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Author(s): Augustus O Grant Added: 3 years ago
Perception often lacks reality, and for many cardiologists and other physicians, the image and understanding of the nation's premier private organization dedicated to the prevention and treatment of heart disease and stroke is woefully out of date. For many physicians, the mission of the American Heart Association (AHA) is simply research, education, and advocacy, but it is much more than that… View more

Standards & Guidelines
Jeff Healey
Jeff Healey serves as the director of arrhythmia services and holds the position of associate professor of medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. As a clinical trialist and member of the Population Health Research Institute, Dr. Healey completed his clinical training in cardiology and electrophysiology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. He furthered his academic… View more
Job title: Cardiologist
Prof Wolfram Doehner is aCardiologist andProfessor of Interdisciplinary Stroke Research atCharité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, DE. He was a member of the ESC programme committee (2014-2020) and was Chairman (2018-2020) of the ESC Council on Stroke. ProfDoehner's research focus is the peripheral aspect, and particularly, the skeletal muscle structure and metabolism in stroke… View more
Author(s): Braghadheeswar Thyagarajan , Ankur Kalra , Alefiyah Rajabali , et al Added: 3 years ago
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), with a reported prevalence of AF in HCM of about 25 %.1 Patients with AF in HCM tend to be more symptomatic and have an increased stroke risk compared with patients without HCM.2 While the occurrence and treatment of (symptomatic) AF in HCM have been extensively studied, there is little data… View more

Heart Failure
Author(s): Giovanni Torsello , Konstantinos P Donas Added: 3 years ago
Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in the developed world.1 More than 750,000 strokes occur in the US annually,1 and one-third of these patients die during the first few months after their strokes. Acute carotid syndrome (ACS) is defined as a set of signs and symptoms linked to neurological deficits (transient ischemic attack [TIA] or ischemic stroke) caused by carotid occlusive… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Tze-Fan Chao is an Associate Professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan and attending physician at the Division of Cardiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. He was trained in medicine and cardiology at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. Dr Chao’s clinical interest is cardiac electrophysiology, including implantation of permanent… View more
A John Camm
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Professor of Clinical Cardiology
John Camm is British Heart Foundation Professor of Clinical Cardiology (Emeritus) at St George’s University of London, London, UK. His interests include cardiac arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, stroke prevention, and anticoagulation. Prof Camm is Editor of the European Society of Cardiology Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine and ESC CardioMed, Electrophysiology of the Heart, Clinical… View more
Author(s): Suneet Mittal , Jonathan S Steinberg , Andrew Choi Added: 3 years ago
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia encountered in clinical practice. The prevalence of AF increases with age;1 one and approximately 2.3 million US adults are currently afflicted with AF, with that number projected to increase to 5.6 million by the year 2050.2 AF typically results in an irregular rhythm with poorly controlled ventricular rate and loss of atrial… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Michael Jenkins
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Aortic

Diabetic Foot

Stroke

 Job title: Consultant Vascular Surgeon
Dr Michael Jenkins is currently a Consultant Vascular Surgeon atImperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London, UK. He trained at the Middlesex Hospital in London, qualifying in 1989. He has trained in vascular surgery at Charing Cross, University College London, the Royal Brompton and Royal Free hospitals. He is chairman of the Circulation Foundation and President of the British Society of… View more
ESC 23: The PUSH-AHF Study
Author(s): Paulus Kirchhof Added: 7 months ago
ESC 2023 — Prof Paulus Kirchhof (University Heart & Vascular Center Hamburg, DE) discusses the findings of the NOAH-AFNET 6 trial (NCT02618577). NOAH-AFNET 6 (Atrial Fibrillation Network, Daiichi Sankyo Europe) was an investigator-initiated, prospective, randomised trial aiming to demonstrate that oral anticoagulation using the NOAC edoxaban is superior to current therapy in stroke prevention,… View more

Anticoagulation

Heart Failure