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100 years in cardiology Born in 1922 and originally known as “The Cardiac Club”, the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) is the world’s oldest professional cardiac society. To celebrate “100 years in cardiology”, five centenary lectures were given at BCS 2022 by world-renowned speakers (… three of whom were called John): Professor John Camm (heart rhythm); Professor Barbara Casadei (cardiovascular research in the UK); Professor John McMurray: (heart failure); Professor John Deanfield (coronary artery disease); and Professor Catherine Otto (cardiac imaging). The centenary lectures charted the impressive evolution of cardiovascular

What’s in a name Last year’s meeting saw Heart Rhythm UK (HRUK) change its title to the British Heart Rhythm Society (BHRS). Explaining the change, BHRS President Elect Dr Nick Linker (South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) said that this made things more flexible for the future, and will also avoid confusion with any other organisation using the abbreviation HRUK. Ectopy in low- and high-risk patients Angela Hall (James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough) When are palpitations benign and when do they signal high risk? This thorny issue was addressed by Mrs Angela Hall, Lead Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Specialist Nurse (James

Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists Professor Faiez Zannad (Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France), the first of two guest lecturers, who has been an investigator in three major randomised controlled trials (RCT) of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRA) in heart failure,1-3 opened the first session. There was a particular focus on the recent EMPHASIS-HF trial,3 which recruited heart failure (HF) patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction (ejection fraction [EF] ≤30%, or EF 30-35% with QRS duration >130 ms) and mild symptoms (New York Heart Association [NYHA] class II). Eplerenone treatment resulted in a 37% relative