Search Tag: Cardiovascular
2017 10 May
The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions is a 4,300-member professional organization representing invasive and interventional cardiologists in approximately 70 countries. SCAI's mission is to promote excellence in invasive/interventional cardiovascular medicine through physician and allied health professional education and representation,...Read more
2016 01 Jul
THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURE When Minnesota Heart merged with University of Minnesota Physicians, the cardiovascular service line was branded and redesigned, which involved integration of services across the academic medical centre and community hospitals and clinics. HealthManagement.org spoke to Rebecca Stepan, who was Director for Clinical...Read more
2016 31 May
These open access recommendations are published on behalf of The British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (BSCI) and The British Society of Cardiovascular CT (BSCCT) Acute aortic syndrome (AAS) is a life-threatening condition which requires urgent and immediate treatment. AAS can be diagnosed by using CT imaging, but it is important that...Read more
2016 17 May
Myocardial fibrosis could be a future therapeutic target after researchers found it correlated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) referred for cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR). The study was presented today at EuroCMR 2016 by Dr Yaron Fridman, a cardiology fellow at the Heart and Vascular Institute,...Read more
2016 09 Oct
We look forward to welcoming delegates to the next HRC at the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Birmingham UK on 9-12 October 2016 . The largest heart rhythm event in the UK, Heart Rhythm Congress (HRC) provides unrivalled opportunity for health care professionals interested in the management of arrhythmias to share effective practice, show...Read more
2016 12 May
The EuroCMR meeting has become the largest and most important CMR meeting in Europe with an increasing number of attendees, faculty and exhibitors from all over the world. Overall the meeting is now 2.5 days long including joint sessions with the other sections of the EACVI, with the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), the European...Read more
2016 25 Mar
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a new and more accurate way to distinguish between harmful and harmless plaque in the blood vessels by using ultrasound . This can help healthcare providers determine the risk of strokes and heart attacks – which means avoiding unnecessary surgery for many patients, the Swedish scientists said....Read more
2016 16 Jun
The Leadership & Management Forum aspires to assemble senior executives of the cardiovascular community who are occupied either in the academic field or in the National Schools of Public Health, directors of cardiovascular clinics and labs, decision makers in public and private health care sectors, as well as executives in the Insurance, Pharma and...Read more
2016 27 Feb
The goals of “ The Fourth International Congress on Cardiac Problems in Pregnancy (CPP) 2016″ are to continue advancing the knowledge and expertise of health care professionals around the globe by exchange of information, including unique clinical cases and debates, development of collaborative research both basic and clinical, discuss, adopt and...Read more
2016 29 May
EuroCVP 2016, the 4th Annual Congress of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group for Cardiovascular Pharmacology, will be held in Tel Aviv, Israel on 29-30 May, 2016. EuroCVP 2016 will focus on these and other key treatment breakthroughs and provide up to date discussions regarding the clinical applicability and significance of new drugs and...Read more
2016 21 May
Heart Failure is the annual congress of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC, established as the world's leading heart failure congress , where strategies for a universal approach in the prevention and treatment of heart failure are made. Following two successful editions in Athens and Seville, Heart Failure 2016 will present the 3rd World Congress...Read more
2015 02 Dec
Significant cardiovascular changes occur in divers who hold their breath while descending hundreds of feet below the surface of the ocean, according to a new study presented on Tuesday, 1 December, at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). These changes can pose potential dangers, particularly to inexperienced or cardiac...Read more
2015 12 Nov
Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and other government agencies update the data pertaining to heart disease. The 2015 data shows that cardiovascular disease is the leading global cause of death, accounting for 17.3 million deaths per...Read more
2015 13 Sep
Researchers have tested a new more nuanced form of investigating the subtle clues sent out by the human body during anaesthesia — particularly the cardiovascular signals that can indicate the state of the pain-monitoring autonomous nervous system. The results have proved more reliable than existing methods in monitoring depth of anaesthesia, according...Read more
2015 06 Nov
EUROSON 2015, 27th Congress of The European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB) is starting on 06 November, 2015 and ending on 08 November, 2015. There is undoubtedly the opportunity to discover the most popular breakthroughs in Ultrasound, Medicine, Biological, Biology, Sound and Biosciences at this major Conference....Read more
2015 29 Aug
The first European Congress of Cardiology was held in London in September 1952 under the Presidency of Sir John Parkinson. Subsequently, European Congresses were held every four years until 1988. After, the General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to hold the Congress annually, starting with the Vienna meeting in 1988.Read more
2015 10 Feb
Journalists and the public are invited to join the Twitter and Facebook campaign #loveyourheart2015 to promote heart health from 12 to 14 February. The campaign was initiated by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) through the MEP Heart Group and aims to raise awareness about cardiovascular disease, the number one killer in Europe (1). It is supported...Read more
2015 16 Jan
New research from Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) has found that cardiovascular patients with a specific genetic profile benefit greatly from the new medication dalcetrapib. The drug reduced heart attacks, strokes, unstable angina, coronary revascularisations and cardiovascular deaths by as much as 39 percent. The findings could pave the way for a new...Read more
2014 12 Dec
The Peter Munk Cardiac Centre in Toronto has spearheaded the creation of a new website that aims to support young people with congenital heart disease. The website, iheartchange.org , enables patients, their family members and healthcare providers to log in and get information through videos, images and downloads. Survival rates of infants with congenital...Read more
2014 17 Nov
During 2000-2010, the overall heart disease death rate declined annually in the United States, although mortality increased for certain heart disease subtypes, researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported. The study is published in the November 19 issue of JAMA , a cardiovascular disease themed issue. While data...Read more
2014 06 Nov
Most patients now survive a hospital stay for septic shock, although 23 percent of these patients will return to the hospital within 30 days, according to a new study. The number is noticeably higher than the normal readmission rate at a large academic medical centre, researchers reported. The study findings have been published in Critical Care Medicine...Read more
2014 23 Oct
Researchers from the New York University Langone Medical Center (New York, NY, USA) found that overuse of cardiac stress testing using advanced imaging technology has led to increasing healthcare costs in the US and unnecessary radiation exposure for patients. Their study, believed to be the first comprehensive investigation of trends in cardiac stress...Read more
2014 07 Jul
Electric shocks are effective in treating atrial fibrillation (AF) but they are painful and eventually stop working when AF becomes chronic. A new shockless method of defibrillation returns sinus rhythms to normal using optogenetics. Depolarising ion channels are genetically inserted into the heart and can be activated by light during AF episodes....Read more
2014 27 Jun
New insight into the relationship between stress and heart attacks implicates the immune system, which triggers arterial inflammation during the fight-or-flight response. A new study by researchers at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School has offered an answer to why prolonged stress can have fatal cardiovascular consequences. ...Read more
2014 24 Jun
Biventricular pacing, also known as cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT), is used to improve cardiac rhythm in heart failure patients. Ultimately, CRT can lower the number of hospitalisations and the risk of death in such patients. A new study in JAMA Internal Medicine reveals that women may benefit more than men from CRT-D, in which CRT is combined...Read more
2014 17 May
Diabetic patients who received intensified insulin treatment following a heart attack survived for two years longer than patients treated with standard therapy to lower glucose, in a study conducted by researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Diabetes commonly occurs with cardiovascular complications. Heart attack and stroke...Read more
2014 22 Apr
Ochsner Medical Center makes interventional procedures safer and more efficient with new equipment and adds a Toshiba Infinix DP-i and Hybrid OR suite for unparalleled access and coverage Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans is further improving patient safety and comfort in interventional cardiology by adding new equipment from Toshiba America...Read more