PCR Journal Club

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

To further investigate the treatment effects of ticagrelor monotherapy compared with ticagrelor plus aspirin in a contemporary HBR population, a pre-specified analysis of the TWILIGHT trial, TWILIGHT-HBR, was conducted by using the Academic Research Consortium (ARC) criteria for HBR.