Press Releases

Scientists from the hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar of TU Munich have discovered that endurance and strength training following a heart valve replacement not only improves the patients’ physical fitness, but also their quality of life.

Patients with atrial fibrillation who are treated with oral thrombin inhibitors (OTIs) have a slightly higher risk of suffering a heart attack than patients who take vitamin K antagonists. Scientists headed by Dr. Tobias Petzold of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research...

Myocardial patches generated in the lab can be grafted on to damaged guinea pig hearts to improve heart function. That is what a team of researchers from Germany, Norway, Scotland and the USA found out and reported now in Science Translational Medicine.

The 1st DZHK Conference on Translational Medicine takes place on January 11-12, 2017 in Berlin.

A molecule that only occurs on vessel walls of arteries causing inflammations there could be the foundation for a novel treatment of atherosclerosis. Researchers working with Oliver Söhnlein from the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research and from LMU Munich report about this...

Myocardial infarction differs in men and women. Women fall ill later, but they die from it more often. Overall, men are affected more often. These and further differences are not attributed to the X chromosome. This was discovered by an international consortium under the...

Heidelberg/Greifswald/Berlin, 21 July 2016. The world’s largest patient registry on heart muscle disease, TORCH (TranslatiOnal Registry for CardiomyopatHies), has enrolled its 1,000th patient. “In just one-and-a-half years, we have almost reached the halfway mark in our project...

A small insertable monitor could flag impending complications such as cardiac arrhythmias in certain patients following myocardial infarction. If preventive measures are then taken in good time, the prognosis of those patients could be improved. Whether this really works is now...

Two new clinical studies run by the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) aim to optimise the care of specific patient groups following cardiac arrest and acute myocardial infarction. The results of the study will allow doctors to make better decisions when selecting...