10th Indo-French Meeting Foundation
Interventional Cardiology Meeting with live demonstrations
11th-12th September, 2008
Nantes, France - CHU de Nantes - Hôpital Nord

Friday, September 12th


SESSION 4 / CHALLENGES IN PCI
Moderators: D. Blanchard (France), A. Cribier (France), S. Kapoor (India), R. Sivakumar (India)

8:30 am – 8:45 am

Unprotected left main: are we discouraged?
P. Chandra (India)

8:45 am – 9:00 am

Bifurcation PCI: current status/news concepts
A. Mehta (India)

9:00 am – 10:00 am

LIVE CASE 3
Moderators: D. Baruah (India), S. Dani (India), H. Eltchaninoff (France), J. John (India), B. Valeix (France)

10:00 am – 10:15 am

Chronic total occlusion: last frontier for the interventional cardiologist? for whom and how?
S. Mathew (India)

10:15 am – 10:30 am

Diabetic patients: are DES the only best option?
P. Meyer (France)

10:30 am – 10:45 am

Patent foramen ovale –/atrial septal defect: are we going too far?
Col. J S Dugal (India)

10:45 am – 11:00 am

Coffee break

SESSION 5 / IMAGING SESSION
Moderators:
PD. Crochet (France), H. Eltchaninoff (France), M. Gilard (France),
M. Nair (India), S. Ramesh (India), D. Rao (India)

11:00 am – 11:15 am

Best indications for IVUS use in every day life
S. Dani (India)

11:15 am – 11:30 am

Multi Slice CT scan: a threat or a help for the interventional cardiologist?
M. Gilard (France), D. Pahlajani (India)

11:30 am – 11:45 am

Magnetic resonance imaging: role in contemporary PCI
PD. Crochet (France)

11:45 am – 12:00 pm

OCT / virtual histology: the new image modality?
M. Gilard (France)

12:00 pm – 12:45 pm

Angio cases discussions miscellaneous/complex cases/complications
Moderators:
S. Chandra (India), A. Cribier (France), P. Kaparthi (India),
U. Kaul (India), A. Mehta (India), P. Meyer (France

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm

Lunch break

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

LIVE OR POST SYNCRONIZED TRANSMISSION
Moderators: M. Ahsishkumar (India), PD. Crochet (France), M. Gilard (France), A. Menon (India), M. Rao (India)

SESSION 6 / FUTURE IN VALVE AND CELL THERAPY
Moderators: C G. Bahuleyan (India), A. Cribier (France), H. Eltchaninoff (France), M. Nair (India)

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Cribier–Edwards aortic valve clinical update, current indications, results of the other programs
A. Cribier (France)

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Percutaneous valve technology for mitral valve disease
H. Eltchaninoff (France)

4:00 pm – 4:15 pm

Coffee break

4:15 pm – 4:30 pm

Stem cells: hope and hype
A. Mullasari (India)

4:30 pm – 5:15 pm

Percutaneous valve intervention (aortic, pulmonary, mitral) cases discussions
Moderators:
C G. Bahuleyan (India), A. Cribier (France), H. Eltchaninoff (France),
D B. Pahlajani (India), D. Rao (India)

5:15 pm

Meeting Concluding remarks
A. Cribier (France), S. Mathew (India), A. Tirouvanziam (France),
PD. Crochet (France), H. Eltchaninoff (France)