share email print adminAuthor website Symposia 19 September, 2010 5th Symposium TECAM – abstracts OPENING SPECIAL LECTURES Pioneers in cardiology: from heart transplant to tissue engineering. Magdi Yacoub Biotechnology in left ventricular dysfunction. Valentin Fuster From bench to bedside on stem cell therapy for heart repair and vice versa: do we need a new consensus? John Martin WHAT’S NEW? On embryonic Stem cells? André Terzic On adult stem cells? Jozef Bartunek On cell processing and mobilization? Stefanie Dimmeler On heart tissue engineering? Doris Taylor On cell homing and tracking? Dara Kraitchman On clinical scenarios and clinical trials? Stefan Janssens On routes of administration? Nabil Dib CONTROVERSY Stem cell mechanisms of action: transdifferentiation vs. others. Transdifferentiation. Bernardo Nadal Others. Helmut Drexler Bone marrow stem cell therapy improves outcomes after STEMI. Efficacy. Andreas Zeiher Non-efficacy. Ketil Lunde SPECIAL THEMED SESSION: ALTERNATIVES AND COMPLEMENREPLACEMENT OF THE HEART. Ventricular assistance combined with biological therapies for the reeversal of heart failure. Myth or reality? Emma Birks,Magdi Yacoub Ventricular assistance as destination therapy or as a bridge to heart transplantation. Does the frontier really exist? Roland Hetzer Total mechanical replacement of the heart. Feasibility, performance and future. O.H. Frazier Feasibility of biventricular pacing in patients with recent myocardial infarction: impact on ventricular remodeling. E. S. Chung KEYNOTE SESSION Making a heart. Lessons from developmental cardiology. A.C. Gittenberger Immunity barriers to save before jumping to allogeneceity of stem cell therapy. Dominique Charron Reverse remodelling during mechanical unloading of the left ventricle. J.N. Nanas Cardiac stem cell therapy. The puzzle waits to be solved. The role of networking approach. Robert Simari