ESC Clinical Case Gallery - Preventive Cardiology

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Date

Title

Topic(s)

Date: 24 Oct 2019

Title: A young female with familial hypercholesterolemia and acute myocardial infarction (Presented at ESC Congress 2019)

Lipids
Date: 24 Oct 2019

Title: A young woman admitted to the emergency room with chest pain and initial suspicion of acute pericarditis. How a chest tomography changed the approach towards primary prevention.of atherosclerotic vascular disease (Presented at ESC Congress 2019)

Risk Factors and Prevention – Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
Date: 24 Oct 2019

Title: Exercise intolerance From spiroergometry to transdiaphragmatic myocardial punch biopsy (Presented at ESC Congress 2019)

Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death
Date: 24 Oct 2019

Title: Hypertriglyceridemia induced in pregnancy (Presented at ESC Congress 2019)

Lipids
Date: 24 Oct 2019

Title: Loperamide: an emerging drug of abuse and cause of prolonged QTc (Presented at ESC Congress 2019)

Substance Abuse and Cardiovascular Disease
Date: 24 Oct 2019

Title: Multicomponent hypolipidemic therapy in the patient with severe heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (Presented at ESC Congress 2019)

Dyslipidaemias 2016 (Management of)
Date: 24 Oct 2019

Title: Rare case of large- and medium-size-vessel vasculitis with coronary manifestation (Presented at ESC Congress 2019)

Autoimmune/Chronic Inflammatory Disorders and Heart Disease
Date: 24 Oct 2019

Title: Severe Chronic Coronary Vasculitis and Refractory Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Requiring Orthotropic Heart Transplant in a Young Female with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Presented at ESC Congress 2019)

Autoimmune/Chronic Inflammatory Disorders and Heart Disease
Date: 24 Oct 2019

Title: Successful pregnancy outcome in a woman with untreated severe pulmonary arterial hypertension from undiagnosed patent ductus arteriosus causing Eisenmenger’s syndrome (Presented at ESC Congress 2019)

Cardiac Pacing and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
Date: 24 Oct 2019

Title: TYPE B DISSECTION DURING PUERPERIUM IN A PATIENT WITHOUT AORTIC DILATION BUT FAMILY HISTORY OF MARFAN SYNDROME. (Presented at ESC Congress 2019)

Pregnancy and Cardiovascular Disease
Date: 24 Oct 2019

Title: Which one should we give priority, Hepatocellular carcinoma or Severe stenosis in LAD #6 ostium? The Advantage of Directional Coronary Atherectomy with subsequent use of Drug Coated Balloon for patients undergoing Non-Cardiac Surgery. (Presented at ESC Congress 2019)

Non-cardiac Surgery/Pre-surgical Assessment
Date: 26 Feb 2019

Title: Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC) – exercise testing for further risk assessment: a case report

Sports Cardiology

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