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Ventricular fibrillation (VF) is characterized by rapid (>300 beats a per minute), irregular electrical activation with variable electrocardiographic waveforms that prevents coordinated myocardial contraction, resulting in immediate loss of cardiac output.1 It most commonly occurs in the context of coronary artery disease.2,3 Resuscitation efforts are critically time-dependent: with each minute of untreated VF, the survival rate declines […]

Keith Channon, ESC 2018 – Coronary Artery and Surrounding Fat

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Published Online: Aug 31st 2018

Professor Keith Channon (Consultant Cardiologist, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust and Field Marshal Earl Alexander Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK) discusses the 2017 basic science study into the coronary artery and surrounding fat, a precursor to the recently released CRISP-CT study.

 

Filmed at ESC 2018, Munich.

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Speaker Disclosure: Professor Keith Channon has nothing to disclose in relation to this video interview.

Questions:

1. What was the background and rationale of last year’s basic science study? (0:11)

2. What were the key results from this study? (1:05)

3. What were the next steps for research from this study? (1:48)

4. What will be the biggest clinical outcome from these results? (3:02)

5. What were your highlights from this year’s ESC meeting? (4:16)

 

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