PCR Journal Club

The PCR Journal Club provides a selection of Literature Reviews of top interventional cardiovascular journals world-wide, selected and commented by the PCR Journal Club team.

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Influenza Vaccination after Myocardial Infarction: IAMI

24 Sep 2021

The objective of the IAMI1 trial was to determine whether early influenza vaccination reduces the risk of cardiovascular events in patients admitted with an acute-MI or high-risk stable coronary artery disease in an adequately powered randomized control trial setting.

Christopher Johnston

Reviewer

Christopher Johnston
Kalpa De Silva

Reviewer

Kalpa De Silva
Influenza Vaccination after Myocardial Infarction: IAMI

Treatment effects of Interleukin-6 receptor antibodies for modulating the systemic inflammatory response after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: the IMICA Trial

21 Sep 2021

The IMICA trial explored the effect of a single 1-hour infusion of Tocilizumab, initiated in patients as early as feasible in their hospital admission, post-cardiac arrest, and sought to investigate whether this would reduce the systemic inflammatory response.

Paul Hill

Reviewer

Paul Hill
Kalpa De Silva

Reviewer

Kalpa De Silva
Treatment effects of Interleukin-6 receptor antibodies for modulating the systemic inflammatory response after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: the IMICA Trial

Coronary stent positioning under live IVUS guidance in low contrast percutaneous coronary interventions: The live IVUS stenting technique

13 Sep 2021

Thanks to a case report, find out more about the technical steps by which imaging can be used to precisely position the stents and reduce contrast use.

Dr. Mirvat Alasnag

Reviewer

Mirvat Alasnag
Coronary stent positioning under live IVUS guidance in low contrast percutaneous coronary interventions: The live IVUS stenting technique

Stent expansion indexes to predict clinical outcomes: an IVUS substudy from ADAPT-DES

23 Aug 2021

The purpose of the present investigation was to revisit all stent expansion indexes to identify the best predictor of 2-year percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) lesion-specific outcome measures (i.e. clinically-driven target lesion revascularization [TLR] or definite stent thrombosis) using the ADAPT-DES IVUS substudy cohort.

Reviewer

Salvatore Brugaletta
Stent expansion indexes to predict clinical outcomes: an IVUS substudy from ADAPT-DES

Antiplatelet therapy in patients with conservatively managed spontaneous coronary artery dissection from the multicentre DISCO registry

20 Aug 2021

The aims of this study were to assess the use of antiplatelet drugs in medically treated spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) patients and to investigate the relationship between single (SAPT) and dual (DAPT) antiplatelet regimens and 1-year patient outcomes.

Ahmet Zengin

Reviewer

Ahmet Zengin

Reviewer

Ali Nazmi Calik
Antiplatelet therapy in patients with conservatively managed spontaneous coronary artery dissection from the multicentre DISCO registry

Thin-cap fibroatheroma predicts clinical events in diabetic patients with normal fractional flow reserve: the COMBINE OCT–FFR trial

16 Aug 2021

The aim of this study was to understand the impact of optical coherence tomography (OCT)-detected thin-cap fibroatheroma (TCFA) on clinical outcomes of diabetes mellitus (DM) patients with fractional flow reserve (FFR)-negative lesions.

M. Pighi

Reviewer

Michele Pighi

Reviewer

Salvatore Brugaletta
Simone Fezzi

Reviewer

Simone Fezzi
Thin-cap fibroatheroma predicts clinical events in diabetic patients with normal fractional flow reserve: the COMBINE OCT–FFR trial

Optical coherence tomography to guide percutaneous coronary intervention of the left main coronary artery: the LEMON study

08 Jul 2021

The aim of the LEMON study was to assess the applicability of a predefined standardized protocol, which included three OCT runs.

Reviewer

Mila Kovacevic
Dejan Milasinovic

Reviewer

Dejan Milasinovic
OCT to guide PCI of LMCA: the LEMON study

In-Stent CTO percutaneous coronary intervention: individual patient data pooled analysis of 4 multicenter registries

12 Aug 2021

This analysis highlights that, in appropriate hands, ISR CTO-PCI is safe, with similar success rates to de-novo CTO-PCI.

Nicola Ryan

Reviewer

Nicola Ryan
Central Illustration : In-stent restenosis chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention

Operator volumes and in-hospital outcomes: an analysis of 7,740 rotational atherectomy procedures from the BCIS national database

05 Jul 2021

Find out more about the results of this analysis which suggest that operator experience may be an important effect modifier in ROTA-PCI.

Nicola Ryan

Reviewer

Nicola Ryan
Operator volumes and in-hospital outcomes: an analysis of 7,740 rotational atherectomy procedures from the BCIS national database

Eight-year outcomes for patients with aortic valve stenosis at low surgical risk randomized to transcatheter vs. surgical aortic valve replacement

09 Jul 2021

Read more about the Nordic Aortic Valve Intervention (NOTION) trial to compare clinical outcomes and durability of bioprosthetic aortic valves 8 years after TAVI and SAVR.

Reviewer

Salvatore Brugaletta
Eight-year outcomes for patients with aortic valve stenosis at low surgical risk randomized to transcatheter vs. surgical aortic valve replacement