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A Meta-Analysis of 16 Randomized Trials of Sirolimus-Eluting Stents Versus Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease
DES have been linked to a higher risk of late stent thrombosis compared with bare-metal stents (BMS),4,5 a phenomenon that was not identified in the...
Advances in Digital Technology in the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory
The flat-panel technology is a major digital advance, resulting in both improved image quality and lower X-ray dose. It is the purpose of this...
Alcohol Septal Ablation for Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
The debate concerning the relative merits of ASA and LVM is not informed by any randomised studies; the only randomised trials addressing...
An Update on the Use of Intracoronary Doppler and Pressure Measurements
When Gruntzig performed his first percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) in 1977, the concept of physiological assessment of the...
Are Drug-eluting Stents the Future of Coronary Artery Treatment for All Patient Types?
Since publication of the Randomized Study with the Sirolimus-Eluting Bx Velocity Balloon-Expandable Stent (RAVEL) using drug-eluting stents (DES),...
Attending to Links in the Safety Chain for Drug-Eluting Stents
The most catastrophic of the unwanted outcomes that have been associated with stenting is stent thrombosis. Neither drug-eluting stents nor bare...
Benefit of Drug-eluting Coronary Stents in Reducing In-stent Restenosis
Initially described in 1977, the procedure involved placement of a balloon-tipped catheter across a subtotal stenosis followed by balloon inflation...
Bionert Stent Angiographic Study
This study aims to evaluate the short- and mid-term results of the Oxygen Ion Bombarded Stents (Bionert) stent in the treatment of lesions with low...
Bleeding as a Prognostic Marker in Acute Coronary Syndromes
Rates of major bleeding in clinical studies of ACS have ranged from 0.8% to 11.5% and, according to some registries, it is the most common...
Blood Clots, Thrombolytics, and the Emerging Role of the EndoWave Catheter
Thrombolytic TherapyAll available thrombolytic agents in clinical use today are plasminogen activators. These trypsin-like serine proteases have high...
Carotid Artery Stenting - The Interventional Cardiologist's Role in Stroke Prevention
IntroductionCatheter-based therapies, such as stents, have been used in both peripheral and coronary arteries to great success, and in many...
Catheter Cryoablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias
The Biology of Cryotherapy Cryotherapy is the use of cooling and freezing in living tissue to affect cellular function and activity.To produce...
Clinical and Procedural Evaluation of the Nile Croco® Dedicated Stent for Bifurcation – Six-month Clinical Follow-up Results of the Nile Croco Registry
The introduction of dedicated stents may be supposed to be an attractive strategy for approaching the different types of bifurcation lesion. These...
Coronary Arteries and Sirolimus-eluting Stents – Applications, Benefits and Future Potential
The Cypher® stent utilises a non-erodable methacrylate co-polymer matrix for controlled endovascular delivery of the drug to the arterial tissue....
Corporate Report - Evalve Inc
A New, Non-Surgical Percutaneous Treatment Alternative for Mitral RegurgitationThe MitraClip system is a novel first-in-class technology, which has...
Culprit-vessel Percutaneous Coronary Intervention versus Traditional Catheterisation for ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction
The mortality benefit of thrombolytic therapy is time-dependent, with the greatest benefit observed in those receiving therapy the earliest.12 The...
Current and Future Perspectives for Drug-eluting Stents
Drug-eluting stents (DES) are the standard percutaneous treatment strategy in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Their use has further...
Current Status and Future Projections for Carotid Angioplasty Stenting
Another challenge focuses on the question of whether community-based and low-volume operators can reproduce the results achieved at centres of...
Current Transcatheter Repair Strategies for Mitral Regurgitation
At a histological/biochemical level, this process has been characterized in canine models by increased myocardial matrix metalloproteinase activation...
Current Use and Emerging Trends of Cardiac Imaging with Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Currently Available Imaging ModalitiesInvasive, catheter-based coronary angiography using various modes of access to the vascular system is the...
