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ESC Congress Resources

The ESC Council on Stroke has selected these sessions of particular interest that took place during ESC Congress 2024.

• How will digital technologies improve the personalised management of atrial fibrillation
• Subclinical and device-detected atrial fibrillation: fact and fiction
• The floor is yours: bring your questions on stroke prevention in clinical and subclinical atrial fibrillation
• Management of atrial fibrillation: knowns and unknowns
• Great Debate: blood pressure thresholds in hypertension - treat the cardiovascular risk, not the number!
• Global approach to hypertension management and cardiovascular risk reduction
• Novel antithrombotic therapies in cardiovascular disease: what’s on the horizon?
• Hot topics in stroke for cardiologists
• The floor is yours: bring your questions on minimising the risk of stroke during cardiovascular interventions
• Great Debates: acute stroke intervention - what's next after thrombectomy?
• Implementing wearables in neuro-cardiovascular care
• Personalised stroke management
• Heart-brain interactions: sex differences and impact on cognition
• Heart-brain and brain-heart interactions in cardiovascular health and disease

Webinars on demand

• What is the individual patient's risk? Complexities of clinical decision-making
• How to manage anticoagulation therapy in patients after cerebrovascular events
• Assessment of cardiovascular risk in apparently healthy persons: from recent trial evidence to guideline recommendations to implementation in real-world practice

Upcoming Webinars 

• Prevention of stroke and thromboembolism in patients with AF: hurdles and optimal decision making
• Measurement and classification of blood pressure in the guideline
  
  

Scientific publications

• Embolic strokes of undetermined source: a clinical consensus statement of the ESC Council on Stroke, the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and the European Heart Rhythm Association of the ESC
• Interaction of heart failure and stroke: A clinical consensus statement of the ESC Council on Stroke, the Heart Failure Association (HFA) and the ESC Working Group on Thrombosis

Read the position papers and consensus documents of the Council

Heart and Stroke 2024

The 7th ESC Heart & Stroke conference will take place in Athens on 28-29 November 2024. This year’s focus will be on advancing personalised care in the management of heart-brain interactions, with a programme packed with the latest evidence-based research. The conference will cover critical topics such as stroke prevention and treatment, cognitive decline, multimorbidity, and personalised risk assessment through artificial intelligence.

Browse the Scientific Programme ! 

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