While Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East and North Africa, it also has one of the highest rates of the cardiovascular deaths in the region. Providing clinicians with an understanding of how to best prevent and treat cardiovascular disease throughout the country is an important goal of CardioEgypt taking place February 24 – 27 in Cairo.

Over the course of three days, participants will hear from cardiovascular experts from around the region, as well as countries like Germany, Portugal, Canada and the United States, on topics including imaging, heart failure, prevention, congenital heart disease and more.

ACC Past Presidents C. Michael Valentine, MD, MACC, and Richard Chazal, MD, MACC, as well as Thomas A. Gaziano, MD, MSc, FACC, are representing the College on several sessions, while World Heart Federation President-Elect Fausto Pinto, MD, FACC, will provide a keynote on major challenges in cardiovascular disease in 2020.

In addition to helping kick off the opening ceremony on February 24, Valentine will present a state-of-the-art lecture on the trial and guidelines that changed practice in 2019, including the Apple Heart Study, PARTNER 3 Study, and the ACC/AHA Primary Prevention Guideline, which serves as a playbook for managing cardiovascular risk factors. He will also participate in a session looking at updates in the treatment of atrial fibrillation and heart failure.

Chazal will participate in three separate session looking at challenging ventricular hypertrophy cases, recent updates to managing heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, and the role of imaging in patients receiving cancer therapies, respectively.

Meanwhile, Gaziano will offer up insights into novel ways to prevent heart disease, whether it's using risk assessment tools or leveraging innovative technologies and/or methods that allow clinicians to do more with less.

In addition to taking part in CardioEgypt, ACC has been involved with a number of on-the-ground programs aimed at helping clinicians optimize care and improve patient outcomes. Egypt has been one of the 10 countries involved in ACC's Global Prevention Program, which provided customized education to meet the unique needs of physicians, patient communities and health care systems.

ACC's new Global Heart Attack Treatment Initiative (GHATI) and NCD Academy are providing additional opportunities for Egyptian cardiovascular clinicians, hospital and institutions, to access the latest science, technology, resources and tools needed to stem the rising tide of cardiovascular disease.

Additionally, ACC's Middle East Conference will take place in Cairo, this coming October.

Learn more about ACC's global activities at ACC.org/International. Save the date for ACC's Middle East Conference.

Clinical Topics: Arrhythmias and Clinical EP, Cardiovascular Care Team, Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies, Prevention, Atrial Fibrillation/Supraventricular Arrhythmias, Acute Heart Failure

Keywords: ACC International, Egypt, Atrial Fibrillation, Primary Prevention, Heart Failure, Heart Diseases, Myocardial Infarction

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