The theme for the 2012 SA Heart Congress is structural heart disease and will be held at Sun City from 19-22 July this year. Click for more details.

The Summer 2012 SA Heart Newsletter is available online.

The reports tabled at the 2011 AGM have been posted for your perusal.

SA Heart members now have online access to the journals Circulation and Current Opinion in Cardiology. Click for more information.

The European Society of Cardiology has released the following new or updated Guidelines:

1. ESC/EAS Guidelines for the Management of Dyslipidaemias
2. ESC Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases
3. ESC Guidelines for the Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes in patients presenting Without Persistent ST-Segment Elevation
4. ESC Guidelines on the Management of Cardiovascular Diseases during Pregnancy

As previously, the South African Heart Association, an Affiliated Member of the ESC, adopts these Guidelines as its own. These Guidelines may be accessed at escardio.org/guidelines.

A consensus statement and guideline on trans-catheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has just been released by SA Heart together with two of its special interest groups, SASCI and SCTSSA.

Applications are invited for the annual Louis Vogelpoel Travelling Scholarship for 2013. Applications will be accepted from February 2012 to 31 January 2013 and the scholarship awarded after the closing date in 2013. An amount of up to R15000 towards the travel and accommodation costs of a local or international congress will be offered annually by the Cape Western branch of the South African Heart Association in memory of one of South Africa’s outstanding cardiologists, Dr Louis Vogelpoel. Read more...

Applications are invited for the SA Heart Research and SA Heart Travel Scholarships.