Heart failure (HF) societies around the world have agreed on the following new universal definition of HF: “a clinical syndrome with symptoms and/or signs caused by a structural and/or functional cardiac abnormality and corroborated by elevated natriuretic peptide levels and/or objective evidence of pulmonary … Continue Reading about Heart failure classification according to ejection fraction
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Top 10 Highlights of ESC Congress 2021
The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2021 occurred virtually this year from 27-30 August. Here is our curated list of the top 10 … Continue Reading about Top 10 Highlights of ESC Congress 2021
Impact of optimal medical therapy on 10-year mortality following PCI/CABG
The SYNTAXES study (NCT03417050) was an investigator-driven, retrospective study which compared long-term survival-data of patients with … Continue Reading about Impact of optimal medical therapy on 10-year mortality following PCI/CABG
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COVID-19 in adults with congenital heart disease
Heart disease was identified as a risk factor for mortality early in the COVID-19 pandemic. It was unknown if this risk would also apply to patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). To assess this risk, … Continue Reading about COVID-19 in adults with congenital heart disease
COVID-19 and cardiac arrest, a lethal combination
Researchers compared outcomes of patients who had suffered in- and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (16 March 2020). Between 01 January and 20 July 2020, 3026 … Continue Reading about COVID-19 and cardiac arrest, a lethal combination
ARTICA Trial: Research in Progress
The ARTICA (“Acute Rule out of non ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome in the (pre)hospital setting”) trial is being conducted at Radboud UMC in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Dr. Cyril Camaro and his … Continue Reading about ARTICA Trial: Research in Progress