Dr Phillip Cuculich graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, USA in 2001 and has since trained at Northwestern University, Chicago and the Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University, St Louis, USA where he is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Cardiovascular Division. His clinical interests include arrhythmias, sudden cardiac death, atrial…
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Author(s):
Marianna Fontana
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10 months ago
ESC-HFA 23 — We are joined by Prof Marianna Fontana (University College London, UK), as she outlines the key findings from the phase 3 APOLLO-B study (Alnylam Pharmaceuticals) (NCT03997383).
APOLLO-B investigated the use of patisiran, a transthyretin-directed small interfering RNA, in a cohort of patients with cardiac amyloidosis. 360 patients were enrolled in the trial and were randomized 1:1…
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Author(s):
Douglas Ewan Cannie,
Mohammed Majid Akhtar,
Perry Elliott
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3 years ago
Heart failure is a global health challenge, affecting 1–2% of the population and up to an estimated 64 million people worldwide.1,2 In the UK, just under 1 million people have heart failure, with approximately 350 new diagnoses each year per 100,000 population.3 The lifetime risk of developing heart failure at 55 years of age is 33% for men and 28% for women.4 The heart failure population is…
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Job title: Senior Consultant
Dr Wong is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Cardiology at the National University Heart Centre in Singapore. His specialities include cardiac imaging (echocardiography and nuclear cardiology), cardiomyopathy and heart failure.
Dr Raymond Wong is an Editorial Board member ofCardiac Failure Review.
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Job title: Professor
Dr Morton J Kern, MD, is a professor of medicine at the University of California, Irvine, and chief of cardiology at the Long Beach Veterans Administration Medical Center.
Dr Kern received his medical degree and completed his internship/residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, and followed that with a fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston. Before joining the University…
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Job title: Clinical Cardiologist & Associate Director of Cardiac ICU
Dr Andrew Higgins is a clinical cardiologist in sections of Critical Care Cardiology and Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic. He is the Associate Director of the Cardiac ICU and core faculty within the Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology as well as the Critical Care Medicine fellowships.
A graduate of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Dr Higgins…
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Job title: Professor of Medicine
Dr Desai works in the Cardiovascular Medicine and Heart and Vascular Institute at the Cleveland Clinic.
He isthe Director of Clinical Operations and Center for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, the Medical Director of the Center for Aortic Diseases, the Medical Director for Center for Radiation Heart Disease and an integral part of the Center for Valvular heart disease.
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Author(s):
Erwin Oechslin,
Rolf Jenni
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3 years ago
Non-compaction of the myocardium is gaining prominence as a rare, distinct cardiomyopathy characterised by the presence of numerous, excessive prominent trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses which communicate with the left ventricular cavity. Two decades of research have identified a new disease - firstly, its morphologic and clinical characteristics were described on clinical…
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Job title: Medical Director
Dr Qiong Joan Zhao is Medical Director of Cardiac Diagnostics and Director of Research, Cardiac Diagnostics at Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, US.
Dr Zhao's clinical areas of interest include structural heart disease, heart failure, pulmonary vascular disease, women’s heart disease and cardio-oncology.
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