NSTEMI (Non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction)

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NSTEMI is considered one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality and its definition and treatment remains challenging requiring specific, adapted responses. Understanding different biomarkers, becoming aware of emerging new agents used in adjunctive pharmacotherapy, keeping abreast of advances in imaging techniques as well as the use of invasive imaging and functional assessment is critical. Tools, devices and techniques, and complications such as different types of vascular access or bleeding risks, can also be found here…

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Don't judge a book by its cover: there is more to ACS than thrombus...

21 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019

Consult this session to discover a selection of ACS cases which were not linked to thrombus as usual, but to multivessel coronary spasm, spontaneous intramural haematoma, and more!

Don't judge a book by its cover: there is more to ACS than thrombus...

Acute coronary syndrome - How to avoid bleedings and save lives

20 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019

Consult this session to learn how to customise antiplatelet therapy, as long with the basics of mechanical circulatory support devices.

Acute coronary syndrome - How to avoid bleedings and save lives

Imaging and physiology-guided PCI without contrast administration in advanced renal failure

11 Apr 2019

In patients with advanced chronic kidney disease who require revascularization, PCI may safely be performed without contrast using imaging and physiological guidance with high procedural success and without complications. Find out more.

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Hussein Rahim

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Sanjum Sethi

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Dimitrios Karampaliotis

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Ziad Ali
Imaging and physiology-guided PCI without contrast administration in advanced renal failure

Unplanned sequelae of a kiss

03 Apr 2019

Discover this case with complications of a 38 year-old-male presenting with proximal LAD/D bifurcation lesion and treated with kissing balloon technique.

Author

Mohamed Abdelzaher
Unplanned sequelae of a kiss

Plaque rupture in young with Rheumatoid Arthritis

25 Mar 2019

Consult this Twitter Case concerning an 37-year-old woman with Non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction in a young woman with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Cesar Villalobos

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Cesar Villalobos
Plaque rupture

Coronary angiography after cardiac arrest without ST-Segment Elevation (The COACT trial)

19 Mar 2019

Elad Asher

Reviewer

Elad Asher

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Salvatore Brugaletta
Coronary angiography after cardiac arrest without ST-Segment Elevation

2018 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on myocardial revascularization

21 Jan 2019

These Guidelines represent the third time that the ESC and EACTS have brought together cardiologists and cardiac surgeons in a joint Task Force to review the ever-increasing body of evidence, with the mission of drafting balanced, patient-centred practice Guidelines on myocardial revascularization.

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The Task Force on myocardial revascularization of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)
2018 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on myocardial revascularization

Incidence, clinical characteristics, and impact of acute coronary syndrome following transcatheter aortic valve replacement

11 Jan 2019

Reviewer

Salvatore Brugaletta
Incidence, clinical characteristics, and impact of acute coronary syndrome following TAVR

Pseudoaneurysm after Left Distal Transradial Access

07 Nov 2018

This case concerns a patient presenting with NSTEMI, referred for coronary angiography after cardiac arrest. She complained of a gradually increasing swelling at the puncture site of left distal radial artery 3 months after coronary angiography.

Dr. Achmad Fauzi Yahya

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Achmad Fauzi Yahya
Pseudoaneurysm after Left Distal Transradial Access

Navigating a high take-off of the radial artery with spasm during trans-radial coronary intervention

13 Sep 2018

Radial artery spasm specially when encountered in a small caliber vessel could be a cause for radial access failure and cross-over to femoral access. Here is a technique on how to deal with this.

Waqar Ahmed

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Waqar Ahmed
Navigating a high take-off of the radial artery with spasm during trans-radial coronary intervention

Radial access: a challenging hand

12 Sep 2018

A 47-year-old man, spine surgeon subspecialist (his wife a hand surgeon subspecialist), with a history of recent bilateral proximal unprovoked deep vein thrombosis in lower limbs, treated interventionally in the United States. 

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Zahra Jozani Kohan
Radial access: a challenging hand

Radial pseudoaneurysm treated with graft stent from ipsilateral ulnar artery

06 Sep 2018

A 65-year-old man was catheterised via the right radial artery for an ACS and was under triple therapy (NOAC-Clop-Asp). Seven days after his dismissal he presented with a pulsable node at the site of sheath insertion in the radial artery.

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Ioannis Tsiafoutis
Radial pseudoaneurysm treated with graft stent from ipsilateral ulnar artery

3D OCT to identify cause of NSTEMI - Image 12

07 Apr 2017

Author: Carlos Cortés, Spain

3D OCT to identify cause of NSTEMI