{"id":2753,"date":"2010-08-26T14:17:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T18:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:53","slug":"getting-ready-for-the-esc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/08\/26\/getting-ready-for-the-esc\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for the ESC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The ESC heart has arrived in Stockholm! #esc10 on Twitpic\" href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/2ic145\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/show\/thumb\/2ic145.jpg\" alt=\"The ESC heart has arrived in Stockholm! #esc10 on Twitpic\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>The annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology starts this weekend in Stockholm, and CardioExchange will be there. Associate Editor Anju Nohria will be blogging from the meeting, and I&#8217;ll be covering the most important news stories. Here are a few of the most-anticipated, late-breaking clinical trials.<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/spo.escardio.org\/search.aspx?eevtid=40\"> (Click here to search the program.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>29 Aug 2010<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ALPHA OMEGA<\/strong>: Effect of low doses of n-3 fatty acids on cardiovascular diseases in post-MI patients.\u00a0D Kromhout (Wageningen, NL) \u2022 Discussant:\u00a0 L Tavazzi (Cotignola, IT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>30 Aug 2010<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ATOLL<\/strong>: An international, randomized trial comparing i.v. enoxaparin with i.v. unfractionated heparin in primary PCI for ST-elevation myocardial infarction. G Montalescot (Paris, FR) \u2022 Discussant: H D White (Auckland, NZ)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISAR REACT 3A<\/strong>: A trial of reduced dose of unfractionated heparin in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions.\u00a0S Schulz (Muenchen, DE) \u2022\u00a0 Discussant: C W Hamm (Bad Nauheim, DE)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>31 Aug 2010<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>AVERROES<\/strong>: Apixaban versus acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) to prevent strokes. \u00a0S J Connolly (Hamilton, CA) \u2022\u00a0 Discussant: H Arnesen (Oslo, NO)<\/li>\n<li><strong>EINSTEIN DVT<\/strong>: Oral rivaroxaban versus standard therapy in the initial treatment of symptomatic deep vein thrombosis and long-term prevention of recurrent venous thromboembolism.\u00a0H Buller (Amsterdam, NL) \u2022 Discussant: H Darius (Berlin, DE)<\/li>\n<li><strong>FUTURA OASIS 8<\/strong>: A randomised trial comparing two regimens of adjunctive intravenous unfractionated heparin during PCI in high-risk patients with non-STE-ACS treated with fondaparinux.\u00a0S Jolly (Hamilton, CA) \u2022 Discussant: D Dudek (Krakow, PL)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology starts this weekend in Stockholm, and CardioExchange will be there. Associate Editor Anju Nohria will be blogging from the meeting, and I&#8217;ll be covering the most important news stories. Here are a few of the most-anticipated, late-breaking clinical trials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[326],"class_list":["post-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-esc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}