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ESC Congress 2024 Press Activities

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Welcome, media representatives!

Professor John McMurray delivers an exciting preview of ESC Congress 2024, where so much is set to unfold!

Press conferences

Thursday 29 August 15:30 to 16:30 - Hot Line Press Conference 1

Chairperson: Prof Bianca Rocca (Rome, Italy)

 
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Friday 30 August 11:00 

HELIOS-B - Primary results from phase 3 study of vutrisiran in patients with transthyretin amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy

Prof Marianna Fontana (London, UK)
Friday 30 August 11:22 

Beta blocker interruption in patients with prior myocardial infarction: results of the ABYSS trial and effect on blood pressure and heart rate control

Prof Johanne Silvain (Paris, France)
Friday 30 August 11:47  STOP-or-NOT - Impact of renin-angiotensin system inhibitors continuation versus discontinuation on postoperative complications: a multicenter randomised, controlled trial Prof Matthieu Legrand (San Francisco, USA)

 

Thursday 29 August 17:00 to 18:00 - Hot Line Press Conference 2

Chairperson: Prof Bianca Rocca (Rome, Italy)

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Saturday 31 August 09:09 QUADRO - A single 4-drug combination in hypertension Prof Stefano Taddei (Pisa, Italy)
Saturday 31 August 08:30 Meta-analysis of trials of antihypertensive medication bedtime dosing including individual-patient data from BedMed and BedMed-Frail Dr Ricky Turgeon (Vancouver, Canada)
Saturday 31 August 08:15 The BedMed and BedMed-Frail randomised controlled trials - Effect of antihypertensive timing on mortality and morbidity Prof Scott Garrison (Edmonton, Canada)

Saturday 31 August

08:54

GMRx2 - Efficacy and safety of a novel triple single pill combination Prof Anthony Rodgers (Sydney, Australia)

Saturday 31 August

09:21

VERONICA-Nigeria - deliVERy of Optimal blood pressure coNtrol in afrICA Dr Dike Bevis Ojji (Abuja, Nigeria)

Friday 30 August 13:30 to 14:30 - Hot Line Press Conference 3 and 4

Chairperson: Prof Steen Dalby Kristensen (Aarhus, Denmark)

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Saturday 31 August 11:44

Tri.fr trial - Multicentric randomised evaluation of the transcatheter edge-to-edge repair in the treatment of severe isolated secondary tricuspid regurgitation 

Prof Erwan Donal (Rennes, France)
Saturday 31 August 11:22

MATTERHORN - Transcatheter versus surgical mitral valve repair in patients with heart failure and secondary mitral regurgitation

Prof Volker Rudolph (Bad Oeynhausen, Germany)
Saturday 31 August 11:00

RESHAPE-HF2 - Percutaneous repair of moderate-to-severe or severe functional mitral regurgitation in patients with symptomatic heart failure

Prof Stefan Anker (Berlin, Germany)
Saturday 31 August 16:15

ASSURE DES - Perioperative antiplatelet therapy in patients with coronary stents before non-cardiac surgery

 

Ass Prof Jung-Min Ahn (Asan, Korea)
Saturday 31 August 16:37

SWEDEGRAFT - No-touch vein grafts in coronary artery bypass grafting

 

Prof Stefan James (Uppsala, Sweden)
Saturday 31 August 16:59

The TIGHT-K trial - Potassium supplementation and the prevention of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery

 

Prof Benjamin O'Brien (Berlin, Germany)

 

Friday 30 August 15:00 to 16:00 - Hot Line Press Conference 5

Chairperson: Prof Steen Dalby Kristensen (Aarhus, Denmark)

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Saturday 31 August 17:57

POPular PAUSE TAVI - Continuation or interruption of oral anticoagulation during TAVI?

Dr Dirk Jan van Ginkel (Nieuwegein, Netherlands)
Saturday 31 August 17:35

NOTION-3 - Percutaneous coronary intervention in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation

Dr Jacob Thomsen Loenborg (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Saturday 31 August 18:19

RHEIA - Transcatheter versus surgical aortic valve replacement in women with severe aortic stenosis

Prof Helene Eltchaninoff (Rouen, France)

 

Saturday 31 August 12:30 to 13:30 - ESC Guidelines Press Conference

Chairperson: Eva Prescott (Copenhagen, Denmark)

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Patient representative 

Friday 30 August 

08:15

ESC Guidelines on Elevated blood pressure and hypertension

Bart S. 

Friday 30 August 

08:15

ESC Guidelines on Atrial fibrillation

Inge Molgaard

Friday 30 August 

08:15

ESC Guidelines on Chronic coronary syndromes

Hywel W. Jones

Friday 30 August 

08:15

ESC Guidelines on Peripheral arterial and aortic diseases

Francoise Steinbach

 

Saturday 31 August 15:00 to 16:00 - Hot Line Press Conference 6 and 7

Chairperson: Prof Carlos Aguiar (Lisbon, Portugal)

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Sunday 1 September 08:15

STEEER-AF - Stroke prevention and rhythm control therapy

Prof Dipak Kotecha  (Birmingham, UK)
Sunday 1 September 08:40

OCEANIC-AF - Asundexian versus apixaban in patients with atrial fibrillation 

Dr Manesh Patel (Durham, USA)
Sunday 1 September 09:16

EPIC-CAD - Edoxaban monotherapy vs. dual antithrombotic therapy for atrial fibrillation and stable coronary arthery disease

Prof Gi-Byoung Nam (Seoul, Korea)
Sunday 1 September 11:00

FINEARTS-HF - Finerenone in heart failure with mildly reduced and preserved ejection fraction

Prof Scott Solomon (Boston, USA)
Sunday 1 September 11:22

MRAs in heart failure - An individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised trials

Prof Pardeep Jhund (Glasgow, UK)
Sunday 1 September 11:44

FINE-HEART - Participant-level pooled analysis of finerenone in heart failure and chronic kidney disease trials

Dr Muthiah Vaduganathan (Boston, USA)

 

Saturday 31 August 16:30 to 17:30 - Hot Line Press Conference 8 and 9

Chairperson: Dr Emma Svennberg (Stockholm, Sweden)

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Sunday 1 September 16:59

SCOFF - Fasting or no fasting before cardiac catherisation procedures

Dr David Ferreira   (Wantirna, Australia)

Sunday 1 September 16:37

EARTH-STEMI - Complete vs. culprit-only revascularization in older STEMI patients

Prof Gianluca Campo  (Cona, Italy)

Sunday 1 September 16:15

SENIOR RITA - Older patients with non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction randomised interventional treatment trial

 

Prof Vijay Kunadian  (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)

Sunday 1 September 17:50

GUARD-AF - ReducinG stroke by screening for UndiAgnosed atRial fibrillation in elderly inDividuals

Prof Renato Lopes (Durham, USA)

Sunday 1 September 17:35

STROKESTOP II - Randomised systematic NT-proBNP and ECG screening for atrial fibrillation among 75 year-olds

 

Dr Katrin Kemp Gudmundsdottir (Reykjavik, Iceland)

Sunday 1 September 18:14


MIRACLE-AF - A Novel Model of IntegRAted Care of OLdEr Patients with Atrial Fibrillation in rural China

Prof Minglong Chen (Nanjing, China)

Sunday 1 September 15:00 to 16:00 - Hot Line Press Conference 10 and 11

Chairperson: Prof Steen Dalby Kristensen (Aarhus, Denmark)

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Monday 2 September

11:22

SUPPRESS-AF - The efficacy of low-voltage-area ablation on atrial tachyarrhythmias recurrence in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation

Dr Masaharu Masuda (Nishinomiya-Shi, Japan)

Monday 2 September

11:44

CRABL-HF - Cryoballoon vs. Radiofrequency Ablation of AF in Patients with Heart Failure Dr Kengo Kusano (Suita, Japan)

Monday 2 September

11:00

SHAM-PVI - A randomised sham-controlled study of pulmonary vein isolation in symptomatic atrial fibrillation

Dr Radjip Dulai (London, UK)

Monday 2 September

13:45

OCCUPI - Optical coherence tomography-guided coronary intervention in patients with complex lesions

Prof Kim Byeong-Keuk (Seoul, Korea)

Monday 2 September 

14:05

INFINITY-SWEDEHEART - Percutaneous coronary intervention with a bioadaptor compared to a contemporary drug eluting stent- one year primary outcomes 

Prof David Erlinge (Lund, Sweden)

Monday 2 September

14:25

REC-CAGEFREE I - Drug-coated balloon angioplasty with rescue stenting versus intended stenting for the treatment of de novo coronary artery lesions: a multicenter, non-inferiority trial

Prof Ling Tao (Xi'an, China)

 

Sunday 1 September 16:30 to 17:30 - Hot Line Press Conference 12

Chairperson: Dr Rafael Carlos Vidal-Perez (A Coruna, Spain)

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Monday 2 September

15:15

PROTEUS - A prospective randomised controlled trial evaluating the use of artificial intelligence in stress echocardiography

Dr  Ross Upton (Oxford, UK)

Monday 2 September

15:37

RAPIDxAI - Re-engineering the clinical approach to suspected cardiac chest pain assessment in the emergency department by expediting evidence to practice using artificial intelligence

Prof Derek Chew (Adelaide, Australia)
Monday 2 September 15:59

WESTCOR-POC - Point of care versus centralised high-sensitivity cardiac troponin in the emergency department

Dr Viola Thulin (Paradis, Norway)

 

New 2024 ESC Guidelines

Publication Friday 30 August at 08:15 BST 

Elevated blood pressure and hypertension
Chairpersons: John William McEvoy and Rhian Touyz


Atrial fibrillation
Chairpersons: Isabelle C. Van Gelder and Dipak Kotecha 


Chronic coronary syndromes
Chairpersons: Felicita Andreotti and Christiaan Vrints


Peripheral arterial and aortic diseases
Chairpersons: Lucia Mazzolai and José Rodriguez Palomares

ESC Congress 2024 Press Releases


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