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ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)

Find all the latest content on STEMI published on this website.

Treating STEMI brings into play a series of clinical and organizational protocols in constant evolution. Today, patients presenting with STEMI are best treated by early reperfusion strategies of which primary PCI is the preferred method. Keep up-to-date on the role of adjunctive pharmacotherapy, advances in imaging techniques and the use of invasive imaging and functional assessment. Tools, devices and techniques as well as complications, such as the different types of vascular access or bleeding risk can be found here as well…

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PCR Spotlight: STEMI management in the context of COVID-19: STEMI Service Reorganisation

21 Apr 2020

Bernard Prendergast, London, interviews Flavio Ribichini, Verona, about how the reorganisation of the STEMI service during COVID-19.

STEMI management in the context of COVID-19: STEMI Service Reorganisation

PCR Spotlight: STEMI management in the context of Covid-19: Diagnosis

20 Apr 2020

Interventional Cardiologists Andreas Baumbach, London, UK, Giulio Stefanini, Milan, Italy, discuss diagnosis during the COVID-19 crisis

STEMI management in COVID-19: Diagnosis

PCR Spotlight: STEMI management in the context of Covid 19 - Practical considerations for the interventionist

17 Apr 2020

View this discussion between Bernard Prendergast, London, United Kingdom, and Thierry Lefèvre, Massy, France.

STEMI management in the context of Covid 19 - Practical considerations for the interventionist

PCR on Call: Late STEMI presentation during COVID-19 outbreak

17 Apr 2020

N. Dumonteil, B. Farah and O. Wendler discuss the case of a patient presenting with late inferior STEMI with RCA PCI, transferred because of ventricular septal rupture.

ad-hoc PCI of RCA with DES

PCR on Call: management of inferior STEMI in a COVID-19 patient

12 Apr 2020

In this video, Elad Maor, Flavio Ribichini and William Wijns discuss the case of an immunosuppressed COVID (+) patient with hypertension, scleroderma and acute dizziness.

A COVID (+) patient with hypertension, scleroderma and acute dizziness in hospital

PCR Spotlight: case management in the cath lab during Covid-19 pandemic

06 Apr 2020

Reschedule all non-urgent procedures, keep primary PCI as the treatment of choice for STEMI patients, perform bedside procedures whenever possible...

Case management in the cath lab during Covid-19 pandemic

Rotational atherectomy in anterior STEMI

20 Aug 2019

This is the case of an 83-year-old woman with arterial hypertension, hypercolesterolemia, onset of continuous chest pain at rest with anterior STEMI on ECG and medicated with ASA and Ticagrelor and transferred to the cathlab.

Author

Flavio Luciano Ribichini
Rotational atherectomy in anterior STEMI

Defining together a treatment strategy for calcified CAD in a patient with multivessel disease

20 Jun 2019

This is the case of a 68 year old female patient, autonomous and physically robust. She has been diabetic for 10 years, but without cardio-vascular antecedents. She was admitted for chest pain at rest, lasting around 70 minutes with signs of STEMI in the inferior leads...

Author

Flavio Luciano Ribichini
Strategy for calcified CAD in a patient with MVD