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ESC Congress Reports 2008

Live reports from the ESC Congress by some of Europe's finest cardiologists...

This is the 8th edition of the ESC Congress Reports, aimed at providing a snapshot of some of the most important scientific knowledge presented at the Congress.

Claudio CeconiAs with previous editions, in order to provide first-hand, unbiased scientific information, authoritative professionals in cardiology were asked to report on their respective fields of expertise. The ESC is privileged to have some of the finest cardiologists from across Europe and the world acting as reporters for this important project. The reports cover some of the most important symposia, Hot lines and trials and are organised following the chronology of the Congress.

Claudio Ceconi, MD, FESC
Editor-in-Chief
ESC Congress Reports

 Congress Reports 2008 - Hot Lines & Clinical Trials Updates


ArticleAuthorTopicSession
Polish-Italian-Hungarian Randomized Thrombectomy Trial (PIHRATE trial).Clinical Trial Update I Dudek, Dariusz & De Feyter, Pim J  979-980
Impact of Major Adverse Cardiac Events and Major Bleeding on Overall Mortality in Patients with STEMI: the HORIZONS AMI Trial.Clinical Trial Update I Mehran, Roxana (USA) & Califf, RobertM (USA)  977-978
The effect of the pre-hospital initiation of a glycoprotein 2b/3a recepter blocker in patients undergoing primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction. Results of the Ongoing Tirofiban in Myocardial Infarction Evaluation (On-TIME) 2 Trial.Clinical Trial Update IVan 't Hof,Arnoud W J & Ardissino, Diego Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS)975-976
Prasugrel Compared with Clopidogrel in Patients with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.Clinical Trial Update IMontalescot, Gilles (France) & Neumann, Franz Josef  973-974
Randomized study on the efficacy of immunosuppressive therapy in patients with virus-negative inflammatory cardiomyopathy.Clinical Trial Update III Frustaci, Andrea (Italy) & Keren, Andre (Israel) Myocardial Disease4486-4487
Progressive reverse remodeling in patients with mild or asymptomatic heart failure with previous symptoms in the REsynchronization reVErses Remodeling in Systolic left vEntricular dysfunction (REVERSE) study.Clinical Trial Update III Linde, Cecilia & Vardas, Panagiotis  4484-4485
EUROASPIRE III: Lifestyle, risk factor and therapeutic menagement in people at high risk of developing cardiovascular disease from 12 European regions.Clinical Trial Update III Wood, David A (London) & Ryden, Lars (Stockholm) Prevention4480-4481
The Euro CardioVascular Healthcare Index 2008 - Clinical Trial Update IIIClinical Trial Update III Bjornberg, Arne (Sweden) & Breithardt, Guenter (Germany) Prevention4478-4479
Changes in clinical, neurohormonal, electrolyte, renal, hematological and hepatic profiles during and after hospitalization for acute decompensated heart failure: Analysis from the EVEREST trial.Clinical Trial Update II Gheorghiade, Mihai  & Tendera, Michal Heart Failure (HF)3273-3274
Results from the BACH (Biomarkers in Acute Heart Failure) TrialClinical Trial Update IIMaisel, Alan & McDonagh, Theresa  3271-3272
Atrial Fibrillation and Congestive Heart Failure (AF-CHF) Trial.Clinical Trial Update IIRoy, Denis & Maggioni, Aldo Pietro  3269-3270
Synergistic effect of perindopril and calcium channel blockers in prevention of cardiac events and death in coronary artery disease patients - analysis from the EUROPA study.Clinical Trial Update II Bertrand, Michel & Sever, Peter  3267-3268
Prognostic value of resting heart rate in patients with stable coronary artery disease, from the randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre EUROPA trial.Clinical Trial Update II Ferrari, Roberto & Danchin, Nicolas Chronic Ischaemic Heart Disease (IHD)3265-3266
Risks of cardiovascular events and effects of routine blood pressure lowering among patients with type 2 diabetes and atrial fibrillation - results of the ADVANCE study.Clinical Trial Update II Patel, Anushka & Le Heuzey, Jean-Yves Prevention3263-3264
A Multicenter, Double blind, Randomized, Placebo Controlled Study to Measure the Effect of FX06 on Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (The F.I.R.E Trial).Hot Line IIIAtar, Dan & Marber, Michael Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS)3212-3213
Main Results of the Tailoring Treatment with Tirofiban in patients showing Resistance to aspirin or Resistance to clopidogrel study (3T/2R).Hot Line III Valgimigli, Marco & Verheugt, Freek  3210-3211
Safety of the factor Xa inhibitor, Apixaban, in combination with antiplatelet therapy after acute coronary syndrome: Results of the APPRAISE-I dose guiding trial.Hot Line Update III Alexander, John (United States of America) Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS)3208
The Effects of the Direct Lipoprotein -associated Phospholipase A2 Inhibitor Darapladib on Human Coronary Athlerosclerotic Plaque.Hot Line Update IIICrea Filippo  3207
Myocardial Regeneration by Intracoronary Infusion of Selected Population of Stem Cells in Acute Myocardial Infarction (REGENT) Randomized Multicenter Trial. - .Hot Line III Tendera, Michal (Poland) & Drexler, Helmut (Germany) Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS)3204-3205
The TRANSCEND Study: a randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial evaluating the effects of telmisartan in high risk individuals without heart failure.Hot Line I Yusuf, Salim & Swedberg, Karl  238-239
Effects of statins in patients with symptomatic chronic heart failure: GISSI-HF resultsHot Line I Tognoni, Gianni (Italy) & Poole-Wilson, Philip Alexander (United Kingdom) Heart Failure (HF)236-237
Effects of n-3 PUFA in patients with symptomatic chronic heart failure: the GISSI-HF results.Hot Line I Tavazzi, Luigi (Italy) Heart Failure (HF)234-235
The BEAUTIFUL study: efficacy of ivabradine in reduction of cardiovascular events among patients with stable coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction.Hot Line IFox, Kim & Smith Sydney  232-233
Trial of Intensified (BNP-guided) versus standard (symptom-guided) Medical therapy in Elderly patients with Congestive Heart Failure TIME-CHF.Hot Line I Brunner-La Rocca Heart Failure (HF)230-231
LEADERS - Limus Eluted from A Durable versus Erodable stent coating (Randomized Comparison of a biolimus-A9 eluting stent with a sirolimus-eluting stent for percutaneous coronary intervention.Hot Line II Windecker, Stephan & Mauri, Laura  1696-1697
Coronary Artery Revascularisation in Diabetes. The CARDia trial.Hot Line II Kapur, Akhil Diabetic heart disease1694-1695
The SYNergy between Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Cardiac Surgery (SYNTAX) Study.Hot Line II Mohr Friedrich, Serruys Patrick, Hamm Christian  & Robert Jones Percutaneous Cardiovascular Intervention (PCI)1690-1691-1692-1693
Fluvastatin XL use is associated with improved cardiac outcome after major vascular surgery. Results from a randomized placebo controlled trial: DECREASE III.Hot Line II Poldermans, Don & Shelton, Marc  1688-1689

 Congress Reports 2008


ArticleAuthorTopicSession
Everything you want to try in cardiac rehabilitation Pogosova, Nana (Moscow, Russian Federation) Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology987-988-989-990
The fight against sudden cardiac death. How to improve what we have? Wilkoff, Bruce (Cleveland, United States of America) Sudden Cardiac Death and Resuscitation894-895-896-897
Pulmonary Hypertension in Left Heart Disease Lang,  Irene & Gomez-Sanchez, Miguel Pulmonary Hypertension890-891-892-893
What's new in cardiac pacing? Israel, Carsten (Frankfurt, Germany) Arrhythmias881-882-883-884-885
Risk stratification in Brugada syndrome Wolpert, Christian (Mannheim, Germany) Arrhythmias871-872-873-874-875-876-877-878-879-880
Fallacies from clinical trials Michel Bertrand (France)  399-400-401-402
Micro-RNAs in the heart: small molecules with major impact  Goumans, Marie-Jose (Leiden, Netherlands) Heart Failure (HF)375-376-377-378
Progress in cardiac and vascular tissue engineering Harding, Sian E (London, United Kingdom) Chronic Ischaemic Heart Disease (IHD)3357-3358-3359-3360
Graft arteriosclerosis: new insights Weis Michael (Munchen, Germany) Heart Failure (HF)3349-3350-3351-3352-3353
Emerging concepts in the pathogenesis and management of atrial fibrillation Hatem, Stephane (Paris, France) Atrial Fibrillation3345-3346-3347-3348
Percutaneous aortic valve implantation: a consensus between cardiologists and surgeons Maisano, Francesco (Segrate, Italy) Valvular Heart Diseases3275-3276-3277-3278
The kidney in heart failure: les liaisons dangereuses Jondeau, Guillaume (Paris, France) Heart Failure (HF)3241-3242-3243-3244
Myocarditis: update on imaging and contemporary management Schwitter, Juerg (Zurich, Switzerland) Myocardial Disease3222-3223-3224-3225
Bicuspid aortic valve disease: an old disease with a new name? Stepinska, Janina (Warsaw, Poland) Valvular Heart Diseases305-306-307-308
The strengths of the imaging modalities in coronary artery disease - changing roles Sochor, Heinz (Austria) Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear278-279-280-281
Cardiotoxicity of antineoplastic agents Minotti,Giorgio (Rome, Italy) Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Risk Assessment and Management261-262-263-264-265
Safety of drug-eluting stents: two years after Barcelona Eeckhout, Eric (Lausanne, Switzerland) Invasive Imaging: Cardiac Catheterisation and Angiography2570-2571-2572-2573
Structure/function relationships in the heart Richard, Sylvain (Montpellier, France) Basic Sciences2554-2555-2556-2557
Unique contributions of cardiovascular magnetic resonance to diagnostic cardiology Lombardi, Massimo (Pisa, Italy) Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear252-253-254-255-256
Difficult mitral valve problems Al-Attar, Nawwar (Paris, France) Valvular Heart Diseases2474-2475-2476-2477
The clinical relevance of myocardial necrosis during percutaneous coronary intervention Belardi, Jorge (Argentina)  2465-2466-2467-2468
2008 ESC heart failure guidelines: what's new? Swedberg, Karl (Sweden) Heart Failure (HF)2442-2444-2445-2446
The new ESC guidelines Vahanian, Alec (Paris, France)  2407-2408-2409-2410
INTERHEART - an update Giampaoli, Simona (Rome, Italy)  2403-2406
Heart failure and atrial fibrilation Blanc, Jean-Jacques (Brest, France) Atrial Fibrillation2331-2332-2333-2334
Home monitoring for electrical devices Wilkoff, Bruce (Cleveland, United States) Arrhythmias2327-2328-2329-2330
The gourmand's heart - a bitter sweet relationship? Sans Menendez, Susana (Barcelona, Spain) Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Risk Assessment and Management218-219-220-221
Imaging valve disease in 2008 Hagege, Albert (Paris, France) Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear1857-1858-1859-1860
In vivo imaging for cardiac regeneration Van Echteld, Cees Ja (Oberwil,Switzerland) Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear1835-1836-1837-1838
The Monocyte: Much More than Just an Inflammatory Cell Pearson, Jeremy (United Kingdom) Myocardial Disease1831-1832-1833-1834
Cardiac computed tomography in coronary artery disease: when to use and when not to use De Feyter, Pim J (Rotterdam, Netherlands) Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear1706-1707-1708-1709
Strategies to prevent sudden death in athletes Reiner, Zeljko (Zagreb, Croatia) Arrhythmias1668-1669-1670-1671-1672-1673-1674-1675-1676-1677
Use and abuse of biomarkers in acute coronary syndromes Tubaro, Marco (Rome, Italy) Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS)163-164-165-166
How to improve the rate of responders with cardiac resynchronisation therapy? Glikson, Michael (Ramat Gan, Israel) Arrhythmias1594-1595-1596-1597-1598
Advances in imaging and management of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy Thiene, Gaetano (Italy)  1578-1581
Medical treatment of atrial fibrillation Le Heuzey, Jean Yves (Paris, France) Atrial Fibrillation147-148-149-150
The post-ablation atrial fibrillation patient Jose Luis, Merino (Madrid, Spain) Atrial Fibrillation143-146
Laminopathies affecting the heart: from clinical suspicion to correct treatment Pankuweit, Sabine (Marburg, Germany) Genetics134-135-136-137-138
High-density lipoprotein and ApoA1-Milano – Full circle from bench to bedside Reiner, Zeljko (Croatia) Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Risk Assessment and Management1128-1129-1130-1131-1132-1133
Breakthrough or aberration? Neovascularisation in cardiovascular disease Waltenberger, Johannes (Aachen, Germany) Chronic Ischaemic Heart Disease (IHD)1112-1113-1114-1115
Heart Failure with Normal Ejection Fraction Guardigli, Gabriele (Italy) Heart Failure (HF)1017-1018-1019-1020