The I International Congress
sponsored by ASUGI and University of Trieste on the topic of
Sudden Cardiac Death will be held on October 11, 2024 in the
Aula Magna of Cattinara Hospital. The ASUGI Coordination Center
of the Regional Registry of Sudden Cardiac Deaths in Juvenile
Age opens the discussion to the Balkan countries, bringing
together leading experts who will bring scientific contribution
for the creation of an international multidisciplinary network.
"To date," explains Gianfranco Sinagra, Director Dept. of
Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Sciences at ASUGI and promoter of the
Regional Registry, "registries like the one launched in 2021 in
Fvg thanks to the FVG Region and Dr. Alessia Clocchiatti, are an
exception. There are only a dozen or so registries in the world,
of extreme heterogeneity in terms of enrollment, study
modalities and family involvement. The FVG registry combines
completeness of data with innovative aspects for tissue
characterization of the organ with MRI at Cattinara Radiology
and genetic characterization for selected cases." The event
will be opened by Mary Noelle Sheppard, an international cardiac
pathologist, who will address guidelines in the morphological
study of sudden cardiac death; multidisciplinary specialist
panel discussions with forensic pathologists, geneticists, and
cardiologists will follow. "The colleagues we asked to bring
their scientific contribution," says Stefano D'Errico, SC UCO
Director of Forensic Medicine ASUGI, organizer of the event with
Prof. Aneta Aleksova, head of molecular cardiology laboratory,
and Prof. Giorgia Girotto, geneticist at IRCCS Burlo Garofolo,
"have adhered and have promoted the event in their own
countries, involving the National Scientific Societies who
wanted to give patronage to the meeting.
The meeting has the input and support of the international
scientific societies of forensic medicine (IALM, IAFS), whose
president, Yanko Kolev, will open the congress. "We wanted to
promote the culture of autopsy findings as a fundamental tool
for knowledge and precision medicine by giving an international
scope to a commitment that, with the contribution of all the
professionals in the region, sees us as the leader of a
scientific community that has indicated a Fvg model to be
imported and replicated," Sinagra continues, "In accordance with
the international commitment of the University and the location
and history of Trieste. The hope is to follow up on this
communion of intent that will sanction the creation of a Balkan
Registry of Sudden Cardiac Deaths," Sinagra concludes.
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