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ISCE 2005 Sessions and Poster Session Speakers
| Session I | |
ST Segment Elevation in Health and Disease Session Chair Wataru Shimizu National Cardiovascular Center Osaka JAPAN Session Co-Chair Eric Helfenbein Philips Medical Systems Milpitas CA USA Charles Antzelevitch, Masonic Medical Research Laboratory, Utica NY USA Chair's Welcome & Opening Remarks Wataru Shimizu, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka JAPAN Overview Yochai Birnbaum, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston TX USA Ischemia-induced ST Segment Elevation: Classification, Prognosis and Therapy Rob MacLeod, University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT USA Mechanisms of Ischemia-induces ST Segment Changes Jose Di Diego, Masonic Medical Resarch Laboratory, Utica NY USA Brugada Syndrome and Ischemia-induced ST Segment Elevation. Similarities and Differences Masaomi Chinushi, Nigata University School of Medicine, Nigata JAPAN Similarities Between Brugada Syndrome and Ischemia--induced ST Segment Elevation: Clinical Correlates Wataru Shimizu, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka JAPAN Acquired Forms of the Brugada Syndrome Gan-Xin Yan, Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood PA USA ST Segment Elevation in the Early Repolarization Syndrome and Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation: Cellular and Clinical Linkage |
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| Poster Session 1 | |
Yochai Birnbaum, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston TX USA ST Depression with negative T waves in leads V4-V6 is a Predictor of One-Year Mortality in Non-ST-Elevation Acute Myocardial Infarction Edward J. Ciaccio, Columbia University, New York NY USA Method to Predict Isthmus Location in Ventricular Tachycardia Caused by Reentry with a Double-Loop Pattern Benedict Glover, Regional Medical Cardiology Centre, Belfast NORTHERN IRELAND A Novel Rectangular Biphasic Waveform from a Radiofrequency Defibrillator Compared with a Conventional Waveform for the Transvenous Cardioversion of Chronic Atrial Fibrillation in Patients Jocelyne Fayn, INSERM ERM107-MTIC, Lyon FRANCE Evaluation of Embedded Computerized Electrocardiology Techniques for ECG Recording in the Context of Self-Care in Telemedicine Dirk Q. Feild, Philips Medical Systems, Oxnard CA USA QT Measurement Performance in a Holter Application Sam Hanon, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York NY USA Electrocardiographic Artifact: A Frequently Misdiagnosed Phenomenon Eric Helfenbein, Philips Medical Systems, Milpitas CA USA Philips Medical Systems' Support for Open Access and Use of ECG Data Suresh E Joel, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA USA Changes in Optical Map Frequency Spectra Characteristics Prior to Spontaneous Termination of Ventricular Fibrillation in Isolated Rabbit Heart Model Paul Kligfield, Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY Non-Equivalence of Proximal and Distal Arm Lead Electrode Placement in Routine Electrocardiography Manlik Kwong, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston MA USA Extending The ECG's Role to Address Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Practices Eunyoung Lee, UCSF, San Francisco CA USA Superiority of P-Wave Amplitude over P-Wave Duration to Predict Left Ventricular End Diastolic Pressure F. Pillekamp, University of Köln, Köln GERMANY Establishment and Characterization of a Mouse Embryonic Heart Slice Preparation Bonnie B. Punske, University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT USA Quantitative Description of the Relationship Between Total and Endocardial Activation Times in Normal Hearts Atiar M. Rahman, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston TX USA High Frequency QRS Electrocardiogram Predicts Ischemic Defects During Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Henk J. Ritsema van Eck, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam THE NETHERLANDS Internal Transmembrane PotentialsInfluence the External Potential Field Min Shao, Philips Medical Systems, Thousand Oaks CA USA A Multi-Step Algorithm for Non-Invasive Fetal ECG Extraction Joel Xue, GE Healthcare, Milwaukee WI USA New Morphology Features of Pediatric Long QT ECG by Signal Decomposition Joel Xue, GE Healthcare, Milwaukee WI USA Are Nondipolar Components of ECG Correlated to Repolarization Abnormality in Ischemia Patients or to Noise? |
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| Session II | |
Cardiac Conduction in Health and Disease Session Chair Robert Lux University of Utah Salt Lake City UT USA Session Co-Chair Wayne Cascio East Carolina University Greenville NC USA Robert Lux, University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT USA Overview Bonnie Punske, University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT USA Effect of Fiber Orientation on Impulse Propagation Peter Kohl, University of Oxford, Oxford ENGLAND Coupling Between Cardiac Fibroblasts and Myocytes - Relevance for Impulse Propagation Steven Taffet, SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse NY USA Manipulation of Gap Junction Proteins: Effect on Cellular Coupling and Impulse Propagation Yoram Rudy, Washington University of St. Louis, St. Louis MO USA Lessons Learned about Slow Discontinuous Conduction from Models of Impulse Propagation Wayne Cascio, M.D., East Carolina University, Greenville NC USA Ischemia-induced Arrhythmia: The Role of Connexins, Gap Junctions and Attendant Changes in Impulse Propagation |
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| Session III | |
Ion Channelopathies: Clinical, Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Aspects Session Chair Domenico Corrado University of Padua Medical School Padova ITALY Session Co-Chair Ihor Gussak eResearch Technology Bridgewater NJ USA Domenico Corrado and Ihor Gussak Overview Frank I. Marcus, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ USA Depolarization/Repolarization ECG Abnormalities and Arrhythmias Michael Ackerman, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN USA Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Long QT Syndrome Gan-Xin Yan, Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood PA USA Mechanisms Underlying Electrogenesis in Long QT Syndrome Wataru Shimizu, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka JAPAN Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Brugada Syndrome Martin Borggrefe, University of Mannheim, Mannheim GERMANY Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Short QT Syndrome Domenico Corrado, University of Padua Medical School, Padova ITALY Is it Time to Include Ion Channel Diseases Among Cardiomyopathies? |
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| Poster Session 2 | |
Camilo Bruce, Inovise Medical, Inc, Portland OR USA Using Heart Sounds to Improve Automated ECG Differentiation Between Ventricular Pacing and Conduction Defects Edward J. Ciaccio, Columbia University, New York NY USA Ventricular Tachycardia Duration and Form are Associated with Electrical Discontinuities Bounding the Core of the Reentrant Circuit Mathias Emmel, University of Köln, Köln GERMANY Ambulatory Twelve Lead Holter Recordings in Children with Arrhythmias: Initial Clinical Application? Cynthia L. Green, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC USA Performance of a Novel Statistical Filter to Compensate for Data Gaps during Continuous ST-Segment Monitoring Eric Helfenbein, Philips Medical Systems, Milpitas CA USA Cosine-Trend Time-Diversity Electro-Magnetic Interference Filter for ECG Waveforms Charles Ho, US Food & Drug Administration, Rockville MD USA Use of Standards in the Review of Medical Devices Harry Hostetler, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI USA An Objective Test of T-Wave Alternans Algorithm on Noisy Signals James Lindauer, Philips Medical Systems, Thousand Oaks CA USA Global QT Measurements in the Philips 12-Lead Algorithm Shen Luo, Burdick/Quinton Cardiology Systems, Inc., Deerfield WI USA Normal QT Limit Determination without Correction P.W. Macfarlane, University of Glasgow, Glasgow SCOTLAND Localization of Accessory Pathways in the WPW Pattern – Physician versus Computer Interpretation of the Same Algorithm Elliot McVeigh, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD USA 3D Registration of Endocardial Basket Electrodes with Epicardial Sock Electrodes Using Multiple X-ray Views Steven R. Mickelson, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD USA A Novel Approach for the Registration of Epicardial Electrophysiologic Data and Corresponding Magnetic Resonance Images Daniel M. Schindler, UCSF, San Francisco CA USA P-Wave Changes of Left Atrial Overload Precede ST-Segment Changes During Angioplasty-Induced Myocardial Ischemia Henk J. Ritsema van Eck, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam THE NETHERLANDS U Wave Characteristics in a Pediatric Population Aged From 4 Weeks till 16 Years Michael Shapiro, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York NY USA Fractionated Repolarization velocity Induced by Sotalol in Healthy Subjects Martino Vaglio, University of Rochester, Rochester NY USA Baseline Electrocardiographic Manifestations of Severe Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis M. Zabel, Charité-Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin GERMANY Composition of Approximated Body-Surface-Potential-Maps (BSPM) Utilizing a Standard 12-lead-ECG Device |
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| Session IV | |
Papers from Submitted Abstracts Session Chair Konrad Brockmeier University of Köln Köln GERMANY Session Co-Chair Barbara Drew UCSF San Francisco CA USA Konrad Brockmeier, University of Köln, Köln GERMANY Overview Galen Wagner, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC USA Have We Made Progress in Reducing Time to Treatment in the Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction? A Last Decade Overview. The Potential Key Role of the ECG Wireless Transmission Jean-Philippe Couderc, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester NY USA A Quantitative Electrocardiographic Method for the Discrimination between Genotyped Carrier and Non-carrier Patients of a HERG-Related Gene Potassium Mutation Mutsuo Kaneko, Fukuda Denshi Co., Ltd., Tokyo JAPAN Automated Detection of Brugada Type ECG using Diagnostic Criteria of ESC and AHA Paul Rubel, INSERM ERM107, Lyon FRANCE Towards pHealth in Cardiology: Results from the EPI-MEDICS Telemedicine Project Wojciech Zareba, University of Rochester, Rochester NY USA QTc Correction for Heart Rate by Fridericia - What Values Should be Considered Normal? |
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| Session V | |
Electrocardiographic Imaging Session Chair Yoram Rudy Washington University St. Louis MO USA Session Co-Chair J. J. Schmid Schiller AG Baar SWITZERLAND Yoram Rudy, Washington University, St. Louis MO USA Overview Vladimir Fast, University of Alabama,Birmingham AL USA Simultaneous Optical Imaging of Action Potential and Calcium in the Heart Mark Boyett, Univesity of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire ENGLAND Optical Imaging of the SA Node Igor Efimov, Washington University, St. Louis MO USA Optical Imaging of the AV Node Itsuo Kodama, Nagoya University, Nagoya JAPAN Optical Imaging of Spiral Waves Bruno Taccardi, University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT USA Electric Fields of the Heart Yoram Rudy, Washington University, St. Louis MO USA Noninvasive Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI) in Humans |
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| Poster Session 3 | |
Mary G. Adams, State University of New York, Buffalo NY USA Electrocardiographic Risk Stratification of Sudden Cardiac Death Ljuba Bacharova, International Laser Center, Bratislava SLOVAK REPUBLIC The Decrease in QRS Amplitude in Teenage Female Athletes during One Year of Aerobic Gymnastics Training Peter Bauer, Inovise Medical, Inc. Portland OR USA Using Simultaneous ECG and Acoustical Data to Evaluate and Monitor Patients Undergoing Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Madalena D. Costa, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA USA Broken Asymmertry of the Human Heartbeat: Lossof Time Irreversibility in Aging and Disease Budimir S. Drakulic, Recom Managed Systems, Inc., Studio City CA USA Electrocardiograph High Pass Frequency Response Revisited Richard Gregg, Philips Medical Systems, Westford MA USA A New Method for Measuring High Frequency Noise Chuan-yong Li, Nankai University, Tianjin PRC Why Does Not QT Dispersion Reflect the Heterogeneity in Ventricular Repolarization? Shen Luo, Burdick/Quinton Cardiology Systems, Inc., Deerfield WI USA Baseline Wander Correction, Impulse Response Displacement, and the AHA Recommendations John E. Madias, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY USA Relationship Between Electrocardiographic QRS Duration and Amplitude of QRS Complexes in Patients with Amelioration of their Edematous State: Clinical Implications Mark Millonas, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View CA USA Biometric Protocols for Patient-Specific Derived-Lead ECG Monitoring Andrew Pullan, University of Auckland, Auckland NEW ZEALAND Electrical Activity on Tissue-Specific Ventricular Models David M. Schreck, Summit Medical Group, Summit NJ, USA The Derived ECG Eigenvalues: A Marker for Acute Infarction Akihiro Takeuchi, Kitasato University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanagawa JAPAN Initial QRS Deflection and Ventricular Repolarization Phase on Chest Improves Localization of Old Myocardial Infarction John Wang, Philips Medical Systems, Andover, MA Comparison of Alarm Strategies in Continuous ST-Segment Monitoring Based on Full-Fledged vs. Reduced 12-lead ECG Robert Warner, Inovise Medical, Inc., Portland, OR, USA Using Simultaneous ECG and Acoustical Data to Evaluate and Monitor Patients with Cardiac Disease Robert Warner, Inovise Medical, Inc., Portland, OR, USA Detecting Hemodynamic Abnormalities Using ECG and Cardiac Acoustical Data |
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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 Shen Luo Burdick Quinton Inc. Deerfield WI USA Janice Jenkins, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI USA Overview Sirin Apiyasawat, University of Massachusetts, Worcester MA USA Interatrial Block during Exercise Treadmill Test Predicts Ischemic Heart Disease Thinn Hlaing, Lankenau Hospital, Wynnewood PA USA The QT and Tp-e Intervals in Left and Right Chest Leads: Comparison between Patients with Systemic and Pulmonary Hypertension Suresh E Joel, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA USA Discovery of Gradient Pattern in Dominant Frequency Maps during Fibrillation - Implication of Rotor Drift and Epicardial Conduction Velocity Changes Michael Reppel, Institute of Neurophysiology, Köln GERMANY The ECG of Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes |
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| Session VII | |
Device Innovations, New Algorithms for Measuring ECG Parameters and Regulatory Issues Session Chair Mitchell W. Krucoff Duke University Durham NC USA Session Co-Chair Elias Mallis USFDA Rockville MD USA Mitchell W. Krucoff, Duke University, Durham NC USA Overview Nenad Sarapa, Pfizer Global R&D, San Diego CA USA QT Interval Measurement in the Conclusive Assessment of Drug Effects on Cardiac Repolarization Randy Spaulding, Mortara Instrument, Inc., Milwaukee WI USA Architecture of the FDA cECG Warehouse Theressa Wright, Lilly Research Laboratories, Indianapolis IN USA The FDA ECG Warehouse: Administration and Public Access Elias Mallis, USFDA, Rockville MD USA Utility and Limitations of the Warehouse Database: New ECG Device Development in the USA J.J. Schmid, Schiller AG, Baar SWITZERLAND Utility and Limitations of the Warehouse Database: New ECG Device Development in Europe Christopher Cabell, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC USA Utility and Limitations of the QT Warehouse |
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| Session VIII | |
Telemedicine in Electrocardiology, from Acute Diagnosis in Ischemia and Arrhythmias to Seamless Pacemaker/ICD Control and Programming Session Chair Peter Clemmensen Copenhagen University Hospital Copenhagen DENMARK Session Co-Chair David Hampton Medtronic Physio-Control Redmond WA USA Peter Clemmensen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen DENMARK Overview Barbara Drew, UCSF, San Francisco CA USA Benefits and Barriers for Pre-Hospital Electrocardiography in Acute Coronary Syndromes Erik Björklund, University of Uppsala, Uppsala SWEDEN Reducing Time to Thrombolytic Thereapy by the Implementation of Prehospital Electrocardiography and Telemedicine for Patintes with ST Elevation AMI - Data from The National Swedish RIKS-HIA Database Christian Juhl Terkelsen, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus DENMARK Telemedicine in the Prehospital Evaluation of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction: From Online Patient Interview to Continuous Monitoring during Transportation Ken Riff, North HI Community Hospital, Kamuela, HI & Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN USA Remote Interactions with Implantable Devices: From Device Follow-Up to Chronic Patient Management Peter Clemmensen, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University, DENMARK Transfer of STEMI Patients from the Field Directly to the Cath Lab for Primary PCI, Based on Teletransmitted 12-Lead EKGs |