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DETAILED PROGRAMME

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Symposium 1: Controversies in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) -The Great Debates Session

  • Ostial LAD disease: MIDCAB
  • Ostial LAD disease: PCI
  • Stentless PCI: The Pros
  • Stentless PCI: The Cons
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Symposium 2: Current Controversies: Redefining Standards in Cardiovascular Care

  • The new pulmonary embolism response team (PERT), does everyone need to implement it?
  • Point of care US (POCUS) in emergency cardiac care - should it be standard of care?
  • Endocarditis - is transthoracic echocardiography enough, or do we all have to do multimodality assessment?
  • Lp(a) - A new therapeutic target - hope or hype?
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Symposium 3: ECG Masterclass

Topics coming soon

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Symposium 5: Pulmonary Hypertension: From Diagnosis to Novel Therapies

  • Right and Left Heart Catheterisation for the Diagnosis and Follow-Up of the Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Patient: Is It Necessary and How Do We Interpret the Results?
  • International Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension: An ASEAN Perspective
  • Approach to Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension with Comorbidities
  • Novel Therapeutics in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: New Drugs and Pulmonary Artery Denervation
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Symposium 6: Cardiac Emergencies: Recognition and Contemporary Management

  • Hypertensive Emergencies: Anything New?
  • Cardiac Surgery in Acute Coronary Syndrome - Is It Still Necessary?
  • VT Storm: How to Treat the Patient
  • Cardiac Tamponade: How to Diagnose and What to Do in Borderline Cases?
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Symposium 7: Intervention Live in a box - The Challenge of Coronary Disease in Patients with CKD

  • PCI in Patients on Dialysis: Outcomes
  • Contrast-Induced Nephropathy: Myth or Reality?
  • Ultra-Low-Contrast PCI: Past, Present, and Future
  • Live-in-a-Box: Low-Contrast Case
  • Real Time IVUS
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Symposium 8: Lifelong Care for Congenital Heart Disease

  • Tetralogy of Fallot: Current Outcomes and the Brunei Experience
  • Cardiac issues in the paediatric intensive care unit
  • The Role of the Transition Clinic in the Management of Congenital Heart Disease: Easing the Journey to Adult Care
  • Highlights from the 2025 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Management of ACHD
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Symposium 9: Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation: From Guidelines to Advanced Practice

  • Controversies Related to Therapeutic Hypothermia Post-Cardiac Arrest: The Case For and Against
  • Special Circumstances in Resuscitation: Beyond the Basics
  • See the Cause, Save the Patient: Bedside Echo in Cardiac Arrest
  • 2025 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) Science With Treatment Recommendations: What's New and Why Has It Changed?
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Symposium 10: Intervention Live in a Box- Complex PCI in the Complex Patient

  • Case presentation
  • PCI in Patients with Low Ejection Fraction: Pros vs. Cons
  • Impella: A Debate on the Current Evidence
  • Left Main PCI Strategy
  • DCB: Current State of the Art
  • How did we do it? – Film
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Symposium 11: ASCVD Risk Scoring

Featured Session with University of Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Risk Scoring for Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: A Review of the WHO, European, and American Risk Scores
  • The Development and Rationale of SCORE2 Asia Pacific: Should We Routinely Be Using It?
  • Risk Prediction in Patients with Established ASCVD, Type 2 Diabetes, and Heart Failure
  • Lifetime and Residual Cardiovascular Disease Risk: What Models Exist for Prediction, and How Are They Derived?
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Symposium 12: The Role of Cardiac CT

  • The Role of CT in the Assessment of Coronary Artery Disease: Beyond Coronary Artery Calcium and CT Coronary Angiography
  • Photon-Counting CT: The New Gold Standard?
  • How to Diagnose Anomalous Coronary Artery Disease: Classification Using CT and Risk Stratification
  • Beyond Troponin and Echo: The Use of Cardiac CT in the Early Assessment of Chest Pain in the Emergency Department
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Symposium 13: Cardiac Surgery

Joint session with ATCSA
  • ERAS in Cardiac Surgery: Does It Truly Reduce Morbidity or Just Length of Stay?
  • PCI vs. CABG for Left Main and Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease: Early Outcomes vs. Long-Term Survival
  • Outcomes of SAVR vs. TAVI in Low-Risk Younger Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis
  • Management of Acute Aortic Syndromes: Surgery vs TEVAR
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Symposium 14: Chronic Coronary Syndromes: Tackling Everyday Clinical Challenges

Joint Session with APSIC
  • Updated Clinical Models to Estimate Obstructive CAD
  • Management of Angina in Patients with ANOCA/MINOCA
  • Management of High-Risk Patients Requiring Long-Term Anticoagulation After Stenting
  • Post-PCI Angina
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Symposium 15: Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging: Guiding Clinical Decision-Making

  • The Role of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging in the Evaluation of Young Adult Competitive Athletes
  • Multimodality Imaging for the Evaluation of Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction
  • The role of nuclear imaging in cardiology - when to use it in the modern era
  • Multimodality Imaging in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: How to Use It to Guide Novel Therapeutics
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Symposium 16: Beyond the Usual- Intersection of Cardiology & Medicine

  • Cardio-Oncology: What the General Cardiologist Needs to Know
  • Cardiac-Oculomics: Retinal Imaging as a Window into Cardiovascular Health
  • Cardiac Amyloidosis: Current Therapeutic Approach
  • Iron Overload Cardiomyopathy in Thalassaemia and Beyond
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Symposium 17: Acute Coronary Syndromes in 2026- Bridging Evidence and Practice

Joint Session with BIT
I. Treatment of STEMI
  • Debate: PPCI for All – Agree
  • Debate: PPCI for All- Disagree
  • From Aspiration to Reality: Malaysia
  • From Aspiration to Reality: Indonesia
II. Multivessel Disease in Acute Coronary Syndromes
  • PCI of Non-Culprit Vessels: Physiology- vs. Imaging-Guided
  • Treatment Options in Real-Life Cases
  • Final Discussion and Conclusions
III. New Trends in the Treatment of Acute Coronary Syndromes
  • Antiplatelets: Ticagrelor—In or Out?
  • Lipid Lowering: Are We Ready for PCSK9 Inhibitors in the Context of Acute Coronary Syndromes?
  • Novel Targets in Acute Coronary Syndromes
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Symposium 18: Heart Failure: Contemporary Management Across the Care Continuum

  • HFpEF: Phenotyping Beyond Ejection Fraction
  • Disease-Modifying Therapies Across the Cardio-Renal-Metabolic Spectrum
  • Evolving Roles for Device and Monitoring Technologies
  • GDMT 2026: Are We Treating the Four Pillars Early Enough in ASEAN?
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Symposium 19: Echo

Joint Session with ASEAN Echo
  • Rheumatic Revelations: Navigating Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis in Resource-Limited Settings
  • Peripartum Problems: Visualizing Valve Disease and Cardiomyopathies in Pregnancy
  • Congenital Conundrums: Unravelling Bicuspid Aortic Valve with Aortic Stenosis and Concomitant Congenital Lesions
  • Innovation Spotlight: Engineering AI-powered strategies in echocardiography across the ASEAN region
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Symposium 20: Vascular Surgery

Topics coming soon

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Symposium 21: SCAI Shock @ AFCC 2026

Joint Session with SCAI
  • Door to Lactate
  • PCI first or support first
  • Supporting the RV in massive PE
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Symposium 22: Back to Basics – What the General Cardiologist Needs to Know

  • Asymptomatic PVCs: What Do I Do?
  • Evaluation of the Young Person with Bradycardia: Do I Need to Pace Them?
  • Narrow Complex Tachycardias: Clues to Diagnosis from the 12-Lead ECG
  • Shared Decision Making in the Spotlight - Can My Patient with Arrhythmias Play Sport or Compete Professionally?
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Symposium 23: Cardiovascular Prevention: Emerging Therapies and Future Directions

Joint session with ASPIRE & ACC
  • Asia-Pacific Cardiovascular Research Network (ASPIRE) Network: A New Collaboration
  • How to Treat the Patient with High Triglycerides
  • Factor XI Inhibitors and Their Potential Antithrombotic Role in Common Cardiovascular Conditions
  • Familial Hyperlipidaemia: How to Diagnose and Treat
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Symposium 24: The Multi-Morbid & Failing Heart - Navigating Complex Care

Joint session with APSC Young Community
  • Transcatheter Intervention in Valvular Heart Disease & Heart Failure: When & Who?
  • Broken Pumps and Added Weight: Obesity's Role in Heart Dysfunction
  • Precious Ejection, Fragile Filtration: The CKD-HFpEF Nexus
  • Revascularizing the Hibernating Heart: Updated Evidence on CABG vs. PCI
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Symposium 25: Aortic Stenosis and Imaging Guidance for Structural Heart Disease – New Developments

  • Lifetime Management of Aortic Stenosis
  • What to Do When TAVI/SAVR Starts to Fail?
  • TAVI for Asymptomatic Severe and Moderate Aortic Stenosis- The Next Frontier?
  • Intracardiac Echo in Structural Heart Disease Intervention
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Symposium 26: Advances in Cardiac Electrophysiology - What the General Cardiologist Needs to Know

  • Pulsed Field Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation and Beyond
  • Conduction System Pacing- A Cure for All Evils?
  • Leadless Pacemakers- Will Devices Last a Lifetime?
  • Early Rhythm Control for Atrial Fibrillation - EAST-AFNET4 and beyond
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Symposium 27: Hypertension: Contemporary Management in Clinical Practice

  • A Comparison of the Latest European, American, and ASEAN Guidelines for Hypertension
  • Endocrine Causes of Secondary Hypertension- What the General Cardiologist Needs to Know
  • Renal Denervation in 2026- Where Are We Now?
  • Challenging Scenarios in Hypertension Management- What Do We Do for End-Stage Renal Disease, Elderly Patients with Postural Hypotension, and Neurocardiogenic Syncope?
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Symposium 28: Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Disease – The Role of Transcatheter Therapies

  • Imaging Assessment for Percutaneous Treatment of Mitral Valve Disease
  • Current Role of Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair in Mitral Regurgitation
  • Assessment of the Tricuspid Valve for Transcatheter Therapies, with a Focus on TTE and TOE
  • Does Transcatheter Treatment of Tricuspid Regurgitation Have a Role? TEER for TR and Percutaneous Valve Therapies
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Symposium 29: Stopping the Next Stroke – Secondary Prevention Across AF, PFO, and Endocarditis / Cardio-Neuro Interface

  • AF Detection & Screening: How Far Should We Go After an Embolic Stroke?
  • AF Stroke Prevention: LAAO vs DOAC – New Guidelines and Real World Data
  • Patent Foramen Ovale and Stroke: Decoding the Hidden Link in Cryptogenic Ischaemic Stroke
  • Infective Endocarditis & Stroke: Practical Imaging Pathways and Safer Surgical Timing
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Symposium 30: Nurse-led Innovation in Cardiac Care

  • The Rising Burden of Cardiovascular Disease: The Expanding and Evolving Roles of Cardiac Nurses
  • My Cardiac Nursing Journey: Professional Growth and Competency Development (MOH)
  • Nurse-led Genetic Cascade Screening: Preventing Heart Failure in Families with Inherited Cardiomyopathy (MOH)
  • Advancing Heart Failure Care: Nurse-led Education and Digital Health Integration (IJN)
  • Advancing Anticoagulation Care: Nurse-led Warfarin Management Using POCT and AI Integration (MOH)
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Symposium 31: Cardiovascular Prevention: From Population Health to Personalised Care

  • The Prevalence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors Across ASEAN- A Call to Action
  • Population-Level Strategies to Reduce the Burden of Cardiovascular Disease – Do Any of Them Work?
  • Obesity, GLP-1 Agonists, and Beyond- The Role of Cardiologists
  • Sports Cardiology – What a General Cardiologist Needs to Know: Balancing Performance and Risk
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Symposium 32: Sudden Cardiac Death in Cardiomyopathies

  • Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy- How Do We Risk Stratify for Sudden Cardiac Death?
  • Brugada Syndrome- Do We Need to Consider It a High-Risk Condition for Sudden Cardiac Death in ASEAN?
  • Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy and the Risk of Sudden Death- Should We Restrict Exercise?
  • How do we treat patients at high risk of sudden cardiac death with genetic cardiomyopathies - the role of medication and novel defibrillator technologies
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Symposium 33: Advanced Cardiovascular Nursing and Cath Lab Practice

  • Managing Vasovagal Events in Cath Lab (GJPMC)-Nursing Perspective
  • Nursing Perspective - Management of Cardiac Arrest in the Cath Lab (GJPMC)
  • Operational Responsibilities of CVTs in the Catheterization Laboratory
  • Understanding ECGs & EGMs in IPG device
  • Code Blue Simulation Program (GJPMC)
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Symposium 34: AI in Cardiovascular Imaging- From Diagnosis to Prognosis

  • AI in Myocardial Tissue Characterization using CMR
  • AI-Powered Coronary Artery Disease Assessment: Using CCTA-Based Tools for Plaque Analysis, Flow Reserve (FFR-CT), and FAI to Detect High-Risk Patients
  • AI Applications in Aortic CT
  • AI in Heart Failure (Echocardiography): Automated Reporting and Detection of Diastolic Dysfunction
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Symposium 35: Advancing Precision Cardiology in Women

  • Gender-Specific Cardiovascular Phenotypes: The Role of Multimodality Cardiac Imaging in Women with Ischemic Heart Disease
  • Management of pregnancy in uncorrected cyanotic heart disease
  • Young, Female, and at Risk: The Growing Burden of Heart Disease in Young Women
  • Her Valve, Different Story: Aortic Valve Disease in Women
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Symposium 37: AI and Digital Health in Cardiology: From Innovation to Clinical Practice

  • The Clinician as the Innovator: Why Cardiologists Must Lead AI Development- From Bedside Frustrations to Building Real- World Solutions That Work
  • Prompt Engineering for Cardiologists: A Practical "How-To" on Getting High-Quality, Safe, and Clinically Useful Responses from Medical AI- Best Models, Best Practices, and Live Demonstrations
  • "Wearables & Remote Monitoring: Integrating Smartwatch ECGs, PPG- Data, and Consumer Health Devices into ASEAN Clinical Workflows for AF Detection, Heart Failure Monitoring, and Beyond"
  • The Ethics of AI in Cardiology: Navigating Accountability, Data Privacy, Algorithmic Bias, and the Liability of AI- Assisted Diagnosis in Diverse ASEAN Healthcare Systems

AFCC–JAPSC Featured Session

  • The Role of AI in Medical Publishing

AHP Forum | Bridging Borders: The Evolving Roles of Cardiac Physiologists and Cardiovascular Technologists in the UK and Malaysia

  • Scene-setting talk: Cardiac Physiology in the UK
  • Scene-setting talk: Cardiovascular Technology in Malaysia