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Author(s): Philip Adamson Added: 3 years ago
A growing appreciation of the prevalence of sleep breathing disorders, especially as comorbidities of disease syndromes such as chronic heart failure, has increased interest in screening, diagnosis, and treatment of obstructive and central sleep apnea. Sleep apnea diagnosis currently requires an overnight polysomnograhic evaluation in which the disease is defined as the number of times per hour… View more

Heart Failure

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Sitaramesh Emani , William T Abraham Added: 3 years ago
Heart failure (HF) is a growing epidemiological challenge in the US and worldwide. In the US, it is estimated that at least 5 million people are affected by it, with more than a half-million new diagnosis being made each year.1 Despite major improvements in the treatment of HF, almost 30 % of patients treated for acute HF require readmission within 30 days.2,3 These sobering statistics underscore… View more

Heart Failure
Job title: Cardiologist
ProfPeter van der Meer is aCardiologist atUniversity Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, NL. Profvan der Meer has a focus on heart failure and cardiac devices. He is a member of the ESC council of cardio-oncology, member of the working group on translational cardiology and peripartum cardiomyopathy of the ESC and associate editor of the European Journal of Heart Failure. View more
Dominik Linz
Job title: Cardiologist and Associate Professor
Personal History Dr Dominik Linz is a clinician-scientist who has developed a national and international reputation in the field of cardiac arrhythmia research.2 He is a cardiologist and associate professor at Maastricht University Medical Center+ in the Netherlands. Academic History In 2007, Dr Linz earned his MD from Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. He then… View more
Job title: Professor
Marco Metra is Full Professor of Cardiology and Director of the Institute of Cardiology of the Civil Hospital and University of Brescia, Italy, and Editor-in-Chief of theEuropean Journal of Heart Failureand Senior Consulting Editor of theEuropean Heart Journal. Prof Metra has been principal investigator and member of the Executive or Steering Committees of many trials in patients with heart… View more
Author(s): Rami Khayat , Andrew Pederzoli , William T Abraham Added: 3 years ago
Heart failure is the only cardiovascular disease with increasing incidence and mortality.1 Approximately five million Americans have heart failure, with an annual incidence of 10 per 1,000 in individuals over 65 years of age, an already rising demographic segment of society. Heart failure is the most frequent Medicare diagnosis, with most of its cost related to hospitalizations.1,2 Identification… View more

Heart Failure
Author(s): Ross Arena , Carl J Lavie Added: 3 years ago
Excess body weight in the form of adipose tissue is receiving a great deal of attention, given its profound detrimental implications for health and the burden it places upon the healthcare system. Body mass index (BMI) is perhaps the most commonly used measure for classifying subjects as either normal weight (18.5–24.9 kg/m2), overweight (25.0–29.9 kg/m2), or obese (≥30 kg/m2). While the BMI… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
ESC 22: ADVENT-HF: Adaptive Servo Ventilation in Pts with HF ＆ Sleep Apnea
Author(s): Douglas Bradley Added: 1 year ago
ESC 22 - In this short interview filmed onsite at ESC Congress 2022, Dr Douglas Bradley (University of Toronto, Toronto, CA) discusses the findings of the ADVENT-HF Trial (NCT01128816). ADVENT-HF was designed to determine if a respiratory device, Adaptive Servo Ventilation can reduce the risk of cardiovascular hospitalisations and death in patients with heart failure and sleep apnoea. 732… View more

Heart Failure

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Naomi Abe , John D Bisognano Added: 3 years ago
Hypertension is the most common chronic disease in the US, affecting 29% of the adult population.1 Once considered a benign, compensatory mechanism for ageing, high blood pressure (BP) is now recognised as an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease. It is estimated that inadequate BP control is responsible for 62% of cases of cerebrovascular disease, 49% of cases of ischemic heart… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Echocardiography in the Evaluation of the Right Heart
Author(s): Angelos Tsipis , Evdokia Petropoulou Added: 2 years ago

Imaging & Diagnostics

Heart Failure