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The 1st DZHK Conference on Translational Medicine takes place on January 11-12, 2017 in Berlin.

A molecule that only occurs on vessel walls of arteries causing inflammations there could be the foundation for a novel treatment of atherosclerosis. Researchers working with Oliver Söhnlein from the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research and from LMU Munich report about this...

Myocardial infarction differs in men and women. Women fall ill later, but they die from it more often. Overall, men are affected more often. These and further differences are not attributed to the X chromosome. This was discovered by an international consortium under the...

Heidelberg/Greifswald/Berlin, 21 July 2016. The world’s largest patient registry on heart muscle disease, TORCH (TranslatiOnal Registry for CardiomyopatHies), has enrolled its 1,000th patient. “In just one-and-a-half years, we have almost reached the halfway mark in our project...

A small insertable monitor could flag impending complications such as cardiac arrhythmias in certain patients following myocardial infarction. If preventive measures are then taken in good time, the prognosis of those patients could be improved. Whether this really works is now...

Two new clinical studies run by the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) aim to optimise the care of specific patient groups following cardiac arrest and acute myocardial infarction. The results of the study will allow doctors to make better decisions when selecting...

Investigators evaluate over 45 studies and test themselves in an experiment.

When a person passes out after strenuous physical activity, doctors routinely test for the presence of blood markers indicating that a heart attack or pulmonary embolism has taken place. Investigators...