European Society of Cardiology
Skip navigation links
Home
About the ESC
Membership
Communities
Congresses
Education
Guidelines & Surveys
Journals
Initiatives
Welcome to the European Society of Cardiology. Our mission: to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease in Europe
 
Working groups logo

ESC Working Groups

18 Working Groups to stimulate and disseminate scientific knowledge in different fields of cardiology

10/12/2010 00:00:00
Reversibility of T-tubule remodelling in heart failure: mechanical load as a dynamic regulator of the T-tubules

ESC Journals article - editor's choice
Ibrahim and Terracciano
The T-tubule system in ventricular cardiomyocytes is essential for synchronous Ca2+ handling, and, therefore, efficient contraction. T-tubular remodelling is a common feature of heart disease. In this review, we discuss whether t-tubular remodelling can be reversed and which factors may be implicated in this process. In particular, we focus on the interaction between mechanical load variation and T-tubule structure and function. What is the evidence of this relationship?... Read the free full article

Discover Cardiovascular Research.

2013 ICNC Young Scientist Award goes to Dr Johanna Silvola

Congratulations to Johanna Silvola from Turku, Finland and colleagues who discovered that a Gallium-68 labeled peptide which targets vascular adhesion protein -1 is accumulated in atherosclerotic plaques. These investigators believe that it might be a novel, promising PET tracer to detect plaque inflammation.
Read the full abstract

Cancer treatment could target inflammation in CVD

Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) with radiolabeled somatostatin analogs, an established treatment for cancer patients, could offer a novel therapeutic approach to decrease levels of inflammation in the atherosclerotic plaques of patients with CVD reports an abstract study at the ICNC11, International Conference on Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT.  Read more

When less is more: new protocol limits use of SPECT MPI

A new stress test protocol that investigates reducing the use of perfusion imaging in low risk patients undergoing SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging for possible angina symptoms was found to be diagnostically safe, revealed a US retrospective analysis.  The study predicted that using exercise ECG stress testing alone in patients with high exercise capacity would have had no adverse effects on their prognosis at five years.  Read more

Focus on abstract studies in non-invasive cardiac imaging at ICNC 11

With a particularly strong focus on abstracts and young researchers this year, don't miss the oral sessions, the Young Investigator Award session, best regional abstracts from around the world and all the great research presented in the poster area.

More info on the sessions and access to the abstracts here

Four-dimensional blood flow-specific markers of LV dysfunction in dilated cardiomyopathy

ESC Journals article - open access
Eriksson, Bolger, Ebbers and Carlhäll
Patients with mild heart failure (HF) who are clinically compensated may have normal left ventricular (LV) stroke volume (SV). Despite this, altered intra-ventricular flow patterns have been recognized in these subjects. We hypothesized that, compared with normal LVs, flow in myopathic LVs would demonstrate a smaller... Read the free full article

Discover the European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging.