7th Prague Workshop on Catheter Ablation
with Live Demonstrations
March 21–23, 2004
Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine Prague, Czech Republic
Working Group of Arrhythmias and Cardiac Pacing of the Czech Society of Cardiology
WELCOME ADDRESS
Dear Colleague,
Welcome to the 7th Prague Workshop on Catheter Ablation. Like in previous years, topic-oriented review lectures followed by full live demonstrations from the electrophysiological laboratory will dominate the meeting. This year, atrial fibrilation has been selected as a leading theme for the whole workshop and you will have an opportunity to watch four different approaches to ablation of this complex arrhythmia, including conventional circumferential lasso mapping, intracardiac echocardiography, three dimensional location system and/or the use of cryoenergy. To provide you with more comprehensive background information, the meeting will start with a series of state-of-the-art lectures on anatomy of the left atrium and pulmonary veins, on pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation and atrial remodelling, on novel concepts of drug treatment, pacing prevention and therapy and/or surgical ablation.
For less experienced, idiopathic ventricular tachycardia originating from the outflow tract was selected as the second topic of the workshop and conventional ablation will be demonstrated.
Interesting case reports and/or other observations will be discussed in a special session devoted to short communications, and the scientific programme will also comprise short industry-sponsored lectures on technical advances in mapping and/or catheter ablation.
Last but not least, you all are cordially invited for get-together reception that will take place in a special place in the middle of historical Prague town centre.
We hope that you will find the meeting both useful and stimulating for your practice and wish you a pleasant stay in the city of Prague.
Professor Josef Kautzner, MD, PhD, FESC
Head, Department of Cardiology, IKEM
