ESC Congress 2017 In Review – Focus on CAD&ACS - 1

ESC Congress 2017

In Review

CAD & ACS

Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to present this issue of ESC Congress 2017 in Review, focused on coronary artery disease
(CAD) and acute coronary syndromes (ACS), two entities of particular importance in cardiology. The peerreviewed highlights in this issue are based on presentations at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
Congress 2017 held in Barcelona, Spain.
Among the articles in this issue, you will find a closer look at 2017 ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines on acute
myocardial infraction (AMI) in patients presenting with persistent ST-segment elevation, which harbours
significant changes to the previous version, both regarding acute care as well as long-term drug therapy.
Several Hot Line trials are covered in this issue. They include COMPASS, CANTOS, and RE-DUAL PCI.
Results from RE-DUAL PCI showed that dual antithrombotic therapy with dabigatran and a P2Y12 inhibitor
was superior to triple therapy with warfarin at preventing bleeding after percutaneous coronary intervention
among AF patients. COMPASS demonstrated that in high-risk patients with CAD rivaroxaban 2.5 mg BID plus
aspirin 100 mg QD reduces the composite of cardiovascular death, stroke, or MI compared with aspirin alone.
Data from the CANTOS trial showed that canakinumab reduces cardiovascular event rates and potentially
reduces the rate of incident lung cancer as well as lung cancer mortality.
We are confident that the articles and practical perspectives presented in ESC Congress 2017 in Review Focus on CAD and ACS will provide you with important new insights. To access ESC Congress content (videos,
slides, abstracts, reports, and ESC TV interviews) all year long, visit us online at any time at www.escardio.org/365.
We hope to see you in Munich for ESC Congress 2018. For more information, please visit www.escardio.org/ESC2018.

Professor Stephan Achenbach, FESC
ESC Congress Programme Committee Chair 2016 -2018

Official Peer-Reviewed Highlights From ESC Congress 2017

http://www.escardio.org/365 http://www.escardio.org/ESC2018

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of ESC Congress 2017 In Review – Focus on CAD&ACS