Provisional timetable.

Advanced Cardiac Imaging Study Days

St. James’s Hospital, Dublin

Friday and Saturday 16^th -17^th November 2007

Venue:  Trinity Centre for Health Sciences (Map)

9.00 am                Registration

                  Section A- Plaque morphology
 

9.15 am               Clinical Indications for IVUS, Dr Niall   Mulvihill, St. James’s Hospital.

9.45 am               Live case 1 – Set up and procedure Dr. Neil Uren, Dr Peter Crean

10.30 am              Coffee

11.00 am             Research applications for IVUS, Dr Neil Uren Edinburgh Royal Infirmary,

11.30 am              Live case 2: virtual histology

                             Dr Niall Mulvihill, David Foley

                             Section B- Valve imaging
 

12.15 pm              Lecture Toe of the mitral valve

12. 45 pm           Lunch

13.30 pm              Live Transoesophageal echo 1.

14.00 pm              Live MVR surgery  

14.30 pm              Lecture Perspectives on mitral valve repair

15.00 pm              Surgery update

15.30 pm              Live Toe 2

16.00 pm             Lecture TOE of the TV

16.30 pm             Surgery update questions and answers

Saturday 17 Nov 07

Venue:  Trinity Centre for Health Sciences  (Map)

 9 am   Registration

          Section C Plaque Imaging

 9.15am   Cardiac CT how to do one

 9.30am   Coronary CT vs IVUS for plaque imaging

10.00 am  Cardiac MR for plaque imaging – is nano technology the future