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Sanjiv Narayan, MBChB, MD, MSc, FRCP, an American Heart Association volunteer, Director of the Electrophysiology Research and Atrial Fibrillation Program, and Co-Founder of the Stanford Arrhythmia Center, at Stanford Medicine, spoke in sessions at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2026 Congress about the use of artificial intelligence in AFib care, using smarter detection to enable better outcomes.

Even as AI is used more and more in the field, cardiologists and other clinicians are at the heart of patient care. 

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Researchers tracked data from more than 480,000 U.K. Biobank participants, using cardiac MRI scans to identify signs of inflammation. 

Kanwal Farooqi, MD, pediatric cardiology imaging specialist, and associate professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, innovations for clinical 3D printing and virtual reality in cardiac CT imaging aimed at structural and congenital heart patients.

3D models can improve the visualization of challenging cardiac anatomy in addition to supporting clinical decision-making, education and procedural planning.

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Women with CKD often receive a delayed diagnosis and are less likely to receive a kidney transplant. These trends mean, among other things, those women face an increased risk of developing heart disease.

Example of a cardiology image report with graphical display of the coronaries for notation in the Fujifilm Synapse 7X CVIS system. #ACC23 #ACC

Accessing cardiology data for research or population health initiatives is still quite difficult in Europe. Could this new project help reverse that trend? 

Damodhar Suresh, MD, a cardiologist and the executive medical director of St. Elizabeth Healthcare Heart and Vascular Institute in Edgewood, Kentucky, and current science chair for the International committee for the American Heart Association (AHA), explains some of the top trials and key takeaways at the 2026 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting. #ESC2026

Damodhar Suresh, MD, spoke to Cardiovascular Business about some of the biggest studies presented during the annual ESC conference in Munich, Germany.