Myocardial Preservation

Dennis V. Cokkinos, MD, PHD, has been a Research Associate of the Cardiovascular Clinical Research and the Biomedical Research Foundation at the Academy of Athens since April 2009. He is a Professor of Cardiology at the University of Athens and was a Chairman of the Cardiology Department at Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, for 15 years until 2009. After a long and distinguished career, he became a Professor Emeritus in August 2005. Dr Cokkinos has also established a career in the European Society of Cardiology. He was a founding fellow of the Society in 1988, and acted as Vice-President during its early years. He was also a founding member of the Working Group of Exercise Physiology, Physiopathology and Electrocardiography, European Society of Cardiology, and acted as its president. He is President of the European Association of Professors Emeriti He became an Elected Foreign Corresponding Member at the International Academy of Medicine, Paris, in December 2011. Dr Cokkinos is a present and past member of many editorial boards in scientific journals. He has also produced many publications. In Greek he has authored 4 books and over 300 articles, and his international publications include the textbooks Myocardial Ischemia, Springer 2006, and Introduction to Translational Cardiovascular Research, Springer 2014, as well as over 400 articles in peer review journals.

What is translational research?.- The importance of heart failure in modern societies.- A main reason of heart failure: cardiomyocyte loss.- Cell death forms- mechanisms.- What is cardiac remodelling.-  The fetal phenotyp.- The ischemia- reperfusion injury.- Cardiac hypertrophy.- Inflammation.- Stunning-hibernation.- Preconditioning- post conditioning.- Periconditioning; a universal phenomenon.- Cardiac cell resuscitation.- Cardiac regeneration.- Therapeutical considerations: Drugs.- Therapeutical considerations: Genetic.-  Therapeutical considerations: Molecular, miRs.-  Therapeutical considerations: Devices.- Clinical trials in myocardial preservation.-  The systems biology approach.- Genetic basis in cardiac remodelling.- Conclusions.- future directions .