The VBWG Core Curriculum 2003 slide lecture compendium Impact of vascular biology in treatment of cardiovascular disease, provides updates on new science and mechanisms of disease, plus implications of recent clinical trials. Areas of focus: The slides and accompanying notes in the 2002 VBWG core curriculum provided a broad overview of antithrombotic therapy. The 2003 program focuses on the interrelationship between antithrombotic therapy and catheterization in patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Another noteworthy feature of this year's program is a section on the adverse implications of diabetes in the patient with ACS. |