ESC Congress 2025 Hot Line & Late-Breaking Science Collection

  • Published:  08 August 2025
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ESC Congress 2025 Hot Line & Late-Breaking Science Collection

  • Published:  08 August 2025
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About the episode

ESC Congress 2025 – The fourth and final day of ESC Congress 2025 maintained momentum with transformative clinical data that will influence cardiovascular practice worldwide.

Leading interventional experts Dr Mirvat Alasnag and Dr Khaled Al-Shaibi (King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital, SA) offer their expert commentary on the standout hot line trials and their clinical significance from day four.

Day 4 Highlights:

HELP-MI SWEDEHEART
TACSI
MHYH
NEWTON-CABG CardioLink 5

Watch the Day 3 ESC 25 wrap-up from Dr Alasnag and Dr Al-Shaibi here.

Recorded on-site at the ESC Congress 2025, Madrid.

Editors: Yazmin Sadik and Jordan Rance.

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

Mirvat Alasnag

Mirvat Alasnag

Director of Catheterization Laboratory

Dr. Mirvat Alasnag is a consultant interventional cardiologist based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She is Director of the Catheterization Laboratory at King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, where she has played a central role in the development of contemporary interventional cardiology services. Dr. Alasnag is recognised as the first female interventional cardiologist in the Gulf region and has been a prominent advocate for women in cardiology, representing female physicians on multiple national and international committees.

 

Academic History

Dr. Alasnag completed her training in Clinical Cardiology at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, California. She subsequently undertook advanced training in Interventional Cardiology at Harper University Hospital, Detroit Medical Center, in Detroit, Michigan. Her training combined high-volume clinical practice with exposure to complex coronary interventions, forming the foundation for her subsequent leadership…

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Khaled Al-Shaibi

Khaled Al-Shaibi

Director Cardiac Center

Dr Khaled Al-Shaibi is the Director at King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 1986.

Dr Al-Shaibi completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Medical Center from 1988 to 1991. Furthering his specialisation, Dr Al-Shaibi completed a Cardiology Fellowship at UAB Medical Center from 1991 to 1994, leading to his ABIM certification in Cardiovascular Disease in 1995. He then pursued advanced training through an Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at UAB Medical Center from 1994 to 1996, earning ABIM certification in Interventional Cardiology in 1997.

Dr Al-Shaibi's outstanding contributions to interventional cardiology in Saudi Arabia have been widely recognised. In 2016, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Saudi Arabian Coronary Interventional Society. His dedication to the field of cardiology was further honoured by…

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