A cardiologist from The National University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen spearheaded an international collaboration project with colleagues from Oxford and Amsterdam and made an out-of-the-ordinary discovery. Together with experts in bioinformatics from the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the cardiologists have identified a previously undiscovered severe heart disease – the inherited familial ST depressions syndrome. The discovery has just been published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.

​A randomized clinical trial comparing transcatheter and surgical aortic valve replacement in younger low risk patients with aortic stenosis.

​Over the next two years, parents of all newborns at Rigshospitalet, Herlev Hospital and Hvidovre Hospital will have an option to have their babies' hearts scanned shortly after birth. The option is part of the ”Copenhagen Baby Heart ” research project to provide new knowledge about the heart and heart diseases.

​Professor Henning Bundgaard has been a pioneer in endeavours to improve treatment of patients with congenital heart diseases in Denmark and to give affected relatives the opportunity to be examined for congenital heart diseases. As a new professor at the University of Copenhagen, Professor Bundgaard will research into better treatment of both adults and children.

​Over the next few years, Professor Lars Søndergaard will launch a number of research projects covering the entire spectrum of congenital heart disease – from the foetal stage and well into adulthood. As Professor Søndergaard said, “Adult patients in particular are unknown territory for researchers".