6th SOUTHERN SYMPOSIUM ON CARDIAC PACING
RHYTHM CONTROL FROM CARDIAC EVALUATION TO TREATMENT
9-12 September 1998, Taormina, Italy

Chairman of the symposium
Adornato E. (Reggio Calabria)

Honorary president
Galassi A. (Catania)

Organizing Secretariat
PROGRESS Promozione Congressi
Via Giacomo Trevis, 88, 00147 Roma, Italy
Tel: +39/6/51 60 06 47/8, Fax: +39/6/51 60 01 31
E-mail: progress@progress-congressi.com, http://www.progress-congressi.com

Scientific secretariat
Divisione di Cardiologia
Azienda Ospedaliera
"Bianchi - Melacrino - Morelli", Reggio Calabria, Italy
Tel: +39/965/397 160, Fax: +39/965/397 160

Preliminary program

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: from initiation to termination

• Etiology and Epidemiology
• Basic mechanism and triggering factors: How to judge them?
• Therapeutic strategies for the prevention
• New drugs
• Cardiac Pacing: When and How?
• RF Catheter Ablation: Real prevention?
• Actual choise for the termination
• Drug Efficacy: an update of clinical trials
• Pharmacological Atrial Defibrillation
• Automatic Implantable Atrial Defibrillator: New fashion or real need?
• Which is the best therapeutic option?

CARDIAC SYSTEM: An Update

• Indications
• Pacemaker and Lead Technologies
• New Horizons for Single - Lead VDD Pacing
• Automatic Pacing: A technical reality?
• Follow up

ICD SYSTEM

• Clinical effects of technological improvements
• Enhancement on detection mechanisms
• Therapeutic space of Dual Chamber ICD
• Validity of ICDs therapy and new indications as assessed by clinical trials

CATHETER ABLATION: from mapping to therapy

• New mapping techniques
• Catheter ablation for atrial arrhythmias: A revue
• Catheter ablation for Vts: Controversies
• Arrhythmias in children: Drugs or Ablation?

CARDIOPATHIES AND ARRHYTHMIAS

• How to evaluate the arrhythmic risk
• Therapeutic strategies for the prevention and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias
• Non pharmacological therapies in CHF