Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology

Heart Failure Congress | May 21-24, 2011

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Benefit for Some HF Patients in Telemonitoring

GOTHENBURG, Sweden — Remote monitoring doesn't boost heart failure clinical outcomes for patients overall but may help in newly diagnosed or unstable cases, researchers found in two clinical trials.
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Heart Rate Drug Offers Modest Uptick in QOL

GOTHENBURG, Sweden — Reducing heart rate with ivabradine (Procoralan) modestly improves how patients feel with heart failure, according to a SHIFT trial substudy.
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Diuretic Prevents Atrial Arrhythmias in HF

GOTHENBURG, Sweden — The selective aldosterone-receptor blocker eplerenone (Inspra) reduces incidence of atrial fibrillation or flutter in mildly symptomatic systolic heart failure patients, according to an EMPHASIS-HF subanalysis.
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Higher Heart Rate Acts as Prognostic Marker

GOTHENBURG, Sweden — A rapid heart rate in chronic heart failure patients carries a higher mortality risk regardless of ejection fraction status, but also predicts a modest survival benefit from candesartan (Atacand), researchers found.
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Mitral Valve Clip Viable When Surgery Too Risky

GOTHENBURG, Sweden — Percutaneous mitral valve repair appears to benefit patients at high surgical risk, a case-control analysis within the EVEREST II trial suggested.
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Comorbidities Take Focus in Heart Failure

GOTHENBURG, Sweden — Comorbidities and context will take the spotlight at the Heart Failure Congress meeting here.
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