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Many cardiovascular diseases are hereditary. They can now be detected relatively easily, cheaply and quickly using genetic diagnostics. In Germany, however, this technology is only inadequately used. In a consensus paper published by the German Society of Cardiology (DGK), the...

An international, multi-centre study involving around 2500 patients is investigating the benefits and safety of optical coherence tomography (OCT) as an adjunct to angiography as a laser-based imaging modality for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Prof. Dr. med. Ulf...

Heart failure is already one of the leading causes of death. It affects around four million people in Germany, and the number is rising. In many cases, heart failure also causes abnormally high blood pressure in the lung vessels. This "pulmonary hypertension" in turn often...

Heart attacks and strokes are diseases that kill millions of people every year. They are caused by the process of atherosclerosis, also known as arterial calcification. Macrophages play a particularly important role in the development of atherosclerosis in the walls of the blood...