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Highlights from the ESC Congress 2026

23 September 2026
Watch Dr Sarah Birkhoelzer and Dr Patrick Hurley (University Hospitals Dorset) summarise some highlights from the recent ESC Congress. This video focuses on the findings with the greatest relevance to everyday cardiovascular practice.
Learning objectives:
  • Discover the latest ESC guidance on heart failure, and the first-ever ESC guidance on cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease.
  • Explore new evidence on prevention across the life course, including statin therapy and sustained blood-pressure control to reduce cardiovascular risk.
  • Learn about trials into potential of transcatheter treatment for severe tricuspid regurgitation, and aficamten for symptomatic non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and much more.
Speakers

Dr Sarah Birkhoelzer, Heart Failure and Imaging Fellow, University Hospitals Dorset
Dr Patrick Hurley, Cardiology Registrar, University Hospitals Dorset

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Supported

Funding for the filming, production and publishing for this video was provided by A. Menarini Farmaceutica Internazionale SRL. Menarini has had no input into the video's content or hosting.

BEACON series – Episode 4: Type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease

  • Beverley Bostock, Mike Cummings, Paul Downie, Jim Moore, Emily Turner

Supported

Funding for the filming, production and publishing for this video was provided by A. Menarini Farmaceutica Internazionale SRL. Menarini has had no input into the video's content or hosting.

 

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