2023-05-01 07:00:00
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It is one of the most innovative disciplines in research. Each year, 16 million people consult one of the country’s 6,900 cardiologists.
Par Francois Malye
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LCardiology is one of the strengths of French biomedical research and one of the disciplines where innovations have benefited patients the most. Each year, 16 million people push the door of the office of one of the 6,900 French cardiologists and, if heart disease remains the second cause of death in France following cancer, it has dropped by half since 1980. At the time, I was a young doctor, remembers a renowned cardiologist. Those who had survived a heart attack, we saw them die in their hospital beds. 40-year-old guys, there was nothing to do. And then came the coronagraphy, an upheaval. This so-called “interventional” cardiology consists of introducing a probe to visualize the interior of the corona arteries…
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