From June 22 to 23, Almazov Centre hosted the 9th Global Educational Forum – Russian Cardiovascular Days.
In his welcome address at the plenary session, Prof. Evgeny Shlyakhto, President of the Russian Society of Cardiology and Director General of Almazov Centre emphasized that this year’s Forum should focus on further development of the Russian Society of Cardiology in concert with other national organizations and the Ministry of Health for addressing the presidential goal to increase life expectancy to 78 years by 2024.
Evgeny Shlyakhto delivered the opening lecture at the plenary session on the topic “COVID-19 for Cardiology.” He spoke about how cardiovascular services adapted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and outlined the areas to be developed based on the experience gained by the medical community in recent years. Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the European Association of Internal Medicine, Vice-President of the Russian Scientific Medical Society of Internal Medicine, Head of the Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Diseases of the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University Grigory Arutyunov spoke about prevention in cardiology in his presentation entitled “Cardiovascular prevention in the context of clinical guidelines 2021.” The closing lecture was given by Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Cardiology Department of the Volgograd State Medical University, Head of CAD Department of the Volgograd Regional Cardiology Centre Yuri Lopatin who spoke about new European guidelines for the treatment of heart failure.
The interactive program of the Forum included highlights from the last European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress and an overview of new clinical guidelines of the European and Russian Societies of Cardiology. The event featured clinical case discussions as well as lectures on the modern problems of cardiology from leading Russian and European experts.
The Forum covered different topics on heart failure, valvular heart disease, cardiac pacing, cardiovascular prevention and difficult clinical cases. Russian and foreign experts discussed the issues associated with the use of innovative surgical and non-surgical treatments for cardiovascular diseases. Special focus was made on the management of cardiovascular patients in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.