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Research
29 Jul 2026

The findings suggest that a risk-based personalized approach may be more efficient than applying intensive surveillance protocols uniformly to all patients. 

eLife
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21 Jul 2026

The study reveals that the early heart is shaped by distinct but closely coordinated patterns of tissue deformation 

Diana Velázquez, Natalia Vicente, Jon Sicilia, María Rosaria Pricolo, Laura Sen, Jorge Alegre y Agata Bak.
Research
7 Jul 2026

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the most common inherited heart disease and the leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young people and athletes

Rocío Sierra, Miguel Torres, Cristina Villa del Campo, Enrique Calvo, Jesús Vázquez y Consuelo Marín-Vicente.
Research
24 Jun 2026

Two CNIC teams have developed a pioneering technique to analyze proteins in individual cardiomyocytes and uncover new clues about cardiac regeneration

Florian Weinberg
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23 Jun 2026

CARDIOSWITCH aims to uncover how the mechanical activity of heart muscle cells shapes cardiac biology and to develop new regenerative strategies for congenital heart disease

from left to right: Haruka Toda, Irene García Martín, María Maeve Soto Pérez, Alexia Ramos Gutiérrez, Mirian Nieto Delgado, Demetrio Julián Santiago Castillo, Paola Rocío Riveros Rodríguez, Lucía Pilar López Palomar, Andrés Redondo Rodríguez, Jorge García Quintanilla, Marinela Couselo Seijas, David Filgueiras Rama, and José Jalife.
Research
28 May 2026

The findings, published in Cardiovascular Research, show that the right ventricle has greater metabolic resilience than the left during cardiac arrest caused by ventricular fibrillation.

COMPASS
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31 Mar 2026

The initiative will combine innovative medical and digital technologies to improve the early detection of cardiac risk and complications in cancer patients and survivors 

Ana Simón Chica y David Filgueiras Rama
Research
10 Feb 2026

The study, published in Circulation Research, identifies cardiac fibroblasts and resident macrophages as essential contributors to the characteristic electrical activity that maintains this arrhythmia

Dr. Valentín Fuster, Dr. Xavier Rosselló y Dr. Borja Ibáñez.
Research
9 Nov 2025

The study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, shows that beta-blockers do not reduce mortality, recurrent infarction, or heart failure in post-infarction patients with normal cardiac function

José Luis de la Pompa, Blanca Rubio, Rocío Serrano, Laura Lalaguna, Pablo García Pavía, María López Olañeta y Enrique Lara.
Research
10 Sep 2025

The results, published in the European Heart Journal and presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress, opens the way to new therapies for patients with genetic heart diseases