From May 5 to 7, 2025, the 10th AFNET EHRA Consensus Conference took place in Gressy, France. Below are some impressions of the presentations, breakout sessions and the program around it
Prof. Dr. med. Götz Thomalla (UKE) and Dr. med. Märit Jensen (UKE) have recorded a video on the new EAST-STROKE trial in layman’s terms.
The EAST-STROKE (‘Early treatment of Atrial fibrillation for Stroke prevention Trial in acute STROKE’) trial is led by scientist from the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) and investigates whether early rhythm-control treatment can effectively and safely prevent strokes. The project is funded by the EU as part of ‘Horizon Europe’. AFNET is partner for dissemination and exploitation.
On behalf of all our members, we would like to congratulate our AFNET founding member Prof Dr Meinertz on his 80th birthday! 🎈
We wish them all the best and good health for the coming years. Thank you very much for your great commitment and tireless dedication to AFNET!
AFNET associated events:
30th of August 2024, 10:27 am (CEST/German time) / 9:27 am (BST/British time): “Prague”, Adjunct pharmacology in PCI: beyond antiplatelet therapy, the next chapter – discussion (Renate Schnabel)
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Prof Camm was honoured with the AFNET Lecture Award at the AFNET general meeting during the DGK 2025 annual conference in Mannheim. In this document you can see his lecture at the award ceremony.
16th of May 2024, 7:00 pm (CEST/German time) / 1:00 pm (EASTERN/Boston time): “160 – BCEC “, Cost Benefit Analysis: Where Does Remote Monitoring Land? (Thorsten Lewalter)
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17th of May 2024, 10:30 am (CEST/German time) / 4:30 pm (EASTERN/Boston time): “PO-01-190”, The Role Meta-analysis of RNAseq Data from Two Large Atrial Tissue Banks Identifies More than 8000 Transcripts Associated with AF and Suggests a Prominent Role for Mitochondrial Processes and Energy Metabolism: the CATCH ME and RACE V Consortia (various speakers)
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At the annual meeting of the German Society of Cardiology (DGK), four scientists will be honoured with the new DGK AFNET Young Investigator Award, sponsored by the Atrial Fibrillation Competence Network (AFNET), for current research work on atrial fibrillation. The presentations of the award winners and the award ceremony will take place on Friday 05.04.2024 in Mannheim.
‘This new prize has been established to mark the 20th anniversary of AFNET. It is intended to recognise outstanding results by young researchers working on atrial fibrillation. With this prize, AFNET wants to encourage the next generation to focus on better understanding, more accurate diagnosis and more successful treatment of atrial fibrillation,’ says Paulus Kirchhof, Chairman of the Board of AFNET.
We are pleased to present you our bookelt on the occasion of our 20th anniversary.
You can read/download it here.
ANET associated events:
25 August 2023, 8:30, “Stockholm”, Stroke and bleeding risk in atrial fibrillation: walking the tight rope (Paulus Kirchhof)
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25 August 2023, 11:15, “Amsterdam”, Hot Line Session: NOAH-AFNET 6: Oral anticoagulation in patients with atrial high rate episodes (Paulus Kirchhof)
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25. August 2023, 16:30, “Hub Rembrandt”, Ask the Trialist from Hot Line 1: NOAH-AFNET 6 (Paulus Kirchhof)
