Joint Congress PAFCIC Complex PCI meeting October 18-20, 2018, Nairobi, KENYA The Program : - Interactive sessions - Practical workshops - Key note lectures - Live transmissions - Poster and oral presentations sessions - Satellite symposia - Sessions for Cath Lab technicians and nurses - Live in a box sessions - 4th Africa Fellows Summit Live Transmission Sites: - Aga Khan Hospital Nairobi, Kenya - Jeddah Hospital Saudi Arabia - Cedars Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, USA - Kings College, London, UK - Other Centers to be announced
Main Topics: - Percutaneous valve replacement: What is validated and what is the pipeline? - Percutaneous valve replacement : What is the status in Africa? - Acute stroke management is changing. How about in Africa? - Imaging or functional assessment for coronary lesions: FFR OCT - IVUS necessary in the cath lab? - Management of high burden thrombus containing lesions - PCI of long calcified lesions - Tips and tricks for left main stenting - Stent Save A Life initiative in Africa: success stories and obstacles - Recanalisation of chronic total occlusion: When retrograde approach is necessary? - Cardiac surgery in Africa: What is the current picture? - Stable CAD: medical therapy vs intervention. Where is the evidence? - LAA closure, NOAC or just Vit K antagonists in Africa? - New interventional technologies for heart failure management - Interventional repair of congenital heart disease - Intervention therapies for AF - Peripheral and endovascular intervention - Vein interventions
The program at a glance
Thursday October 18th, 2018 08:30 10:30 Acute Coronary Syndromes in Africa - Current management of STEMI in Africa: Thrombolysis, PCI or nothing - Management of high thrombus burden: Intervention or pharmacology - Dealing with ACS in patients with CABG - Rescue PCI: Tips and tricks - Bystander disease in ACS: How to manage in the African context? - Challenging cases of STEMI management (PPCI and thrombolysis) 10:30 11:00 Coffe Break - Posters Sessions 1& 2 and Visit of Exhibitions 11:00 13:00 Live Transmission from Jeddah (KSA) All about CTO Live Transmission: Available tools for CTO recanalisation in 2018: Lecture How to select guiding catheters, microcatheters and wires Antegrade versus retrograde The hybrid approach to CTO Key learning from the live case & the session 13:00 14:00 Lunch
14:00 15:30 Live Transmission from Kings College - London Left main calcification treated with Shockwave Management of complex PCI in 2018: Introducing the concept of CHIPS Approach to distal left main intervention: Tips and tricks Shockwave: How and when? Key learning from the live case & the session 15:30 16:00 16:00 18:00 Coffe Break - Posters Sessions 3& 4 and Visit of Exhibitions Cath Lab nightmares Complications you do not want to see again With the collaboration of PASCAR Interventional Cardiology Task Force, GTCI, AGIC Call for cases (Deadline September 2018) One case per country Coronary / Structural intervention Award for the best case
Friday October 19th, 2018 08:30 10:30 CSI Africa @ PAFCIC-Complex PCI - Initiatives to improve the quality of care of patients with congenital heart disease in Africa - Aortic coarctation: Intervention or surgery in Africa? - Renal denervation: is it a promising come back? - Recorded cases of structural and valvular interventions from CSI - New interventions for the management of patients with congenital heart disease - Complications of CHD and structural interventions that you do want to see again 10:30 11:00 Coffe Break - Posters Sessions 5& 6 and Visit of Exhibitions 11:00 12:30 Africa PCR @ PAFCIC-Complex PCI Live transmission from South Africa TAVR /Valve-In-Valve Percutaneous valve repair: What is validated and what is in the pipeline What is the status of percutaneous valve repair in Africa?: lecture Affordable percutaneous valve replacement for limited ressources countries: A dream? Key learning from the live case & the session 12:30 13:00 Industry Symposium
13:00 14:00 14:00 15:30 Lunch African Fellows Summit Learning The Technique Learning The Technique - Transseptal catheterization - Balloon mitral valvuloplasty - The use of snares - The use of vascular closure devices - Basic cases of CTO: step by step - ASD closure: step by step 14:00 15:30 Allied Professional Session Role of the cath lab technician/ccu nurse in the management of: - Complication in the cath lab - In-cath lab cardiac arrest and resuscitation - Cardiogenic shock - Primary PCI - Presentation of complication cases 15:30 16:00 Coffe Break - Posters Sessions 7& 8 and Visit of Exhibitions 16:00 18:00 Live transmission from Cedars Sinai MC Los Angeles USA Percutaneous tricuspid / mitral valve repair - Percutaneous tricuspid/ mitral valve repair Live Case - Recent innovations in surgical interventions for valvular heart disease - Key learning from the live case & the session
Saturday October 20th, 2018 08:30 10:30 Interventions for stroke Session supported by WIST AF ablation: Indications, Techniques, results LA Appendage closure Carotid artery intervention Acute stroke intervention Interventional approach to Atrial Fibrillation: Ablation, LAA closure, NOAC or just Vit K antagonists in Africa? Antithrombotics and antiplatelets for the prevention of stroke 08:30 10:30 Peripheral/ Endovascular Interventions - Percutaneous intervention for iliofemoral disease - Percutaneous intervention for below knee peripheral artery disease - Percutaneous intervention for aortic dissection - Percutaneous intervention of abdominal aortic aneurysms - Venous interventions: procedures, devices, indications, results
10:30 11 :00 Coffee Break Posters Sessions 9 & 10 and Visit of Exhibitions 11:00 12:30 Live transmission from Aga Khan Hospital Nairobi Calcified long lesions FFR - Imaging - Calcified long lesions- FFR- Imaging - Rotablator step-by-step - New technologies for rotablator. The RotaPro console - A new atlas of OCT cases. - A new atlas of IVUS cases - - Key learning from the live case & the session 12:30 13 :00 Closing Keynote lecture