Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Annual European Mechanical Support Summits have been established successfully over the past four years in Paris and Bad Oeynhausen addressing hot topics and open questions in most thorough expert reviews followed by extensive discussions looking for answers and ideas to initiate solutions for open questions in this most exciting field.

Advances in MCS even accelerated over the last year. Doors to the wide use of destination therapy have been pushed open by the FDA recently. Donor numbers decrease dramatically while terminal heart failure becomes more and more recognized as an epidemic health problem with incalculable economic effects. Demographic changes and increased expectations in our patient’s quality of life imply tremendous challenges to the heart failure society.

This year’s meeting in Bad Oeynhausen, to which we most cordially invite will address issues of right heart failure pre and post operatively, modes of biventricular support, transplantation, MCS as final therapy as well as GUCH patients requiring support. Solutions and guidelines for LV recovery still remain to be established.

We are looking forward to new information provided from insiders and of the field seek for your active contribution to create an interactive ambiance encouraging fruitful discussions.

We hope that EUMS 2010 inspires all to amplify our passion to tackle challenges in this most interesting field of circular support in terminal heart failure.

We are looking forward to seeing you in December in Bad Oeynhausen for this exciting interdisciplinary scientific conference.

Jan Gummert, M. D.

Alain Pavie, M. D.