The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) published Guidelines on cardiomyopathies on 25 August 2023 in European Heart Journal. [1] This is the first international guideline document to include all cardiomyopathy subtypes, and the first time that specific recommendations are made for cardiomyopathies other than hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.  

ESC Congress 2023 Pulsed field ablation (PFA) is as effective and safe as conventional thermal ablation for the treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF), according to research presented at ESC Congress 2023.

ESC Congress 2023 Active screening of patients with type 2 diabetes or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) more than doubles new diagnoses of cardiovascular disease compared with usual care, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2023.

The European Society of Cardiology held their annual congress in Amsterdam from 25-28 August 2023. There were more than 30,000 participants and 4,500 faculty and presenters. International Hospital presents a selection of highlights from what was a very busy event.

Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland teamed up with industry and supercomputers to carry out one of the world’s largest virtual drug screens. By doing so they managed to boost virtual screening with machine learning enabling a 10-fold time reduction in the processing of 1.56 billion drug-like molecules.