About Kardiologie up2date

Kardiologie up2date

Kardiologie up2date is Thieme's continuing-education journal for cardiology: the quarterly specialist journal offers the practice-oriented training with the structured curriculum and the didactically prepared CME articles. In its 22nd volume in 2026, the journal delivers four certified CME articles per issue — up to 48 CME points per year — keeping the cardiologists systematically up to date across the whole specialty.

Overview

Kardiologie up2date appears four times yearly as the Fort- und Weiterbildungszeitschrift for cardiology. The publisher is the Georg Thieme Verlag KG, Stuttgart. The bibliographic data: ISSN 1611-6534; 22nd Jahrgang in 2026. The pricing: 290 euros yearly for the private subscription, 453 euros institutional (print with online access for one site included).

The journal's promise is the continuous training aligned with the cardiology curriculum: systematic updating so the readers automatically stay on track, collecting up to 48 CME points per year. The evidence-based specialist knowledge is directly applicable: the CME articles, the step-by-step instructions, the case examples, and the SOPs/workflow descriptions for quality assurance. The clear language and design ensure high reading comfort. The digital access runs through Thieme's eRef knowledge platform with the matching app and the digital collection folder.

The up2date Family

The up2date family that the Kardiologie up2date belongs to is Thieme's CME system: the systematic continuing-education journals spanning the medical specialties, each with the structured curriculum, the certified CME articles, the step-by-step instructions, and the SOPs. The cardiology journal is one member among the siblings — including the intensive-care medicine's Intensivmedizin up2date — sharing the concept and the quality standards.

The family concept serves the physicians: the uniform didactics across the specialties, the familiar structure, the reliable quality. The curriculum is the family trait: each journal guaranteeing the gapless coverage of its specialty's relevant areas, year by year. The digital integration is the family trait: the eRef platform, the apps, the digital collection folders. In the medical publishing where the CME journals compete, Thieme's up2date family is the systematic answer: the curriculum-based training, specialty by specialty, quarter by quarter.

History

Kardiologie up2date belongs to Thieme's up2date family of CME journals: the systematic continuing-education series that the Stuttgart medical publisher built across the specialties — from the intensive-care medicine to the cardiology. The 22nd volume in 2026 dates the founding to around 2005, when Thieme expanded the up2date concept into the cardiology.

The journal's development tracked the cardiology's: the guidelines-based articles, the peer review of all CME contributions, the curriculum guaranteeing the systematic coverage of all relevant areas. The digital integration deepened: the eRef platform, the app, the digital collection folder with the topic index for the training articles. The annual usage of 188,000 documents the reach among the cardiologists.

Coverage and Content

The CME articles are the core: four certified articles per issue, each peer-reviewed and didactically prepared — with the summary, the key messages, and the case examples. The curriculum ensures the gapless coverage: aortic and vascular diseases, chronic heart failure and myocardial diseases, diagnostic procedures and imaging, inflammatory heart diseases and cardiomyopathies, heart failure, valve diseases, arrhythmias, coronary heart disease, platelets and the coagulation system.

The practical rubrics serve the everyday: "Schritt für Schritt" (step-by-step instructions, e.g., the invasive blood-pressure measurement or the temporary pacemaker implantation), "SOP / Arbeitsablauf" (the standard operating procedures for quality assurance), "Studienreferate" (the summaries of international studies, e.g., on beta-blockers after myocardial infarction or the COMBINE-AF substudy), and "Spezialthemen" (the special topics). The articles are guideline-compliant, current, and written by experts.

The CME System

The continuing medical education (CME) that the journal serves is the German physicians' mandatory training: the cardiologists collecting the points for their specialist certification. The up2date journals systematize this: instead of the random conference visits, the structured curriculum covering the whole specialty, issue by issue, year by year.

The journal's didactics serve the learning: the clear language, the structured presentation, the summaries and key messages that help retain the contents. The free trial issue lets the interested test without obligation. The collection folder with the topic index organizes the training articles for reference. In the CME market where the offerings compete, the Kardiologie up2date is Thieme's cardiology answer: the quarterly, the curriculum, the 48 points.

The Practical Rubrics

The practical rubrics that complement the CME articles make the Kardiologie up2date a working tool: "Schritt für Schritt" delivering the step-by-step instructions for the procedures — the invasive blood-pressure measurement, the temporary pacemaker implantation — with the authors guiding through the indications, the technique, and the pitfalls. "SOP / Arbeitsablauf" delivering the standard operating procedures for the quality assurance — the workflows the clinics can adopt.

"Studienreferate" delivering the distilled international studies: the large cohort study on beta-blockers after myocardial infarction, the COMBINE-AF substudy on switching from VKA to DOAK in the elderly — the evidence the cardiologists need, summarized and contextualized. "Spezialthemen" covering the special topics beyond the curriculum's routine. The free collection folder with the topic index organizes all of it: the training articles filed for the reference, the physical and the digital folders. In the cardiology where the guidelines evolve and the studies accumulate, the practical rubrics translate: from the knowledge to the action, quarter by quarter.

Organization and Ownership

Kardiologie up2date is published by the Georg Thieme Verlag KG, Stuttgart (Rüdigerstraße 14 / Oswald-Hesse-Straße 50, 70469 Stuttgart). The journal is part of Thieme's up2date CME family. The bibliographic identifier: ISSN 1611-6534. The Thieme Connect platform hosts the e-journal with the DOI-indexed articles (10.1055/...).

The Cardiology Field

The cardiology that the journal serves is the heart medicine: the coronary heart disease, the heart failure, the arrhythmias, the valve diseases, the aortic diseases — the specialty where the guidelines evolve rapidly and the interventions advance continuously. The cardiologists work in the clinics and the practices: the invasive cardiologists in the cath labs, the electrophysiologists, the imaging specialists, the heart-failure experts.

The journal's curriculum mirrors the specialty: the aortic and vascular diseases, the chronic heart failure and myocardial diseases, the diagnostic procedures and imaging, the inflammatory heart diseases and cardiomyopathies, the arrhythmias, the coronary heart disease, the platelets and coagulation. The gapless coverage ensures no area is neglected: the systematic updating across the whole field, year by year. In the cardiology where the knowledge doubles and the guidelines update, the Kardiologie up2date is the systematic companion: the quarterly keeping the whole specialty in view.

Digital Presence

The thieme.de journal page presents Kardiologie up2date: the profile, the facts and figures (188,000 annual uses, 4 issues, 48 CME points), the article highlights, and the trial-issue offer. The Thieme Connect e-journal platform carries the citable articles with abstracts. The eRef platform and app deliver the digital reading and research; the digital collection folder organizes the archive.

For the cardiologists, the Kardiologie up2date is the training journal: the quarterly CME journal with the structured curriculum, the peer-reviewed articles, and the practical SOPs, issue after issue. With Thieme in Stuttgart and the 22nd volume running, the journal keeps the cardiology up to date: the guidelines, the studies, and the practice, into the future, without compromise, today and tomorrow, always, quarter after quarter, without fail, from Stuttgart, for the cardiologists, always, today and tomorrow, quarter after quarter, today, without fail, quarter after quarter, always, today and tomorrow, for the heart medicine.