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SHIFTING the burden of heart failure Ivabradine, the pure heart rate-lowering drug,
shown to reduce morbidity and mortality in heart failure.
The results of the SHIfT study, announced this week at the
European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2010 congress in Stockholm,
are likely to change the clinical treatment of chronic heart
failure as they provide the first positive results for many
years in this difficult field of treatment. The great interest
in the outcome of this study was evident from the large number
of delegates attending this hot-line session on the first day of
the congress.
Innovative approaches offer more at 2010
South African Heart Association congress, 8 - 11 August, Sun City
The organisers of the 2010 South African Heart Association
congress (SAHA) are offering an innovative programme with
sessions in cardio-oncology (a first for South Africa), women’s
cardiovascular health, ethics, and South African scientific
contributions within the plenary sessions. Parallel sessions,
although necessary to cope with special-interest groups,
will be kept to a minimum. Interventional cardiology will be
well covered.
The ultimate anticoagulants? Two new
anticoagulants that can be administered orally are poised to
change the face of anticoagulation as we know it. Rivaroxaban
and dabigatran (neither available in South Africa as yet) have
both shown positive results in clinical trials. At the congress
of the South African Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, held
in Johannesburg on 22 November 2009, Profs Sylvia Haas and Ajay
Kakkar presented the evidence for rivaroxaban and dabigatran,
respectively.
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