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Attendees will have the opportunity to hear the results of cutting edge studies and to learn about the new ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines on Cardiac Pacing and Cardiac Resynchronisation, which are likely to have a tremendous impact on the European health care system, in addition to  the results of ten late breaking clinical trials and over 1000 original abstracts.  Read more about what to expect at the congress.

A worldwide panel of experts presents the first comprehensive recommendations on patients with inherited arrhythmias at Heart Rhythm 2013; The complexity and prevalence of inherited cardiovascular diseases is growing, thereby creating a greater demand for the proper diagnosis and management of patients with these conditions. Read more  |  full paper

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

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