Cardiac Imaging Update 2017

SECTION 1:: Cardiac Imaging

• Noninvasive
  • Echocardiographic Evaluation of Infective Endocarditis:: The Current Status
  • The Intricacies in Echocardiographic Evaluation of Aortic Stenosis
  • Echocardiography of Heart Failure:: How to Use It in Routine Clinical Practice?
  • Speckle Tracking Echocardiography:: Basics and Clinical Applications
  • A Gold Standard for Evaluation of Cardiomyopathies
  • Real World Indications for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging:: When is It Invaluable in Clinical Practice?
  • Cardiac MRI and Cardiac CT:: Indispensable Tools for the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease
  • Cardiac Imaging:: Current Scenario and Future Directions
  • Clinical Decision-making with Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in Patients with Known or Suspected Coronary Artery Disease
  • Current Status of Rubidium-82 PET-CT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
  • Innovation of New Tracers in the Era of Multimodality Cardiac Imaging
  • Myocardial Imaging Products Evolution:: Change for the Better
  • Efficacy of Combining FDG-PET Metabolic and Tc-99m-MIBI Myocardial Perfusion Study in Assessment of Myocardial Viability
  • Myocardial Viability Assessment:: Is it Alive?
  • Hybrid Myocardial Imaging Techniques:: Role in Functionally Relevant Coronary Disease
  • Role of Coronary Flow Reserve in Coronary Artery Disease
  • Nuclear Medicine in Assessment of Cardiac Dyssynchrony
• Invasive
  • Is Optical Coherence Tomography Ready to Replace Intravascular Ultrasound in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention?
  • Association of Coronary Stenosis and Plaque Morphology with Fractional Flow Reserve and Outcomes

SECTION 2:: Clinical Cardiology

• Emerging Therapies
  • PCSK9 Inhibitors:: Will they be the Next Wonder Drug after Statins?
  • Fighting the Devil of Stroke in Atrial Fibrillation:: The New Weapons in the Armory

• Coronary Artery Disease

• • Management of Prehospital Phase of Acute Myocardial Infarction
  • STEMI Care in India and the Real World:: Pharmacoinvasive Approach
  • Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold
  • Statin Intolerance
  • Sudden Cardiac Death:: How to Predict and Prevent it?
  • New Gadgets Knocking at the Door:: Leadless Pacemakers, Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators, Wearable Defibrillators
  • Echocardiographic Evaluation of Left Atrial Clot and Its Utility in Clinical Practice
  • Clinical Applications of Nuclear Cardiology Procedures and Its Future Directions
  • Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography Perfusion Tracers:: Current Status and Future Directions

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