ESC Congress 2025 Hot Line & Late-Breaking Science Collection

  • Published:  08 August 2025
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ESC Congress 2025 - Late-breaker host Dr Harriette Van Spall (McMaster University, CA) joins Prof Julie De Backer (University Hospital Ghent, BE) to discuss the newly released 2025 ESC Guidelines for the Management of Cardiovascular Disease in Pregnancy. Together, they highlight key updates, critical advances in maternal cardiovascular care, and evidence-based recommendations tailored for this high-risk population.

In this conversation, Dr Van Spall and Prof De Backer break down the guidelines into clear, practical insights—covering recommendations for specific conditions and translating complex updates into actionable guidance for clinical practice.

Recorded remotely from Hamilton and Ghent.

Editors: Jordan Rance and Yazmin Sadik.
Videographers: Mike Knight, Dan Brent, Oliver Miles, Tom Green, David-Ben-Harosh.

Support: This is an independent interview produced by Radcliffe Cardiology.

Overview

Dive into our coverage of ESC Congress 2025 for groundbreaking trial results and discussions with expert faculty.

  • Watch our View From the Thoraxcenter series for practice-focused reviews of the most anticipated trials from interventional experts, Prof Nicolas Van Mieghem and Dr Joost Daemen.
  • Watch our Wrap-Up series led by Dr Mirvat Alasnag summarising the key take-aways from each day of the congress.
  • For clinical trial data from principal investigators, keep up with Dr Harriette Van Spall's Late-Breaker Discussion series.
  • Our concise, accessible Expert Interviews will focus on the current data and it's impact on clinical practice.
  • Don't miss the Highlights series to stay ahead of the curve in each field.
  • In the Journal Discussions series, authors of ECR Journal explore their special focuses in depth.
     

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Faculty Biographies

Harriette Van Spall

Harriette Van Spall

Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of E-Health and Virtual Care

Dr Harriette Van Spall is an Associate Professor of Medicine and cardiologist and serves as Director of E-Health at McMaster University, Canada. She completed her medical and postgraduate clinical training at the University of Toronto and earned a Master of Public Health degree at Harvard University, US. Dr Van Spall is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research-funded clinical trialist and researcher with a focus on heart failure, health services, and health disparities.

She has garnered more than $4 million in research funding, has won several research awards, and has published her work in high-impact medical journals. She is an invited speaker, media correspondent, and editorial board member active in peer review at several high-impact medications journals and grant funding agencies, including Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

Dr Van Spall is an Editorial Board…

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Julie Backer

Julie Backer

Genetic Cardiologist and Professor

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