PCR Journal Club

A transdermal-infrared spectrophotometric sensor (T-ISS) to assess troponins increase has been recently developed. This multicenter, observational study tested the feasibility of implementing this tool with machine learning analytics carried out in a cohort of patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome.

FAVOR-III China was an investigator-initiated, multicentre, randomised, blinded, sham-controlled trial comparing clinical outcomes of QFR versus angiography-guided strategies for the treatment of non-critical lesions in patients with stable or unstable angina, or MI, at least 72 hours prior to screening. The one-year results showed improved clinical...

The HOST-EXAM trial1 was a prospective, randomised, open-label trial investigating clopidogrel monotherapy versus aspirin therapy in patients undergoing PCI with DES who had completed 6-18 months of DAPT with no ischaemic or bleeding complications. At 24 months follow-up, clopidogrel monotherapy significantly reduced the risk of the...

Optical Coherence Tomography fractional flow reserve (OCT-FFR) has been shown to correlate well with wire-based FFR; however, clinical outcomes based on OCT-FFR are not well defined. In this retrospective study, the authors sought to investigate the relationship between OCT-FFR and long-term clinical outcomes in ACS. 

The HOST-REDUCE-POLYTECH-ACS trial was a randomised, parallel-group multicentre trial with a 2x2 factorial design testing two independent hypotheses, one of which was the non-inferiority of durable polymer drug-eluting stents (DP-DES) to biodegradable polymer drug-eluting stents (BP-DES) in patients with ACS. In this post-hoc analysis, the authors...

In this post-hoc analysis of the TWILIGHT trial, the authors report the effects of ticagrelor monotherapy compared to ticagrelor and aspirin in patients with prior CABG at least three months post PCI with no adverse events and at least one clinical and one angiographic high-risk feature...

The ST-OHCA study is a single centre prospective study investigating the incidence, timing and predictors of definite stent thrombosis in comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) undergoing immediate PCI and therapeutic hypothermia.

In this paper, the authors investigated the comparative efficacy and safety of TRA versus TFA in ACS patients undergoing complex PCI in the Minimizing Adverse Haemorrhagic Events by TRansradial Access Site and Systemic Implementation of angioX (MATRIX)-Access trial1.

The DISCO RADIAL trial sought to assess the efficacy and safety of distal radial access (DRA) compared with conventional transradial access (TRA) with systematic implementation of best prevention methods for the reduction of radial artery occlusion (RAO).

The results of this study show that at 2-year follow-up HBR patients undergoing PCI with a polymer-based zotarolimus-eluting stent & 1-month DAPT had similar outcomes in terms of both safety & efficacy to those with a polymer-free biolimus A9-coated stent.