Updated: 28 April, 2013 23:52 +0200
Eleventh meeting on iMaging And eLectrical Technologies
MALT 2013
April 25-28, 2013
Noordwijk / Leiden - The
Netherlands
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The MALT meeting is a round table conference focusing on the correlation of electrocardiography and cardiac imaging. The conference is a yearly recurring event organised by an international study group, comprising, among others, biomedical engineers and clinical and basic cardiologists and physiologists from different countries. The meeting allows to communicate the latest developments in the respective research and clinical fields. All sessions are plenary, and consist of in-depth presentations and discussions with time-slots of 30 minutes. In addition, there are 2 keynote lectures, addressing the basics of vectorcardiography.
Successful meetings have been held in several university cities such as Glasgow, Edinburgh, Lund, Aarhüs, Maastricht and Bratislava. The next, 11th, meeting, is held in Leiden, The Netherlands, where a century ago Einthoven, Father of Electrocardiography, did his pioneering work for which he received the 1924 Nobelprize in Physiology/Medicine.
Willem Einthoven, 1860-1927, Father of Electrocardiology
The meeting is jointly organized by the Cardiology Departments of Leiden University Medical Center and Maastricht University Medical Center.
Leiden University Medical Center Maastricht University Medical Center
We gratefully acknowledge financial support by Fysiologic, Medtronic, St. Jude Medical, Stichting Maastricht Educational Cardiology Exchange and Heart Center Leiden
Thursday, April 25
04:00 PM
Starting 04:00 PM a student is waiting for you in the Central Hall of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC, next to trainstation Leiden
CS); you can leave your luggage there
06:00 PM Boerhaave event: Walk from the LUMC to
the
Boerhaave Museum, exclusively
opened for the MALT participants; after the museum visit we walk to
Cafe Diner "De Grote Beer"
where we will have diner
If you are late (later than 06:00 PM), go anyway first to the Central Hall of the LUMC, you can
leave your luggage there and you'll get instructions how to catch up with
the group
09:30 PM Walk back to the LUMC and travel to Hotel "De Witte Raaf" by bus
Friday, April 26
Session 1: New insights into the electrocardiogram; chairpersons Galen Wagner & Bas Bekkers
08:30 AM Welcome
address by Galen Wagner; announcement of the Young Investigators Competition
by Olle Pahlm
08:45 AM Mark Potse, Lugano: Inferring physiological
parameters in heart-hailure patients using a realistic computational model
and patient-tailored anatomies
09:15 AM Vivian Kamphuis, Leiden: Electrocardiographic
detection of right ventricular pressure overload
09:45 AM Daniëlle Keulards, Maastricht: Terminal QRS axis
in right bundle branch block and Brugada's syndrome
10:15 AM Hedwig Andersson, Copenhagen: ECG changes in
patients with STEMI and angiographically normal coronary arteries
10:45 AM Break
11:15 AM Thomas Christensen, Copenhagen: Differentiation
between Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and ST-segment myocardial infarction
admission ECGs
Friday Keynote Lecture
Herman Carel Burger, 1893-1965
Download Burger's 1962-1963 course Electrical Heart Function ("De
elektrische werking van het hart", in Dutch, 147 pp, 45 Mbyte)
11:45 AM Gerard
van Herpen, Rotterdam: Professor Burger and the concept of
vectorcardiography
12:30 AM Luncheon break
Session 2: Vectorcardiography; chairpersons Ljuba Bacharova & Frits Prinzen
01:30 PM Cato
ter Haar, Leiden: ST and ventricular gradient difference vectors to
characterize acute ischemia
02:00 PM Caroline van Deursen, Maastricht:
Vectorcardiography for prediction of optimal AV delay in patients with
cardiac synchronization therapy
02:30 PM Ljuba Bacharova, Bratislava, SK: The ventricular
gradient and spatial QRS-T angle in LVH: a computer modelling study
03.00 PM Break
03:30 PM Liliane Wecke, Stockholm: Vectorcardiography for
evaluation of electrical remodeling in cardiac resynchronization therapy
04:00 PM Stefanie Hillebrand, Leiden: Adiposity and
electrocardiographic measures of sympathetic activation in individuals with
structurally normal hearts: the NEO study
Social Program
04:45 PM Group
picture (wheather permitting we'll make the group picture in the flower
fields)
05:00 PM Tulipmania event: travel by bus to
a flower bulb farm, Tulipmania lecture by Arie Maan, show around (machinery
and cultures outside) by owner Stan van der Vlugt, diner at the location
09:30 PM Return to Hotel "De Witte Raaf" by bus
Saturday, April 27
Session 3: Ischemia and infarction; chairpersons Jan Kors & Mark Potse
08:30 AM Sjoerd
Bouwmeester & Irene van Hellemond, Maastricht: QRS and ST estimation of
the risk region during myocardial infarction
09:00 AM Esben Carlsen, Copenhagen: Stability of
electrocardiographically estimated myocardial area at risk in patients with
ST elevation myocardial infarction
09:30 AM Andreas Fredholm, Stockholm: Heart failure shows
increased pulmonary blood volume by cardiovascular magnetic resonance
imaging
10:00 AM Break
10:30 AM Arie Maan, Leiden, & Anton Gorgels, Maastricht:
STEAM (ST Elevation, Azimuth, Magnitude): a VCG-based teaching tool for the
3D visualization of the injury vector in the acute coronary syndrome
Saturday Keynote Lecture
Spatial angle = angle between the 3D QRS and
T integrals
11:15 AM Adriaan
van Oosterom, Nijmegen: Biophysical background of the spatial QRS-T angle
12.00 AM Luncheon break
Session 4: ECG-MRI correlation; chairpersons Lia Bang & Martin Ugander
01:30 PM Daniel
Goldwasser, Buenos Aires: ECG-CE-MR correlation in post-myocardial
infarction patients with Q-wave: new data
02:00 PM Sebastian Haby, Stockholm: Evaluating
experimental myocarditis with extracellular volume MRI
02:30 PM Caroline Jaarsma, Maastricht: Detection of prior
myocardial infarction with electrocardiography: comparison of different
electrocardiographic scoring systems in relation to infarct characteristics
as assessed with cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging
03:00 PM Samuel Sears, Stockholm: Early versus late MRI
post-contrast imaging in myocarditis
03.30 PM Break
Finale
04.00 PM
Presentation of the Young
Investigators Award by the chairman of the jury, Dr. Olle Pahlm
04:30 PM Evaluation of the meeting, and a preview of
MALT 2014
05.00 PM Walk / bike ride in the dunes
07.30 PM Dinner in Hotel "De Witte Raaf", with
musical intermezzo
Sunday, April 28
Farewell breakfast
Organizers: Mathee Swenne & Janneke Gorgels
Friday, April 26
During the sessions, we will make a tour through the flower fields, visit museum De Zwarte Tulp (The Black Tulip) and flowerexpo De Keukenhof in Lisse, where you will see many types of flowers in all kinds of settings and arrangements, and where you will have, from the ballustrade of the windmill, a splendid overview of several square kilometers of flower fields.
Saturday, April 27
During the sessions, we will visit the Frans Hals Museum and the Dolhuys Museum in the pittoresque city of Haarlem.
The
meeting is held in Hotel De Witte Raaf in
Noordwijk, close to Leiden. The hotel has free fast wireless internet. From
the backyard of the hotel you can walk into the dunes.
No need to book a room: the organizing committee
has already made the reservations.
When you
travel to the Leiden University Medical Center, you can follow the
directions given by the Leiden University.
When you travel from Schiphol Airport to Hotel "De Witte Raaf" you could take a
taxi (a 20 to 30-minute drive, cost is approx. 55-65 Euro for 4-7 persons).
Those days, the flower fields surrounding the
conference hotel will be full of splendid colours
(photo made on April 16, 2003 ©
Cees A. Swenne)
The weather is always a surprise
IMPORTANT DUTCH EVENT ON APRIL 30
On April 30, 2013, Her Majesty Beatrix, Queen of The Netherlands, abdicates from the throne in favor of her son, by then King Willem Alexander, married to, by then Queen Maxima.
