The Sports Cardiology panel addresses cardiovascular evaluation and emergency preparedness in athletes, emphasizing evidence-based decision-making. The session opens with sudden cardiac arrest in athletes, highlighting emergency action planning and international consensus recommendations.
It then covers pre-participation cardiovascular assessment, focusing on practical approaches to screening, risk detection, and safe clearance for athletic participation. Management of athletes with congenital heart disease, rhythm disorders, implanted devices, or ECG abnormalities requiring specialized interpretation is reviewed. The final segment addresses acquired cardiac conditions, including myocarditis and pericarditis, providing guidance on return-to-play decisions.
Collectively, the panel offers a comprehensive, clinically focused framework that integrates preventive assessment, acute management, and condition-specific strategies to optimize cardiovascular safety in competitive and recreational athletes.

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of pregnancy-related death worldwide, yet the most challenging scenarios—pregnant women with structural heart disease, cardiomyopathy, or mechanical prosthetic valves requiring intensive care—remain underrepresented in cardiology training. Management must balance maternal and fetal safety while navigating hypercoagulability, hemodynamic stress, limited diagnostics, and restricted pharmacologic options. This year’s Tehran Heart Center congress includes a dedicated session on caring for pregnant women with heart disease, emphasizing the growing need for expertise in cardio-obstetrics and high-risk pregnancy care. Experts from cardiology, obstetrics, pharmacology, and anesthesiology will present updated guidance.
The panel will address critical issues, including anticoagulation for mechanical valves, decompensated heart failure, venous thromboembolism, hypertensive crises, complex medication decisions, and delivery planning. High risks of valve thrombosis, hemorrhage, and fetal complications highlight the need for individualized, protocol-based strategies. Through guideline-driven, case-based discussions, the panel will provide practical diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms applicable in ICU and outpatient cardio-obstetric settings.

This panel highlights the growing importance of right-sided cardiac function in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment across heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, valvular disease, congenital conditions, and perioperative care. The session provides an updated overview of right heart imaging, integrating advanced echocardiography with multimodality techniques.
It opens with principles of right ventricular geometry, load dependence, and contractile mechanics, followed by the use of standard and advanced echocardiographic parameters to quantify systolic and diastolic function and recognize when comprehensive assessment offers added prognostic value. A structured approach to echocardiographic screening for pulmonary hypertension is then presented, emphasizing estimation of pulmonary pressures and early detection of pulmonary vascular disease.
The program reviews evolving concepts in tricuspid regurgitation, including new etiologic classifications and key echocardiographic features guiding severity grading and intervention. The session concludes with a discussion of the role of cardiac MRI as the gold standard for RV volumes, tissue characterization, and evaluation of complex or congenital pathology