Experts from around the world will debate cardiovascular health in Cuba

Havana, Oct 20 (RHC) Cardiovascular health experts from around the world will exchange experiences during the celebration in Havana of the 10th Cuban Congress of Cardiology and the 1st Cuban Congress of Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension.

The events will take place from November 7 to 10 at the Havana Convention Palace, and will be an opportunity to update on topics related to the prevention, diagnosis, medical, surgical, interventional treatment and rehabilitation of patients with heart and great vessels disease.

Doctor of Sciences Eduardo Rivas, president of the Organizing Committee, detailed that one of the objectives of these meetings will be overcoming the current challenges in the management of coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, heart failure, arrhythmias, valve and coronary surgery.

The also president of the Cuban Society of Cardiology also announced that the congress will also address the advances that Science and Technological Innovation at a global level have contributed to this topic in recent years.

In this context, he mentioned recent cardiac imaging diagnostic techniques, treatments with new drugs, ablation, latest-generation pacemakers, cardio-defibrillators, percutaneous heart valve, plasties, and prostheses and stents, as well as novel surgical techniques in adults and pediatric patients, and approaches in cardiac rehabilitation.

Rivas reported that Cardiology 2023 will bring together cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, intensivists, anesthesiologists and other related Cuban specialists with extensive work experience, and more than a hundred foreign professionals, mainly from Latin America, the United States and Europe.

Under the motto Global challenges to confront cardiovascular diseases, the congress will also highlight the 85 years since the Cuban Society of Cardiology was founded, one of the first in America and the world. (Source: PL)