North Netherlands Heart Days (NNHD)

Continuing developments in the field of cardiovascular medicine rapidly surmount boundaries between a wide variety of specialties. On the one hand, a formerly mainly diagnostic speciality such as radiology is dealing more and more with direct patient care. On the other hand, formerly mainly clinically orientated specialties such as (pediatric) cardiology and cardiovascular surgery rely more and more on new imaging techniques. Technical and research achievements are implemented in very short time intervals, while new software upgrades and complete new analytic software tools for cardiac applications become available each three months. These rapid developments are difficult to track for busy clinicians. During the third North Netherlands Heart Days (NNHD) new developments in cardiovascular medicine will be highlighted: basic aspects such as cardiovascular disease, epidemiology of CAD, acute coronary syndrome, congenital heart disease, heart failure, and cardiovascular postprocessing.