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ESC 25 Discussion: 2025 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the Management of Valvular Heart Disease
Author(s): Harriette Van Spall , Michael Andrew Borger Added: 5 months ago
ESC Congress 2025 - Dr Harriette Van Spall (McMaster University, Canada) sits down with Professor Michael Borger (University of Leipzig Heart Center, Germany), Co-Chair of the newly released 2025 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the Management of Valvular Heart Disease.The new guidelines bring together the latest evidence and expert consensus on how to diagnose, evaluate, and treat patients with valvular… View more

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TCT 25: The PREVUE-VALVE Study
Author(s): David J Cohen Added: 3 months ago
TCT 2025 - The PREVUE-VALVE study finds an 8.2% prevalence of moderate or greater valvular heart disease amongst Americans age 65-85, increasing to 18.4% when participants with mild to moderate VHD were included.Dr David J. Cohen (Cardiovascular Research Foundation & St Francis Hospital, US) joins us to discuss findings from the PREVUE-VALVE study, examining age and sex-specific prevalence of… View more

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Intervention
Douglas Wright completed training at McMaster University in Internal medicine, cardiology and echocardiography. He is an associate professor at McMaster University in the division of cardiology and the program director of the McMaster Echocardiography Fellowship Program. Clinical focus is in the area of valvular heart disease where he is the echocardiography lead in the interventional… View more
Job title: Director Clinic for Valvular Heart Disease
Prof Raphael Rosenhek is theDirector Clinic for Valvular Heart Disease atMedical University of Vienna, Vienna, AT. ProfRosenhek's research interests include structural heart disease, valvular heart disease and echocardiography with a particular focus on defining the optimal timing and choice of intervention for these conditions. View more
Job title: Director of the Research Group in Valvular Heart Diseases
Philippe Pibarot is Full Professor at the Department of Medicineof Laval University, Canada. He also serves as Director of the Research Group in Valvular Heart Diseases at the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute.He received his doctorate from the University Claude Bernard, France, and his PhD in biomedical sciences from the University of Montreal, Canada. Dr Pibarot has been the recipient of numerous… View more
Thomas Treibel
Job title: Cardiology Registrar and NIHR Clinical Lecturer
Clinical academic cardiologist with specialist interest in valvular heart disease, heart failure and multimodality imaging. BHF Intermediate Clinical Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Cardiology at UCL; Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at Barts Health . Investigates myocardial fibrosis in aortic stenosis using cardiovascular magnetic resonance, cardiac CT and myocardial biopsies. Current… View more
Ghada Mikhail
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Coronary Interventions

 Job title: Consultant cardiologist
Background Dr Ghada Mikhail is a consultant interventional cardiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. She qualified from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, and was awarded an MD from the University of London. She trained at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust. She has gained international experience by spending a year in Italy, in a world renowned centre, on an… View more
Julia Grapsa
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Cardiologist
Dr Julia Grapsa is a cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, US. Previously, she served as a consultant cardiologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Associate Professor of Cardiology at King’s College London, UK. She specialises in multimodality imaging and valvular heart disease, with a particular focus on the right heart and tricuspid valve. She was the founding… View more
Nicolo Piazza
Job title: Interventional Cardiologist
Dr Nicolo Piazza is an interventional cardiologist and academic based in Canada and Europe. He serves as Assistant Professor in the Cardiology Division at McGill University and as an Attending Cardiologist at the McGill University Health Centre. He maintains an international clinical and academic presence through a cross-appointment between the McGill University Health Centre and the German Heart… View more
Patrizio Lancellotti
Job title: Professor and Head of the Cardiology Department
Personal HistoryIn 1970, Professor Lancellotti was born in Charleroi, Belgium to parents of Neapolitan origin.7, 8 He studied chemistry at the University of Labour Paul Pastur and graduated as a technician in 1988.7 It was his fascination with the heart and its physiology that drew him to cardiology and he has “always found that the heart was a noble organ.”9Alongside Professor Gach and Dr… View more