter Postema, Elena Arbelo, Zhengrong Huang, Isabelle Denjoy, Carla Giustetto 6, Carlo Napolitano 7, Aviram Hochstadt 9, Yoav Michowitz, Ramon Brugada 0, Jean Champagne, Leonardo Calo, Jacob Tfelt-Hansen, Silvia Priori 7,8, Masahiko Takagi, Christian Veltmann 5, Pietro Delise 6, Domenico Corrado 7, Elijah Behr 8, Fiorenzo Gaita 6, Gan-Xin Yan 9, Josep Brugada, Antoine Leenhardt,5, Arthur Wilde, Pedro Brugada 8, Kengo Kusano 7, Kenzo Hirao 6, Gi-Byoung Nam 0, Vincent Probst, Bernard Belhassen Department of Cardiology, Tel Aviv Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Service de Cardiologie, L institut du Thorax, CHU de Nantes, France Service de Cardiologie, LIRYC Institute, INSERM 05, Bordeaux University Hospital, France Cardiology and Vascular Disease Division, Rennes University Health Centre, France April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 59

39 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 5 Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, South Korea 6 Heart Rhythm Center, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan 7 Division of Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Japan 8 Heart Rhythm Management Center, UZ-VUB, Belgium 9 CardioVascular Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA 0 Arrhythmia Services, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Canada Department of clinical and experimental Cardiology, Heart Center AMC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Cardiovascular Institute, Hospital Clínic Pediatric Arrhythmia Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu University of Barcelona, Spain Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, China Service de Cardiologie et CNMR Maladies Cardiaques Héréditaires Rares, Hôpital Bichat, France 5 Service de Cardiologie, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne, France 6 Division of Cardiology, University of Torino, Department of Medical Sciences, Città della Salute e della Scienza Hospital, Italy 7 Molecular Cardiology, Institut d Investigació Biomèdica Girona-IdIBGi, Italy 8 Department of Molecular Medicin, University of Pavia, Italy 9 Department of Internal Medicine J,, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel 0 Cardiovascular Genetics Center, Institut d Investigació Biomèdica Girona-IdIBGi, Spain CardioVascular Institute, Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Canada Division of Cardiology, Policlinico Casilino, Italy The Department of Cardiology, The Heart Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, and Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan 5 Rhythmology and Electrophysiology, Department of Cardiology, Hannover Medical School, Germany 6 Division of Cardiology, Hospital of Peschiera del Garda, Italy 7 Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova, Italy 8 Cardiovascular Sciences, St. George s University of London, UK 9 Division of Cardiology, Lankenau Medical Center, USA 0 Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, South Korea 60 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

40 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 09:5. Identification of Electrocardiographic Characteristics in Silent Carriers of Mutant KCNQ gene. Miry Blich, Samer Abu- Salem, Naim Shaheen, Wisam Darawsha, Avishag Laish-Farkash, Mahmoud Suleiman, Monther Boulous, Lior Gepstein, Division of Pacing and Electrophysiology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel Technion, Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Israel 09:. Do Family History of Sudden Cardiac Death, Syncope, Spontaneous Type Brugada-ECG, Arrhythmia Inducibility and SCN5A Mutation Affect Onset of Arrhythmic Events in Brugada Patients?. Anat Milman, Antoine Andorin, Jean-Baptiste Gourraud, Frederic Sacher, Philippe Mabo, Sung-Hwan Kim 5, Shingo Maeda 6, Yoshihide Takahashi 6, Tsukasa Kamakura 7, Takeshi Aiba 7, Giulio Conte 8, Eran Leshem,9,. Michael Rahkovich,0, Yuka Mizusawa, Pieter Postema, Elena Arbelo, Zhengrong Huang, Isabelle Denjoy, Carla Giustetto 5, Yanushi Wijeyeratne 6, Carlo Napolitano 7, Aviram Hochstadt 8, Yoav Michowitz, Ramon Brugada 9, Ruben Casado-Arroyo 0, Jean Champagne, Leonardo Calo, Jacob Tfelt- Hansen, Silvia Priori 7, Masahiko Takagi, Christian Veltmann 5,. Pietro Delise 6, Domenico Corrado 7, Elijah Behr 6, Fiorenzo Gaita 5,. Gan-Xin Yan 8, Josep Brugada, Antoine Leenhardt, Arthur Wilde,. Pedro Brugada 8, Kengo Kusano 7, Kenzo Hirao 6, Gi-Byoung Nam 9,. Vincent Probst, Bernard Belhassen Department of Cardiology, Tel Aviv Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Service de Cardiologie, L institut du Thorax, CHU de Nantes, France Service de Cardiologie, LIRYC Institute, INSERM 05, Bordeaux University Hospital, France Cardiology and Vascular Disease Division, Rennes University Health Centre, France 5 Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, South Korea 6 Heart Rhythm Center, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan 7 Division of Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Japan 8 Heart Rhythm Management Center, UZ-VUB, Belgium 9 Division of Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA 0 Arrhythmia Services, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Canada Department of clinical and experimental Cardiology, Heart Center AMC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 6

41 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 Cardiovascular Institute, Hospital Clínic Pediatric Arrhythmia Unit, Hospital of Peschiera del Garda, Spain Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, China Service de Cardiologie et CNMR Maladies Cardiaques Héréditaires Rares, Hôpital Bichat, France 5 Department of Cardiology, University of Torino, Department of Medical Sciences, Città della Salute e della Scienza Hospital, Italy 6 Cardiovascular Sciences, St. George s University of London, UK 7 Molecular Cardiology, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Italy 8 Department of Internal Medicine J,, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel 9 Department of Cardiology, Institut d Investigació Biomèdica Girona-IdIBGi, Spain 0 Department of Cardiology, Erasme University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Department of Cardiology, Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Canada Division of Cardiology, Policlinico Casilino, Italy The Department of Cardiology, The Heart Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, and Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Department of Cardiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan 5 Rhythmology and Electrophysiology, Department of Cardiology, Hannover Medical School, Germany 6 Division of Cardiology, Hospital of Peschiera del Garda, Italy 7 Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova, Italy 8 Division of Cardiology, Lankenau Medical Center, USA 9 Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, South Korea 09:. Prognostic Value of J (Osborne) Waves on ECG tracing during Mild Therapeutic Hypothermia in Patients after Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (JOW trial).. Alexander Feldman,, Nahum Adam Freedberg,, Ehud Rosner,, Yoav Turgeman, Heart Institute, HaEmek Medical Center, Israel The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel 6 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

42 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 09:. Female Gender as Independent Risk Factor of Torsades De Pointes During Acquired Atrioventricular Block. Ehud Chorin, Aviram Hochstadt, Sami Viskin, Uri Rozovski, Ofer Havakuk, Adrian Baranchuk, Andres Enriquez, Boris Strasberg,. Milton E. Guevara-Valdivia, Manlio F. Márquez 5, Héctor González-Pacheco 5, Can Hasdemir 6, Raphael Rosso Cardiology, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, Kingston General Hospital and Queen s University,, Canada Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, UMAE Hospital de Especialidades Dr. Antonio Fraga Mouret, CMN La Raza IMSS, Mexico 5 Cardiology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, Mexico 6 Cardiology, Ege University School of Medicine, Turkey 09:5. Clinical Predictors of Time-to-First Appropriate Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Discharge in High-Risk Patients with Brugada Syndrome Implanted Prophylactically: Analysis of 6 Patients. Anat Milman, Antoine Andorin, Jean-Baptiste Gourraud, Frederic Sacher, Philippe Mabo, Sung-Hwan Kim 5, Shingo Maeda 6, Yoshihide Takahashi 6, Tsukasa Kamakura 7, Takeshi Aiba 7, Giulio Conte 8, Eran Leshem,9,. Michael Rahkovich,0, Yuka Mizusawa, Pieter Postema, Elena Arbelo, Zhengrong Huang, Isabelle Denjoy, Carla Giustetto 6, Carlo Napolitano 7, Aviram Hochstadt 9, Yoav Michowitz, Ramon Brugada 0, Jean Champagne, Leonardo Calo, Jacob Tfelt-Hansen, Silvia Priori 7,8, Masahiko Takagi, Christian Veltmann 5, Pietro Delise 6, Domenico Corrado 7, Elijah Behr 8, Fiorenzo Gaita 6, Gan-Xin Yan 9, Josep Brugada, Antoine Leenhardt,5,. Arthur Wilde, Pedro Brugada 8, Kengo Kusano 7, Kenzo Hirao 6,. Gi-Byoung Nam 0, Vincent Probst, Bernard Belhassen Department of Cardiology, Tel Aviv Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Service de Cardiologie, L institut du Thorax, CHU de Nantes, France Service de Cardiologie, LIRYC Institute, INSERM 05, Bordeaux University Hospital, France Cardiology and Vascular Disease Division, Rennes University Health Centre, 50 Rennes Cedex, France 5 Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, South Korea 6 Heart Rhythm Center, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan 7 Division of Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Japan 8 Heart Rhythm Management Center, UZ-VUB, Belgium April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 6

43 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 9 CardioVascular Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA 0 Arrhythmia Services, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Canada Department of clinical and experimental Cardiology, Heart Center AMC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Cardiovascular Institute, Hospital Clínic Pediatric Arrhythmia Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu University of Barcelona, Spain Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, China Service de Cardiologie et CNMR Maladies Cardiaques Héréditaires Rares, Hôpital Bichat, France 5 Service de Cardiologie, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne, France 6 Division of Cardiology, University of Torino, Department of Medical Sciences, Città della Salute e della Scienza Hospital, Italy 7 Molecular Cardiology, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Italy 8 Department of Molecular Medicin, University of Pavia, Italy 9 Department of Internal Medicine J,, Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Israel 0 Cardiovascular Genetics Center, Institut d Investigació Biomèdica Girona-IdIBGi, Spain Division of Cardiology, Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Canada Division of Cardiology, Policlinico Casilino, Italy The Department of Cardiology, The Heart Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, and Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan 5 Rhythmology and Electrophysiology, Department of Cardiology, Hannover Medical School, Germany 6 Division of Cardiology, Hospital of Peschiera del Garda, Italy 7 Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova, Italy 8 Cardiovascular Sciences, St. George s University of London, UK 9 Heart Center, Lankenau Medical Center, USA 0 Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, South Korea 6 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

44 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 08:0-0:00 S0 - Joint Session: WG on Cardiac Imaging & Society Hall H of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) Chairs: Ashraf Hamdan, Israel, Leslee Shaw, USA This session will be held in English 08:0. Cardiac CT for Management of CAD - State of the Evidence. Leslee Shaw President, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. Atlanta, GA, US 08:50. Evolution of Radiation Dose in Coronary CT Angiography: From PROTECTION I to VI. Joerg Hausleiter Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik. München, Germany 09:5. Predictors of Late Heart Failure 7-9 Years After Baseline Cardiac CT Angiography in an Asymptomatic Type Diabetic Cohort. Ayman Jubran, Ronen Rubinshtein, Barak Zafrir, Mali Azencot, Basil S. Lewis, David A. Halon Department of Cardiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Israel 09:. CT based aortic valve calcium density is a better predictor than Agatston score for immediate perivalvular leak in TAVI patients. Samer Lahham, Ronen Jaffe, Khader Nader, David A. Halon,. Avinoam Shiran, Salim Adawi, Idit Lavi, Moshe Y. Flugelman,. Ronen Rubinshtein Cardiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Israel Biostatistics, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Israel 09:. Estimation of Myocardial Extracellular Volume Fraction with Cardiac CT in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. Yoav Hammer,, Yeela Talmor-Barkan,, Ariel Gutstein,, Abid Assali,,. Gideon Shafir,, Katia Orvin,, Uri Landes,, Amos Levi,, Ziad Arow,,. Hana Vaknin-Assa,, Ran Kornowski,, Ashraf Hamdan, Cardiology department, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson/Hasharon Hospital, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Radiology department, Rabin medical center, Beilinson/Hasharon hospital, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 65

45 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 09:. Plaque Characteristic by Coronary CT Angiography Predict Abnormal Invasive Fractional Flow Reserve. Liat Friedman Granot, David A. Halon, Ronen Jaffe, Roni Molnar,. Moshe Y. Flugelman, Nathan Peled, Ronen Rubinshtein Cardiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Israel Radiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Israel 09:5. Impact of of Mitral Annulus Calcifications on Risk of Conduction Disturbances after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. Yafim Brodov,, Yafim Brodov,, Konen Eli,, David Samooha,, Israel Barbash,, Mattia Di Segni,, Victor Guetta,, Amit Segev,, Ehud Regev,, Fernando Chernomordik,, Michael Glikson, Orly Goitein, Leviev Heart Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Leviev Heart Institute, Sheba Medical center, Israel 08:0-0:00 S - Acute Cardiac Care Hall I Chairs: Doron Aronson, David Hasdai, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 08:0. Incidence of ARDS Following Cardiac Surgery: -years Longitudinal Study. Eilon Ram, Michael Segel, Ehud Raanani, Shani Levin, Leonid Sternik, Alexander Kogan Department of Cardiac Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Pulmonology Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 08:9. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in Sheba Medical Center: Trends, Outcomes, and Indications.. Slava Gezunterman,, Yaron Schwartz, Yigal Kassif, Eyal Nachum,. Alexander Lipey, Yael Haviv, Ehud Raanani, Alexander Kogan,, Jacob Lavee Department of Cardiac Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Cardiac Surgery ICU, Sheba Medical Center, Israel General ICU, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 66 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

46 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 08:8. Feasibility and Safety of Exclusive Echocardiography-Guided Intravenous Temporary Pacemaker Implantation. Aref El Nasasra, Hilmi Alnsasra, Doron Zahger, Tsahi Lerman, Sergio Kobal, Carlos Cafri, Moti Haim, Lior Fuchs, Avi Shimony Department of Cardiology, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel Department of Internal Medicine, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel 08:57. The Trouble with Troponin: Sensitivity and Patient Selection?. Jeffrey Michel,, Adam Farber, Keith Suarez Cardiology, Scott and White Memorial Hospital, USA Cardiology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, USA 09:06. Significance of Elevated Troponin Levels in Patients Admitted with Atrial Fibrillation. Yehonatan Weinberger, Shemy Carasso,, Dahud Qarawani,, Diab Ghanem,, Yevgeny Hazanov,, Offer Amir,, Wadi Kinany, Faculty of medicine, Bar-Ilan university, Israel Heart institute, Baruch-Padeh medical center, Israel 09:5. Cardiac Troponin Levels to Predict the Risk of Escalation and Mortality in Patients with Pulmonary Emboli. Israel Mazin, Roy Beigel, Romana Herschovizi, Sagit Ben Zekery,. Orly Goitein, Elad Asher, Shlomi Matetzky Intensive Cardiac Care Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Non Invasive Cardiology Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Radiology Department, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 09:. The Significance of Syncope as a Presenting Symptom among Patients with Intermediate Risk Pulmonary Embolism. Roy Beigel,, Sharon Nathanzon,, Israel Mazin,, Nir Shlomo,,. Sagit Ben-Zekery,, Orly Goitein,, Fernando Chernomordik,, Romana Herscovici,, Elad Asher,, Shlomi Matetzky, Intensive Cardiac Care Unit, Cardiovascular division, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Tel-Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine, Israel 09:. D-dimer On Admission in Pulmonary Embolism as a Marker of Disease Severity and Prognosis. Fernando Chernomordik,, Roy Beigel,, Israel Mazin,, Sharon Natanzon,,. Nir Shlomo, Romana Herscovici,, Sagit Ben Zekry,, Orly Goitein,, Elad Asher,, Shlomi Matetzky, The Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel The Israeli Association for Cardiovascular Trials, Sheba Medical Center, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 67

47 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 09:. The Impact of Aspirin Withdrawal in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients Treated with Novel PY Inhibitors - A Platelet Reactivity Study. Israel Mazin,Roy Beigel, Nurit Rozenberg, Michael Shechter, Elad Asher, Shlomi Matetzky Intensive Cardiac Care Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Institute of Thrombosis & Hemostasis, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 09:5. CHADS Score as a Predictor for Platelets Reactivity in Acute Coronary Syndrome. Arsalan Abu-Much, Elad Asher,Avi Sabbag, Israel Mazin, Moshe Katz, Eyas Massalha, Ehud Regev, Paul Fefer, Ronen Goldkorn, Roy Beigel,. Shlomi Matetzky Cardiology, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 08:0-0:00 S - Cardiomyopathy and Pulmonary Hypertension Hall J Chairs: Shemy Carasso, Andre Keren, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 08:0. Diastolic Dysfunction & Ischemic Heart Disease. Amir Lerman Mayo Clinic. Rochester, MN, USA 08:57. Impact of Left Heart Disease on Survival of Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension. Tal Hasin, Tatyana Weitsman, Rivka Farkash, Mark Klutstein, Adi Butnaru, David Rosenmann, Liat Alper-Suissa, Giora Weisz Cardiology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel 09:06. Long-term Results with Riociguat Therapy for Pulmonary Hypertension A Single Center Canadian Experience. Lyda Lesenko, Michele Giovinazzo, Andrew Hirsch, David Langleben Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease, Jewish General Hospital / McGill University, Canada 09:5. The Electrocardiographic Frontal QRS-T Angle is a Powerful Predictor of Increased Mortality in Patients with Cardiac AL Amyloidosis. Anna Turyan, Arthur Pollak, Chaim Lotan, Israel Gotsman Heart Institute, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel 68 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

48 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 09:. Anthracycline Cardiotoxicity in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Cardiovascular Risk Assessment, Monitoring and Management.. Olga Moreli, Moti Vaturi, Oren Pasvolsky, Adi Shacham, Pia Raanani,. Ran Kornowski, Zaza Iakobishvili Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Hematology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel 09:. Novel Alpk Gene Mutation Causes Cardiomyopathy. Sara Hoss, Karen Meir, Hagit Daum, Rashad Rezak, Dan Admon,. Ronen Beeri, Chaim Lotan, Ronen Durst Division of Cardiology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel Department of Pathology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel Department of Medical Genetics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 09:. Trends in Frequency and Prognosis of Post Myocardial Infarction Pericarditis in Israel: ACSIS Adi Lador,, David Hasdai,, Avital Porter,, Aviv Mager,, Ilan Goldenberg,, Nir Shlomo, Roy Beigel,, Ran Kornowski,, Zaza Iakobishvili, Department of Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel The Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 09:5. Clinical Characterization of Patients Hospitalized for Acute Myocarditis. Mady Moriel, Shmuel Gottlieb, David Rosenmann, Adi Butnaru, Marc Klutstein, Rivka Farkash, Giora Weisz, Arik Wolak Cardiology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel 08:0-0:00 S - Cellular and Molecular Innovations in Cardiovascular Science Hall Chairs: Moshe Flugelman, Jonathan Leor, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 08:0. Combining Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Derived Cardiac monolayers, CRISPR-based Genome Editing, and Optical Mapping of Rotors to Study the Short QT Syndrome. Rami Shinnawi, Naim Shaheen, Assad Shiti, Irit Huber, Gil Arbel,. Amira Gepstein, Anke Tijsen, Reiner Schimpf, Martin Boggrefe,. Lior Gepstein, The Sohnis Family Laboratory for Cardiac Electrophysiology and Regenerative Medicine, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion- Institute of Technology, Israel Department of Cardiology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel Department of Medicine, University Hospital Manheim, Germany April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 69

49 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 08:9. The Contractile Apparatus Factory: Sarcomere Assembly in Cardiomyocytes is Facilitated by mrna Localization, on-site Protein Synthesis, and Degradation of Mislocalized Protein. Yair Lewis, Lilac Caspi, Anner Moskovitz, Izhak Kehat Department of Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 08:8. Mapping of Cardiac Enhancers Reveals the Cooperative Regulation of Cardiac Transcription. Tal Golan Lagziel, Guy Douvdevany, Yair Lewis, Lilac Caspi, Izhak Kehat, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel The research Institute and the department of cardiology, Rambam Medical Center, Israel 08:57. A Deletion Mutation in Na v.5 Impairs Calmodulin Interactions and Current Properties in a Compound Heterozygote Patient with Severe Conduction Disease. Shimrit Oz, Eyal Nof, Leonid Vysochek, Elena Burashnikov,. Charles Antzelevitch, David Luria, Michael Glikson Cardiology, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, USA Cardiology, Hadassah Medical Center, Israel 09:06. The Longevity Gene Sirtuin 6 Switches Macrophages into an Anti- Inflammatory Phenotype and Improves Cardiac Function after Myocardial Infarction in Mice.. La-Paz Levin,,, Uri Amit,,, Tammy Ben-Mordechai,,, Dahlia Palevski,,, Nataly Molotski,,, Radka Holbova,,, Yariv Kanfi, Haim.Y Cohen,. Jonathan Leor,, Tamman Cardiovascular Research Institute, Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Sheba Center for Regenerative Medicine, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel 70 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

50 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 09:5. Caloric Restriction Attenuates Cardiomyopathy in Diabetic Mice through the Activation of SIRT, PGC-α HO- axis. Maayan Waldman,, Keren Cohen,, Nader G Abraham,. Michal Laniado-Schwartzman, Danny Gurfield, Dan Aravot, Michael Arad, Edith Hochhauser Cardiac Research Laboratory,, Felsenstein Medical Research Institute, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel, Israel Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College, USA 09:. Optogenetic Control of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes (hipsc-cms). Amit Gruber, Naim Shaheen, Idit Goldfracht, Assad Shiti, Irit Huber, Gil Arbel, Amira Gepstein, Lior Gepstein, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion, Israel Department of Cardiology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel 09:. Chronic Kidney Disease Initiates AngII-depended Cardiac Mitochondrial Dysfunction. Einat Bigelman,, Michal Entin-Meer, Lena Cohen,, Genya Aharon-Hananel, Ran Levy, Ann Saada (Reisch), Jeremy Ben-Shoshan, Gad Keren The Laboratory of Cardiovascular Research, Department of Cardiology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Department of Genetic and Metabolic Diseases, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 09:. TLR-Deficiency Prevents Inflammatory Polarization in Cardiac Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Increases their Reparative Properties in Cell-Therapy after MI. Nili Naftali-Shani,,, La-Paz Levin-Kotler,,, Dahlia Palevski,,, Uri Amit,,, David Kain,,, Natalie Landa,,, Edith Hochhauser, Jonathan Leor,, Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Sackler faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Tamman Cardiovascular Research Institute, Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Sheba Center for Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering, Sheba Medical Center, Israel The Cardiac Research Laboratory, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Rabin Medical Center, Tel-Aviv University, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 7

51 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 09:5. Cardiac-Specific Overexpression of Transcription Factor JunD Leads to Enlarged Infarct. Alexander Akhmedov, Fabrizio Montecucco,, Ariane Schaub Clerigue, Giovanni G. Camici, François Mach, Thomas F. Luescher, Center for Molecular Cardiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland Division of Cardiology, University of Geneva, Switzerland Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa School of Medicine, Italy Division of Cardiology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland 08:0-0:00 S - Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Prevention, Rehabilitation Hall and Pharmacotherapy- II Chairs: Simcha Rosenblatt, Joseph Shemesh, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 08:0. Treatment with Bezafibrate is Associated with Reduced Risk of Cancer in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease. Zaza Iakobishvili, Robert Klempfner, Nir Shlomo, Ilan Goldenberg,, Ronen Brener, Tal Hasin 6, Ran Kornowski, Yariv Gerber 5 Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, Sheba Medical Center, Israel The Israeli Association for Cardiovascular Trials, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Oncology, Wolfson Medical Center, Israel 5 Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 6 Cardiology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel 08:9. Clinical Features and Gaps in the Management of Familial Hypercholesterolemia with Prevalent Cardiovascular Disease. Ayman Jubran, Chen Shapira, Gil Lavie, Moshe Y Flugelman, David A Halon, Barak Zafrir Departments of Cardiology and Medicine, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Israel Haifa and Western Galilee District, Clalit Health Services, Israel 08:8. Creating a Prediction Model to Identify Patients at High Risk of undetected Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation. Hagay Weinberg, Orna Reges, Morton Leibowitz, Moshe Hoshen,. Ran Balicer, Moti Haim,, Research Institute, Clalit Health Services, Israel Cardiology Department, Soroka Medical Center, Israel Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Israel 7 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

52 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 08:57. Establishment of a Retrospective Study Cohort of Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation (NVAF) Patients in Maccabi Healthcare Services, : A Database Study. Dahlia Weitzman,, Gabriel Chodick,, Varda Shalev,, Alex Battler Maccabitech, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel 09:06. Cardiovascular Health and Subsequent Cognitive Impairment and Decline in Coronary Heart Disease Patients. Uri Goldbourt,, Miri Luzki,,, Galit Weinstein, David Tanne, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Sackler Medical Faculty, Tel Aviv University, Israel Joseph Sagol Neuroscience Center, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel Center for Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Israel 09:5. Impaired Fasting Glucose is the Major Determinant of the 0-year Mortality Risk Associated with Metabolic Syndrome in Non-Diabetic Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease. Arwa Younis, Ilan Goldenberg, Diklah Geva, Boaz Tzur, Anan Younis,. Zvi Fisman, Alexander Tannenbaum, Robert Klempfner Leviev heart center, Sheba medical center, Israel 09:. MyoK + ardial infarction: Changes in K + Levels are Associated with Inhospital Mortality of Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients. Soroka Acute Myocardial Infarction II (SAMI-II) project. Arthur Shiyovich, Harel Gilutz, Ygal Plakht Medicine E, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Israel Cardiology Department, Soroka University Medical Center & Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 09:. Temporal Trends in Management and Outcomes of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome According to Renal Function. Mony Shuvy, Shmuel Chen, Dina Vorobeichik, Eilon Krashin,, Nir Shlomo, Ilan Goldenberg, David Pereg Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centre, Heart Institute, Israel Sheba Medical Center, Department of Cardiology, Israel Meir Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine A and Cardiology Department, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 7

53 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 09:. Health Utilization Patterns Prior to Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Mony Shuvy,,, Maria Koh,, Scales Damon, Timothy Chan,. Sheldon Cheskes, Paul Dorian, Steven Brooks, Steve Lin, Feng Qiu,,. Laurie Morrison5, Dennis Ko,. Heart Institute, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel. Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Canada. Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. 5Rescu, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael s Hospital, Canada 09:5. Blood Pressure Control in Real Clinical Practice: Essential and Renoparenchymal Arterial Hypertension. Ganna Radchenko, Tetyana Slascheva, Yuriy Sirenko Secondary hypertension, NSC Institute of Cardiology, Ukraine 0:00-0:0 Coffee Break, Exhibition & Poster Visit Exhibition Area 0:0-:0 PL - Plenary III - nd Ceremony & Joint Session: American Hall ABC College of Cardiology (ACC) - Israel Heart Society (IHS) Chairs: Michael Glikson, Ronen Rubinshtein, Israel Heart Society Gil Bolotin, Erez Kachel, The Plenary will be held both in English and Hebrew 0:0-:0. Scholarship & Awards of the Israel Heart Society Jan J. Kellerman Young Investigator in Cardiology Award Daniel Shiran Outstanding Cardiology Resident Award Best Publications Awards Outstanding Abstract Award Incoming IHS President, Ran Kornowski - Address to the Assembly Scholarship & Awards of the Israel Society of CardioThoracic Surgery :0-:0 Joint Session: American College of Cardiology (ACC) - Israel Heart Society (IHS) Chairs: Yoseph Rozenman, Ran Kornowski,Israel, C. Michael Valentine, John Rumsfeld, USA 7 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

54 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 :0-:0. The State of Genetic Testing for CMs and Channelopathies. Michael J. Ackerman Mayo Clinic. Rochester, MN, USA :0-:50. NCDR Registry for Cardiac Interventions. C. Michael Valentine Vice President, American College of Cardiology Lynchburg, VA, USA :50-:0. The Future of Diagnostic Coronary Angiography: Invasive or Non- Invasive? Giora Weisz Jerusalem, Israel :0-:0. Evaluation of Symptomatic Women with Stable Ischemic Heart Disease. Leslee Shaw President, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. Atlanta, GA, US :0-:0 Lunch Break, Exhibition & Poster Visit Exhibition Area :0-:0 LS - Lunch Satellite Session- Boehringer Inglheim Hall H Uninterrupted Anticoagulation and Interventional Cardiology Procedures in the NOAC Era...Do I Need to Stop It? Panel chairperson: Professor Yoseph Rozenman, MSc, MD, FESC, FACC Head Cardiovascular Institute The Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Immediate Past President, Israel Heart Society, Holon, Israel :0-:00. Lunch first and main courses :00-:0. Uninterrupted anticoagulation during interventional cardiology procedures. Professor Shlomi Matetzky. Head, Department of ICCU Deputy Chief, Cardiology Division The Haim Sheba Medical center. Ramat Gan, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 75

55 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 :0-:0. AF ablation and periprocedural anticoagulation in the reversal agent era.... Dr. David Luria. Director Arrhythmia & Pacemaker Unit Hadassah Medical Center :0-:0. NOACs during PCI. Prof. Amit Segev MD, FESC, FACC. Director, Division of Cardiology Chaim Sheba Medical Centre Tel Hashomer, Israel. Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University :0-:5. Uninterrupted anticoagulation and interventional cardiology procedures in the NOAC Era... Do I need to stop it? Panel discussion/ Q&A :5-:0. EMPA REG OUTCOME From Theory to Practice. Dr. Eldor Roy. Director of the Diabetes Unit at the Institute of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Hypertension, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Cente :0-:0 LS5 - Lunch Satellite Session- Astrazeneca Hall I Decision Making in a Dynamic Environment Decision Making in a Dynamic Environment :0 - :50. Lunch First Course :50 - :55. Opening. Dr. Sa'ar Minha. Director, Urgent Interventional Cardiology Service, Assaf Harofeh :55 -:05. Novel Ways of Administrating Anti Aggregant in ACS Patients. Dr. Elad Asher MD MHA. Intensive Care and Interventional Cardiology, Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center :05 - :5. Psychology of Decision Making: I think, There for I Err. Dr Haim Shapira PhD :5 - :00. Panel Discussion/Q&A :00 - :0. Lunch 76 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

56 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 :0-:0 LS6 - Lunch Satellite Session- Novo Nordisk Hall J A new Horizon in the Treatment of the Cardio Metabolic patient :0-:00. Lunch first and main courses :00-:0. Beyond Glucose Control - Liraglutide treatment leading to CV risk reduction (LEADER trial). Prof. Hilla Konbler. Head, Institute of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism ; Kaplan Medical Center :0-:55. Beyond the SCALE Liraglutide mg in the treatment of obesity (SCALE trial). Prof. Naim Shehadeh. Director, Institute of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism Rambam Health Care Campus Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa Head, High risk population committee, Israel National Diabetes Council Ministry of Health :55-:0.Q&A :0-6:00 PL - IV - Joint Session: American Heart Association Hall ABC (AHA) - Israel Heart Society (IHS) Chairs: Steven R. Houser, USA, Kathryn Taubert, Switzerland, Ronen Rubinshtein, Gil Bolotin, Israel The Plenary will be held both in English and Hebrew :0-:50. Cardiac Repair After Injury. Steven R. Houser President, American Heart Association. Philadelphia, PA, US :50-5:0. Tricuspid Valve Diseases. Yan Topilsky Tel Aviv, Israel 5:0-5:0. Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists in Patients with Heart Failure Bertram Pitt. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI, USA 5:0-5:50. The History and Development of Cardiac Replacement. Francisco A. Arabía Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, CA, USA April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 77

57 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 6:00-6:0 Coffee Break, Exhibition & Poster Visit Exhibition Area 6:0-8:00 S5 - What is New with ESC Guidelines - Cardiovascular Disease Hall H Prevention & Dyslipidemia Chairs: Michael Shechter, Joseph Shemesh, Israel This Session will be held both in Hebrew and English 6:0-7:5. I - Cardiovascular Disease Prevention 6:0-6:. Cardiovascular Risk Assessment Yaakov Henkin Beer Sheva, Israel 6:5-7:00. Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice Barak Zafrir. Haifa, Israel 7:00-7:5. Panel Discussion 7:5-8:00. II - Dyslipidemia 7:5-7:5. 06 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the Management of Dyslipidemias: What is new? Rafael Bitzur Tel Hashomer, Israel 7:5-7:55. The American Guidelines Different Approach to Hyperlipidemia Norman Lepor Immediate Past President, American College of Cardiology CA Chapter. Los Angeles, CA, US 7:55-8:00. Q&A 6:0-8:00 S6 - What is New with ESC Guidelines - Atrial Fibrillation Hall I & Congestive Heart Failure Chairs: Jean Mark Weinstein, Nahum Freedberg, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 6:0-7:5. I - Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines 6:0-6:5. Epidemiology, Detection, Classification, Risk Stratification and Stroke Prevention. Mahmoud Suleiman. Haifa, Israel 78 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

58 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 6:5-7:00. Rate Control, Pharmacologic and Non-Pharmacologic Rhythm Control Roy Beinart. Tel Hashomer, Israel 7:00-7:5. Panel Discussion 7:5-8:00. II - Heart Failure Guidelines 7:5-7:0. Definition, Diagnosis, Classification, Imaging and Prevention of Congestive Heart Failure Israel Gotsman. Jerusalem, Israel 7:0-7:5. Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure Offer Amir. Poriya, Israel 7:5-8:00. Panel Discussion 6:0-8:00 S7 - What is New in the ESC Guidelines - Cardio-Oncology, Hall J Pulmonary Hypertension & Pericardial Disease Chairs: Shemy Carasso, Daniel Monakier, Israel This Session will be held in Hebrew 6:0-6:50. I - Cardio-Oncology. Zaza Iakobishvili. Petach Tikva, Israel 6:50-7:00.Q&A 7:00-7:0. II - Pulmonary Hypertension. Jonathan Buber. Tel Hashomer, Israel 7:0-7:0.Q&A 7:0-7:50. III - Pericardial Disease. Yehuda Adler. Tel Hashomer, Israel 7:50-8:00.Q&A April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 79

59 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 POSTERS SESSION PS- Cardiac Imaging.. Anatomical Aspects of Arterial Blood Supply to Sino-Atrial Node of the Human Heart Malka Yahalom, Ehud Rozner, Ofir Koren, Yoav Turgeman, Heart Institute, HaEmek Medical Center, Israel Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel.. Relationship Between HDL-Cholesterol and Extent of Coronary Atherosclerosis in Contemporary Era Igor Volodarsky, Gera Gandelman, Michael Jonas, Leon Poles, Sara Shimoni, Valery Meledin, Nick Teodorovich, Jacob George Heart Center, Kaplan Medical Center, Israel PS- Cardiothoracic Surgery.. Comparsion of Results in Healing after Great Saphenous Vein Harvesting for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. Conventional Open Versus Pedicled Vein Harvesting Jakub Konecny, Martin Simek, Ales Klvacek, Vladimir Lonsky, Petr Santavy Cardiac Surgery Department, University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.. Conservative Pro-erythrogenic Therapy in Ultra-Restrictive Patient Blood Management in Cardiac Surgery Pierre Tibi, Jared Head, Scott Harrison, Kathi Fairman, Lindsey Davis, Jeff Anderson, Jeff Brown, Jose Torres Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yavapai Regional Medical Center, USA 5.. Evidence of Microstructural Brain Injury after Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Anatomical Distribution and Correlation with Postoperative Neurocognitive Dysfunction Dan Abrahamov, Oren Lev-Ran, Sharon Naparstek, Mahmoud Abu Salah, Yaron Ishai, Mordechai Salti, Gideon Sahar, Yael Refaeli The Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel 6.. Heart Team Decision Making: Initial Experience in an Overcrowded Medical Center Eli Yohanan, Avshalom Cohen, Miri Merkin, Gabriel Rosenstein, Yaron Ishay, Gideon Sahar, Jean Marc Weinstein, Yuri Kalishian, Doron Zahger, Carlos Cafri Department of Medicine, Ben Gurion University, Israel Department of Cardiology, Soroka Medical Center, Israel Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Soroka Medical Center, Israel 80 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

60 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 POSTERS SESSION 7.. Renal Cell Carcinoma with Extension to the Right Atrium: Operative Strategy and Results Israel Kuznitz, Jack Baniel, Benjamin Medalion, Roy Mano, Victor Rubchevsky, Eitan Snir, Dan Aravot, Ram Sharony Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Urology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel 8.. Surgical Experience with Chronic Invasive Constrictive Pericarditis in an African Setting: A 5 Year Retrospective Review Elias Zigiriadis,,Ghassan Faqaawi, Katerina Van der donck, Atulkhumar Patel Cardiothoracic Surgery, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital, South Africa Cardiothoracic Surgery, Elias Zigiriadis, South Africa PS- Echocardiography and Valvular Diseases 9.. Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Pregnant Women Suffering from Dyspnea. Sergey Yalonetsky, Asad Choury, Bilal Shchade, Moshe Dotan, Avraham Lorber Cardiology, Rambam Healthcare Campus, Israel 0.. Prevalence and Clinical Significance of Restrictive Filling Pattern Among Patients Undergoing a Routine Echocardiographic Examination Marina Levitan, Zvi Vered,, Marina Leitman, Cardiology, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Israel Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.. Speckle Tracking Imaging in Pericarditis/Myocarditis Marina Leitman,, Laurian Copel,, Boris Macogon,, Eli Peleg,, Gil Moravsky, Gil Moravsky,, Zvi Vered, Cardiology, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Israel Radiology, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Israel Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel PS- Heart Failure.. Clinical and Echocardiographic Characteristics of Patients with Heart failure and Mildly Reduced Ejection Fraction Nizar Andria,, Yevgeni Hazanov,, Diab Ghanim,, Wadi Kinany,, Offer Amir,,. Shemy Carasso, Cardiovascular Institute, B Padeh Medical Center, Israel Faculty of Medicine in The Galilee, Bar Ilan University, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 8

61 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 POSTERS SESSION.. Echocardiographic Assessment of Hemodynamics Revisited: Comparison to Right Heart Catheterization Measurements Wadi Kinany,, Yevgeni Hazanov,, Fabio Kusniec,, Khaled Taha, Yusra Halahla, Offer Amir,, Shemy Carasso, Cardiovascular Institute, B Padeh Medical Center, Israel Faculty of Medicine in The Galilee, Bar Ilan University, Israel.. Improvement of Pulmonary Pressure Associates with Better Survival in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension due to Left Heart Disease Tatyana Weitsman, Giora Weisz, Rivka Farkash, Mark Klutstein, Adi Butnaru, David Rosenmann, Liat Alper-Suissa, Tal Hasin Cardiology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel 5.. Is there a Significant Gender Bias in Treatment among Ambulatory Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction in the Real World Scenario? Avital Porter, Daniel Murninkas, Zaza Iakobishvili, Henry Jino, Shlomo Birkenfeld, David Hasdai Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center- Beilinson, Israel Heart Failure Unit, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv-Jaffa District, Israel 6.. Metformin Treatment after Heart Transplantation is Associated with Reduced Malignancy Rate Yael Peled, Jacob Lavee, Eugenia Raichlin, Moshe Katz, Michael Arad, Yedida Shemesh, Yigal Kassif, Elad Asher, Dan Elian, Yedael Har-Zahav, Nir Shlomo, Ilan Goldenberg, Dov Freimark, Robert Klempfner Heart Failure Institute and Heart Transplantation Unit, Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, Israel Heart Failure, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA 7.. Safety and Efficacy of Combination of Sildenafil, Inhaled Iloprost and Nitric Oxide for the Treatment of Right Ventricular Failure Following Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation Eilon Ram, Sergey Preisman, Jacob Lavee, Yigal Kassif, Alexander Lipey,. Leonid Sternik, Ehud Raanani, Alexander Kogan Cardiac Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel Anesthesiology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel 8 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

62 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 POSTERS SESSION 8.. The Association Between Elevated Admission Serum Potassium Levels and -year and 0-Year all-cause Mortality among Patients Hospitalized with Heart Failure. Anan Younis, Ilan Goldenberg,,, Ronen Goldkorn, Arwa Younis, Yael Peled, Boaz Tzur, Robert Klempfner, Cardiology, The Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel Cardiology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Gan, Israel Cardiology, Heart Research Follow-up Program, Heart Research Follow-up Program, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY USA 9.. The Potential Use of Ivabradine Among Ambulatory Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction in The Real World Scenario Daniel Murninkas, Zaza Iakobishvili, Avital Porter, Henry Jino, Shlomo Birkenfeld, David Hasdai Heart Failure Unit, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv-Jaffa District, Israel 0.. The Potential use of Sacubitril/Valsartan (Entresto ) among Ambulatory Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction in the real World Scenario Zaza Iakobishvili, Daniel Murninkas, Avital Porter, Henry Jino, Shlomo Birkenfeld, David Hasdai Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center- Beilinson, Israel Heart Failure Unit, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv-Jaffa District, Israel PS5- Intensive Care.. Gender Differences In Normal-Range High Sensitive Troponin Among Patients With Acute Chest Pain Avital Porter, Baha Atamna, Alon Eisen, Zaza Iakobishvilli, Katia Orvin, Ran Kornowski, David Hasdai Cardiology, Intensive Cardiac Care Unit, Israel.. Mild Therapeutic Hypothermia in Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Due to Ventricular Fibrillation: Reassessment Ofir Koren, Dante Antoneli, Ehud Rozner, Yoav Turgeman, Heart Institute, HaEmek MC, Israel Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 8

63 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 POSTERS SESSION.. Relationship between Coronary Artery Blood Flow and Left Ventricular Diastolic Function After ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Dawod Sharif,, Habib Abu Shqara, Yasmine Sharif, Amal Sharif-Rasslan, Uri Rosenschein, Cardiology, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Israel Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Mathematics, The Academic Arab College, Israel.. Temporal Trends in Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Patients Presenting with Acute Myocardial Infarction. Soroka Acute Myocardial Infarction ii (sami-ii) Project Abeer Abu Eid, Arthur Shiyovich, Harel Gilutz,,, Ygal Plakht, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Department of Internal Medicine E, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Israel Soroka University Medical Center, Soroka Hospital, Israel Department of Medicine, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Faculty of Health Sciences, Israel PS6- Interventional Cardiology 5.. A New Approach for Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement in Native Mitral Valve Disease with Severe MAC Andrada Bogdan, Lucian Dorobantu, Jan Harnek, Cristina Caldararu, Stefan Bogdan, Oana Ghenu, Maria Alexandrescu, Adrian Linte, Serban Balanescu Interventional Cardiology Department, Monza Hospital, Romania Department of Cardiology, Lund University, Sweden 6.. Clinical Outcome of Octogenarian Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography or Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Retrospective Single Center Study Alla Lubovich, Tal Zivan, Uri Rosenschein Cardiology, Western Galilee Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Israel Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel 7.. Complex Peripheral Lesions Treated via Radial Approach Doron Sudarsky, Menachem Nahir, Ofir Koren, Yoav Turgeman, Heart Institute, Ha Emek Medical Center, Israel Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel 8 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

64 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 POSTERS SESSION 8.. Door to Balloon Time Process Analysis and Interventions to Increase Ratio of a Quality Measure Lion Poles, Gera Gandelman, Michael Jonas, Svetlana Sandler, Kobi George Heart Institute, Kaplan Medical Center, Israel Emergency Department, Kaplan Medical Center, Israel 9.. Efficacy and Safety of the GuideLiner Catheter: Experience from our Hospital Jonathan Koslowsky, Yaron Almagor, Rivka Farkash, Jonathan Balkin, Adi Butnaru,. Dimitri Dratva, Zahi Khoury, Michael Ilan, Rami Jubeh, Marc Klutstein, Aharon Medina, Mady Moriel, David Rosenmann, Joseph Shaheen, Rafi Wolff, Giora Weisz Department of Cardiology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 0.. Iatrogenic Catheter Induced Dissection of the Coronary Arteries. An old Complication Revisited. Avshalom Cohen, Vladimir Zeldetz, Amjad Abu Salman, Gabriel Rosenstein,. Doron Zahger, Carlos Cafri Department of Cardiology, Soroka Medical Center, Israel Emergency Medicine Department, Soroka Medical Center, Israel.. Left Main Nightmare: Making the Tough Calls Alessandro Lupi, Alon Schaffer, Angelo Sante Bongo Cardiology, Castelli Hospital, Italy Cardiology, Istituto Auxologico Piancavallo, Italy Cardiology, Azienda Maggiore Della Carità, Italy.. Long Term Prognosis of Elderly Patients with St-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Guy Topaz, Ariel Finkelstein, Nir Flint, Yacov Shacham, Shmuel Banai, Arie Steinvil,. Yaron Arbel, Gad Keren, Lior Yankelson Department of Cardiology, Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Israel.. Outcome After Drug-Eluting Stents for Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy Gerard Helft, Yann Rosamel, Shaida Varnous, Guillaume Coutance, Nadjib Hammoudi, Olivier Barthelemy, Emmanuel Berman, Pascal Leprince, Claude Le Feuvre Cardiology, Cardiology Institute, France.. Percutaneous Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale is Associated with Lower Incidence Cryptogenic Strokes among patients with Inherited Thrombophialias Treated with Anticoagulant or Antiaggregant Therapy Yonatan Buber, David Orion, Ori Vaturi, Aharon Lubetsky, Victor Guetta Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Department of Neurology, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Thrombosis Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 85

65 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 POSTERS SESSION 5.. Rescue MitraClip Therapy in Critically Ill Patients with Refractory Heart Failure Anna Turyan, Ivailo Tonchev, Haim Danenberg, Ronen Beeri, Mony Shuvy Heart Institute, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel PS7- Myocardial/Pericardial Diseases 6.. Does Colchicine Decrease the Rate of Recurrence of Acute Idiopathic Pericarditis Treated with Glucocorticoids? Aviv Mager,, Yeela Talmor,, Chava Chezar Azerrad,, Zaza Iakobishvili,, Avital Porter,, Ran Kornowski,, David Hasdai, Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center- Beilinson Hospital, Israel 7.. Effects of Diabetes Mellitus on Clinical Profile and Functional Capacity in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Yishay Wasserstrum,, Robert Klempfner,, Avi Sabbag,, Ilan Goldenberg,, Dov Freimark,, Yehuda Adler,, Michael Arad, Leviev Heart Center, Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Tel-Ha Shomer, Israel Management, Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Tel-Ha Shomer, Israel Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel 8.. The Association Between Giant Cell Arteritis and Pericarditis: A Big Data Analysis Shmuel Tiosano,, Yarden Yavne,, Omer Gendelman,, Shir Azrielant,, Doron Comaneshter, Arnon Cohen,, Howard Amital, Internal Medicine B, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Chief Physician s Office, Clalit Health Services, Israel Siaal Research Center for Family Medicine and Primary Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel PS8- Pacing and Electrophysiology 9.. Perioperative Atrial Fibrillation is Associated with Increased One-year Mortality in Elderly Patients Undergoing Repair of Hip Fracture David Leibowitz,, Chen Abitbol,, Ronny Alcalai,, Gurion Rivkin, Leonid Kandel Orthopedics, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 86 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

66 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 POSTERS SESSION 0.. The Incidence of Venous Stenosis in Patients with Chronic Implanted Electronic Devices (CIED) Gerald Kaye, Jason Davis, Paul Gould, John Hill, Benjamin Pearch, Andrew Claughton Department of Cardiology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia Department of Cardiology, Princess Alexandra Hospital and University of Queensland Medical School, Australia Department of Radiology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia Department of Cardiology, Princess Alexandra Hospital and University of Queensland Medical School, Australia.. The Safety and Efficacy of the Linox Smart S DX ICD lead Ibrahim Marai, Rafael Diamante, Eyal Nof, Roye Beinart, Osnat Gurevitz, David Barlev, Igor Lipchenka, Ofer Rap, Michael Glikson Davidai Arrhythmia Center, Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Cardiac Devices, MEDLAB, Israel PS9- Pediatric Cardiology/Adult Congenital.. Clinical Profile of Danon Disease in Europe Dor Lotan, Yehuda Adler, Michael Arad, Yehuda Adler Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Management, Sheba Medical Center, Israel.. Superior Vena Cava - Right Atrium Junction Flow Pattern post Trancatheter Patent Foramen Ovale Closure Sergey Yalonetsky, Roi Tal, Doron Aharonson, Gil Gross, Avraham Lorber Cardiology division,adult Congenital Heart Service, Rambam Healthcare Campus, Israel.. The Management Manner and Factors Analyze for Stress-induced Hypertension in Adults with Aortic Dissection (Stanford type A) After Bentall or Improved-Cabrol of Cardiac Surgery Zheng Jia,,,, Qian Liu 5, Zheng-jiang Xing,,,, Jie Wei,,,, Hong-lin Zou,,,, Ya-xiong Li,,,, Fan-di Meng,,, Department of Cardiac Surgery Intensive Unit Care, Kunming Medical University of Yan an Hospital Affiliated, China Department of Cardiac Surgery Intensive Unit Care, Yan an Hospital of Kunming City, China Department of Cardiac Surgery Intensive Unit Care, Cardiovascular disease hospital of Yunnan Provence, China Department of Cardiac Surgery Intensive Unit Care, Cardiovascular Surgery Research Institute of Yunnan Provence, China 5 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kunming General Hospital of Military Command, China April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 87

67 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 POSTERS SESSION 5.. Transcatheter Septation of a Sinus Venosus ASD with Partial Anomalous PulmonaryVenous Drainage Gur Mainzer,, Antony Hermuzi, Pimpak Prachasilchai, Mari Nieves, Nick Byrne, Israel Valverde, Shakeel Qureshi, Eric Rosenthal Pediatric Cardiology, Evelina London Children s Hospital, UK PS0-Pharmacotherapy and Cardiac Pharmacology 6.. Hemodynamic Changes In Men Treated With Lisinopril And Hydrochlorothiazide During A Two-Year Follow-Up Vesna Stojanov, Nenad Radivojević, Katarina Paunović, Branko Jakovljević Multidisciplinary Center for Polyclinic Diagnostics, Assessment and Treatment of Blood Pressure Disorders, Clinic for Cardiology, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Serbia Institute of Hygiene and Medical Ecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia PS- Prevention and Risk Factors/Epidemiology/Rehabilitation 7..Clinical Predictors for Developing Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Reduction During Cancer Therapy Michal Laufer Perl, Gad Keren, Dor Ravid, Nadav Amrami, Yan Topilsky, Yaron Arbel Cardiology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel 8.. Diminished Excretion of Cholesterol in the Bile - Independent Risk Factor for Coronary Artery Disease Karyn Geiger, Ori Argov, Ori Rogowski, Gideon Charach Department of Internal Medicine C, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel 9.. Endothelial Function, Insulin Resistance, Adiponectin Level in Hypertensive Females with Rheumatoid Arthritis and its Correction with L-Arginine Aspartate Sirenko Oksana, Olexander Kuryata Innere Medicine #, SE Dnipropetrovsk medical academy, Ukraine 50.. Evaluation of the Padua Prediction Score`s Ability to Predict the Risk of Vte Development in Patients Hospitalized in Internal Medicine Departments Ofir Koren, Lee Goldstein, Yoav Turgeman, Heart Institute, HaEmek MC, Israel Internal Medicine C, HaEmek MC, Israel Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel 88 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

68 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 POSTERS SESSION 5.. Is there an Association between Early Repolarization Syndrome and Migraine? Athletes Screening Tests Results Eugeny Radzishevsky, Ehud Goldhammer,,, Liran Berdichansky, Alon Tanchilevitch, Uri Rosenschein,, Cardiology, Bnai Zion, Israel Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel 5.. Prevalence and Significance of Unrecognized Renal Dysfunction in Patients with Stroke David Pereg, Zach Rozenbaum, Dina Vorobeichik, Nir Shlomo, Morris Mosseri, David Tanne Cardiology, Meir Medical Center, Israel Department of Internal Medicine D, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel IACT- Israeli Association for Cardiovascular Trials, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer,, Israel Sagol Neuroscience Center,, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer,, Israel 5.. Sodium levels and changes throughout an admission with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are markers of in-hospital mortality. Soroka Acute Myocardial Infarction II (SAMI-II) project. Ygal Plakht, Harel Gilutz, Arthur Shiyovich Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka University Medical Center, Israel Internal Medicine E, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Israel 5.. STEMI and the City: Myocardial Infarction and Socioeconomic Status in Jerusalem Mordechai Golomb, Giora Weisz, Sara Hoss, Chaim Lotan, Haim D. Danenbeg Department of Cardiology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel Department of Cardiology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel 55.. The Association of Body Mass Index and 0-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease Anan Younis, Arwa Younis, Ilan Goldenberg,,, Ronen Goldkorn, Yael Peled, Boaz Tzur, Robert Klempfner, Cardiology, The Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Sheba Road, 560 Ramat Gan, Israel. Sakler School of Medicine, Sakler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Gan, Israel. Heart Research Follow-up Program, Heart Research Follow-up Program, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY USA April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 89

69 TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 07 POSTERS SESSION 56.. The Correlation Between Advanced Coronary Artery Disease and Epicardial Adipose Tissue Characteristics in Echocardiography Jebrin Alkrinawi, Chaim Yosefy, Ornit Cohen, Ronen Toledano, Avishag Laish-Farkash Cardiology Department, Barzilai Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Clinical Research Center, Soroka Medical Center, Israel Cardiology department, Rambam Medical Center, Israel 57.. The Importance of Couple Psychological- Intervention in Women Referred to the Women`s Heart Clinic Yishay Manor, Irit Heruti, Adi Stensil, Ilana Gezel, Ran Kornowski, Avital Porter Cardilogy, Women s Heart Clinic, Israel Psychology, Women s Heart Clinic, Israel 90 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

70 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 POSTERS SESSION PS- Basic Science 58.. Biohybrid Cardiac ECM-Based Hydrogels for Cardiac Regeneration Yael Efraim, Hadar Sarig, Marcelle Machluf Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (C.R.E.A.T.E.), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 59.. Characterization of the Key Roles of the Extracellular Matrix in Cardiac Diastolic Function by using Reverse Engineering (Matrix Degradation). Amir Landesberg, Kostya Bagrov Biomedical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 60.. Delayed QTc Prolongation Following Organophosphate Poisoning in a Rat Model Arthur Shiyovich, Ran Matot, Sigal Elyagon, Noah Liel-Cohen, Yossi Rosman, Shai Shrot, Micha Kassirer, Amos Katz 5, Yoram Etzion Medicine E, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Israel CBRN, Medical Corps HQ, IDF, Tel-Hashomer Base, Israel Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Laboratory, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Cardiology, Soroka University Medical Center & Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 5 Cardiology, Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon & Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,, Israel 6.. Distribution of Corin and PCSK6 in Cardiac and Kidney Tissue; Experimental Model of Cardio-Renal Syndrome Emad Khoury, Safa Kinaneh, Aronson Doron, Amir Offer,5, Ganem Diab, Natalia Volinsky, Zaher Azzam,6, Zaid Abassi, Department of Physiology, Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Department of Cardiology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel Cardio-Vascular Department, Baruch Padeh Medical Center, Israel Department of Laboratory Medicine, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel 5 Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 6 Internal Medicine B, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 9

71 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 POSTERS SESSION 6.. Energetic Indices can Identify The Turnover from Adaptive Response to Irreversible Decompensation In Rat Model Of Volume-Overload Heart Failure Maya Kovalevsky, Zaid Abassi, Amir Landesberg Biomedical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 6.. GDF Worsens Myocardial Infarction Outcome in Ischemia and Reperfusion Alexander Akhmedov, Fabrizio Montecucco,, Daria Vdovenko, Nicole Bonetti, Candela Diaz Canestro, Giovanni G. Camici, Ariane Schaub Clerigue, François Mach, Thomas F. Luescher, Center for Molecular Cardiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland Division of Cardiology, University of Geneva, Switzerland Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa School of Medicine, Italy Division of Cardiology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland 6.. Identification of Protective Biologic Factors in High-Risk Patients with Multiple Risk Factors, But Normal Coronary Arteries Aviv A. Shaul,, Dorit Leshem-Lev,, Ashraf Hamdan,, Ariel Gutstein,, Yeela Talmor- Barkan,, Amos Levi,, Ran Kornowski,, Eli I. Lev, Department of Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel 65.. Impaired Ability to Grow Colonies of Endothelial Stem Cells Could be the Mechanism Explaining the High Cardiovascular Morbidity & Mortality of Patients with Depression Arnon Blum, Nina Pastukh, Imad Zaroura, Jonathan Rotem, Farhat Kamal Medicine, Baruch Padeh Medical Center Faculty of Medicine Bar Ilan University, Israel Psychiatry, EMMS Nazareth and Faculty of Medicine Bar Ilan University, Israel 66.. P-AKT/NBA/SPK(P-SPK), a Newly Identified Novel Cell Signaling Pathway, Is a Novel Regulator of Macrophage Migration in the Ischemic Mouse Heart Xue Li Cardiovascualr Department, Tandu Hospital, China 67.. The Effect of Vitamin D on the Endothelial System in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Alissa Soudry, Yoav Hammer,,,, Amos Levi,,, Yeela Talmor,,, Dorit Leshem-Lev,, Joel Singer,, Ran Kornowski,,, Eli Lev,, Cardiology Department, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson/Hasharon Hospital, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Cardiovscular laboratory, The Felsenstein Medical Research Institute, Israel 9 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

72 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 POSTERS SESSION 68.. The Role of Alveolar Epithelial Na + /H + Exchangers in Active Sodium Transport in Heart Failure Safa Kinaneh, Reem Ismael-Badarneh, Emad Khoury, Zaid Abassi, Zaher Azzam, Department of Physiology, The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine; Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Internal Medicine B, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel 69.. The Role of Phosphate in Renal Failure Associated Ectopic Calcification of the Aortic Valve Ran Eliaz, Chaim Lotan, Ronen Beeri, Suzan Salman, Asmahan Qunibi, Mony Shuvy Heart Institute, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel 70.. TRPV Expression in Peripheral Blood Cells is Reversely Correlated to CRP and Troponin I Levels in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography Michal Entin-Meer, Zach Rosenbaum, Lena Cohen, Einat Hertzberg-Bigelman, Ran Levy, Gad Keren Cardiology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center & Tel-Aviv University, Israel PS- Cardiac Imaging 7.. Initial Israeli Experience with Tc 99m PYP scintigraphy for Non Invasive Diagnosis of Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis Igor Volodarsky, Sagi Tshori, Sagi Roitman, Shai Lifshitz, Sara Shimoni, Yakov Fabrinkant, Sorel Goland, Jacob George Heart Center, Kaplan Medical Center, Israel Nuclear Medicine Department, Kaplan Medical Center, Israel PS- Cardiothoracic Surgery 7.. Do Triclosan-Coated Sutures Reduce Leg Wound Surgical Site Infections Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting? Roi Glam, Liran Shani, Bojan Biocina, Tomislav Kopjar, Keren Bitton-Worms, Kari Teittinen, Gil Bolotin Cardiac Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Croatia Department of Vascular Surgery, Helsinki University, Central Hospital, Finland 7.. Implementation of a New ECMO Program for Acute Respiratory and Cardiac Failure Roi Glam, Zvi Peled, Oved Cohen, Gil Bolotin, Zvi Adler Cardiac Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 9

73 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 POSTERS SESSION 7.. Long-Term Results of Bilateral Internal Thoracic Artery Grafting: Differentiation by the Type of Configuration Oren Lev-Ran, Zvi Perry, Menachem Matsa, Dan Abramov, Shlomo Yaron Ishay, Gal Tsaban, Gideon Sahar Cardiothoracic Surgery, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel 75.. Single Center Experience in Minimally Invasive Aortic valve Replacement Amit Gordon, Gideon Uretzky, Ram Sharony, Amir Kramer, Dmitry Pevny, Nachum Nesher, Yossef Paz, Yanai Ben gal Cardiothoracic Surgery, Sourasky Medical Center, Israel PS5- Echocardiography and Valvular Diseases 76.. Intra-aortic Balloon Pump Counter Pulsation as a Means to Overcome Mitral Leaflet Non Coaptation: A Case Series Eyal David Klein, Ronen Beeri, Mony Shuvy Heart Institute, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel 77.. Is Endothelial Dysfunction Related to Diastolic Dysfunction in Post- Menopausal Women? Shirit Kazum, Mordehai Vaturi, Alexander Sagie, Ran Kornowski, Avital Porter Cardiology, the Women s Heart Clinic, Cardiology Department, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Ptach Tikva, affiliated to Tel Aviv University, Israel PS6- Heart Failure 78.. Automatic Optimization of AV and VV Delays Using The Sonr Contractility Sensor Gerald Kaye Department of Cardiology, Princess Alexandra Hospital and University of Queensland Medical School, Australia 79.. Octreotide for the Management of Recurrent Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Patients Supported by Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices Eyal Ran Nachum, Avishay Grupper, Yigal Kassif, Yedida Shemesh, Dov Freimark, Jacob Lavee Heart Transplantation Unit, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Leviev Heart Center, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Department of Cardiology, Leviev Heart Center, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 9 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

74 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 POSTERS SESSION 80.. Quantification of the Respiratory Effort for Monitoring Patients with Decompensated HF Shmuel Rispler, Yakov Tsibulsky, Amir Landesberg Heart Failure Service, Cardiology Department, Rambam Medical Center, Israel Bio-Engineering Faculty, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 8.. The New Model for Prediction of the Heart Failure Readmission Brief title: Prediction of the Readmissions for Heart Failure Michael Kleiner Shochat,, Avraham Shotan,, David S Blondheim,, Mark Kazatsker,, Iris Dahan,, Aya Asif, Yoseph Rozenman, Ilia Kleiner, Jean Marc Weinstein, Aaron Frimerman,, Marat Fudim 5, Gurusher Panjrath 6, Simcha R Meisel, Heart Institute, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Israel Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Cardiovascular Institute, Wolfson Medical Center, Israel Cardiology Department, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel 5 Department of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center,, Israel 6 Department of Medicine (Cardiology), George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, USA 8.. The Relationship Between Pulmonary Blood Flow and Pulmonary Microvascular Recruitment in Supine Exercising Humans David Langleben, Stylianos Orfanos, Michele Giovinazzo, Robert Schlesinger, Fay Blenkhorn, Benjamin Fox, John Catravas Jewish General Hospital / McGill University, Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease, Canada Attikon Hospital / University of Athens, Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic, Greece Pulmonary Institute, Assaf Harofeh Hospital / Tel Aviv University, Israel Frank Reidy Research Center, Old Dominion University, USA 8.. When The Ejection Fraction Is Lower Than The Hemoglobin Level- Our Experience In Extremely Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction Mahmoud Abu-Salah, Oren Lev-Ran, Menachem Matsa, Dan Abramov, Shlomo Yaron Ishay, Sahni Kaptzon, Gideon Sahar Cardiothoracic Surgery, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 95

75 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 POSTERS SESSION PS7- Intensive Care 8.. Effects of Prasugrel Compared to Clopidogrel on Coronary Artery Flow, Myocardial Perfusion and Left Ventricular Systolic Function After Primary Coronary Angiplasty Dawod Sharif,, Amjad Shulhut, Yasmine Sharif, Amal Sharif-Rasslan, Uri Rosenschein, Cardiology, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Israel Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Mathematics, The Academic Arab College, Israel 85.. Prospective Registry of Patients with Venous-Thromboembolism in a Tertiary Medical Center Roy Beigel, Sharon Natanzon, Israel Mazin, Fernando Chernomordik, Nir Shlomo, Sagit Ben-Zekery, Orly Goitein, Elad Asher, Shlomy Matetzky Cardiology, Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Israel Internal Medicine B, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Israel 86.. Seasonal Variation in Occurrence of Acute Myocardial Infarction and Relation to Coronary Artery Flow, Myocardial Perfusion and Left Ventricular Function After Primary Coronary Angioplasty Dawod Sharif,, Tom Pi-ell, Yasmine Sharif, Amal Sharif-Rasslan, Uri Rosenschein, Cardiology, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Israel Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Mathematics, The Academic Arab College, Israel PS8- Interventional Cardiology 87.. Absence of Clinical Triggering in Diabetic Patients with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Predicts Multiple Vessel Coronary Disease and is Associated with Increased Mortality Jeremy Ben-Shoshan,, David Zahler,, Yafit Segman-Rosenstveig,, Yaron Arbel,, Ehud Chorin,, Michael Barkagan,, Zach Rozenbaum,, Yoav Granot,, Ariel Finkelstein,, Shmuel Banai,, Yacov Shacham,, Maayan Konigstein, Cardiology, Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Israel Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel 88.. Clinical Outcomes of Atherectomy Prior to Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients with Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (COAP-EF Study) Evan Shlofmitz, Rajkumar Doshi, Perwaiz Meraj Cardiology, Northwell Health, USA 96 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

76 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 POSTERS SESSION 89.. Comparative Analysis of st vs. nd Generation Drug Eluting Stents for Primary Percutaneous Intervention During ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Amos Levi,, Ran Kornowski,, Hana Vaknin-Assa,, Gabriel Greenberg,, Eli I. Lev,, Ofer Sela,, Eldad Rechavia,, Haggai Yavin,, Abid R. Assali, Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Sackler school of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 90.. Comparison of Baseline Characteristics and Results in Men Vs. Women Undergoing Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Aharon Erez, Victor Guetta, Israel Barabash, Raphael Rosso, David Meerkin, Michael Glikson, Roy Beinart Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer, Leviev Heart Center, Israel Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Israel Structural and Congenital Heart Disease Unit, Haare Zedek Medical Center, Israel 9.. Endovascular Aortic Balloon Occlusion for Truncal Bleeding Control: From Cath-Lab Emergencies to Combat Casualties David Planer, Matan Golan, Yaacov Samet Cardiology, Hadassah Medical Center, Israel Vascular Surgery, Hadassah Medical Center, Israel 9.. Outcome and Prognosis in Octagenerians who underwent STEMI with Primary PCI: A single center long term follow-up Doron Menachemi, Lisa Manevich, Vladimir Turkisher, Valentin Wizling, Michael Kriwisky, Michael Geist, Alexander Izhaki, Yoseph Rozenman The Heart Institute, E. Wolfson Medical Center, TA University, Israel 9.. Rapid Ventricular Pacing During TAVR is Associated With Poor Short- and Long-Term Outcome Paul Fefer, Ehud Regev, Scott Kohen, Andrada Bogdan, Victor Guetta, Elad Asher, Elad Maor, Dan Elian, Noam Fink, Amit Segev, Israel M Barbash Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 9.. Use of Screwed Electrode for Temporary Pacing in CoreValve TAVI patients Ran Eliaz, Amir Orlev, Haim Danenberg, David Luria Cardiology, Hadassah Medical Center, Israel 95.. Valve on a Sheath for Balloon Aortic Vavuloplasty Patients: First-in-Man Study David Planer, Mony Shuvy, Dan Gilon, Haim Danenberg, Chaim Lotan Cardiology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 97

77 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 POSTERS SESSION 96.. Valve-in-Valve Transcatheter Aortic Implantation in Degenerative Sutureless Bioprostheses Uri Landes, Danny Dvir, Wolfgang Schoels, Christophe Tron, Stephan Ensminger 5, Matheus Simonato, Ulrich Schäfer 6, Matjaz Bunc 7, Gabriel Aldea 8, Alfredo Cerillo 9, Stephan Windecker 0, Antonio Marzocchi, John Webb, Ran Kornowski Department of Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Department of Cardiology, St. Paul s Hospital, Canada Department of Cardiology, Ev. Klinikum Duisburg Hospital, Germany Department of Cardiology, Rouen Medical Center, France 5 Department of Cardiology, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum Bad Oeynhausen, Germany 6 Department of Cardiology, Hamburg Hospital, Germany 7 Department of Cardiology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia 8 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UW Medical Center, USA 9 Department of Cardiology, G. Pasquinucci Hospital, Italy 0 Department of Cardiology, Bern University Hospital, Switzerland PS9- Myocardial/Pericardial Diseases 97.. Management of Large Pericardial Effusion in Lung Cancer Patients Inbar Nardi, Yuri Peysakhovich, Aviv Mager, Milton Sautee, Nir Peled, Zaza Iakobishvili Rekanati Center for Medicine and Research, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Thoracic Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel 98.. Non Compaction Cardiomyopathy (NCCM), an Underdiagnosed Disorder? Isis Abu Mouch, Dawood Sharif, Idit Dobrecky - Mery, Ehud Goldhammer, Uri Rosenschein Cardiology, Medicine, Technion High Institute of Technology, Israel 99.. Stress Cardiomyopathy (Takotsubo) in Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyoptahy: Report of Cases and a Possible Pathophysiological Mechanism Daniel Monakier, Idit Yedidia, Shirit Kazum, Alexander Sagie Cardiology, Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Israel PS0- Pacing and Electrophysiology 00.. CHADSVASC Score Is Predictive of Outcomes in ICD Recipients Nicholay Teodorovich, Yonatan Kogan, Offir Paz, Guy Haber, Ilan Goldenberg, Moshe Swissa Cardiology, Kaplan Medical Center, Israel Cardiology, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 98 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

78 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 POSTERS SESSION 0.. Comparison of Young ( 5 years old) to Older Patients (5 years old) Treated with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Adi Lador,9, Alon Barsheshet,9, Ilan Goldenberg,9, Michael Glikson,9, Nir Shlomo, Nahum A Freedberg, Yuval Konstantino, Avishag Laish-Farkash 5, Yoav Michowitz 6,9, Aharon Medina 7, Mahmoud Suleiman 8 Department of Cardiology, Rabin Medical Center, Israel The Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Department of Cardiology, Ha Emek Medical Center, Israel Department of Cardiology, Soroka Medical Center, Israel 5 Department of Cardiology, Barzilai University Medical Center, Israel 6 Department of Cardiology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel 7 Department of Cardiology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel 8 Department of Cardiology, Rambam Medical Center, Israel 9 Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel 0.. Outcome of Remnant Lead and Tips After Transveous Lead Extraction Shelly Kagan, Amy Meitus, Anat Wieder-Finesod, Galia Rahav, David Berlev, Igor Lipchenca, Orit Gurevitz, Michael Eldar, Michael Eldar, Roy Beinart, Michael Glikson, Eyal Nof Cardiology, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Infectious diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 0.. Prognostic Value of Cardiac Troponin Level in Patients Presenting with Supraventricular Tachycardias Fadel Bahouth, Zaher Azzam, Monder Boulos, Maria Zahran, Mahmood Suleiman Cardiology, Rambam Health Care Campus and Technion Institute, Israel PS- Pharmacotherapy and Cardiac Pharmacology 0.. Safety of The Association of Ranolazine and Ivabradine for Antianginal Treatment in Stable Coronary Artery Disease Alessandro Lupi, Alon Schaffer, Maurizio Lazzero, Andrea Rognoni, Angelo Santo Bongo Cardiology, Castelli Hospital, Italy Cardiology, Istituto auxologico piancavallo, Italy Cardiology, Azienda pspedale maggiore della carità di Novara, Italy April 5-6, 07, Tel Aviv, Israel 99

79 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 07 POSTERS SESSION PS- Prevention and Risk Factors/Epidemiology/Rehabilitation 05.. Cluster Headache and the Heart Malka Yahalom, Ofir Koren, Yoav Turgeman, Heart Institute, HaEmek Medical Center, Israel Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel 06.. Early Arterial Hypretension Diagnosis Milan Adamek RStorch, BRC Čeladná, Israel 07.. Effects of a Vildagliptin vs. Metformin on Markers of Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Inflammation in Diabetic Patients with Coronary Artery Disease Arwa Younis, Dana Eskenazi, Jonathan Leor, Alexander Tannenbaum,. Ilan Goldenberg, Robert Klempfner Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Internal, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 08.. Identification of a Genetic Mutation in a Patient with Clinical Features of Congenital Generalized Lipodystrophy Mordechai Golomb, Kobi Gorin, Gil Lev-Leibowitz, Shoshi Shpitzen, Daniel Schurr, Ram Weiss, Eran Leitersdorf, Ronen Durst Department of Cardiology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel Atherosclerosis Clinic Research Unit, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel Department of Endocrinology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel Human Nutrition and Metabolism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 09.. Predicting the Anaerobic Power Output from Clinical and Cardiopulmonary Exercise Stress Tests Mickey Scheinowitz, Efrat Leopold, Tamir Tuller Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel 00 The 6 th Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the

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