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Author(s): Katrina Mountfort Added: 3 years ago
The growing epidemic of cardiovascular disease, together with an ageing population represents a substantial clinical challenge that stretches healthcare budgets. There is an urgent need for both interventions focused on prevention and treatment innovations. In two sessions of presentations at EuroPCR on the 20th May 2014 in Paris, companies presented their latest innovations. The aim of these… View more

Heart Failure

Intervention
Job title: The Mount Sinai Hospital
Annapoorna Kini,is an endowed Zena and Michael A Wiener Professor of Medicine, Director of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, Program Director of Interventional Cardiology Fellowship and Director of Structural Heart Intervention Program. Annapoornais an international leader in the field of percutaneous coronary intervention and heart valve therapy. Annapoorna… View more
View from the Thoraxcenter: ACC.23 Late-breaking Science Wrap Up
Author(s): Nicolas M Van Mieghem , Joost Daemen Added: 1 year ago
Prof Nicolas Van Mieghem and Dr Joost Daemen interprets the findings from the top 10 ACC.23/WCC late-breaking and featured science trials and studies in their critical View from the Thoraxcenter review series. Join them as they consider the implications for research and offer an insight into how they will incorporate the latest data into their day-to-day clinical practice. What are the top… View more

Vascular Disease and Surgery

Standards & Guidelines
View from the Thoraxcenter: What's Hot at ACC.23?
Author(s): Nicolas M Van Mieghem , Joost Daemen Added: 1 year ago
Prof Nicolas Van Mieghem and Dr Joost Daemen return with their critical review series, View from the Thoraxcenter, to preview the most anticipated late-breaking and featured science trials of ACC.23. Which trials have the potential to change practice? What are the key considerations for patient care and research? What is the context of the top trials of ACC? Trials covered in detail include: … View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions

Intervention
Julia Grapsa
Job title: Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Julia Grapsa has been a Consultant Cardiologist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London, UK since March 2020, leading the imaging team for tricuspid services. Dr Grapsa is editor-in-chief for JACC Case Reports, and is a fellow for the Royal College of Physicians, the European Society of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, EACVI, the American Society of… View more
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Job title: Leiter der Klinik
Hendrik Treede is currently the Director of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Mid-German Heart Center, University Hospital Halle (Saale). Hendrik’s professional interests are minimally invasive mitral valve reconstruction, minimally invasive bypass surgery, transcatheter valve interventions, aortic valve repair and aortic surgery, and fully endoscopic atrial ablation. He graduated medical… View more
Job title: Senior Physician
ProfPeter Lüdikeis Senior Physician of the Heart Failure and Intensive Care section in the Department ofCardiology and Vascular Medicine at the West German Heart and Vascular Center, University HospitalEssen. He achieved Venia legendi for internal medicine in 2018 and was appointed as Full Professor forheart failure in 2020. His research interests include intensive care medicine, emergency… View more
Author(s): Tamar S Polonsky , Victor Mor-Avi , Roberto M Lang Added: 3 years ago
Cardiac imaging has become fully integrated in the management of patients, with echocardiography being the most widely used modality. Two-dimensional echocardiography (2DE) offers a detailed assessment of ventricular function, valvular pathology, and hemodynamics, but its comprehensiveness is limited by the fact that images represent a single plane, and may thus inadequately represent a heart… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics
Author(s): Linda D Gillam Added: 3 years ago
A patient presents to their physician with progressive dyspnea on exertion, orthopnea, and fatigue. Physical examination reveals bibasal rales, distended neck veins, an S3 gallop, and an apical holo-systolic murmur. The clinical diagnosis is straightforward - this patient has congestive heart failure.Almost certainly one of the first tests performed in this patientÔÇÖs diagnostic evaluation will… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Heart Failure
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Interventional Cardiologist
Dr Anita Asgar is an Interventional Cardiologist working at the Montreal Heart Institute,and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Montreal. Dr Asgar specialises in transcatheter valve interventions, congenital interventions and cardiac MRI. She is the lead cardiologist for the transcatheter mitral/tricuspid valve program at the Montreal Heart Institute. Her research interests… View more