The European Society of Cardiology, in partnership with MVS Productions, is pleased to present ESC Video News Report 2007. These videos offer you an overview of some of the main scientific information presented during the World Cardiology Congress in Vienna. You can view them online or easily download them on your Mp3 player.
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Chronic heart failure was the main scientific theme of ESC Congress 2007. Three presentations address different clinical issues in HF: the PROSPECT study and the contribution of echocardiography in the selection of candidate patients to cardiac resynchronisation therapy; BNP and diastolic heart failure; a new therapeutic approach with direct renin inhibition, the ALOFT trial.
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From the impact on morbi-mortality of blood pressure reduction in diabetes (ADVANCE study) to routine use of ankle brachial index in PAD (getABI) and to the effect of homocysteine-lowering therapy on stable coronary artery disease (WENBIT).
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Stable angina is a major public health problem whose incidence is estimated between 2 and 4% in the general population. Michal Tendera summarises some of the key challenges. New ESC Guidelines on the Management of non-ST elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes were released in June 2007. Keith Fox highlighted in Vienna the main messages regarding the use of anticoagulants.
One year after the beginning of the controversy on drug eluting stent safety, stent thrombosis was at the heart of ESC Congress 2007 scientific news. SCAAR and GRACE bring new evidence to the debate. Facilitated PCI during acute MI was the topic of the FINESSE trial reported during the ESC Congress 2007 Hot Line Session.
The first guidelines for cardiac pacing and resynchronization were released during ESC Congress 2007 and presented by Panos Vardas. G Boriani reported the SEARCH MI registry, a large European registry whose aim was to compare the efficacy of implantable defibrillators in the primary prevention of ventricular tachycardia after AMI. John Camm shares his advice in the identification of high risk patients for which an implantable defibrillator would be life saving.
What is the contribution of exercise echocardiography in asymptomatic valve disease evaluation? What are the more relevant clinical uses of 3D echocardiography? Which imaging techniques should be used in heart failure evaluation? Will cardiac angioscanning replace conventional coronarography?
David Wood presented a comparison between EUROASPIRE I, II and III surveys done over a period of 12 years on changes in European patients with coronary artery disease. The 3rd edition of ESC Cardiovascular Prevention Guidelines and new joint ESH/ESC guidelines on hypertension were presented during ESC Congress 2007.
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