939 results
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.

Clinical implementation of clopidogrel pharmacogenetics: the Tailored Antiplatelet Therapy Following PCI (TAILOR-PCI) Trial
01 Apr 2020
A genotype-guided oral P2Y12 inhibitor strategy compared with conventional clopidogrel therapy with point-of-care genotyping in CYP2C19 LOF patients with ACS and stable CAD undergoing PCI resulted in a no significant reduction in ischemic events at 12-months.

Author

2-Year outcomes after stenting of lipid-rich and nonrich coronary plaques (the COLOR Registry)
30 Mar 2020
The authors aimed to investigate the association between NIRS findings in culprit lesions and the clinical outcomes of those lesions in patients undergoing PCI for stable symptoms.

Reviewer

Association of cardiac injury with mortality in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China
28 Mar 2020
This article explores the association between cardiac injury and mortality in patients with COVID-19.

Reviewer

Stent thrombosis in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing coronary stenting in the AUGUSTUS trial
26 Mar 2020
This analysis examines the incidence, timing, and characteristics of stent thrombosis and its outcomes in the AUGUSTUS cohort.

Reviewer

How to use a Rotablator as single operator
24 Mar 2020
A single operator technique simplifies the procedure and removes the dependence on having a trained assistant. Discover the tips and solutions proposed by Joshua Loh.

Author

COVID-19: Providing ongoing care to patients with cardiovascular disease in a pandemic
20 Mar 2020
The world is facing unprecedented challenges as a result of a bug called COVID-19 (Sars-CoV-2) that has literally gone “viral” across the globe affecting >250K individuals in 183/195 countries, claiming >10,000 lives in a short period of time (as of 15:00 20/3/2020).

Author

Management of multi-vessel calcified coronary artery disease in acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock
17 Mar 2020
View this case of a 79-year-old woman complaining of atypical chest pain for 3 months, with diabetes and end-stage chronic kidney disease. Coronary CT revealed diffuse calcifications BUT critical coronary artery stenosis was excluded...

Author

Author

COVID-19: changing perspectives in the cathlab
10 Mar 2020
"As physicians, we are experiencing a complex era that will surely impact our future way of conceiving our profession". Luigi Biasco, interventional cardiologist in Turin, Italy, shares his personal and a professional perspective on how the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus has changed life in the...

Author

Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China
10 Mar 2020
Scarce and mostly unstructured data are currently available, and reports on clinical presentation, characteristics potential treatments and outcomes of this viral epidemic are still missing. This article published in NEJM provides structured data on 1099 patients with laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 from 552 Chinese hospitals, and represents to...

Reviewer
