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Intracoronary Thrombectomy During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Acute Myocardial Infarction - Technology Showcase or True Need?
Distal Embolisation of Epicardial Artery Thrombus During Primary PCI maybe a Major Contributor to Suboptimal PerfusionIn recent years it has been...
Iodinated Contrast Media – A Safety Review
The rapid development of percutaneous coronary and peripheral vascular interventional technologies, as well as non-invasive computed tomography...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the Interventional Cardiologist
The evaluation of ischaemic heart disease requires the measurement of regional and global ventricular function, identification of the presence and...
Myocardial Infarction Mortality - Where Do We Go Now?
While early clinical studies evaluating the efficacy of aspirin, reperfusion therapy, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition demonstrated the...
New ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction Guidelines Emphasize Speed and Aggressive Treatment and Lower Low-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels
The guidelines are organized to make it easier for physicians and other medical personnel to quickly identify the information they need to provide...
News Round Up from AHA Scientific Sessions 2008 - November 10th
Implantable Defibrillators, Pacemakers Affected By MP3 Headphones10 Nov 2008Headphones for MP3 players placed within an inch of pacemakers and...
Non-invasive Imaging of Myocardial Infarction and Myocarditis by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and Multi-slice Computed Tomography
More recently, CMR has shown great potential for non-invasive imaging of acute myocarditis, showing particular patterns of delayed enhancement when...
Non-invasive Risk Stratification Early After a Myocardial Infarction – The Risk Estimation Following Infarction Non-invasive Evaluation (REFINE) Study
While the implantable cardioverter–defibrillator (ICD) effectively treats life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias, our current approach of...
Ongoing Late Lumen Loss with the CYPHER and TAXUS Drug-eluting Stents Supports a Theory of Catch-up Restenosis
In coronary artery stents, the coverage of the internal structures with neo-intimal formation has been regarded as a negative development leading to...
Percutaneous Mechanical Assist for Acute ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Pharmacological inotropic support: there is a variety of inotropic and vasopressor agents enabling quick improvement of haemodynamic parameters in...
Primary Angioplasty for Acute Myocardial Infarction and the Emerging Role of Renal Insufficiency
Renal insufficiency should not preclude the success rate of percutaneous or pharmacological reperfusion therapies, but it may be associated with an...
Rheolytic Thrombectomy and Stenting for the Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction
The Florence-AngioJet Randomised Trial The Florence-AngioJet randomised trial was the first study that assessed the efficacy of rheolytic...
Stent Passivation with Silicon Carbide as a Possible Alternative to Drug-eluting Stents – A Comprehensive Review of Pre-clinical and Clinical Results
Percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) for the treatment of coronary artery obstructions are associated with a high rate of restenosis (20–57%)...
The Digital Ballistocardiograph
Cardiovascular (heart) disease is the cause of more deaths in the western world than all other forms of disease. In the coming years thisproblem is...
Time Is of the Essence—A Review of Evidence to Support Rapid Discovery to Treatment for Patients with ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death worldwide.1 With an estimated 7.6 million global deaths due to coronary heart disease...
Transcatheter Valve Implantation for Patients with Aortic Stenosis
Aortic stenosis (AS) is currently the most frequent native valve disease in Europe and is most often seen in elderly patients with co-morbidities.1...
Treatment Strategies for Patients with Acute Carotid Syndromes
Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in the developed world.1 More than 750,000 strokes occur in the US annually,1 and one-third of...
Unstable angina and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: an analysis by TIMI score
Materials and methodsFrom July 2004 to December 2006, the data of 359 patients with ACS were collected prospectively. Two hundred and three patients...
What Would Be the Ideal Drug-eluting Stent for Managing Patients with Long Lesions?
The introduction of coronary stents in the late 1980s improved outcome over balloon angioplasty via a reduction in acute vessel losure, prevention...
