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Polymer-based versus polymer-free stents in high bleeding risk patients: final 2-year results from Onyx ONE
08 Jun 2022
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.
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MIRACLE 2 score and SCAI grade to identify patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest for immediate coronary angiography
30 May 2022
The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the impact of performing immediate CAG post-OHCA with stratification of predicted neurologic injury and cardiogenic shock on arrival to a center.
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Prophylactic Rivaroxaban therapy for left ventricular thrombus after anterior ST segment elevation myocardial infarction
21 Apr 2022
The aim of the current study was to investigate the effects of rivaroxaban on left ventricle thromboprophylaxis in patients with anterior STEMI.
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EROSION III: a multicenter RCT of OCT-guided reperfusion in STEMI with early infarct artery patency
19 Apr 2022
This is an interesting study showing that in patients with STEMI with early infarct artery patency, OCT guidance compared with angiographic guidance of reperfusion was associated with less stent implantation during primary PCI.
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Risk of cardiovascular hospital admission after exposure to fine particulate pollution
23 Feb 2022
This current study explored the effect of heavy particle pollution on total cardiovascular admissions, whilst also looking at risk for specific cardiovascular diagnoses, such as angina, myocardial infarction, and ischaemic stroke.
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Improved 3-year cardiac survival after IVUS-guided long DES implantation: a patient-level analysis from 2 randomized trials
02 Feb 2022
This study aimed to increase the power to detect differences in patient survival (freedom from cardiac deaths) with IVUS versus angiography guidance by pooling the individual patient data from the IVUS-XPL and ULTIMATE trials.
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Ticagrelor monotherapy after PCI in high-risk patients with prior MI: a prespecified TWILIGHT substudy
31 Jan 2022
In this prespecified subgroup analysis of the TWILIGHT trial, the authors report the impact of prior MI on treatment effects of ticagrelor monotherapy compared to ticagrelor and aspirin in patients at least three months post PCI...
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Fractional flow reserve to guide treatment of patients with multivessel coronary artery disease - the FUTURE trial
05 Nov 2021
The FUTURE Trial is a prospective randomised, multicentre, open label superiority trial comparing an FFR guided treatment strategy to traditional angiography guided treatment strategy on clinical outcomes in an all-comer population with multivessel coronary artery disease.
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Impact of intravascular ultrasound on long-term clinical outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction
04 Nov 2021
There are limited data evaluating long-term outcomes of IVUS use in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The aim of this study was to examine the impact of IVUS-guided PCI on long-term clinical outcomes in patients with AMI.
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Percutaneous myocardial revascularization in late-presenting patients with STEMI
30 Sep 2021
Through this registry-based analysis, the authors sought to assess short and long-term outcomes of revascularisation in a latecomer STEMI population presenting between 12 to 48 hours of symptom onset.
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