Facilitated percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) refers to using fibrinolytic therapy to stabilize the patient while transport is being arranged to a primary PCI facility. This strategy ...

The following is a summary of "Low-dose dobutamine stress myocardial contrast echocardiography for evaluating myocardial ...

The improvements in survival observed over time can be partially attributed to changes in current guideline-based therapies, particularly the increased availability of PCI. Over time, rates of CV ...

In patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) for severe aortic stenosis (AS) with stable coronary ...

Sep 27 2024 This Week in Cardiology Surgical clearance, NICM assessment, dueling perspectives on PCI as first-line therapy for angina, GDMT in HFrEF are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in ...

This latest certification specifically acknowledges the hospital’s expertise in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), a pioneering, minimally invasive procedure that replaces a diseased aort ...

PPIs lower gastrointestinal bleeding risk in AMI patients on DAPT, with no added cardiovascular risk. Key findings here.

Stone, MD, professor of cardiology and population health sciences ... THEMIS, and THEMIS-PCI, also showed longer-term DAPT is better than shorter term, which led to labeling updates for ticagrelor.

Results were consistent when restricted to the cohort of patients who underwent PCI. Cardiac death was significantly lower in the bivalirudin group (2.9% vs. 1.8%, p = 0.035). There was no ...