Held the Forum on Cardiovascular disease in women, organized by the service of Cardiology of Hospiten Estepona.
days 20 and 21 April, at the Hotel H10 Estepona Palace, gathered more than 100 medical professionals.
Estepona, may 2012.- the Forum on Cardiovascular disease in women developed during the Friday 20 and Saturday 21 April, was a resounding success in participation with more than 100 health professionals, mostly medical specialists.
The objective of this meeting was to analyse the different aspects of differential in women to help identify those patients most at risk to suffer heart disease, in order to offer the most innovative treatment strategies based on scientific evidence.
Cardiovascular disease in women
In Spain, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women, similar is happening in the rest of the Western world. Despite the strength of these data by the women themselves is her still considered a disease of men ”.
De izquierda a derecha: Dr. Antonio Ramírez, Jefe de Servicio de Cardiología de Hospiten Estepona; Dr. Pedro Luis Cobiella, Hospiten Group President and MD Anderson Cancer Center Madrid; and thirdly, Juan Ramón Siles, Hospiten Estepona Cardiology service.
A progressive increase in the incidence of cardiovascular pathology on female sex looms in clinical practice, there are specific differences in cardiovascular disease when manifested in women, that they may influence the diagnosis and therapeutic approach to this pathology.
Multidisciplinary content
days began with the inauguration of the hand of Dr. Pedro Luis Cobiella, Hospiten Group Chairman and the Director of the Forum, Dr. Antonio RamÃrez, head of the service of Cardiology of Hospiten Estepona.
During the meeting, addressed in depth the Cardiovascular disease, dealing with issues such as the risk factors for cardiovascular disease, heart failure, the non Coronary Vascular pathologies, arrhythmias and ischemic heart disease; all of this, always focused on the female, debating strategies according to their differential aspects.
At the same time, dealt with cardiovascular disease in women from the approach of different specialties, such as Interventional Radiology, internal medicine, gynaecology and Neurology, which, given the Forum eminently multidisciplinary.
Some of the most important exhibitions were those featuring Prof. Dr. Suárez de Lezo, Professor of Cardiology and head of service of the Hospital Reina Sofia of Córdoba, and Dr. Rafael Llorens, Chief of cardiac surgery of Hospiten service.
El Dr. Llorens, afrontó el tema de la cirugía coronaria desde diferentes aspectos científicos y el Dr. Suárez de Lezo closed the Forum talking about his experience in the in the percutaneous treatment of the Degenerative aortic stenosis, a condition that prevents the blood circulates freely from the left ventricle to the aorta.
Closing
The closing ceremony was performed by Dr. Antonio RamÃrez and Dr. Juan Antonio Siles, directors and cornerstones of the Forum, who thanking the audience participation and agreed that the debate in the Forum would improve the quality of health care to the affected patients ”.
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