Dear colleagues,
After COVID-19 pandemic and consecutive lockdowns, after our virtual National Congress held in December 2020 and January 2021, and after our Spring 2022 Dubrovnik meeting named Collegium Cardiologicum, time came for our in vivo gathering together on the XIV Congress of the Croatian Cardiac Society, in Zagreb, Hotel Westin, November 24-27, 2022. Despite that our Society lives very intensively through numerous activities of its working groups, advisory boards, international engagements and numerous public health promotion activities, nothing can replace a comprehensive national Congress.
As a small but a very active member of the European Society of Cardiology, and many other international cardiology associations, we would be honored once again to host some prestigious European and world-renowned cardiologists.
We are honored that the Congress is going to be held under the auspices of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts – the leading Croatian institution of excellence, which recognized our Society to be worth supporting. We, members of the Croatian Cardiac Society, may also be proud that we, for many years, represent probably the most active and homogenous professional association in Croatian medicine.
In this Congress edition of our journal Cardiologia Croatica, you can find a respectful number of interesting original communications, that cover wide range of cardiology themes – from epidemiology and prevention, imaging, pharmacotherapy, interventional cardiology, angiology, adult congenital heart diseases, to heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, and transplantation. Despite the Congress brings to the audience many attractive invited lectures and supported satellite symposia, original contributions published in this journal issue in the form of abstracts, bring specific value to the Congress and allow many members of our Society, in particular young cardiologists, to present their work, either as oral presentations or as interactive posters in front of a curious audience.
My gratitude goes to all who contributed to the Congress, but on the occasion of the Congress issue of Cardologia Croatica, my special thanks goes to the Congress secretaries and to the editor of the Journal, for their great enthusiasm and effort in preparation of this Book of abstract and the Congress as a whole.
With my kind regards,
Prof. Davor Miličić, FESC, FHFA, FACC Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts President, Croatian Cardiac Society