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Author(s): Matthew Wright Added: 3 years ago
Since the initial description that in the majority of patients paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) is triggered by pulmonary vein (PV) ectopy,1 catheter ablation of AF has gone from a niche procedure to a common one, with approximately 20,000 ablations performed per year in the US alone. However, AF ablation remains a technically difficult procedure, requires long training to become proficient,2… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Muriel Sprynger Added: 3 years ago
Abstract Several imaging techniques (such as ultrasounds, computed tomography [CT] scan, magnetic resonance imaging [MRI], positron emission tomography [PET] scan, etc.) can provide interesting information on subclinical atherosclerosis and plaque stability. In fact sonographic imaging techniques can be very useful in this field. All of them have their limitations, but each of them has its own… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Osman Ratib Added: 3 years ago
Recent developments in advanced imaging modalities such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), multidetector computed tomography (CT) and hybrid modalities such as positron emission tomography-CT (PET-CT) bring new dimensions to diagnostic investigations of cardiovascular disease. These modalities extend the existing wide range of image-based diagnostic procedures that are commonly used in… View more

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Digital Health
Author(s): András Szatmári , Ingrid Oberhänsli-Weiss Added: 3 years ago
Over the past 50 years, paediatric cardiology has developed as a subspeciality of paediatrics linked to adult cardiology and cardiovascular (CV) surgery. It deals with diseases of the heart and the circulation in growing individuals and patients with congenital CV malformations and acquired CV disease (CVD) from foetal life to adolescent and adult age. Worldwide, 800 to 1,000 per 100,000 newborns… View more

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Michael Joner
Job title: Head of the Preclinical Research
Dr Michael Joner MD completed his medical training at the University of Wuerzburg and spent 2004-2006 as a cardiovascular pathology fellow at the CVPath Institute. After returning to Germany, since 2007 Dr Joner has been Head of the Preclinical Research at the German Heart Centre in Munich, where he also completed his interventional cardiology residency. View more
Jeffrey J Popma
Dr Popma graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1981. He works in Boston, MA, and specialises in cardiovascular disease. Dr. Popma is affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Milton and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center West Campus. Clinical Interests Interventional cardiology Radial artery catheterisation Complex coronary stent placement Atherectomy Left ventricular… View more
Bill D Gogas
Job title: Editor-in-Chief, US Cardiology Review
Dr Gogas has more than 10 years of clinical and research experience in cardiology/interventional cardiology. He is current faculty at Nanjing University in China and formerly held a position in the Division of Cardiology of Emory University School of Medicine at the rank of Instructor of Medicine. He received his PhD from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, in 2014 under the mentorship of Prof Patrick… View more
Avirup Guha
Job title: Director of Cardio-Oncology
DrAvirup Guha, Assistant Professor at Augusta University, leads Cardio-Oncology at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, US. Dr Guha's ongoing research, under the patronage of the American Heart Association and the Department of Defense, delves deep into the translational science concerning biological disparities between White and Black men with prostate cancer (PC) undergoing androgen… View more
Job title: Associate Professor
Joost van Herwaarden is a Full Professor in the Department of Vascular Surgery at the University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Prof van Herwaarden’s research interests included abdominal aortic aneurysms, endovascular repair, endovascular aneurysm repair and imaging modalities. With over seventy papers published in peer-reviewed journals, Prof van Herwaarden is a member of View more
Jose Luis Zamorano
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Professor of Medicine and Chief of Cardiology
Jose L Zamorano is Professor of Medicine at the University Alcala de Henares, Madrid, and the Chief of Cardiology at the University Hospital Ramón y Cajal. Prof Zamorano’s has a broad range of research interests including heart failure, ischaemic heart disease, cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular imaging modalities. Within these fields, Prof Zamorano he is widely published with over… View more