XV World Congress of the International Cardiac Doppler Society in conjunction with Russian National Conference on Cardiac Resynchronization and Cardioversion Defibrillation

The Congress was arranged by Tyumen Cardiology Center and co-sponsored by the International Cardiac Doppler Society and the Russian Society of Arrhythmology. Also it was supported by the Russian Chapter of the International Society of Cardiovascular Ultrasound, Departments of Health Care, Strategical Development, Education and Science of the Tyumen region.

Within the congress there were 2 Plenary Sessions (the 2nd - Joint Session of Russian Society of Arrhythmology, ICDS and European Association of Echocardiography); 12 Concurrent Sessions (Joint Session with the Working Group on Echocardiography of the Society of Cardiology of the Russian Federation, Modern Technologies, Coronary Arteries and Peripheral Vascular Ultrasound, Stress-Echocardiography, Transesophageal and Intraoperative Echocardiography, Cardiomyopathies, Valve Disease, Function, 3 Sessions - Russian National Conference on CRT and Cardioversion Defibrillation, Oral Presentations); 2 Satellite Symposia (organized by Cordis and Medtronic); the Daniel Kalmanson’s Award competition for young scientists; a  Poster Presentation Session.
88 lectures and oral presentations and 10 poster presentations were delivered.

The total number of active participants at the Congress – 570 from 23 countries (Argentine, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, USA), including 49 foreign participants and 521 from 18 regions (46 cities) of Russia.
The number of abstracts published in the Congress Abstract Book – 188. Representatives of 6 countries submitted papers but were not able to attend the Congress (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Malaysia, the Philippines, the Ukraine, Uzbekistan).
The total number of countries that participated in the preparation and attended the Congress – 29.

The poster presentation session took place within the Congress. The Committee consisted of the Chairman J. Geoffrey Stevenson (Seattle, WA, USA) and 4 members: Pasquale Palmiero (Brindisi, Italy), Michael V. Orlov (Boston, USA), Michael Maysky (Boston, USA), Mikhail R. Sukernik (Hershey, PA, USA). 10 posters were presented at the session, the winners are the following:
1st place – Kasprzak J.D., Lipiec P., Wejen – Mik P., Plachcinska A., Kusmierek J., Krzeminska-Pakula M. (Lodz, Poland)
“Novel Protocol for Dipyridamole Stress Echocardiography Enhanced with Coronary Flow Reserve Study Improves the Diagnostic Value of the Test“.
2nd place – S.V. Vdovenko, V.A. Kuznetsov, D.V. Krinochkin, I.P. Zyrianov, M.V. Semukhin, E.A. Doniy (Tyumen, Russia)
“Ultrasound Evaluation of Pulse Wave Velocity and Coronary Atherosclerosis”.
3rd place – A. Vrublevsky, A. Boshchenko, R. Karpov (Tomsk, Russia)
“Evaluation of Thoracic Aorta Stiffness and Remodelling in Atherosclerosis Using Transesophageal Echocardiography”
The winners received acknowledgements and prizes.

The Congress was organized with support of the following industry partners: pharmaceutical companies and companies producing medical equipment: Bayer, Medtronic, Berlin Chemie, Nycomed, Biosense Webster, OMRON Healthcare, Biotronic, Philips (Medinvest), Dalco International, Polfa Warszawa S.A., Implanta (Bosti Group), Sanofi aventis, General Electric, Siemens, KRKA, SonoSite Ltd, Medicom, Vitatron.

The official carrier of the Congress was air company Utair.
Moreover about 30 companies provided unprofitable help at the meeting.

The congress was held on a very high scientific level. Traditionally, in addition to the scientific program an interesting social program was arranged.

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