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European Heart Journal 2003 24(1):2-7; doi:10.1016/S0195-668X(02)00755-8
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Editorial

The Hotline Sessions of the 24th European Congress of Cardiology

Peter C Kievit and Freek W.A Verheugt*

Department of Cardiology, Heartcentre, University Medical Centre St. Radboud, P.O. Box 9101, Nijmegen 6500 HB, The Netherlands

Received October 8, 2002; accepted October 9, 2002 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +31-24-3614533; fax: +31-24-3540537
f.verheugt@cardio.umcn.nl

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Of the 18 presentations at the three HotlineSessions of the 24th European Congress ofCardiology, held in Berlin, August 31–September 4, 2002, 16 are summarised, since two of the Hotline presentations have been published recently(Lancet, 2002; 360: 743–751, 752–760). Theauthors collected the information given during the presentations of the studies, as well as from press releases prepared by most of the speakers. This report only shows preliminary results.

During the first Hotline Session, studies on early treatment of acute coronary syndromes werepresented.

Professor Francisco Fernandez-Aviles fromValladolid, Spain, presented the GRACIA study. To 500 patients with ST-segment elevation acutemyocardial infarction, front-loaded rt-PA wasadministered within 12h of symptom onset. About 3h following thrombolytic therapy, patients were randomised to early angiography and subsequent percutaneous intervention to be performed within 24h, or to an ischaemia-guided conservativestrategy. The average time to percutaneous intervention in the invasive group was 17h afterfibrinolysis. In the conservative arm 19% of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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