title: [Cardiology '89. Present trends in cardiovascular medicine at the Congress of Cardiology '89 in London April 1989].
abstract: This review summarizes selected topics discussed at one of the major congress events in cardiovascular medicine in Great Britain in 1989. The congress was attended during its five days duration by 800 participants from nearly 40 countries. The scientific programme, consisting of invited state-of-art lectures, was divided into following basic topics: coronary heart disease including risk and prevention, arhythmias, hypertension, heart failure, structural heart disease, cardiac imaging and costs-effectiveness of cardiology. The aim of the review is to bring nearer the creative atmosphere and the very advanced postgraduate level of this cardiologic meeting. Due to the actual medico-social importance of current strategies in management of ischemic heart disease and malignant arrhythmias in Czechoslovakia, special interest is devoted to these problems. Based on congress lectures an overview of the atherosclerotic plaque pathology and resulting therapeutic and prognostic implications for the management of unstable angina and myocardial infarction is given. Selected aspects of thrombolytic therapy and its impact on coronary vessel wall and myocardium are discussed, too. Some contemporary problems and updated concepts of both drug and intervention treatment of malignant ventricular arrhythmias are highlighted in a more extensive way, confronting congress speakers and recent publications.
authors.affiliation: Subkatedry kardiológie ILF Kardiologickej kliniky UKVCH v Bratislave.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hatala
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans
vernacular_title: Kardiológia '89. Súcasné trendy v kardiovaskulárnej medicíne na kongrese Cardiology '89 v Londýne v apríli 1989.