The treatment of myocardial infarction and ischemia has never been better. Be at the forefront of cardiology with the latest updates from late-breaking clinical trials, challenging case presentations, and state-of-the-art symposia—all focusing on what you need to know every day.
Hot Topics
ACC/AHA Guidelines Update: Unstable Angina and NSTEMI
- Initial management
- Antithrombotic therapy
- Invasive versus conservative strategy
- Special populations
- NEW! You-Que Videocast: What Will You Ask Them? Do you have pressing questions about the guidelines? Submit a video clip of yourself and our international all-star line-up of speakers may answer your question at ACC.08. Click here for more information about You-Que @ ACC.08.
Late stent thrombosis for the noninvasive cardiologist
- The latest clinical data on drug-eluting stents
- How long to continue dual antiplatelet therapy
- ClinCard Spotlight—Case challenge: How to manage patients who needs surgery within months of DES implantation
Regionalization of STEMI care
- The importance of MI networks
- The Denmark experience
- North Carolina’s RACE project
NEW! Clinical Focus Session
In-depth exploration of common dilemmas in acute coronary syndromes
- Balancing risks, benefits, and preferences in the elderly
- Optimizing therapy in diabetic patients
- Risk and treatment in chronic renal insufficiency
- What to do when standard therapy fails and revascularization is not an option
- Clopidogrel: when, how much and for how long?
- Bivalirudin versus glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors
- The role of fondaparinux, low molecular weight heparins and unfractionated heparin
Learn from the Experts
- Efficient triage of acute chest pain: Hear from both cardiologists and emergency physicians
- Variability in antiplatelet response: Does it matter and what should you do about it?
- ClinCard Spotlight—Experts debate early invasive versus ischemia-guided therapy in NSTEMI
More Highlights
- Challenges in secondary prevention—Managing obesity, selecting cholesterol targets, helping patients to quit smoking, addressing depression in cardiac patients
- How biomarkers help in evaluating risk in NSTEMI
- Update on stem cells, including infarct repair and angiogenesis
Plus Register for the SCAI Annual Scientific Sessions in Partnership with ACC i2 Summit and you get:
- Live cases from leading medical centers worldwide
- The latest news on emerging technologies
- Cardiac Cath Handbook Live: Full-day session to brush up on hemodynamics before the 2009 board recertification examination
- No holds barred advice from experts on “PCI Nightmares”
Click here for more information about SCAI-ACCi2.
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