ESC Congress 2025 Hot Line & Late-Breaking Science Collection

  • Published:  08 August 2025
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ESC Congress 2025 - Dr Harriette Van Spall (McMaster University, Canada) sits down with Professor Michael Borger (University of Leipzig Heart Center, Germany), Co-Chair of the newly released 2025 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the Management of Valvular Heart Disease.

The new guidelines bring together the latest evidence and expert consensus on how to diagnose, evaluate, and treat patients with valvular heart disease. They build on previous editions, adding insights from recent clinical trials and advances in both surgical and transcatheter therapies to help clinicians make the best decisions for their patients.

In this conversation, Dr Van Spall and Prof Borger walk through the main updates, highlight what’s most relevant for daily practice, and share practical take-home messages for the care of patients with valve disease.

Recorded remotely from Hamilton, CA and Leipzig, DE.

Editors: Jordan Rance, Yazmin Sadik, Mirjam Boros.
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.

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Michael Andrew Borger

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