Kalpa De Silva

This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of jailing a wire in the side branch of a bifurcation lesion to prevent side branch compromise during provisional main vessel stenting when a one-stent in bifurcation PCI technique is adopted.

The optimal timing of the administration of P2Y12 inhibitors in patients with CCS undergoing ad-hoc PCI is unknown. This study aimed to provide observational data to clarify these quandaries.

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.

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.

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.

Read more about this systematic review and meta-analysis which looked to ascertain if there is benefit in individualizing anti-platelet therapy on the basis of the CYP2C19 genotype. 

This study aimed to delineate the external validity of the ISCHEMIA trial by applying the ISCHEMIA inclusion and exclusion criteria to an established cohort of patients with stable coronary disease in an observational setting.