Our team’s activities at the ESC 2011 in Paris

With 37 active presentations, we were the most successful research group at the world‘s largest cardiology congress this year. We try our best to stay at the top, also next year in Munich. Find a summary of our team‘s contribution, listed for each presenter. Tobias Breidthardt • Interleukin family member ST2 rapidly responds to heart failure treatment and its changes predict one-year mortality • Plasma NGAL for the prediction of acute kidney injury in acute heart failure Cathrin Balmelli • Direct comparison of high-sensitive and sensitive cardiac troponin assays for risk stratification in patients with acute chest pain Beatrice Drexler • Clinical application of high sensitive troponin T in the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction • Growth-differentiation factor-15 in the early diagnosis and risk stratification of patients with acute chest pain • Myeloid-related protein 8/14 in the risk stratification of patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction • Quantifying cardiac hemodynamic stress and cardiomyocyte necrosis in ischemic and non-ischemic acute heart failure Philip Haaf • Mid-regional pro-adrenomedullin as a novel predictor of mortality in patients with acute chest pain • High sensitive cardiac troponin in the distinction of acute myocardial infarction from acute cardiac non-coronary disease • N-terminal pro b-type natriuretic peptide in the early diagnosis and risk stratification of suspected acute myocardial infarction Corinna Heinisch • Quantifying hemodynamic cardiac stress and myocardial necrosis in hypertensive and normotensive acute heart failure Affan Irfan • Prevalence and determinants of elevated high-sensitive cardiac troponin T levels among patients with non-cardiac cause of chest pain • Systolic blood pressure at emergency department presentation and 1-year mortality in acute chest pain patients • The significance of each traditional WHO criterion used to diagnose acute myocardial infarction • Rule out acute myocardial infarction algorithm among patients with increased high sensitive troponin levels. • Utility of absolute and relative changes in cardiac troponin concentrations in the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction Christophe Meune • Prediction of pulmonary hypertension related to systemic sclerosis by an index based on simple clinical observations • Mid-regional pro atrial natriuretic peptide allows the accurate identification of patients with atrial fibrillation of short time of onset • Midregional pro-A-type natriuretic peptide for diagnosis and prognosis in patients with suspected acute myocardial infarctio • Safety of outpatient management of patients with acute chest pain and midly elevated cardiac troponin levels • Characteristics, mortality and prognosis factors of acute right ventricular myocardial infarction in the modern era Mihael Potocki • Copeptin and sensitive cardiac troponin in the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction in patients with preexisting coronary artery disease • Relation of B-Type natriuretic peptide to symptoms, severity and cardiac remodeling in patients with organic mitral regurgitation Tobias Reichlin • Acute changes in circulating high sensitive troponin T during exercise induced myocardial ischemia • Acute myocardial infarction type 2: incidence and prognosis • Markers of plaque instability in the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction Raphael Twerenbold • Copeptin in combination with high-sensitive cardiac troponin for early risk stratification in acute chest pain • Early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction in patients with left bundle branch block • ST-segment deviation score in the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction • Utility of the ST-segment deviation score in the risk prediction of patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction Micha Maeder • Chronic hypoxemia and acute exercise-induced changes in oxygenation do not have a clinically relevant impact on circulating concentrations of B-type natriuretic peptides Miriam Reiter • Quantification of endothelial dysfunction using c-terminal pro-endothelin in the early diagnosis and risk-stratification of patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction Christian Mueller • The patient with acute chest pain entering the emergency department. • Infarction acute phase non STEMI - Introduction. • How to use high sensitive troponin T in routine practice for the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. • High-sensitivity troponins improve management - Pro. • Predicting prognosis in heart failure.