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The German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) is participating in the Lean European Survey on SARS-CoV-2 Infected Patients (LEOSS) together with the German Centres for Health Research. LEOSS is a Europe-wide clinical case register in which clinical data of patients with a...

Many patients who are taking high blood pressure medication are currently worried about whether they can continue to take it without hesitation. Some media have reported that cardiac drugs such as ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (Sartane) promote infection with...

The APPROACH-ACS-AF-DZHK7 study aims to improve the care of patients who have suffered a heart attack.

Whether patients suffer from acutely or chronically narrowed coronary vessels – quantitative imaging techniques are indispensable when it comes to detecting and treating circulatory disorders of the heart muscle or preventing them in time. An interdisciplinary team, in which...

Which mechanisms are responsible for the development of heart failure? Scientists at the RheinMain site of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz want to investigate this question with the help of mass spectrometry. The...

A new heart valve technology developed at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Campus Kiel, has received the CE mark and has been approved for use in all countries of the European Union. High-risk patients with mitral valve insufficiency, in which one heart...

The number is gigantic: About 100 million examinations are carried out with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) every year – and every scanner worldwide uses the technology developed by Jens Frahm with his team at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biophysical Chemistry. For his...

When the heart valve between the aorta and the left ventricle is narrowed, i.e. aortic valve stenosis is present, different genes are active in men than in women. Scientists of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have...