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Date

Title

Topic(s)

Date: 11 Apr 2024

Title: ESC welcomes EHDS provisional agreement and stresses the importance of harmonised implementation

Topic(s): Cardiology; E-Cardiology, Digital Health, Public Health and Economics, Research Methodology
Date: 08 Apr 2024

Title: International experts agree on standards for catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

Topic(s): Atrial Fibrillation
Date: 08 Apr 2024

Title: Preventive ablation of ventricular tachycardia avoids shocks and hospitalisation

Topic(s): Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD); Supraventricular Tachycardia (non-AF)
Date: 08 Apr 2024

Title: First-in-human study demonstrates reduction of hard-to-reach ventricular tachycardias

Topic(s): Arrhythmias, General; Supraventricular Tachycardia (non-AF)
Date: 07 Apr 2024

Title: Trial to improve management of common heart rhythm disorder enrols first patient

Topic(s): Atrial Fibrillation
Date: 07 Apr 2024

Title: Electronic sock detects unhealthy walking style

Topic(s): Diabetes and the Heart; Risk Factors and Prevention
Date: 07 Apr 2024

Title: New evidence links passive smoking with dangerous heart rhythm disorder

Topic(s): Risk Factors and Prevention
Date: 04 Apr 2024

Title: Ahead of World Health Day, the ESC calls on all political parties to tackle cardiovascular disease

Topic(s): Cardiology
Date: 29 Mar 2024

Title: Join Udo Lindenberg and Katharina Bauer at heart rhythm awareness event in Berlin

Topic(s): Risk Factors and Prevention; Arrhythmias and Device Therapy
Date: 28 Mar 2024

Title: Google Street View reveals how built environment correlates with risk of cardiovascular disease

Topic(s): Risk Factors and Prevention
Date: 18 Mar 2024

Title: Five-minute test during routine GP appointments could prevent stroke

Topic(s): Atrial Fibrillation; Stroke; Risk Factors and Prevention
Date: 15 Mar 2024

Title: EHRA 2024: exploring new ground in heart rhythm disorders

Topic(s): Arrhythmias, General; Atrial Fibrillation; Arrhythmias and Device Therapy
Date: 12 Feb 2024

Title: Heart patients set to receive treatment tailored to their genetic and health information

Topic(s): Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning, Deep Learning); Cardiovascular Disease in Primary Care; Genetics, Epigenetics, ncRNA
Date: 11 Dec 2023

Title: The EU must vote to create a health plan that tackles the biggest killer

Topic(s): Cardiology
Date: 21 Nov 2023

Title: Trial to prevent sudden death after a heart attack enrols first patient

Topic(s): Cardiology
Date: 07 Nov 2023

Title: ESC and Radical Health Festival Helsinki Renew Partnership, Celebrating Continued Collaboration in May 2024 Festival

Topic(s): Cardiology
Date: 06 Nov 2023

Title: European Society of Cardiology publishes recommendations on the EU Pharmaceutical Legislation Reform and urges for greater attention to cardiovascular research

Topic(s): Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
Date: 20 Oct 2023

Title: Heart failure may no longer be a death sentence for cancer survivors

Topic(s): Cardio-Oncology; Heart Failure
Date: 29 Sep 2023

Title: A new European Heart Health Charter for a new Europe

Topic(s): Preventive Cardiology
Date: 27 Sep 2023

Title: Patients who quit smoking after percutaneous coronary intervention do as well as non-smokers – unless they had smoked heavily

Topic(s): Interventional Cardiology; Tobacco; Risk Factors and Prevention
Date: 13 Sep 2023

Title: International experts discuss how patients with atrial fibrillation can live longer and better lives

Topic(s): Atrial Fibrillation
Date: 06 Sep 2023

Title: Healthcare community calls for action: Do not fail patients and undermine the full potential of the European Health Data Space

Topic(s): Cardiology
Date: 29 Aug 2023

Title: Best of ESC Congress 2023

Topic(s): Cardiology
Date: 28 Aug 2023

Title: 12 months of anticoagulation improves outcomes in cancer patients with minor blood clots

Topic(s): Cardio-Oncology; Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
Date: 28 Aug 2023

Title: Inorganic nitrate improves safety of coronary angiography in patients at renal injury risk

Topic(s): Imaging
Date: 28 Aug 2023

Title: SGLT2 inhibitors not linked with improved survival in hospitalised COVID-19 patients

Topic(s): Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
Date: 28 Aug 2023

Title: Minimised atrial pacing does not benefit patients with sinus node dysfunction

Topic(s): Atrial Fibrillation
Date: 28 Aug 2023

Title: DICTATE-AHF trial fails to meet primary endpoint with dapagliflozin in acute heart failure

Topic(s): Acute Heart Failure
Date: 28 Aug 2023

Title: Proactive diagnostic strategy identifies cardiovascular disease in the community

Topic(s): Diabetes and the Heart;
Date: 28 Aug 2023

Title: Anticoagulation shows no benefit after primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Topic(s): Interventional Cardiology; Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
Date: 28 Aug 2023

Title: Extended P2Y12 inhibitor monotherapy benefits high-risk acute coronary syndrome patients

Topic(s): Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy; Acute Coronary Syndromes
Date: 28 Aug 2023

Title: Anakinra is safe but does not reduce complications of acute myocarditis

Topic(s): Acute Cardiac Care; Acute Coronary Syndromes
Date: 28 Aug 2023

Title: Natriuresis guided diuretic therapy increases natriuresis in acute heart failure patients

Topic(s): Heart Failure
Date: 27 Aug 2023

Title: Optical coherence tomography for stent insertion in complex cases shows mixed efficacy

Topic(s): Interventional Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery
Date: 27 Aug 2023

Title: How to avoid heart damage in women receiving breast cancer treatment

Topic(s): Cardio-Oncology; Cardiovascular Disease in Women
Date: 27 Aug 2023

Title: Optical coherence tomography non-inferior to intravascular ultrasound for stent guidance

Topic(s): Invasive Imaging and Functional Assessment; Coronary Intervention
Date: 27 Aug 2023

Title: Study reports on switch to newer anticoagulants in frail elderly with atrial fibrillation

Topic(s): Atrial Fibrillation
Date: 27 Aug 2023

Title: Intravascular imaging associated with improved outcomes compared with angiography

Topic(s): Imaging
Date: 27 Aug 2023

Title: Optical coherence tomography improves stent implantation outcomes in bifurcation lesions

Topic(s): Cardiac Computed Tomography
Date: 27 Aug 2023

Title: Atrial fibrillation ablation improves outcomes in patients with end-stage heart failure

Topic(s): Heart Failure
Date: 27 Aug 2023

Title: Pulsed field ablation is noninferior to thermal ablation in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Topic(s): Atrial Fibrillation
Date: 27 Aug 2023

Title: Trial investigates timing of complete revascularisation for myocardial infarction

Topic(s): Coronary Intervention
Date: 27 Aug 2023

Title: Trial demonstrates potential of acoramidis for transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy

Topic(s): Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy
Date: 27 Aug 2023

Title: Ambulances should take cardiac arrest victims to closest emergency department

Topic(s): Acute Cardiac Care; Acute Coronary Syndromes
Date: 26 Aug 2023

Title: Trial re-evaluates routine defibrillator implantation after myocardial infarction

Topic(s): Myocardial Disease; Treatment
Date: 26 Aug 2023

Title: First randomised trial of traditional Chinese medicine for heart failure shows benefit

Topic(s): Heart Failure
Date: 26 Aug 2023

Title: ESC/EACTS statement on the 2022 Joint ESC/EACTS review of the 2018 guideline recommendations on the revascularization of left main coronary artery disease in patients at low surgical risk and anatomy suitable for PCI or CABG

Topic(s): Coronary Artery Disease, Acute Coronary Syndromes, Acute Cardiac Care
Date: 26 Aug 2023

Title: Physiology-guided complete revascularisation benefits older myocardial infarction patients

Topic(s): Interventional Cardiology; Coronary Intervention
Date: 26 Aug 2023

Title: Upgrade to cardiac resynchronisation therapy benefits heart failure patients with pacing

Topic(s): Heart Failure
Date: 26 Aug 2023

Title: Price tag on cardiovascular disease in Europe higher than entire EU budget

Topic(s): Cardiology
Date: 26 Aug 2023

Title: Iron therapy linked with reduced hospitalisation in iron-deficient heart failure patients

Topic(s): Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy; Heart Failure
Date: 26 Aug 2023

Title: ECLS-SHOCK trial reports mortality data for extracorporeal life support

Topic(s): Interventional Cardiology; Acute Coronary Syndromes
Date: 26 Aug 2023

Title: Dual-antiplatelet therapy should remain standard strategy after stent implantation

Topic(s): Interventional Cardiology; Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
Date: 26 Aug 2023

Title: Trial of ferric carboxymaltose in heart failure does not meet primary endpoint

Topic(s): Heart Failure
Date: 25 Aug 2023

Title: Cluster of slightly unhealthy traits linked with earlier heart attack and stroke

Topic(s): Autoimmune\Chronic Inflammatory Disorders and Heart Disease; Risk Factors and Prevention
Date: 25 Aug 2023

Title: Oral anticoagulation is not effective in patients with atrial high-rate episodes

Topic(s): Atrial Fibrillation; Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy
Date: 25 Aug 2023

Title: Weight loss medication benefits patients with heart failure and obesity

Topic(s): Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy; Heart Failure
Date: 25 Aug 2023

Title: Recommendations to reduce cardiovascular risk in patients with diabetes published today

Topic(s): Diabetes and the Heart; Risk Factors and Prevention
Date: 25 Aug 2023

Title: Smokers who start below age 20 become more addicted and find it difficult to quit

Topic(s): Risk Factors and Prevention
Date: 25 Aug 2023

Title: Colchicine fails to reduce primary outcomes in COP-AF trial but encouraging signals found

Topic(s): Atrial Fibrillation; Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy
Date: 25 Aug 2023

Title: First international guidelines on heart muscle diseases published today

Topic(s): Myocardial Disease; Valvular, Myocardial, Pericardial, Pulmonary, Congenital Heart Disease
Date: 25 Aug 2023

Title: Focused update of ESC Heart Failure Guidelines published today

Topic(s): Heart Failure
Date: 25 Aug 2023

Title: European Society of Cardiology calls for competency-based cardiac imaging

Topic(s): Imaging
Date: 25 Aug 2023

Title: Patients urged to be vigilant about cardiac infections

Topic(s): Diseases of the Aorta
Date: 25 Aug 2023

Title: First ESC Guidelines covering all acute coronary syndromes published today

Topic(s): Acute Coronary Syndromes
Date: 24 Aug 2023

Title: You can save a cardiac arrest victim’s life even if an ambulance arrives in two minutes

Topic(s): Cardiac Arrest; Resuscitation
Date: 24 Aug 2023

Title: Feeling safe from crime linked with lower risks of heart attack and death

Topic(s): Risk Factors and Prevention
Date: 23 Aug 2023

Title: Sedentary time in children linked with heart damage in young adulthood

Topic(s): Cardiovascular Disease in Special Populations: Pediatric Cardiology; Risk Factors and Prevention
Date: 22 Aug 2023

Title: Keep fit to avoid heart rhythm disorder and stroke

Topic(s): Risk Factors and Prevention; Physical Inactivity and Exercise
Date: 22 Aug 2023

Title: Heart attack patients should take aspirin to avoid a new heart attack, stroke and death

Topic(s): Preventive Cardiology; Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
Date: 22 Aug 2023

Title: Heart attack victims who recognise symptoms are less likely to die in hospital

Topic(s): Acute Cardiac Care; Atrial Fibrillation; Acute Coronary Syndromes
Date: 16 Aug 2023

Title: ESC Congress 2023 – highlights from the Hot Line programme

Topic(s): Cardiology
Date: 08 Aug 2023

Title: World’s largest study shows the more you walk, the lower your risk of death, even if you walk fewer than 5,000 steps

Topic(s): Risk Factors and Prevention; Physical Inactivity and Exercise
Date: 28 Jul 2023

Title: ESC Congress 2023 – Press Programme revealed

Topic(s): Cardiology
Date: 26 Jul 2023

Title: How to stop obese children having heart disease in adulthood

Topic(s): Cardiovascular Risk Assessment; Risk Factors and Prevention; Obesity
Date: 07 Jul 2023

Title: Global diet study challenges advice to limit high-fat dairy foods

Topic(s): Nutrition, Malnutrition and Heart Disease; Risk Factors and Prevention
Date: 30 Jun 2023

Title: Loneliness linked with elevated risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes

Topic(s): Diabetes and the Heart; Stress, Psycho-Social and Cultural Aspects of Heart Disease; Risk Factors and Prevention
Date: 24 Jun 2023

Title: Depressed patients less likely to take their heart medications

Topic(s): Risk Factors and Prevention
Date: 23 Jun 2023

Title: Supermarket trolleys set to help diagnose common heart rhythm disorder and prevent stroke

Topic(s): Atrial Fibrillation; Risk Factors and Prevention
Date: 23 Jun 2023

Title: Women with common heart rhythm disorder have faster cognitive decline than men

Topic(s): Atrial Fibrillation; Risk Factors and Prevention
Date: 21 Jun 2023

Title: Artificial intelligence set to personalise treatment of heart failure patients

Topic(s): Heart Failure
Date: 16 Jun 2023

Title: Post-traumatic stress disorder affects more than one in ten cardiac device patients

Topic(s): Arrhythmias and Device Therapy
Date: 16 Jun 2023

Title: ESC Congress 2023 – Highlights from the Scientific Programme

Topic(s): Cardiology
Date: 08 Jun 2023

Title: One-month of COVID-19 lockdown cost heart attack patients up to two years of life

Topic(s): Cardiology;
Date: 06 Jun 2023

Title: European Society of Cardiology appoints Jean-François Riffaud as new CEO

Topic(s): Cardiology
Date: 02 Jun 2023

Title: ACNAP 2023: the art and science of cardiovascular nursing

Topic(s): Cardiovascular Nursing
Date: 31 May 2023

Title: Cancer survivors who quit smoking have 36% lower cardiovascular risk than continuers

Topic(s): Tobacco
Date: 25 May 2023

Title: Plant-based diets are better for your health – as well as for the climate

Topic(s): Preventive Cardiology
Date: 22 May 2023

Title: Women more likely to die after heart attack than men

Topic(s): Heart Failure
Date: 22 May 2023

Title: Dirty air linked with premature death in patients with heart failure

Topic(s): Heart Failure
Date: 22 May 2023

Title: The diagnosis of heart failure is more often missed than made especially for women

Topic(s): Heart Failure
Date: 21 May 2023

Title: Sacubitril/valsartan shows benefit in heart failure with ejection fraction above 40%

Topic(s): Heart Failure
Date: 20 May 2023

Title: Remote monitoring reduces heart failure hospitalisations and improves quality of life

Topic(s): Heart Failure
Date: 20 May 2023

Title: Heart attack patients with strong legs have better prognosis

Topic(s): Heart Failure
Date: 19 May 2023

Title: EP Societies Announce Worldwide Coalition to Improve CIED Follow-up at Heart Rhythm 2023 in New Orleans

Topic(s): Arrhythmias and Device Therapy
Date: 17 May 2023

Title: High blood pressure is the most deadly risk factor for women worldwide

Topic(s): Hypertension
Date: 17 May 2023

Title: Interventions with drug-coated balloons – a PCR Statement

Topic(s): Cardiovascular Surgery
Date: 16 May 2023

Title: Worldwide Emergency Medical Services to receive the Andreas Grüntzig Ethica Award at EuroPCR 2023

Topic(s): Cardiovascular Surgery
Date: 16 May 2023

Title: PARTNERS IN LEARNING – MAIN ARENA LIVE CASE SESSION EuroPCR 2023

Topic(s): Cardiovascular Surgery
Date: 16 May 2023

Title: EuroPCR 2023 – The interventional cardiovascular community is gathering in Paris to learn, share, and shape the future of patient care worldwide

Topic(s): Cardiovascular Surgery

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