Multimedia

A selection of multimedia presentations from the 'Cardiology and Diabetes at the Limits III 2012' event which took place from Friday 30th March - Monday 2nd April 2012 in Cape Town, South Africa.

Friday:

The Lancet Lecture: Introduced by Dr. Richard Horton, Editor -in-Chief, The Lancet
No sports - Winston Churchill revisited
Professor Thomas Lüscher
University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

Obesity & Diabetes: are they the same cardiovascular risk?
Professor Michael Lean
University of Glasgow, Scotland

Saturday:

Heart failure at the limits - where is therapy going?
Professor Michael Boehm
Saarland University Hospital Germany

Is HDL cholesterol modification at the limits?
Professor David Marais
University of Cape Town, South Africa

The Hatter Lecture: Drugs against AF:- are we at the limits?
Professor John Camm
St Georges Hospital, University of London, UK

Hyperglycaemia or hypoglycaemia:- which is at the limits of safety?
Professor Simon Heller
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

The Pan African Society of Cardiology Lecture:
Idiopathic cardiomyopathy - is it really idiopathic?
Professor Bongani Mayosi
University of Cape Town, South Africa

Are microvascular complications at the limits in diabetes?
Dr. Mark Cooper
Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia

The genetics of type 2 diabetes
Professor Mark McCarthy
University of Oxford, UK

Acute coronary syndromes: how much further can we go or are we at the limits?
Professor Gilles Montalescot
Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Paris, France

Sunday:

The British Cardiovascular Lecture
Haemoglobinopathies and the heart - what are the limits?
Dr. Malcolm Walker
University College London, UK

Sudden cardiac death at the limits
Professor Peter Schwartz
University of Pavia, Italy

Sleep Apnoea: at or beyond the cardiovascular and metabolic limits
Professor John Wilding
University of Liverpool, UK

Monday:

Cardiac Cell repair - nowhere near the limits
Professor Bernard Gersh
The Mayo Clinic, USA

Interviews

Professor Bernard Gersh - The Mayo Clinic, USA

Professor Bongani Mayosi - University of Cape Town, South Africa

Professor Michael Boehm - Saarland University Hospital Germany

Professor Peter Libby - Harvard Medical Schoo, USA

Professor Thomas Lüscher - University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland