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ESC 2021 Roche Satellite Symposium

"Cardiac biomarkers are here to stay"

Watch the replay of Roche ESC Symposium originally presented on 30th of August 2021.

The panel of perioperative researchers and KOLs share their findings and insights in innovation in Perioperative myocardial injury, earlier diagnosis and treatment optimization of heart failure in Type 2 Diabetes patients and in patients with atrial fibrillation.

 

Chair persons:

Dr. Danielle Gualandro is a cardiologist at University Hospital Basel and researcher at Cardiovascular Research Institute at Basel (CRIB) in Basel, Switzerland

Dr. Antonio Bayes Genis is Head of the Heart Institute at Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol and director of the Heart Failure and Cardiac Regeneration (ICREC) Research Program in Badalona, Spain)

 

Key Speakers:

Dr. Christian Puelacher is a cardiologist at University Hospital Basel and researcher at Cardiovascular Research Institute at Basel (CRIB) in Basel, Switzerland

Dr. Katrin Kemp Gudmundsdottir is the medical Director of Emergency department at Danderyds Sjukhus AB and researcher at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.

Dr. Muthiah Vaduganathan is a cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and faculty at Harvard Medical School in Boston, United States of America.

Key topics
  • The value of high-sensitivity Troponin T in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery
  • Using NT-proBNP to screen patients with atrial fibrillation: results from the STROKESTOP II trial.
  • The value of NT-proBNP in CV risk stratification and optimization of cardioprotective treatment among patients with Type 2 Diabetes
  • Question and Answer session with the entire panel.