Invited Lectures

Asia-Pacific (APSC) Cardiac Problems in Pregnancy (CPP) 2023 Joint Session: Valvular Heart Disease in Pregnancy

Organized by:

Wael Almahmeed
Cardiology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Bashir Taha Salih
Obstetric medicine Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Prenatal Assessment
Wanwarang Wongcharoen
Internal Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

Anticoagulation Management
Geetha Kandavello
Malaysia

Valvular Intervention during Pregnancy
Low Ting Ting
Singapore

Aortic Stenosis in Pregnancy
Doreen DeFaria Yeh
Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

Mitral Stenosis: Pregnancy Risks and Management
Candice Silversides
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Indications for Intervention for Women with Valvular Heart Disease during Pregnancy
Uri Elkayam
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Back to the top

Abu Dhabi – United Arab Emirate Cardio Obstetric Joint Clinic – Case Presentations and Panel Discussion

Panel:

Wael Al Mahmeed, Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Saleema Wani, Obstetrics & Gynecology Corniche Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Bashir Taha Salih, Obstetric medicine, Corniche Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Tarek El Ansari, Obstetric Anesthesia, Corniche Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Ghadeera Al Mansoori, Cardiology, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Sam Siu, Western University, London, Canada
Marie-Louise Meng, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Afshan Hameed, University of California, Irvine, USA

Cases presentations:

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Pregnancy
Ghadeera Al MansooriCardiology, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Rheumatic Mitral Calve Disease and Pregnancy
Fathima FarookObstetrics & Gynecology Corniche Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

D-Transposition of the Great Vessels and Pregnancy
Fathima FarookObstetric Medicine, Corniche Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Panel Discussion (Ob Medicine, High Risk OB, Anaesthesia, Cardiology) 

Presentation: Cardio Obstetric Multi-Disciplinary Joint Clinic at Abu Dhabi
The Current Abu Dhabi – UAE Cardio Obstetric Joint Clinic 
Ghadeera AlmansooriCardiology, Corniche Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (15 min)

Back to the top

The International Society of Obstetric Medicine Session

Cardio-Obstetrics: Lessons Learnt over 3 decades
Sam Siu
Western University, London, Canada

Understanding the Management and Outcomes of Pregnant People with Cardiovascular Disease – A Call to Action
John Spertus
Saint Luke’s Health System, Kansas City, USA

How to Build a Cardio Obstetric Team?
Diana S. Wolfe
Montefiore Medical Center, New York, USA

Developing cardio-obstetric teams: Preparing the nursing team
Mary Canobbio
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

Stories from the Joint Gyneco-Cardio Clinic – Does it improve outcomes?
Hezzy Shmueli
Cardilogy, Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel

Reproductive Health in Women with CVD: A New Approach
Ali Farhan
Baghdad Teaching Hospital, Bagdad, Iraq

Experience with a cardio obstetrics program review of 300 patients and outcomes
Jennifer H. Haythe
Columbia University Irving Medical center, New York, USA

Patient reported health status outcomes in pregnancy
Anna Grodzinsky
Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, University of Missouri, Kansas, USA

Back to the top

Covid-19

Update on covid
Briller Joan
University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

Analysis of Cardiovascular Complications during Delivery Admissions Associated with COVID-19 in U.S. during pandemic year 2020
Erin Michos
Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Mariland, USA

Back to the top

Risk Prediction and Mortality

Risk Prediction: A 2023 Update
Sam Siu
Western University, London, Canada

Cardiovascular Risk in Pregnancy Over 40
Lee Padove
Northside Hospital, Atlanta, USA

Dynamics of NT-proBNP in Preganacy
Nandita Scott
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Biomarkers other than natriuretic peptides in pregnancy
Nandita Scott
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Risk stratification of heart disease during pregnancy
Dr Walid Kadro
Cardiology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

The troponin is increased what should I do next?
Briller Joan
University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

Prevalence in correlate of elevated NT-proBNP in Pregnant women in the US
Anum Minhas
Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

The New York experience of the maternal mortality review board
Jennifer H. Haythe
Columbia University Irving Medical center, New York, USA

CVD risk assessment in asymptomatic pregnant and postpartum patients
Afshan Hameed
University of California, Irvine, USA

Choosing the best risk stratification tool for pregnant women with heart disease: what to consider
Anish Keepanasseril
JIPMER, Puducherry, India

Universal CVD screening in pregnancy
Diana S. Wolfe
Montefiore Medical Center, New York, USA

Health Policy Changes that have improved maternal mortality (zoom)
Garima Sharma
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Mariland, USA

Management strategies for adverse pregnancy outcomes
Briller Joan
University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

Artificial Intelligence and Novel Digital Tools for Obstetric Cardiovascular Screening
Demiclad Adedinsewo
Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA

A core outcome set and minimal data set for all future studies on pregnancy and heart disease
Rohan D’souza
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Inclusion of pregnant and breast-feeding women in non-obstetrical randomized controlled trial
Dr. Isabelle Malhamé
McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Back to the top

Infertility and contraceptives in women with cardiac disease

IVF: Is it an independent risk for bad outcome
Lee Padove
Northside Hospital, Atlanta, USA

Fertility care in the cardiac patient
Yalda Afshar
Obstetrics and Gynecology, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

Poly Cystic Oovarian Syndrome, Infertility, and use of Assisted Reproductive Technology: Risk Markers for Cardiac Complications in Pregnancy
Erin Michos
Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Infertility in Women with Cardiac Disease: Considerations for the Cardiologist
Jasmine Grewal
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Contraceptive updates for the cardiac patient: current use and best practices (data from HOPE pilot study)
Karen Florio
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA

Fertility management in Turner Syndrome
Norbert Gleicher
Center of Human Reproduction New York and Foundation for Reproductive Medicine, USA

Back to the top

Pregnancy and Medical problems

Lipids in Pregnancy Does it matter?
Lee Padove
Northside Hospital, Atlanta, USA

Addressing Cardiometabolic Health in the Pre-pregnancy time frame (zoom)
Garima Sharma
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Mariland, USA

The Not So Sweet Truth: Gestational Diabetes and Cardiovascular Complications During Pregnancy and Beyond
Erin Michos
Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Obesity complications management during pregnancy
Briller Joan
University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

Treatment of lipid disorders in pregnancy
Laura Schmidt
Saint Luke’s Health System, Kansas City, USA

Is the importance of the immune system underestimated in cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy?
Norbert Gleicher
Center of Human Reproduction New York and Foundation for Reproductive Medicine, USA

Autoimmune disease and Cardiac Complications in Pregnancy
Erin Michos
Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

The association of diet with adverse pregnancy outcomes
Anum Minhas
Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Back to the top

General

Genetics and the cardiac patient
Yalda Afshar
Obstetrics and Gynecology, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

Cardio-genetics
Melissa Russo
Women & Infants Hospital, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Serious Maternal Cardiac Complications During Pregnancy
Candice Silversides
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada

As older women are getting pregnant, cardiovascular diseases increase
Norbert Gleicher
Center of Human Reproduction New York and Foundation for Reproductive Medicine, USA

Severe Pregnancy-related Cardiovascular Morbidity
Dr. Isabelle Malhamé
McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Back to the top

Registries

Pregnancy outcomes in women with heart disease: The Madras medical college Pregnancy And Cardiac (M-PAC) Registry from India
Gnanaraj Justin Paul
Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Pregnancy and Labor in Women with Heart Diseases. 30 years’ experience of   800 pregnancy. The Israel northern registry
Eli Gutterman
Carmel Medical Center & Clalit Health Services, Israel

Aortopathies and PROWGAD registry
Melissa Russo
Women & Infants Hospital, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Update on the REBIRTH Multi-center Trial and the North American Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Network
Dennis McNamara
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburg, USA

Update on PPCM-R, a patient directed PPCM registry
Sarah Thordsen
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Peripartum cardiomyopathy and Subsequent Pregnancy: Results from the PPCM EORP program (unpublished data)
Karen Sliwa
Cape Heart Institute, Department of Medicine and Cardiology, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Updates on the HOPE study pilot: maternal and fetal outcomes registry
Karen Florio
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA

The HOPE (Heart Outcomes in Pregnancy: Expectations) for Mom and Baby Study Pilot data (patient characteristics, pregnancy to 1-year post partum data) – Cardiovascular Outcomes
Anna Grodzinsky
Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, University of Missouri, Kansas, USA

Back to the top

Cardiomyopthy, Myocarditis Heart Failure and Pericardial disease

Case report: Pregnancy in Probable End stage Loffler’s Myocarditis
Lee Padove
Northside Hospital, Atlanta, USA

Management of women with LV noncompaction during pregnancy
Marla Mendelson
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA

Heart failure/cardiomyopathy and Inotropic and Mechanical support peridelivery
Marie-Louise Meng
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Pregnancy After Cardiotoxic Cancer Treatment
Marla Mendelson
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA

Should patients with HFrEF be anticoagulated during pregnancy and postpartum period?
Hezzy Shmueli
Cardiology, Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel

Consideration in timing of LVAD and transplantation in patient with Pregnancy Associated LV Dysfunction (Case)
Jennifer H. Haythe
Columbia University Irving Medical center, New York, USA

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and pregnancy – expected complications
Sorel Goland
Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel

Cardiac transplantation:  Developing risk profile for post-transplant females desiring to become pregnant
Mary Canobbio
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

Pericardial disease in pregnancy
Laura Schmidt
Saint Luke’s Health System, Kansas City, USA

Team management of pregnancy and delivery in a woman with severe hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Jérôme Cornette
Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Risk of Heart Failure in Women with Cancer Survival During and After Pregnancy
Ali Farhan
Baghdad Teaching Hospital, Bagdad, Iraq

High risk delivery in the cardiac ICU with PA catheter placement in a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (Case)
Anum Minhas
Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Heart Failure during Pregnancy and Postpartum
Demiclad Adedinsewo
Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA

The risk of pregnancy in women with HFrEF
Avraham Shotan
Laniado medical center, Netanya, Ariel university, Israel

Back to the top

Vascular

Management of aortopathies during pregnancy
Marla Mendelson
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA

Aorta pathology and pregnancy
Jolien Roos-Hesselink
Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Consideration of referal for Prophylactic Aorta Surgery in Bicuspid valve aortopathy
Lee Padove
Northside Hospital, Atlanta, USA

Pregnancy in women with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
Michal Simchen
Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Pregnancy and Contraception Considerations in Individuals with Aortopathy
Melissa Russo
Women & Infants Hospital, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Aortic Dissection in Pregnancy: Risk Factors, Diagnosis and Treatment
Melissa Russo
Women & Infants Hospital, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Treatment of May Thurner Syndrome during pregnancy
Laura Schmidt
Saint Luke’s Health System, Kansas City, USA

Labor and delivery in patients with marfan syndrome. When and how. (A story of three sisters).
Eli Gutterman
Carmel Medical Center & Clalit Health Services, Israel

Pregnancy and Marfan Arthropathies: Current Approach
Rafael Kuperstein
Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Turner’s Syndrome and Pregnancy
Matthew Cauldwell
Imperial College London and St George’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Pregnancy and Takayasu arteritiis: The risk to the mother and the fetus
Abha Khandelwal
Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, USA

Back to the top

Coronary Artery Disease

Debate: Conservative Acute Coronary Syndrome Treatment vs. Invasive Aggressive
Lee Padove
Northside Hospital, Atlanta, USA

Lessons from the UK registry of SCAD
Matthew Cauldwell
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

SCAD in pregnancy – management considerations
Uri Elkayam
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

The risk of pregnancy in patients with a history of SCAD (zoom)
Marysia S Tweet
May Clinic, Rochester, USA

Risk stratification and management of pregnancy in a patient with chronic coronary artery disease
Uri Elkayam
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Anesthetic considerations in patients with Ischaemic Heart Disease or Myocardial Infarction in Pregnancy
Bhatia Kailash
Anesthesiology, Manchester University NHS FT, United Kingdom

Back to the top

Management During Labor and Delivery

The management of the second stage of labor, who should and should not push?
Mark Johnson
Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Labor management and birth in the cardiac patient
Yalda Afshar
Obstetrics and Gynecology, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

Timing and mode of birth in the pregnant patient with cardiac disease
Yalda Afshar
Obstetrics and Gynecology, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

Hemodynamics perideivery, the anesthesiologist’s perspective
Marie-Louise Meng
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Hemodynamics perideivery, the Cardiologist’s perspective
Uri Elkayam
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Anesthesia for cardio-thoracic surgery in pregnancy
Marie-Louise Meng
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Critical Care Considerations in Pregnancy
Jasmine Grewal
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Neuraxial analgesia for labor and delivery in the patient with cardiovascular disease
Marie-Louise Meng
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

How to Establish Cardiac Monitoring and Nursing on Labor and Delivery?
Diana S. Wolfe
Montefiore Medical Center, New York, USA

What is best gestational age to deliver in the cardiac patient?
Jérôme Cornette
Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Labor analgesia in pregnant patients with heart disease – Beyond the epidural?
Bhatia Kailash
Anesthesiology, Manchester University NHS FT, Great Britain

Demystifying the anesthetic management of parturient with complex cardiac disease
Kaitlyn Brennan
Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Designing a mother friendly ICU: considerations for optimizing antepartum and postpartum care outside of L&D
Kaitlyn Brennan
Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Back to the top

Congenital

The impact of pregnancy on cardiac function in women with a Fontan circulation
Mark Johnson
Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Preconception and pregnancy management of the woman born with Ebstein’s anomaly of the tricuspid valve
Marla Mendelson
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA

Unoperated Congenital Heart Disease and Pregnancy: Results from the ROPAC study (zoom)
Karen Sliwa
Cape Heart Institute, Department of Medicine and Cardiology, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Pregnancy in women with Velo-Cardiac-Facial syndrome (22q11.2 deletion) incl.  di George syndrome
Eli Gutterman
Carmel Medical Center & Clalit Health Services, Israel

Evaluating Heart Failure in the pregnant patient with Congenital Heart Disease
Doreen DeFaria Yeh
Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

Pregnancy in Fontan patients: should we refine the current recommendations?Magalie Ladouceur
Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

The effect of pregnancy on long term echocardiographic parameters of women with congenital heart disease
Efrat Mazor Dray
Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel

Tetralogy of Fallot and Pregnancy
Efrat Mazor Dray
Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel

Tetralogy of Fallot: a single eponym for a wide spectrum: Prenatal diagnosis and fetal and neonatal implications
Jérôme Cornette
Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam ,The Netherlands

Pregnancy in women with Ebstein’s anomaly
Jolien Roos-Hesselink
Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Maternal and fetal outcome of pregnancy in women with D-transposition of the great arteries-A systemic review
Jena Pizula
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Maternal and fetal outcome of pregnancy in women with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries- a systemic review
Jena Pizula
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Back to the top

Valvular

The latest view of the management of women with metallic heart valves in pregnancy
Mark Johnson
Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Pregnancy in women with Rheumatic heart disease – the US perspective
Marla Mendelson
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA

Obstetric management of pregnancy in women with prosthetic valves
Michal Simchen
Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Rheumatic Heart Disease and Pregnancy – Still a major problem to deal with
Hezzy Shmueli
Cardiology, Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel

Managing patients with mitral stenosis during pregnancy
Rafael Kuperstein
Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Individualizing care for pregnant individuals with mechanical heart valves – an evidence-based, patient-centered approach
Rohan D’souza
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Risk scores for rheumatic valvular heart: an update
Dr. Anish Keepanasseril
JIPMER, Puducherry, India

Regurgitation Valve Disease in Pregnancy
Candice Silversides
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Rheumatic Valvular Heart disease and Pregnancy: Challenges from a low to middle income patient-populations
Anish Keepanasseril
JIPMER, Puducherry, India

Alternative to LMWH as anticoagulation in pregnant women with mechanical heart valves in middle income countries
Anish Keepanasseril
JIPMER, Puducherry, India

Peripartal anticoagulation in women with mechanical valves
Jérôme Cornette
Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

TAVR during pregnancy – advantages and limitations
Anil Mehra
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Mechanical Heart Valves in pregnancy –What an anesthesiologist should know?
Bhatia Kailash
Anesthesiology, Manchester University NHS FT, Great Britain

Anaesthetic consideration in patients with severe mitral and aortic stenosis
Bhatia Kailash
Anesthesiology, Manchester University NHS FT, Great Britain

Back to the top

Cardiac Evaluation and Imaging

Exercise and stress testing during pregnancy
Marla Mendelson
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA

Utility of point of care ultrasound on labor and delivery
Amir Shamshirsaz
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

What everyone needs to know about lung ultrasound?
Amir Shamshirsaz
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

Management of pregnancy in women with congenital heart disease – what is the role of multi-modality imaging?
Rachel Wald

Echocardiographic changes in normal pregnancy
Tasneem Naqvi
Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Back to the top

Drugs in Pregnancy

Medical treatment during pregnancy
Marla Mendelson
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA

Transplacental Passage of Drugs: Principles and Predictions
Irving Steinberg
School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Precision Dosing in Pregnancy: The Need and Potential in the Cardiac Patient
Irving Steinberg
School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Heparin Dosing in Pregnancy: Regimen Design to Meet Guidelines
Irving Steinberg
School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Beta blocker Considerations among Pregnant Women with Cardiac Disease
Jasmine Grewal
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Medications – Results from ROPAC
Jolien Roos-Hesselink
Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Mechanical Heart Valves – Anticoagulation in Pregnancy
Catherine Nelson-Piercy
Obstetric Medicine, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Back to the top

Hypertension and Preeclampsia

Long term consequences of preeclampsia in pregnancy
Michal Simchen
Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Term and Early onset pre-eclampsia what are the future risks
Matthew Cauldwell
Imperial College London and St George’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom

What should the target for BP treatment in pregnancy – <140/90 or<130/80?
Erin Michos
Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Statins for Preeclampsia Prevention
Erin Michos
Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Pregnancy in women with heart disease complicated by pre-ecclampsia or thrombophilia
Eli Gutterman
Carmel Medical Center & Clalit Health Services, Israel

Hypertensive Disease in Pregnancy: Individualization of Pharmacotherapy
Irving Steinberg
School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Pathophysiology of preeclampsia
Dr Walid Kadro
Cardiology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Uterotonics and hemorrhage management in the patient with preeclampsia
Marie-Louise Meng
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: what is the goal?
Afshan Hameed
University of California, Irvine, USA

Maternal hemodynamic assessment using ultrasound for the prevention and management of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
Jérôme Cornette
Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Postpartum endothelial function and risk with CVD in preeclampsia
Anum Minhas
Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Back to the top

Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

Genetics of PPCM (zoom)
Arany Zoltan
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Back to the Crime Scene – Pregnancy following PPCM – Our experience and Update
Hezzy Shmueli
Cardiology, Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel

Use of injectable loop recorders in peripartum women (zoom)
Karen Sliwa
Cape Heart Institute, Department of Medicine and Cardiology, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Pathology of prepartum cardiomyopathy
Dr Walid Kadro
Cardiology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Peripartum Cardiomyopathy with and without Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy:  Are they different Disorders?
Dennis McNamara
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburg, USA

Bromocriptine as adjunctive treatment for peripartum cardiomyopathy – study protocol for a multi-country randomized controlled study
Rohan D’souza
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Hemodynamic phenotypes of peripartum cardiomyopathy can predict the recovery rate
Sorel Goland
Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel

Rebirth Study – Status report
Uri Elkayam
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Subsequent pregnancy in women after PPCM – The Israeli experience
Sorel Goland
Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel

Mental Health in PPCM Survivors and Partners
Sarah Thordsen
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Pregnancy-Related Cardiomyopathy & Cardiovascular Risk Assessment: Are Symptoms Enough?
Demiclad Adedinsewo
Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA

Recovery of cardiac function after peripartum cardiomyopathy: A cure or a remission?
Uri Elkayam
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Quantifying the quality of life of patients with peri-partum cardiomyopathy
John Spertus
Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Back to the top

Arrhythmias

Cardioversion in Pregnancy
Matthew Cauldwell
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

‘Syncope in Pregnancy – a safe approach for the Internist and Obstetrician’
Paul S. Gibson
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Maternal cardiac arrest and ECPR
Marie-Louise Meng
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Cardiac Arrest on Labor and Delivery
Diana S. Wolfe
Montefiore Medical Center, New York, USA

Prenatal diagnosis, differentiation and management of fetal arrhythmia’s.
Fetal Speckle echocardiography
Jérôme Cornette
Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

POTS
Lee Padove
Northside Hospital, Atlanta, USA

Pregnancy in women with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy
Silvia Castelletti
Cardiology, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy

Approach to arrhythmia symptoms and management in pregnancy
Danna Spears
Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Bradyarrhythmias and cardiac rhythm device implantation and management in pregnancy
Danna Spears
Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Inherited arrhythmia and Pregnancy
Danna Spears
Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Back to the top

Pulmonary HTN and PE

Pulmonary Hypertension in the Congenital Pregnant Patient
Candice Silversides
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Pulmonary hypertension in pregnancy
Hani Sabbour
Cardiology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Pulmonary hypertension and pregnancy, management peridelivery
Marie-Louise Meng
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

World Data and Clinical Management Protocol for Pregnant Women with PAH. (zoom)
Dianne Zwicke
Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center, Milwaukee, USA

Overview of venous disease in pregnancy
Laura Schmidt
Saint Luke’s Health System, Kansas City, USA

Case Study of Patient with PAH, Real Time Management, and 5th type of Atrial level shunt (zoom)
Dianne Zwicke
Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center, Milwaukee, USA

Venous thromboembolism in pregnant women
Catherine Nelson-Piercy
Obstetric Medicine, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Back to the top