8th meeting of Baltic Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
“Clinical and imaging challenges in diagnosis of inflammatory myocardial diseases”
Date: Friday, October 27th, 2023
Place: Klaipeda University Hospital (main hall on the 2nd floor), Liepojos g. 41, Klaipeda
Note: Conference will be certified by Vilnius University and this will be a hybrid event - the meeting will combine a "live" in-person event with a "virtual" online component (will be streamed online for registered users)
09:00 - 10:00 Registration & LIVE streaming on-line setup
10.00 – 10:10 Welcome speech from the faculty and organizers
10:10 – 10:30 Opening lecture: Nomeda Valeviciene (Lithuania) - Lake Louise criteria in myocarditis
10:30 – 11:00 Anna Herrey (UK) - The Parametric mapping in myocarditis and cardiomyopathy
11:00 – 11:30 Gintarė Martinkute (Lithuania) - Clinical case of cardiomyopathy
11:30 – 12:00 Darius Palionis (Lithuania) - Complicated myocarditis and MRI
12:00 – 12:30 Karolina Gaizauskiene (Lithuania) - Prognostic value of T1, T2 mapping, and late gadolinium enhancement on CMR in acute myocarditis: a systematic review
12:30 – 13:00 Audra Banisauskaite (Lithuania) - The spectrum of pathologies mimicking myocardial inflammation
13:00 – 13:30 Agneta Virbickiene (Lithuania) - Exploring imaging biomarkers of myocardial inflammation: impact on structural and functional parameters in patients with acute myocardial infarction.
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 15:00 Sigita Glaveckaite (Lithuania) - CMR in the current guidelines of the ESC.
15:00 – 15:30 Davis S. Putrins, Zanda Krastina, Ligita Zvaigzne, Ilze Priedite (Latvia) - Fantastic cases in CMR: pulmonary cardiac sarcoidosis
15:30 – 16:00 Greta Jurkeviciute - Kucinskiene (Lithuania) - The role of 4D flow MRI for clinical applications in cardiovascular disease: current status and future perspectives with special focus on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
16:00 - 16:30 Ernestas Dvinelis (Lithuania) - CT myocardial perfusion: overview and experience in VUH Santaros klinikos
16:30 - 17:00 Zygimantas Abramikas (Lithuania) - Overview of AI application in CMR: state of the art
17:00 Closing remarks and discussion
Participation fee: 10 Eur
Registration is open:
- Please make a conference fee payment to: Baltijos širdies magnetinio rezonanso asociacija, LT397300010149044801 (Swedbank).
- In the purpose of payment please write: BCMR2023 and provide full name and e-mail address of attendee.
- Link and password to the conference streaming online using ZOOM platform will be sent to attendee's email on the day of event.