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14m 3sPart 3 | Session 4 ESC 25 Guidelines Discussion: Management of Dyslipidaemias
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14m 30sPart 3 | Session 5 2025 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the Management of Valvular Heart Disease
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3m 52sPart 4 | Session 2 The VICTOR & VICTORIA Pooled Analysis
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7m 42sPart 4 | Session 4 ESVM Guidelines on Interventional Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism
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6m 54sPart 4 | Session 6 STEEER-AF Cluster Randomised Trial by the ESC and EHRA
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10m 5sPart 4 | Session 7 NEWTON-CABG CardioLink-5: Evolocumab and Saphenous Vein Graft Patency
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5m 6sPart 4 | Session 10 Lifetime Benefits of Combination Therapy in HFpEF
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4m 31sPart 4 | Session 12 ODYSSEY-HCM: Mavacamten in Non-obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
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7m 20sPart 4 | Session 16 The CARUSO Trial: Carotid Plaques Stabilisation and Regression with Evolocumab
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47m 54sPart 1 | Session 1 View from the Thoraxcenter: ESC 25 Late-breaking Science Wrap-Up
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36m 33sPart 1 | Session 2 View from the Thoraxcenter: What's Hot at ESC 25?
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11m 8sPart 2 | Session 1 Day 4 Wrap-Up with Dr Alasnag and Dr Al-Shaibi
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ESC Congress 2025 - Vericiguat did not reduce the risk of cardiovascular mortality and hospitalization in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, fewer cardiovascular deaths and all-cause deaths were observed.
Host, Dr Harriette Van Spall (McMaster University, CA) is joined on-site at ESC Congress 2025 in Madrid by Dr Faiez Zannad (University of Lorraine, FR) to discuss pivotal results from the VICTOR (NCT05093933) trial.
The VICTOR programme assessed vericiguat (MK-1242) safety and efficacy in 6105 heart failure with reduced ejection fraction patients, encompassing both acute decompensated and chronic stable populations. The trials compared three vericiguat dosing regimens (2.5, 5.0, and 10.0 mg once daily) against placebo, measuring time to first occurrence of the composite primary endpoint of cardiovascular death or heart failure hospitalisation.
Findings showed that over 18.5 months follow-up, the primary outcome event of cardiovascular death or HF hospitalization had occurred in 18% of patients in the vericiguat group, and 19.1% of patients on the placebo group. Although vericiguat did not improve the primary composite endpoint, there were fewer cardiovascular deaths and all-cause deaths, supporting the use of the drug in ambulatory patients with HFrEF in addition to contemporary therapies.
Recorded onsite at ESC Congress 2025 in Madrid.
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.
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Faculty Biographies
Faiez Zannad
Professor Emeritus; Founder and Chairman of CVCT Société Civile
Prof Faiez Zannad was born in Monastir, Tunisia in 1951 and later moved to pursue his medical education and research in Europe. He trained in cardiology and pharmacology across institutions in France and the United Kingdom, including Nancy, Lyon, and Oxford. Over the course of his career, he has lived and worked primarily in Nancy, France, where he has held clinical, academic, and research leadership roles in cardiovascular medicine and therapeutics.
Academic History
Prof Zannad earned his MD in cardiology from the Faculté de Médecine de Nancy and further trained as a research fellow in clinical pharmacology at the Medical Research Council in Oxford. He later received a PhD in cardiovascular clinical pharmacology from the University of Lyon. During his academic training, he focused on cardiovascular pharmacology, physiology, and therapeutic innovation, laying the foundation for his lifelong work in heart failure and hypertension research.
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Harriette Van Spall
Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of E-Health and Virtual Care
Dr Harriette Van Spall is an internationally-known cardiologist, research methodologist, and senior scientist. Trained at the University of Toronto and Harvard University, she has expertise in clinical trial design and execution. Her investigator-initiated research is well funded and has been recognised formally with the American Heart Association's Nanette Wenger Research Goes Red award and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Mid-Career Lectureship award.
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