Proceedings of the International Congress on Cardiovascular Technologies Acronym: CARDIOTECHNIX 2013 Event held on: September 20-21, 2013, in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal Editors: Siegfried Wassertheurer 1 , Rui César das Neves 2 , Marco Costa 3 and Rui Cruz Ferreira 4 Affiliations: 1 AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria , 2 Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal , 3 Case Western Reserve University, United States , 4 National Program for Cardio and Cerebrovascular Diseases, Portugal ISBN: 978-989-8565-78-5