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Intravascular lithotripsy for treatment of calcified coronary lesions: patient-level pooled analysis of the Disrupt CAD studies
11 May 2021
Using patient-level data from the Disrupt CAD I, II, III and IV trials, this pooled analysis assesses the efficacy and safety of intravascular lithotripsy in de novo calcified coronary lesions.

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Impact of anesthesia strategy and valve type on clinical outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve replacement
07 May 2021
The current analysis aimed to compare the safety and efficacy of the Edwards Sapien S3 and Medtronic Corevalve. Furthermore, conscious sedation (CS) and local anaesthesia have been reported to reduce adverse events compared to general anaesthesia (GA) in several observational studies, with a lack of randomised...

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Novel Supreme DES with early synchronized antiproliferative drug delivery to inhibit smooth muscle cell proliferation after DES implantation in coronary artery disease: results of the PIONEER III randomized clinical trial
06 May 2021
The PIONEER III trial aims to assess the effectiveness and safety of the biodegradable-polymer sirolimus-eluting Supreme stent compared to durable-polymer everolimus-eluting stent (Xience or Promus), completely releasing the drug by 120 days.

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Prognostic implications of cardiac damage classification based on computed tomography in severe aortic stenosis
03 May 2021
In the PARTNER II trial, a new staging system of extra-aortic valvular cardiac damage is proposed, using 2 D transthoracic echocardiography and its prognostic value. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the prognostic value of such extra-aortic cardiac damage using MDCT in patients undergoing...

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ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction following transcatheter aortic valve replacement
04 May 2021
The aim of the current study was to determine the clinical characteristics, management and outcomes of STEMI after TAVR.

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Initial findings from the North American COVID-19 Myocardial Infarction Registry
10 May 2021
This study aimed at assessing in-hospital outcomes of patients with confirmed COVID-19 and concomitant STEMI in a large dataset obtained from the Midwest STEMI Consortium.

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Impact of post-stenting fractional flow reserve on long-term clinical outcomes - The FFR-SEARCH Study
29 Apr 2021
The objective of this analysis was to prospectively investigate the clinical impact of post-PCI FFR values on long-term clinical outcomes.

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Uninterrupted oral anticoagulant therapy in patients undergoing unplanned percutaneous coronary intervention
13 Apr 2021
This large-scale analysis sought to compare interrupted and uninterrupted OAC therapy in patients taking OAC undergoing unplanned coronary angiography or PCI for suspected acute coronary syndrome.

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Characteristics and outcomes of patients with history of CABG undergoing cardiac catheterization via the radial versus femoral approach
07 Apr 2021
The aims of this study were to examine clinical and procedural outcomes in post-CABG patients who underwent diagnostic catheterization and/or PCI via the radial or femoral approach.

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Radial artery dilatation to improve access and lower complications during coronary angiography: the RADIAL trial
06 Apr 2021
The RADIAL study sought to explore the impact of prolonged occlusion flow-mediated dilatation (PO-FMD) in improving radial artery cannulation success.

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