2009

ESC Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 29.08 – 02.09.2009

Participants in panel discussion of the sessions:

Kruk M.: Treating acute coronary syndromes in 2009
Stępińska J.: Assessment of aortic stenosis. Live from Barcelona

Chairpersons of the sessions:

Bilińska Z.T.: Treatment of recurrent pericardial effusion
Stępińska J.: Mitral regurgitation: What’s new?
Witkowski A.: What every cardiologist should know about drug-eluting stents

2008

ESC Congress, Munich, Germany, 30.08-3.09.2008

Chairpersons of the sessions:

Bilińska Z.: Cardiomyopathies: risk evaluation and management.
Bilińska Z.: Laminopathies affecting the heart: from clinical suspicion to correct treatment.
Stępińska J.: Bicuspid aortic valve disease: an old disease with a new name?
Stępińska J.: Infective endocarditis - a dangerous disease.

2007

ESC Congress, Vienna, Austria, 1-5.09.2007

Invited lecture:

Rużyłło W.: w sesji Clinical Trial Update I, dyskutant badania: Three-year clinical follow-up after sirolimus-eluting versus bare metal stent implantation assisted by systematic glycoprotein IIb/IIIa infusion in patients with myocardial infarction.

Chairpersons of the sessions:

Biederman A.: Management of infective endocarditis.
Bilińska Z.T.: New perspectives in myocarditis and pericarditis.
Rużyłło W.: Forgotten subgroupds with acute myocardial infarction.
Stępińska J.: Acute Heart Failure:Are We Entering A New Era?
Stępińska J.: Aortic Stenosis- New Directions.

AHA Scientific Sessions, Orlando, Florida, USA, 4-7.11.2007

Chairperson of the session:

Rużyłło W.: Acute myocardial infarction: biomarkers, drug therapy and stents.

2006

XVth World Congress of Cardiology, Barcelona, Spain, 2-6.09.2006.

Invited lecture:

Witkowski A.: Chest pain with troponin elevation and renal failure.
Witkowski A.: Distal protection devices should be used during primary percuatneous coronary intervention: Contra.
Witkowski A.: Thienopiridines after CLARITY-PCI – an update for ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

Chairpersons of the sessions:

Hoffman P., Sheppard M.N.: Substrates of Sudden Cardiac Death in the young.
Stępińska J.: Valve disease - indication for surgery

2005

ESC Congress, Stockholm, Sweden, 3-7.09.2005

Invited lecture:

Bilińska Z.T.: Inflammatory cardiomyopathies – diagnosis and natural course.

Chairperson of the session:

Stępińska J. Pulmonary circulation II. (moderated session)