Imaging in Ischemic Heart Desease and Cardiac Failure

Monday, December 10, 2012

09:00 – 09:30?Registration, Welcome (Prof Kyin MYINT, Nuclear Medicine Yangon General Hospital, Course Director)

09:30 – 10:00?Multiple choice questions (MCQ) – Pre-course Evaluation (All Participants)

10:00 – 10:30?IAEA activities in Nuclear Medicine and Nuclear Cardiology?(M.Dondi, Section Head NM, IAEA)

10:30 – 11:00?Coffee/Tea Break

11:00 – 11:30?Ischemic heart disease: natural history and diagnostic workup (Nathan Better, IAEA Expert)

11:30?– 12:00?Cardiac failure: natural history and diagnostic workup?(Raffaele Giubbini, IAEA Expert)

12:00?– 13:30?Lunch Break

Country reports on NM/NC activities

13:30?– 14:00?Current status and perspectives of nuclear medicine in Asia (Prof Henry Bom; ARCCNM)

14:00?– 15:00?Each participant will present a 10’ report on:

• Country statistics
• Learning issues
• Local hurdles

(Speakers: All participants. Coordinators: Prof Henry Bom, ARCCNM & Raffaele Giubbini, IAEA expert)

15:00?– 15:30?Coffee/Tea Break

15:30?– 17:00?Sustainability of Nuclear cardiology practice in the region (Coordinators: Prof Henry Bom, ARCCNM & Maurizio Dondi, IAEA. Discussants: All participants)

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

09:00 – 09:45?Evaluating Clinical Risk and Guiding Management with SPECT Imaging?(Nathan Better, IAEA Expert)

09:45?– 10:15?Tailoring Cardiac Stress Testing: When and how to use Exercise, Vasodilators, and Inotropes. Influence of Medications on Cardiac Imaging?(Joao Vitola, IAEA Expert)

10:15?– ?10:45?New Advances in Nuclear Cardiology: improvements in technology?(Raffaele Giubbini, IAEA Expert)

10:45?– 11:00?Coffee/Tea Break

11:00?– 11:45?Direct Ischemia Imaging and other Competing Technologies (CT, MR, ECHO)?(Nathan Better, IAEA Expert)

11:45?– 12:30?Overcoming Attenuation Artefacts: How to use Attenuation Correction - Is SPECT/CT Superior to SPECT? (Raffaele Giubbini, IAEA Expert)

12:30?– 14:00?Lunch Break

Read with the experts

14:00?– 15:15?Case studies presentations (All IAEA Experts)

15:15?– 15:45?Coffee/Tea Break

15:45?– 17:00?Case studies presentations (All IAEA Experts)

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

09:00 – 09:45?Interventional cardiology (Thin Thin Kyaing, Cardiologist, Department of Cardiac Medicine, Mandalay general Hospital)

09:45?– 10:30?Quantification in Nuclear Cardiology: needs and added value?(Joao Vitola, IAEA Expert)

10:30?– 11:00?Coffee/Tea Break

11:00?– 11:45?Nuclear Imaging in Cardiomyopathies?(Raffaele Giubbini, IAEA Expert)

11:45?– 12:15?CT coronary angiography?(Prof Lin Tun Tun, Radiologist, Department of Radiology, Yangon General Hospital)

Thursday, December 13, 2012

09:00 – 09:30?Emerging role of PET in Nuclear Cardiology: PET is not only viability?(Raffaele Giubbini, IAEA Expert)

09:30?– 10:00?Myocardial viability: detection with SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging?(Joao Vitola, AEA Expert)

10:00?– 10:30?Cost-effectiveness of Nuclear Cardiology procedures (IAEA Expert)

10:30?– 11:00?Coffee/Tea Break

11:30?– 12:00?Imaging acute chest pain in the E.D.?(Nathan ?Better, IAEA Expert)

12:00?–?12:30?Pivotal Imaging Trials with Clinical Impact- COURAGE trial Imaging?(Raffaele Giubbini, IAEA Expert)

12:30?–?14:00?Lunch Break

Session 6. Read with the experts

14:00?–?15:00?Interpreting ECG-Gated Myocardial Perfusion Imaging: Common and Challenging Cases in High-Risk Populations (All IAEA Experts)

15:00?–?15:30?Coffee/Tea Break

15:30?–?17:00?Reading session continues (All IAEA Experts)

Friday, December 14, 2012

09:30 – 10:00?Experimental radiotracers for myocardial perfusion imaging?(Henry Bom, ARCCNM)

10:00?–?10:30?How to report effectively a nuclear cardiology study?(Nathan ?Better, IAEA Expert)

10:30?–?11:00?Coffee/Tea break

11:00?–?11:30?MCQ. Post-course evaluation (All participants)

11:30?–?12:00?Resolving MCQ questions (IAEA Experts)

12:00?–?12:15?Certificate distribution (Course Director)

12:15?–?12:30?Closing remarks (Course Director)