Report of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Sessions 2014, Washington, DC.
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Session was held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC from March 29-31, 2014. The ACC Scientific Session is one of 3 major scientific cardiology meetings in the world, with over 20,000 attendees from 109 countries. There were over 2,200 oral and poster abstracts, and 22 late-breaking clinical trials (LBCTs), which are the focus of this report. Interestingly, in the CoreValve trials, transcatheter aortic valve replacement with a self-expanding transcatheter aortic-valve bioprosthesis was associated with a higher survival rate at 1 year than surgical aortic valve replacement. Long-term results in a further study are needed. I hope the present report will encourage others to attend the ACC Scientific Session 2015 to be held in San Diego on March 14-16, 2015.
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tokushima University Hospital.
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