Markers of Myocardial Damage Predict Mortality in Patients with Aortic Stenosis

[Speaker] Soongu Kwak,Korea
Soongu Kwak, MD,¹ Russell J. Everett, MD, PhD,² Thomas A. Treibel, MD, PhD,³ Seokhun Yang, MD,¹ Doyeon Hwang, MD,¹ Heesun Lee, MD,¹ Yong-Jin Kim, MD, PhD,¹ Sahmin Lee, MD, PhD,⁴ Sung-Ji Park, MD, PhD,⁵ Martin Hadamitzky, MD,⁶ Bernhard L. Gerber, MD, PhD,⁷ David E. Newby, MD, PhD,² James C. Moon, MD,³ Marc R. Dweck, MD, PhD², Seung-Pyo Lee, MD, PhD¹ and ECV440 investigators.
¹Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea, ²British Heart Foundation Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, ³Barts Health NHS Trust and University College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Division of Cardiology, Asan Medical Center Heart Institute, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, ⁵Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Imaging Center, Heart Vascular Stroke Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, ⁶Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, German Heart Center Munich, Munich, Germany, ⁷Division of Cardiology, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Cliniques Universitaires St. Luc and Institut de Recherche Cardiovasculaire (IREC), Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Brussels, Belgium

Transforming Growth Factor b–Inducible Gene h3 Triggers Signaling Pathways Mediating Pulmonary Extracellular Matrix Remodelling in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

[Speaker] Da Eun Roh,Korea
Da Eun Roh¹, Jung Eun Kwon^1, Young Tae Lim¹, Yeo Hyang Kim^1
1Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Kyungpook National University Children’s hospital, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Favorable Effects of Autotaxin Inhibition to Prevent Development of Fibro-calcific Aortic Valve Disease

[Speaker] Dohee Yoon,Korea
Dohee Yoon^1,2, Bongkun Choi^1,2, Sujin Kim^3,4, Jae-Kwan Song^4,*, Eun-Ju Chang^1,2,5,*
1Department of Biomedical Sciences, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. ²Stem Cell Immunomodulation Research Center, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. ³College of Nursing, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. ⁴Division of Cardiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. ⁵Department of Biochemistry, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. ^*These authors contributed equally to this study.