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2008 CRY International Conference: Day 1

'Sports Cardiology: From Theory to Practice'

 

Friday 10th October 2008

 

  AGENDA    

 

 

8.00am

 

REGISTRATION

 

9.00am

 

 

INTRODUCTION            

SCD and the athlete: an overview and the British perspective from the CRY / Philips athlete programme

Professor Greg Whyte

 

9.20am

 

 

HCM as the commonest cause of sudden cardiac death in athletes: Myth or Hype?

Dr Sanjay Sharma

 

9.45am

 

 

Sudden death in the young: just a case or predestination?

Professor Gaetano Thiene (Italy)

 

10.15am

 

 

The coronary arteries and athletes

Dr Paul Thompson (USA)

 

10.45am

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

11.15am

 

 

Echocardiography in the differentiation of pathologic and physiologic LVH

Dr Roxy Senior

 

11.40pm

 

 

Cardiac MRI and the athlete

Dr Sanjay Prasad

 

12.05pm

 

 

Diagnosis and management of ion channelopathies in young asymptomatic athletes

Professor Domenico Corrado (Italy)

 

12.30pm

 

LUNCH

 

1.30pm

 

 

The athlete's heart: mechanisms underlying cardiac enlargement

Professor Keith George

 

2.00pm

 

 

Management of the collapsed athlete

Professor Tim Noakes

 

2.35pm

 

 

Is exercise bad for the normal heart?

Professor Greg Whyte

 

3.00pm

 

COFFEE

 

3.20pm

 

 

Preparticipation screening in athletes

Dr Sanjay Sharma

 

3.45pm

 

 

The athlete's heart: a clinician's perspective

Dr Nigel Stephens

 

4.10pm - 4.55pm

 

 

 

 

 

INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES IN DEALING WITH DIFFICULT CASES

Chair: Professor Greg Whyte

Case study presentations with expert round table discussion:                    

Professor Domenico Corrado, Professor Danny Green, Professor Tim Noakes, Dr Sanjay Prasad, Dr Roxy Senior, Dr Sanjay Sharma, Dr Nigel Stephens, Professor Gaetano Thiene, Dr Paul Thompson, Professor Greg Whyte

 

4.55pm - 5.00pm

 

 

CLOSING REMARKS

Professor Greg Whyte

 

 

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