The 4th Annual Scientific meeting of the EPCCS was held on September 1-2, 2011 in Berlin, Germany
Professor Arno Hoes, Utrecht, the Netherlands and Professor Richard Hobbs, Oxford University, United Kingdom, co-chairman of 4th annual meeting of the the European Primary Care Cardiovascular Society (EPCCS), offered a warm welcome to over 400 delegates from across Europe.
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As a service of the EPCCS in this section an overview of the presentations and meeting highlghts form our annual scientific meetings are posted.
EPCCS Annual scientific Meeting 2010
In this section key educational resources derived from 3rd Annual scientific meeting held on September 23-24 2010 in Lisbon are posted.
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Heart failure occurs when the ventricles have a reduced ability to fill or to eject blood, resulting in an insufficient cardiac output to satisfy the metabolic needs of the body. There is a common perception that heart failure is a disease of the elderly, which has a slow onset in primary care and is always left sided.
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Prof. Deanfield and prof. Hobbs discuss the shift in focus from treating patients with clinical problems arising from established CV disease to CV prevention in patients with risk factors for developing CV disease.
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Prof. Richard Hobbs gives an overview of highlights from EPCCS 2011, with a summary of sessions that were held, e.g. concerning lifetime cardiovascular risk, hypertension, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease.
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Prof. Richard McManus discusses the shift in diagnosis of hypertension from clinic measurement to ambulatory and home measurement.
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Prof. Pierre Amarenco discusses the importance of early recognition and treatment of TIAs to ensure a better prognosis.
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Dr. Neil Munro discusses several new developments in diabetes relevant for primary care.
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Dr. Frans Rutten clarifies which symptoms are suspicious for heart failure and which tests can be used .
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Prof. Martin R. Cowie
Good HF management does require a team approach. A nurse-led multidisciplinary programme could be of added value to patients.
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Prof. Martin R. Cowie, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
There have been two very important randomized trials in the field of heart failure in the past 12 months, which should have an impact in everybody’s practice.
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Prof. Martin Scherer summarizes his favourite publications of primary care studies.
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Prof. Pierre Amarenco (Paris, France) describes how stroke can be prevented with statins and which patients already having stroke should receive statins.
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Dr. Fokko de Haan (Germany) discusses daily problems with the new oral anticoagulants.
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Prof. Arno Hoes (Utrecht, The Netherlands) discusses new biomarkers for predicting of future cardiovascular disease being developed in recent years .
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Prof. Richard McManus (Birmingham, United Kingdom) explains what CKD is and how it should be treated, from the GP viewpoint.
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Optimising Lipid Management in Stable Disease Prof. Furio Colivicchi (San Filippo Neri Hospital Rome, Italy)
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New oral anticoagulants for venous thromboembolism Prof. Henri Bounameaux (Geneva, Switzerland)
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