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ISCE 2004 Sessions and Poster Session Speakers
| Session I | |
QT Prolonging Drugs - Basic, Clinical and Regulatory Issues Session Chair Charles Antzelevitch, PhD Masonic Medical Research Laboratory Utica, NY USA Session Co-Chair Justin Mortara Mortara Instrument, Inc. Milwaukee WI USA Konrad Brockmeier, University of Köln, Köln GERMANY Chair's Welcome & Opening Remarks Justin Mortara, Mortara Instrument, Inc., Milwaukee WI USA Defining the Problem, Its Clinical Scope and Impact Michael J. Ackerman, Mayo Clinic, Kalamazoo M IUSA Genetic and Molecular Basis for Congenital and Acquired LQTS Gan-Xin Yan, Main Line Health Heart Center, Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood PA USA Preclinical Strategies to Assess QT Liability and Torsadogenic Potential of New Drugs: The Role of Experimental Models Charles Antzelevitch, Masonic Medical Research Laboratory, Utica NY USA Is QT Prolongation Really The Problem? Marek Malik, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, UNITED KINGDOM Assessing Patient-Specific Risks. Problems Associated With Measurement and Rate Correction of Repolarization Parameters Luiz Belardinelli, CV Therapeutics, Palo Alto, CA A Mechanistic Approach to Assess Proarrhythmic Risk of QT-Prolonging Drugs: A Pharmaceutical Industry Perspective Norman L. Stockbridge, US Food & Drug Administration, Rockville MD USA Regulatory Issues: The Quandary Facing the FDA. Concept Paper and S7B |
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| Poster Session 1 | |
John Madias, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Elmhurst NY USA Augmentation of the Amplitude of QRS Complexes in Patients with Heart Failure Treated with Diuresis for 48 Hours John Madias, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Elmhurst NY USA Anasarca Peripheral Edema of Varying Etiology Conceals the ECG Diagnosis of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Henk Ritsema van Eck, Erasmus Medical College, Rotterdam THE NETHERLANDS Genesis of the Normal T-U Wave: A Slice Model of the Left Ventricular Myocardium Claire Sommargren, University of CA San Francisco, San Francisco CA USA Electrocardiographic Abnormalities in Patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Normal Adults: A Comparison Study David Tong, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio TX USA Using Motion Sensors to Reduce Motion Artifact in the ECG Shu-Fen Wung, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ USA What Are the Implications for Using Modified (Mason-Likar) Exercise Lead System in Research? |
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| Session II | |
Atrial Fibrillation Session Chair Wolfgang Schoels University of Heidelberg Heidelberg GERMANY Session Co-Chair Arne Sippens Groenewegen Heart Center for Excellence Kalamazoo MI USA Wolfgang Schoels, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg GERMANY Overview Gil Bub, McGill University, Toronto CANADA A Cell Culture Model of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Arne Sippens Groenewegen, Heart Center for Excellence, Kalamazoo MI USA Potential Role of Body Surface ECG Mapping for Localization of AF Trigger Sites Hans-Jürgen Wildau, BIOTRONIK GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin GERMANY Wireless Remote Monitoring in Patients with Atrial Tachyarrhythmias Wolfgang Schoels, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, GERMANY Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: Navigation Tools and Energy Sources David Ritscher, Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis MN USA Implantable Device Based Therapy for Management of AF |
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| Session III | |
Regulatory Issues, Home Monitoring, FDA and Manufacturer Interaction Session Chair Mitchell Krucoff Duke University Medical Center Durham NC USA Session Co-Chair Charles Ho US FDA Rockville MD USA Mitchell Krucoff, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC USA Overview Norman Stockbridge, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rockville MD USA Electronic Waveform Format for ECG Safety Data Supporting IND Submissions Justin Mortara, Mortara Instrument, Inc. Milwaukee WI USA Comparison of European and U.S. Regulation of Computerized ECG Devices Charles Ho, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rockville MD USA Computerized ECG Tool Claims and Clinical Claims Mitchell W. Krucoff, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC USA Permanently Implantable Diagnostic and Therapeutic Computerized ECG Devices: Where Is the Regulatory Bar? James J. Bailey, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD USA The Triangular Wave Test for Electrocardiographics Elias Mallis, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rockville MD USA Home Monitoring Systems: Regulatory Challenges |
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| Poster Session 2 | |
Ljuba Bacharova, International Laser Center, Bratislava SLOVAK REPUBLIC Changes in QRS Amplitude and Left Ventricular Mass in Rats Treated by Enalapril and Lacidipine Amir Beker, Biological Signal Processing, Tel Aviv ISRAEL High Frequency Mid-QRS Potentials During Treadmill Ergometry in Cases of Inconclusive ST-based Diagnosis Pamela Douglas, Nat'l. Space Biomedical Research Institute, Philadelphia PA USA Temporal and Postural Variation of 12-Lead High Frequency QRS ECG Signals Richard Gregg, Philips Medical Systems, Andover MA USA Automatic Discrimination of Atrial Flutter from Other Supraventricular Rhythms by Autocorrelation and Power Spectral Analysis Medit Jumabay, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo JAPAN Cardiac Autonomic Control in Warm-up Phenomenon - Analysis of Heart Rate Variability during Repeated Treadmill Exercise Testing in Patients with Stable Effort Angina Using the New Developed Wavelet Method Chun-Cheng Lin, Nat'l. Taiwan University of Science & Technology, Hsinchu TAIWAN Late Potential Segment Selection for Frequency-Domain SAECG Analysis Chun-Cheng Lin, Nat'l. Taiwan University of Science & Technology, Hsinchu TAIWAN Effects of Age, Gender and Race on Time-Domain SAECG Robert Lux, University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT USA New Leads for P Wave Detection and Arrhythmia Classification |
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| Session IV | |
Presentations from Submitted Abstracts Session Chair Peter Clemmensen Copenhagen University Hospital Copenhagen DENMARK Session Co-Chair Ljuba Bacharova International Laser Center Bratislava SLOVAK REPUBLIC Peter Clemmensen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen DENMARK Overview Shen Luo A Comparison of Commonly Used QT Correction Formulae Peter Macfarlane Modification of ACC/ESC Criteria for Acute Myocardial Infarction Jason Ng Surface ECG Vector Characteristics of Organized and Disorganized Atrial Activity During Atrial Fibrillation Esther Pueyo A Combined Methodology to Accurately Determine QT Interval Limits Sophia Zhou Normal ECG Limits in Asian Children |
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| Session V | |
Novel Cardiac Mapping, New Devices in Cardiac Data Acquisition Session Chair Juergen Hescheler University of Köln Köln GERMANY Session Co-Chair Robert Lux University of Utah CVRTI Salt Lake City UT USA Juergen Hescheler, University of Köln, Köln GERMANY Overview Michael Reppel, University of Köln, Köln GERMANY Multi-Electrode-Arrays (MEAs): A New Tool to Measure Embryonic Heart Activity Juergen Hescheler, University of Köln, Köln GERMANY Characterisation of the Embryonic Heart and ES Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes Using MEAs Hans Koch, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin GERMANY Recent Advances in Magnetocardiography Rodrigo Weber dos Santos, Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin GERMANY MCG to ECG Source Differences: A 2D Computer Model Study Bonnie B. Punske, CVRTI University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT USA Optical Mapping of Propagation Changes Induced by Elevated Extracellular Potassium in Mouse Hearts Emilio Macchi, Universita degli Studi, Parma ITALY Impulse Initiation in Cardiac Muscle with Special Attention to the Structure-Function Relationship |
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| Poster Session 3 | |
Camilo Bruce, Inovise Medical, Inc., Newberg OR USA A Gender Comparison of Electrocardiographic Findings in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Who Did Not Receive an Acute Intervention Dewar Finlay, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey NORTHERN IRELAND Visualisation of Body Surface Electrocardiographic Features in Myocardial Infarction B. Milan Horacek, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS CANADA Comparative Ability of Standard 12-Lead ECG and of Simpler Alternative Systems to Detect Acute Myocardial Ischemia Charles W. Olson, ECG-TECH CORP., Huntington NY USA Detection of Ischemia Using ST and T-wave Vector Magnitude and Angle Characteristics That Reject Body Positional Change Effects Colum Owens Right Ventricular Infarction Complicating Inferior Myocardial Infarction Correlates with Higher TIMI Risk Scores and Increased In-Hospital Morbidity and Mortality Maria Sejersten, Duke University, Copenhagen DENMARK Detection Of Acute Ischemia from 12-Lead ECGs Derived from EASI Leads and from 12-Lead ECGs Acquired in Clinical Practice Martin Sillesen, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen DENMARK Telemedical Transmission of Prehospital ECGs in Patients with Acute Chest Pain Bob Warner, Inovise Medical, Inc., Newberg OR USA Comparing the ECG and the Fourth Heart Sound for Detecting Acute MI |
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| Session VI | |
Jos Willems Young Investigators Competition Session Chair Janice Jenkins University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI USA Session Co-Chair Yuji Kasamaki Nihon University School of Medicine Tokyo, JAPAN Janice Jenkins, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI USA Overview Markus Khalil, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg GERMANY Sympathovagal Imbalance in Pediatric Patients with Neurocardiogenic Syncope during Asymptomatic Time Periods Stefan P. Nelwan, Erasmus Medical College, Rotterdam THE NETHERLANDS Simultaneous Comparison of Three Derived 12-lead ECGs with Standard ECG at Rest and during Percutaneous Coronary Occlusion Rasmus Ripa, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen DENMARK Time to Treatment Has Little Influence on Myocardial Salvage after AMI: A DANAMI-2 Substudy Zhendong Song, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago IL USA Feasibility of Ischemia Detection in a Subcutaneous Monitor |
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| Session VII | |
Mining for Information in Ventricular Repolarization: What Is the Profit? Session Chair Jan Kors Erasmus Medical College Rotterdam THE NETHERLANDS Session Co-Chair Paul Kligfield Cornell University Medical College New York, NY USA Jan Kors, Erasmus Medical College, Rotterdam THE NETHERLANDS Overview Vladimir Shusterman, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA USA Tracking Repolarization Dynamics in Real-Life Data Adriaan van Oosterom, Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne SWITZERLAND The Dominant T Wave Uwe Steinhoff, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin GERMANY Screening for Safety Pharmacology Studies with High Through-Put and Reliability by Utilizing Magnetocardiography Jan A. Kors, Erasmus Medical College, Rotterdam THE NETHERLANDS Spatial Repolarization Parameters for Predicting Cardiac Death in the Elderly Marek Malik, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London ENGLAND T-wave morphology and its clinical utility Peter Macfarlane, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow SCOTLAND Looking for Prognostic Information in the ST-T Segment - Is It Really Worth It? |
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| Session VIII | |
Prehospital Decision Making Session Chair Barbara Drew University of California San Francisco San Francisco CA USA Session Co-Chair David Hampton Medtronic Physio-Control Redmond WA USA Barbara Drew, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA Overview Barbara Drew, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA Tele-electrocardiography in Acute Coronary Syndromes: Preliminary Results of the ST SMART Study Peter Clemmensen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen DENMARK Pre-hospital Diversion to Hospital with PCI using Wireless 12-Lead ECG Transmission Colum Owens, Regional Medical Cardiology Centre, Belfast NORTHERN IRELAND Pre-hospital 80-Lead Mapping: Does it Add Significantly to the Diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndromes? Joel Q. Xue, GE Medical Systems, Menomonee Falls WI USA Added Value of New ACS Algorithm for Better Interpretation Accuracy of Pre-Hospital ECGs Robert Lux, University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT USA Initial Non-Diagnostic ECG in Acute MI: Can Estimated Body Surface Potential Maps Help? |