The conference was held on March 7-8. There were nine topical sessions dedicated to this area of cardiology, most of them based on clinical cases. The conference was opened by members of the scientific and hosting committee: Agata Tymińska, Doctor of Medicine hab.; Krzysztof Ozierański, Doctor of Medicine hab.; professor Marcin Grabowski from the 1st Department and Clinic of Cardiology of WUM Medical University of Warsaw, and the special guest: professor Zbigniew Gaciong, Rector of WUM.
The event was largely popular and had a huge audience, which shows the intense need to organize more meetings that would focus on the group of cardiomyopathy patients.
Main topics and speakers at the Congress
The group of experts were debating advanced diagnostics of cardiomyopathies, genetic diagnostics, rare causes of cardiac hypertrophy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, reversibility of cardiomyopathy, and inflammatory diseases of the heart muscle.
Scientific sessions held during the Congress were sponsored by the Polish Cardiac Society Club 30, the Polish Cardiac Society Nuclear Cardiology Unit, and the Polish ambassadors at the European Heart Failure Association (HFA Young).
Guest speakers included experts from everywhere in Poland.
– We are happy that we were able to invite so many outstanding experts – Doctor Krzysztof Ozierański said. – That’s how we managed to organize a unique event with discussions on the latest therapies and treatment strategies. We are hoping to turn it into a regular event which encouraged almost 400 participants to register already in its first edition.
Student session
Day 2 of the Congress was opened with a student session where representatives of five study organizations had the opportunity to deliver speeches on selected cardiomyopathies. The session was hosted by Emil Brociek, PhD student representing the Study Organization at WUM 1st Department and Clinic of Cardiology. Others present at the session included Krzysztof Ozierański, Doctor of Medicine, who exercises care about this group of patients on a daily basis, and professor Romuald Wojnicz from the Department and Clinic of Cell Histology and Pathology in Zabrze, a recognized expert in assessing heart muscle biopsies. The guest experts shared their remarks about the presentations with the students and spoke about their experience with this group of patients.
MRI workshop
The participants had the opportunity to work on their clinical skills at the MRI workshop by Agata Tymińska, Doctor of Medicine. Among the event participants, there was professor Mateusz Śpiewak and Doctor Justyna Sokolska, while a special guest at the workshop was Anna Baritussio from the Padova University, a world class expert in heart muscle and pericardium imaging diagnostics, currently working as Councilor for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance at the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging.
Patients session
An important part of the congress was a doctor-patient integration session, attended by doctors from the 1st Department and Clinic of Cardiology of WUM Medical University of Warsaw, and by Marcin Ruciński, head of the Serce na Banacha patient association. During the meeting, patients had the opportunity to learn more about cardiovascular diseases and to get answers to their urgent questions.
