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ESC Congress Reports 2010

Live reports on pre-arranged sessions from the ESC Congress 2010 by some of Europe's finest cardiologists...

Writen by chairpersons reporting on their session to summarise its scientific content and share their conclusion with you, these articles become available during the ESC Congress.

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01/09/2009 00:00:00

 ESC Congress Reports 2010 - pre-arranged sessions


ArticleAuthorDate
Unresolved issues in the surgical treatment of chronic heart failureSousa Uva, Miguel (Lisbon, Portugal) 31 Aug 2010
Treatment options in adult congenital heart diseaseBudts, Werner (Leuven, Belgium) 31 Aug 2010
Devices for severe heart failureWhite, Michel (Montreal, Canada) 31 Aug 2010
Non-obstructive coronary artery diseaseCrea, Filippo (Roma, Italy) 31 Aug 2010
Tight glycaemic control - how low should you go?Hagerman, I (Stockholm, Sweden) 31 Aug 2010
Sudden cardiac death: the need of a precise diagnosis at autopsyThiene, Gaetano (Padova, Italy) 31 Aug 2010
European Forum on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: from implementation to evaluationRyden, Lars (Stockholm, Sweden) 31 Aug 2010
Highlights from EuroPRevent Prague - New scientific advances Perk, Joep (Oskarshamn, Sweden) 31 Aug 2010
Smoking cessation: populations and patientsZdrojewski, Tomasz (Sopot, Poland) 31 Aug 2010
Perioperative management of antithrombotic drugsSiegbahn, Agneta (Uppsala, Sweden) 31 Aug 2010
The ebb and flow of atrial fibrillationCasadei, Barbara (Oxford, United Kingdom) 31 Aug 2010
Cardiac imaging for atrial fibrillation managementCaso, Pio (Naples, Italy) 31 Aug 2010
Advanced electrocardiogram methods for cardiac risk stratificationVan Der Velde, Enno (Leiden, Netherlands) 31 Aug 2010
Challenges in modern angiographyBruining, Nico (Rotterdam, Netherlands) 31 Aug 2010
Anti-thrombotic therapy in atrial fibrillation: difficult decisionsLevy, Samuel (Marseille, France); Haouala, Habib (Tunis, TN). 30 Aug 2010
What causes acute heart failure?Brito, Dulce Alves (Lisboa, Portugal) 30 Aug 2010
Pulmonary hypertension: lessons from contemporary registriesGalie, Nazzareno (Bologna, Italy) 30 Aug 2010
From arterial biology to pathophysiologyBadimon, Lina (Barcelona, Spain) 30 Aug 2010
Finding and treating high-risk coronary patientsKristensen, Steen Dalby (Aarhus, Denmark) 30 Aug 2010
Dilemmas in coronary reperfusionHasin, Yonathan (Tiberias, Israel) 30 Aug 2010
Coronary angiography is not enoughEeckhout, Eric (Lausanne, Switzerland) 30 Aug 2010
Complications during percutaneous cardiovascular interventionsSheiban, Imad (Turin, Italy) 30 Aug 2010
Imaging and arrhythmias Sechtem, Udo (Stuttgart, Germany) 30 Aug 2010
Clinical scenarios in acute heart failureDickstein, Kenneth (Stavanger, Norway) 30 Aug 2010
Towards the 2010 Guidelines for ResuscitationTubaro, Marco (Rome, Italy) 30 Aug 2010
New aspects in diagnosis and treatment of atrial fibrillationColonna, Paolo (Bari, Italy) 30 Aug 2010
Update on pulmonary circulationGalie, Nazzareno (Bologna, Italy) 30 Aug 2010
Tips and tricks of transcatheter cardiovascular interventions: West versus EastLafont, Antoine (Paris, France) 30 Aug 2010
Identification of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques and impact on treatment decisionErol, Cetin (Ankara, Turkey) 30 Aug 2010
Critical cardiac care: update 2010Heras, Magda (Barcelona, Spain) 30 Aug 2010
Highlights from Euroecho 2009Badano, Luigi Paolo (Padua, Italy) 30 Aug 2010
Imaging in stable anginaRademakers, Frank (Leuven, Belgium) 30 Aug 2010
Percutaneous valve therapy in 2010Rahimtoola, Shahbudin (Los Angeles, United States of America) 30 Aug 2010
New insights in stent thrombosisMacaya, Carlos (Madrid, Spain) 30 Aug 2010
lntegration of arterial assessment into clinical practiceGallino, Augusto (Bellinzona, Switzerland) 30 Aug 2010
Panarteritis: beyond the vulnerable plaqueMarino, Paolo Nicola (Novara, Italy) 30 Aug 2010
Antiplatelet and antithrombotic therapy in patients referred for coronary artery bypass graftingSousa Uva, Miguel (Lisbon, Portugal) 30 Aug 2010
Hormone replacement therapy and cardiovascular disease - is the issue closed?Prescott, Eva (Copenhagen, Denmark) 30 Aug 2010
Essentials of cardiac rehabilitation: a users' guideGaita, Dan (Timisoara, Romania) 30 Aug 2010
Glucose-induced toxicity - from mechanisms to therapyRyden, Lars (Stockholm, Sweden); Cosentino, Francesco (Rome, Italy). 30 Aug 2010
At the interface of hypertension and coronary artery diseaseCifkova, Renata (Prague, Czech Republic) 30 Aug 2010
Hypertension in special populationsUppal, Subhash Chandra (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 30 Aug 2010
The cardiac physiome - a new paradigmCerbai, Elisabetta (Florence, Italy) 30 Aug 2010
Promises and perils of genome-wide association studies in coronary artery diseaseJukema, J Wouter (Leiden, Netherlands) 30 Aug 2010
The 'epi-endothelial matrix' and atherosclerosisVirmani, Renu (Gaithersburg, United States of America) 30 Aug 2010
Myocardial perfusion imaging: state of the artLombardi, Massimo (Pisa, Italy) 30 Aug 2010
Imaging of atherosclerotic plaques: newer trends and developmentsNagel, Eike (London, United Kingdom) 30 Aug 2010
Speckle tracking echocardiography: a new window into coronary artery diseaseHagendorff, Andreas (Leipzig, Germany) 30 Aug 2010
European Association of Echocardiography recommendations for transoesophageal echocardiography: what the clinician should knowFlachskampf, Frank Arnold (Erlangen, Germany) 30 Aug 2010
Imaging cardiovascular riskGallino, Augusto Franco (Bellinzona, Switzerland) 30 Aug 2010
Cardiac resynchronisation therapy: non responders or non progressors?Raatikainen, Pekka (Oulu, Finland) 29 Aug 2010
Prevention of thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation patientsMeinertz, Thomas (Hamburg, Germany) 29 Aug 2010
Ventricular tachycardia in ischaemic heart disease. Update on electrical therapyAlmendral, Jesus (Madrid, Spain) 29 Aug 2010
Genetics in sudden cardiac deathBreithardt, Guenter (Muenster, Germany); McKenna, William (London, UK). 29 Aug 2010
The future of cardiac pacingMerino, Jose (Madrid, Spain) 29 Aug 2010
Controversies in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapyCapucci, Alessandro (Bologna, Italy) 29 Aug 2010
Impaired glucose tolerance in heart failureDeaton, M Christi (Manchester, United Kingdom) 29 Aug 2010
Right ventricular dysfunction and failureCaso, Pio (Naples, Italy) 29 Aug 2010
When it's late but not 'too late' in heart failureDickstein, Kenneth (Stavanger, Norway) 29 Aug 2010
Difficult aspects of aortic stenosisPrendergast, Bernard David (Oxford, United Kingdom) 29 Aug 2010
Endocarditis: what's new in the guidelines?Habib, Gilbert (Marseille, France) 29 Aug 2010
Acute pulmonary embolism - 2010Meneveau, Nicolas (Besancon, France) 29 Aug 2010
An update on peripartum cardiomyopathy Hall, Roger (Norwich, United Kingdom) 29 Aug 2010
Infectious myocarditis and pericarditisBaandrup, Ulrich (Aarhus, Denmark) 29 Aug 2010
How to recognise and manage unusual heart muscle diseaseElliott, Perry Mark (London, United Kingdom) 29 Aug 2010
Thrombus formation in acute coronary syndromes: what is new?Badimon, Lina (Barcelona, Spain) 29 Aug 2010
Antiplatelet therapy: is it time for an individualised approach?Weidinger, Franz (Vienna, Austria) 29 Aug 2010
Therapeutic options in chronic refractory anginaSirnes, Per Anton (Moss, Norway) 29 Aug 2010
New biomarkers in acute cardiac careBiasucci, Luigi (Rome, Italy) 29 Aug 2010
Acute heart failure: a new paradigmShimokawa, Hiroaki (Sendai, Japan) 29 Aug 2010
Innovation in stent technologyLefevre, Thierry (Massy, France) 29 Aug 2010
Left main and multivessel revascularisation in 2010 - LIVE from RigaFajadet, Jean (Toulouse, France) 29 Aug 2010
Stroke prevention in atrial fibrillationLip, Gregory Yh (Birmingham, United Kingdom) 29 Aug 2010
Substrates of sudden cardiac death in young athletesVan Der Wal, Allard C (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 29 Aug 2010
The burden of heart disease in Latin AmericaHall, Roger (Norwich, United Kingdom) 29 Aug 2010
Blood pressure targets in cardiovascular risk patients - evidence or common senseNarkiewicz, Krzysztof (Gdansk, Poland) 29 Aug 2010
The new ESC GuidelinesVahanian, Alec (Paris, France) 29 Aug 2010
Deciding on percutaneous valve implantationVahanian, Alec (Paris, France) 29 Aug 2010
Management of acute heart failureLopez-Sendon, Jose (Madrid, Spain) 29 Aug 2010
Cardiac resynchronisation therapy: optimising patient selection with imagingBreithardt, Ole A (Erlangen, Germany) 29 Aug 2010
Assessment of myocardial viabilityUnderwood, Stephen Richard (London, United Kingdom) 29 Aug 2010
Universal definition of acute myocardial infarction - what needs reconsideration?Thygesen, Kristian (Aarhus, Denmark); Alpert, Joseph (Tucson, USA); Jaffe, Allan (Rochester, USA). 29 Aug 2010
Drug-eluting stents sometimes fail!Fajadet, Jean (Toulouse, France) 29 Aug 2010
Cell therapy for chronic heart diseaseTendera, Michal (Katowice, Poland) 29 Aug 2010
Exercise - from leisure activity to a therapeutic optionClement, Denis (Gent, Belgium) 29 Aug 2010
Cardiovascular diseases: are women different?Salvador, Maria (Barcelona, Spain) 29 Aug 2010
Novel targets in hypertensionMacDonald, Thomas Maclennan (Dundee, United Kingdom) 29 Aug 2010
Drug therapy in pregnancyAgewall, Stefan (Oslo, Norway) 29 Aug 2010
To the heart of the matter: cardiac safety of non-cardiac drugsBorer, Jeffrey (Brooklyn, United States of America) 29 Aug 2010
Cardiomyocyte architecture in development and diseaseBrand, Thomas (London, United Kingdom) 29 Aug 2010
Recent advances in cardiovascular tissue engineeringFlugelman, Moshe Y (Haifa, Israel) 29 Aug 2010
Epigenetics of cardiovascular diseaseWaltenberger, Johannes (Maastricht, Netherlands) 29 Aug 2010
Therapeutic angiogenesis: still worth an investment?Hoefer, Imo (Utrecht, Netherlands) 29 Aug 2010
Collateral damage to the heart: effects of novel molecular therapies in oncology and ophtalmologySeiler, Christian (Berne, Switzerland) 29 Aug 2010
Controversies in cardiac computed tomographyShivalkar, Bharati (Edegem, Belgium) 29 Aug 2010
Cutting edge cardiac computed tomographyPerrone-Filardi, Pasquale (Naples, Italy) 29 Aug 2010
How to assess left ventricular function?Neskovic, Aleksandar N (Belgrade, Serbia) 29 Aug 2010
Management of sources of embolism: the role of echocardiographyGalderisi, Maurizio (Naples, Italy) 29 Aug 2010
 
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