ACC.24: Late-Breaking Science Video Collection

Published: 06 April 2024

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Overview

Our recurring review series, View from the Thoraxcenter, hosted by Prof Nicolas Van Mieghem and Dr Joost Daemen (Thoraxcentre, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, NL) offers a thorough examination of late-breaking and featured scientific findings, highlighting significant data.

 

To delve deeper into the pivotal clinical trial data unveiled at ACC 24, Dr Harriette Van Spall (McMaster University, Hamilton, CA) conducts interviews with the principal investigators as part of her Late-Breaker Discussion Series.

 

For brief and focused coverage of the essential data unveiled, our accessible Expert Interviews were conducted with a select group of faculty members, concentrating on the results, relevance, and implications for future research.

 

Watch our Behind the Heart series to learn more the personal perspectives from the investigators behind top trials in cardiovascular science.

More from this programme

Part 1

View from the Thoraxcenter

In these concise episodes of View from the Thoraxcenter, Prof Nicolas Van Mieghem and Dr Joost Daemen (Thoraxcentre, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, NL) offer their thoughts on the top late-breaking trials that will be presented at ACC.24. 

Part 2

Late-Breaker Discussion Series

Part 5

Behind the Heart

Watch our Behind the Heart series to learn more the personal perspectives from the investigators behind top trials in cardiovascular science.

About the episode

ACC.24 — Join Late-Breaker host, Dr Harriette Van Spall (McMaster University, CA), and Principal Investigator, Dr Javed Butler (University of Mississippi Medical Center, US), as they discuss the key findings from the EMPACT-MI trial (Boehringer Ingelheim)(NCT04509674).

In this multicentre, randomised, parallel group, double-blind placebo-controlled superiority trial, investigators evaluated the effect of empagliflozin, an SGLT2 inhibitor, on hospitalisation for heart failure (HF) and mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI).
The trial recruited 6522 participants, including eligible patients who presented with spontaneous MI alongside new signs or symptoms of pulmonary congestion requiring treatment, new left ventricular dysfunction (LVEF < 45%), and at least one additional risk factor for the development of future HF. The primary outcome measure was the composite of time to first heart failure hospitalisation or all-cause mortality up to 26 months.

Findings, presented at ACC.24 showed that empagliflozin did not significantly reduce the risk of time to first HHF or all-cause death following AMI. Furthermore, empagliflozin demonstrated 23% and 33% relative risk reduction of first HHF and total HHF, components of the primary and first key secondary endpoints respectively.

Recorded remotely from Jackson and Hamilton, 2024.

Support: This is an independent content produced by Radcliffe Cardiology.

Editor: Mirjam Boros
Videographer: Mike Knight

Faculty Biographies

Harriette Van Spall

Harriette Van Spall

Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of E-Health and Virtual Care

Dr Harriette Van Spall is an Associate Professor of Medicine and cardiologist and serves as Director of E-Health at McMaster University, Canada. She completed her medical and postgraduate clinical training at the University of Toronto and earned a Master of Public Health degree at Harvard University, US. Dr Van Spall is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research-funded clinical trialist and researcher with a focus on heart failure, health services, and health disparities.

She has garnered more than $4 million in research funding, has won several research awards, and has published her work in high-impact medical journals. She is an invited speaker, media correspondent, and editorial board member active in peer review at several high-impact medications journals and grant funding agencies, including Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

Dr Van Spall is an Editorial Board…

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Javed Butler

Javed Butler

Professor of Medicine

Dr Javed Butler is President, Baylor Scott and White Research Institute, Senior Vice President for the Baylor Scott and White Health and Professor of Medicine at the University of Mississippi, US. He is board certified in cardiovascular medicine and advanced heart failure and transplant medicine. His research interests focus on clinical trials in patients with heart failure.

He serves on several national committees for the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, National Institutes of Health, and the Heart Failure Society of America. He is the recipient of the Simon Dack Award by the American College of Cardiology as well as the Time, Feeling, and Focus Award by the American Heart Association.

Prof Butler has authored more than 900 peer-reviewed publications. He serves on the editorial board of several peer reviewed cardiovascular journals and has been cited numerous times in America’s Best Doctors list.

 

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