The Clinical case submission is now closed.

 Mark your calendar with key dates

• Thursday, 18 September 2025 - Opening clinical cases submissions
• Thursday, 27 November 2025 – 12:00 noon CET - Clinical cases submission deadline
• January 2026 - Clinical cases results announcement online. An email will also be sent to each submitter.

Your clinical case must be clear, educational, practical and real.

The purpose of a clinical case presentation is to communicate diagnostic reasoning in the light of the current ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines providing a clear description of the patient’s condition and further management options based on these guidelines.

Your case needs to be educational and not necessarily rare or unusual.

Please consult: 

• The Clinical Cases submission rules and guidelines
• The Clinical Cases submission Topic List

All presenters will be required to present their research onsite in Ljubljana.

Selected clinical cases will be assigned to dedicated sessions.

Each session will be built to give the maximum visibility to the work and the opportunity for exchange and interactions with peers and key opinion leaders.

Clinical Case Award Session

The best cases will be presented in one Award session which will be held onsite and chaired by senior faculty members. Finalists are asked to summarise their case and explain how they managed the patient. Each presentation will be followed by a Questions & Answers period led by a panel of experts who will judge the presentations and determine the winner.

All finalists will be granted a free congress registration for ESC Preventive Cardiology 2026.    
The winner will receive a voucher for the European Heart Journal - Case Reports (EHJ-CR), and an invitation to publish the case as an online EAPC Quiz along with an award certificate.

Cases not selected for this session have been automatically considered for other presentation formats. 

Clinical Cases Sessions

Presenting your clinical case at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2026 will allow you to give your work worldwide long-term exposure and multinational connections with all subspecialty professionals.

Clinical cases will be presented in highly interactive and educational sessions featured in the dedicated Clinical Case Corners.
Clinicians will present their cases to two experts in the topic who will moderate the session, facilitate interaction with the audience, prompt discussions, challenge the presenters and the audience.