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How should I treat a STEMI - A patient's journey - With Angola & Sudan
02 Sep 2022
Watch the replay of #AfricaPCR 2022’s live webinar on STEMI.
Pretreatment with heparin in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a report from the Swedish Coronary Angiography and Angioplasty Registry (SCAAR)
01 Sep 2022
Daniele Giacoppo analyses the results of the SCAAR registry which compared patients with STEMI treated by primary PCI in Sweden from January 2008 to December 2016 according to the UFH pretreatment status...
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Durable polymer vs. biodegradable polymer DES in patients with ACS undergoing complex PCI: A post hoc analysis of the HOST-REDUCE-POLYTECH-ACS trial
30 Aug 2022
The HOST-REDUCE-POLYTECH-ACS trial was a randomised, parallel-group multicentre trial with a 2x2 factorial design testing two independent hypotheses, one of which was the non-inferiority of durable polymer drug-eluting stents (DP-DES) to biodegradable polymer drug-eluting stents (BP-DES) in patients with ACS. In this post-hoc analysis, the authors...
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A lethal combination. simultaneous inferior and anterior STEMI with aborted sudden cardiac death and cardiogenic shock
11 Aug 2022
View this case of a 60-year-old male with hypertension as a modifiable cardiovascular risk factor. A history of thoracic surgery for a gunshot wound 40 years ago and no cardiovascular history.
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Timing and predictors of definite stent thrombosis in comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention and therapeutic hypothermia (ST-OHCA study)
09 Aug 2022
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.
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Radial versus femoral access in ACS patients undergoing complex PCI is associated with consistent bleeding benefit and no excess of risk
18 Jul 2022
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.
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PCRonline @ ESC Congress 2022: the interventional cardiology perspective!
18 Jul 2022
Stay up to date with what was new and hot in interventional cardiology at the #ESCCongress 2022!
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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Acute coronary syndrome: are women really so different?
18 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Lynne Hinterbuchner shares with Elena Calvo the take-home messages from this session in which a female patient gave a touching testimony, highlighting the importance of taking the patient's history into account.
