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2026 Congress

2026 Congress

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Last Update 12/02/2026
Completion Time 1 month 3 weeks 3 days 16 hours 1 minute
Members 1045
  • Congress photos
    2Lessons ·
    • Photos - Thursday
    • Photos - Friday
  • Book of Abstracts
    1Lessons ·
    • Book of abstracts
  • S1 - YCC: Invisible Killers: Pollution, Noise & Climate Stress on the Heart
    3Lessons · 2 days 22 hrs 21 mins
    • 1 - Fine Dust, Big Impact: Air Pollution as a Leading Heart Risk Factor
    • 2 - Noisy World, Silent Killer: How Noise Drives Cardiovascular Disease
    • 3 - Rising heat, Risking Risk: Climate Change and Cardiovascular Mortality
  • S2 - Radiation
    2Lessons · 2 days 18 hrs 51 mins
    • 1 - Chest Radiation: New Frontiers in Cardioprotection
    • 2 - Personal Radiation Protection Equipment (PRPE): Good Practice and Material Insights from PhD Research
  • S4 - Keynote: Improving Cardiovascular Health In The EU: The Challenges Ahead
    2Lessons · 2 days 1 hr 54 mins
    • 1 - Keynote presentation
    • 2 - Gold medal presentation
  • S6 - BACTS/BSC joint session: The tricuspid valve: how to manage it right?
    3Lessons · 3 days 11 hrs 34 mins
    • 1 - Tricuspid valve evaluation through multimodality imaging: what do the guidelines tell us?
    • 2 - Tricuspid valve surgery : how to proceed and why?
    • 3 - Transcatheter treatment for tricuspid valve disease – will the cardiologist replace the cardiac surgeon?
  • S7 - Scientific symposium sponsored by AstraZeneca: Belgian Initiatives in Cardiovascular Care to improve the Journey of Patients with Heart Failure, Hypertension, and Cardiac Amyloidosis
    3Lessons · 2 days 14 hrs 40 mins
    • 1 - Implementation of AI into clinical practice: early detection and prevention of cardiovascular diseases
    • 2 - Closing the Diagnostic Gap in HFpEF: A Structured Dyspnea Clinic Approach​
    • 3 - Resistant Hypertension Work-Up​
  • S9 - BeHRA: Idiopathic VF: need for standardization
    4Lessons · 3 days 1 hr 15 mins
    • 1 - SCD in Europe: where does Belgium stand?
    • 2 - Clinical care pathway for idiopathic VF
    • 3 - Genetic aspects of idiopathic VF
    • 4 - Best abstract, Influence of Self-reported Training Load and Exercise Modality on Atrial Fibrillation Prevalence in Middle-Aged Males
  • S10 - Scientific symposium sponsored by Alnylam: A new chapter in ATTR-CM: what comes next in clinical practice?
    4Lessons · 3 days 33 mins
    • 1 - The unmet need
    • 2 - The treatment
    • 3 - The patient
    • 4 - Discussions and Q&A
  • S12 - BWGA: Artificial Intelligence and cardiovascular diseases
    4Lessons · 2 days 19 hrs 13 mins
    • 1 - AI for dummies: view from a cardiologist
    • 2 - AI and vascular diseases
    • 3 - AI and pulmonary embolism
    • 4 - Q&A
  • S13 - Scientific symposium sponsored by BMS - Cardiovascular care and prevention through an economic lens: optimizing oHCM via early search, detection, treatment, and structured care
    4Lessons · 2 days 14 hrs 13 mins
    • 1 - Keynote: The Health Economics of Cardiovascular Diseases
    • 2 - Clinical Talk: Detect to protect
    • 3 - Clinical Practice, Genetic Testing in HCM: From Diagnosis to Family Care
    • 4 - Clinical Practice, Six Pillars for a structured HCM Clinic
  • S15 - BWGHF: Heart Failure in Women
    5Lessons · 2 days 20 hrs 54 mins
    • 1 - Best Abstract, Characterization of atrial function in pulmonary vascular diseases
    • 2 - Run the world : Sex related differences in Heart Failure (risk factors, diagnosis, HF phenotypes)
    • 3 - More than a woman : Heart Failure in women : Age and Hormonal influences
    • 4 - Respect : Is Heart Failure treatment different in women ?
    • 5 - Q&A and discussion
  • S16 - Scientific symposium sponsored by MSD: Next-Gen Therapies in Cardiology: from Sotatercept to the Future of Lipid Management
    3Lessons · 2 days 16 hrs 35 mins
    • 1 - Sotatercept: A New Chapter in PH Care
    • 2 - Eradicating LDL-C related risk: What’s in the pipeline?
    • 3 - Discussion
  • S18 - BWGIC Filling the gap between treatment guidelines and current practice in Belgium
    4Lessons · 3 days 1 hr 4 mins
    • 1 - Transcatheter aortic valve implantation for aortic stenosis: the elephant in the room
    • 2 - Remaining structural challenges: fact or fiction?
    • 3 - Coronary imaging and intervention: an evolving landscape
    • 4 - Best abstract, Rapid atrial pacing as a predictor of permanent pacemaker implantation post-TAVI: the PACE TAVI study
  • S19 - Scientific symposium sponsored by Eli Lilly - Tirzepatide and the Cardiologist: A New Chapter in Cardiometabolic Risk Management
    3Lessons · 2 days 20 hrs 25 mins
    • 1 - Obesity as a Cardiometabolic Catalyst: Mechanisms, Consequences and Therapeutic Innovation
    • 2 - Beyond Glycemic Control: Tirzepatide’s potential in Cardiovascular Care for Type 2 Diabetes
    • 3 - Panel Discussion “From Evidence to Action: Incretins in Belgian Cardiometabolic Practice"
  • S21 - BWGPC and Belgian Heart Ligue
    6Lessons · 2 days 20 hrs 59 mins
    • 1 - "Caught in the Middle": Strategies and tools for assessing Cardiovascular Risk
    • 2 - The new kid on the block – Lipoprotein(a)
    • 3 - Coronary calcium score and CT-angiography: Tools for Cardiovasculair risk (re)stratification
    • 4 - The Digital Shift in Cardiovascular Prevention: Tools, Trends, and Tomorrow
    • 5 - Panel discussion and Q and A
    • 6 - Best abstract, From SCORE-Belgium to SCORE2: opposite reclassification trends in 2019, 2021, and 2025 risk classification updates
  • S22 - Scientific symposium sponsored by Bayer: Beyonttra: A new chapter in ATTR-CM management
    3Lessons · 2 days 17 hrs 26 mins
    • 1 - Beyonttra (acoramidis), a new chapter in ATTR-CM management
    • 2 - Beyonttra - next step in amyloidosis treatment TTR stabilization: a cornerstone in ATTR treatment
    • 3 - Cardiac Amyloidosis: Tackling some Clinical Problems
  • S24 - ESC/BSC Joint session: 2025 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart diseaseheart disease (Joint Guidelines with EACTS)
    1Lessons · 1 day 3 hrs 48 mins
    • 1 - Valvular heart disease (Joint Guidelines with EACTS)
  • S25 - Cardiogenomics How to interpret a genetic report and manage the result?
    4Lessons · 2 days 12 hrs 26 mins
    • 1 - The evolving landscape of variant classification
    • 2 - Genetic counselling: when, how and why should I report the results? Define the concept of actionability and situations like cascade screening and prenatal/PGD
    • 3 - Could a genetic result influence my global cardiovascular risk for coronary artery disease? discuss part of heritability in cardiovascular risk ex Lpa - FH - PRS
    • 4 - The case of incidental findings: what should I do with an unexpected result?
  • S26 - Scientific symposium sponsored by Novo Nordisk - Beyond Metabolic Control: Incretin Mimetics as Gamechangers in Cardiometabolic Inflammation and CV Risk
    5Lessons · 3 days 3 hrs 49 mins
    • 5 - Best abstract, Telomere length in patients with Marfan syndrome: a pilot study
    • 1 - From Weight Loss to Event Reduction: SELECT’s Implications for ASCVD Management
    • 2 - Obesity-related HFpEF: Pathophysiology and Therapeutic Opportunities
    • 3 - Breaking the T2D–CKD–CVD Cycle: Therapeutic Strategies and Emerging Evidence
    • 4 - Panel discussion and closure by Chairs
  • S28 - BIWAC Mechanical complications after ACS: a multidisciplinary approach
    1Lessons · 2 days 6 hrs 22 mins
    • 1 - Mechanical complications after ACS: a multidisciplinary approach A case-based session where the following topics will be covered: ventricular septal rupture, aute papillary muscle rupture, indications for temporary mechanical circulatory support
  • S29 - BWGNICI Imaging in inflammatory myopericardial syndrome: update from the 2025 Guidelines
    4Lessons · 3 days 3 hrs 39 mins
    • 1 - Best abstract, Non-invasive left ventricle strain-volume-pressure loops in asymptomatic significant aortic regurgitation: the potential to further enhance the prediction of the onset of aortic valve surgery indication
    • 2 - Recurrent pericarditis: role of cardiac imaging
    • 3 - Multimodality imaging in myocardial inflammation
    • 4 - Sport resumption after acute myocarditis