The most important cardiology congress in the world returns to Fira de Barcelona

In 2022, and specifically in the second half of the year, Barcelona reaffirms itself as the venue for important international health and scientific sector meetings, with more than twenty events scheduled. If July began with the World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer at the Barcelona International Convention Center (CCIB), managed by Fira de Barcelona, now it is the turn of the oneis considered the most prominent meeting on cardiovascular medicine in the world, the World Congress of Cardiology (ESC Congress), which will take place from August 26 to 29. Some 3,800 cardiology specialists ---among them 743 Spanish--- and researchers from 161 countries will participate in the ESC Congress, which celebrates its 70th edition andit is the eighth time that its organizers, the European Society of Cardiology, choose Barcelona to hold itThe last time they met in the city was in 2017.This year, the congress returns to the Catalan capital, to the Gran Via venue of Fira de Barcelona, ​​with a hybrid format (in-person and digital) for the first time in its history. In the last two years, due to covid, it has only been held online and its last in-person event was in 2019, in Paris, which was attended by more than 33,500 people from all over the world. According to Fira de Barcelona in a statement, duringthe congress will present the results of 36 clinical trials on prevention, heart failure, coronary artery disease, acute cardiac care, and arrhythmias, as well as various clinical practice guidelines to reduce the cardiac side effects of cancer treatment or the prevention of sudden death, among others. In global terms, the program addresses more than 400 topics, from general cardiovascular medicine to all subspecialties, with a special focus in this edition on diagnostic imaging as the basis for clinical decision-making.

The congress is held in a hybrid format (in-person and digital) for the first time in its history

In addition, there will be an exhibition area to showcase different innovations in drugs, products, technologies and solutions in surgery, diagnostic imaging techniques and treatments. "Holding an event of the quality, prestige and magnitude of the ESC Congress again in our venues is of great relevance for both Fira and the city, as it leaves an important legacy in its international positioning around the field of medical and scientific innovation," highlighted the general director of Fira de Barcelona, Constantí Serrallonga. More than twenty events until the end of the yearTo continue with the calendar of congresses on health aspects, the next appointments will be: the International Congress of the European Respiratory Society, between September 4 and 6 at Fira de Barcelona, and the International Congress of Pediatric Oncology, at the CCIB, between September 28 and October 1. Likewise, until the end of the year, the world congresses on Vaccines, Sterilization and Hematology, the European meeting on Robotic Urology and the annual meetings of the Spanish Society of Hematology and Hemotherapy (SEHH) and the Spanish Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis (SETH) will take place. Also planned are the European meetings on Radiology (CIRSE), Nuclear Medicine (EANM), Breast Cancer (EBCC- European Breast Cancer Conference), Pediatrics (EAPS), Dermatology (5CC World Congress), Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) and Therapies for Cancer Treatment (EORTC-NCI-AACR SYMPOSIUM).