Innovation in atrial fibrillation therapy
Left atrium assessment and left atrium fibrosis among the areas where innovations in atrial fibrillation are revolutionizing practice.
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Echocardiography (Non-invasive imaging), Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - December 8, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Acute chest pain: game changer or waste of resources?
Echocardiography, cardiac CT scan and cardiac MRI all offer promise for the assessment of patients with chest pain, but improved strategies for clinical risk assessment are needed to optimize selection of appropriate tests.
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Echocardiography (Non-invasive imaging), Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - December 8, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Interventricular Interactions in Congenital Heart Disease
Multimodality assessment of size, shape, deformation and function is key to understanding Interventricular interactions in Congenital Heart Disease. The joint session between the EACVI and ASE explored interventricular interactions across a wide range of Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) lesions, where disease in the right ventricle (RV) has a major impact on left ventricular (LV) function.
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Echocardiography (Non-invasive imaging), Congenital Heart Disease, Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - December 8, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Heart disease patients advised to avoid being outside in rush hour traffic
Experts recommend reducing air pollution exposure and decreasing use of fossil fuels: Obese people and those with diabetes may be at higher risk of the cardiovascular effects of pollution, while air pollutants may exacerbate and instigate the development of risk factors such as high blood pressure and impaired insulin sensitivity. Read the paper.
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Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - Risk Assessment and Management (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - December 8, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
EACVI: Multimodality imaging is here and now!
EuroEcho-Imaging 2014 has proved a great cardiovascular imaging congress! Attendance has been exceptionally high, probably the highest ever obtained for this congress, demonstrating a growing interest among cardiologists in both echocardiography and multimodality imaging.
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Echocardiography (Non-invasive imaging), Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - December 3, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Innovations in interventional imaging define need for new guidance
The role of the cardiovascular (CV) imager has become increasingly central for the delivery of percutaneous procedures in cardiology, with the advent of new imaging tools and devices transforming the landscape and making it now necessary for the EACVI to revisit imaging recommendations.
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Echocardiography (Non-invasive imaging), Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - December 3, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
How the EACVI echo, CMR and nuclear cardiology and CT sections work together
In January 2014, the ESC integrated the working groups for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance, Nuclear Cardiology/ Cardiac Computed Tomography and the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) into one unified multimodality structure called the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI). Here one year on the chairpersons of the different groups look back on their achievements and discuss plans for the future.
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Echocardiography (Non-invasive imaging), Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - December 3, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
What's happening with the EACVI Education and Certification Committees?
Alexandros Stefanidis, Chair of the EACVI Certification/ Accreditation Committee, General Hospital of Nikea, Athens, Greece, and Maurizio Galderisi, Federico II University Hospital of Naples, Italy, current EACVI Secretary and upcoming Chair of the EACVI Education Committee discuss their respective committees activities and success.
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Echocardiography (Non-invasive imaging), Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - December 3, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Scientific Document Committee grapples with need for CV imaging evidence-base
Over the past two years the EACVI Scientific Documents Committee has been extremely industrious producing 12 recommendation, position and expert consensus papers for publication in an effort to define the most appropriate use of different cardiovascular (CV) imaging technologies. The Scientific Documents Committee shares a common goal with the EACVI to ensure the best use of CV imaging diagnostic resources for a given individual, and prevent both over and under use of the different modalities.
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Echocardiography (Non-invasive imaging), Non-invasive imaging: Echoc...
Source: ESC News and Press - December 3, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Mediterranean diet linked to improved CV function in erectile dysfunction patients
Erectile dysfunction is not a symptom of ageing, it is a bad sign from the body that something is wrong with the vasculature. In 80% of cases erectile dysfunction is caused by vascular problems and is a warning that patients are at increased risk of a heart attack or stroke. The Mediterranean diet could help erectile dysfunction patients lower their risk of a heart attack.
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Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear, Echocardiography (Non-invasive imaging) (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - December 3, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
How does hosting EuroEcho-Imaging influence imaging in your country?
How do you hope hosting the EuroEcho-Imaging meeting in Vienna will influence Austrian imaging?How did hosting the EuroEcho-Imaging meeting in Istanbul Vienna influence Turkish imaging?
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Echocardiography (Non-invasive imaging), Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - December 3, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Stand and deliver: time to provide an evidence base for CV imaging
In the Edler lecture, delivered during the Inaugural session this afternoon, Gerald Maurer will make the argument that cardiovascular (CV) imaging has reached a state of maturity that makes it time for imagers to take stock of technology.
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Echocardiography (Non-invasive imaging), Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - December 3, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Defining ground rules for echocardiography in intensive and acute cardiovascular care
Echocardiograpy has become the primary imaging tool for patients with unstable cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in the acute setting. In a new recommendations paper the EACVI have joined forces with the Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA), to outline the practical applications of echocardiography in acute clinical situations and consider the standards of training necessary to deliver the service.
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Echocardiography (Non-invasive imaging), Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - December 3, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Fortifying EACVI unity
EuroEcho-Imaging, which places the emphasis firmly on multimodality imaging, has become the flagship of our association. Now the largest CV imaging meeting worldwide, EuroEcho-Imaging 2014 promises to be more successful than ever thanks to the dedication of members of the Scientific Programme Committee and local hosts. Placing this year’s spotlight on 3-D imaging and acute cardiac care underscores how close we have come to bringing these developments to the bedside.
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Non-invasive imaging: Echocardiography, MR/CT, Nuclear, Echocardiography (Non-invasive imaging...
Source: ESC News and Press - December 3, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Implications of EMA’s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee statement on ivabradine inclusion within ESC guidelines and ivabradine prescribing recommendations
As a result of new data from the SIGNIFY study (1), presented at ESC Congress 2014 and published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine, the EMA’s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) has made recommendations aimed at reducing the risk of heart problems, including MI (heart attack) and bradycardia (slow heart rate) in patients prescribed ivabradine for angina.
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Clinical pharmacology (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - December 2, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
