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How should I treat with rotational atherectomy a TAVI candidate
18 Sep 2019
This is the case of an 84-year-old woman in good general condition, with severe AVS on medical management, chronic atrial fibrillation and admitted with heart failure and chest pain...

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TWILIGHT: A randomized trial of ticagrelor monotherapy vs. ticagrelor-plus-aspirin beginning at 3 months in high-risk patients undergoing PCI
26 Sep 2019
At TCT 2019 in San Francisco - USA, Roxana Mehran presented the results of the TWILIGHT trial. Salvatore Brugaletta provides a summary of the key messages.

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ENTRUST-AF PCI - Edoxaban-based versus vitamin-K-antagonist-based antithrombotic regimen following successful coronary stenting in atrial fibrillation patients
09 Sep 2019
Francesco Costa, Italy, interviews Pascal Vranckx, PI of the ENTRUST-AF-PCI Trial

Cognitive decline before and after incident coronary events
05 Sep 2019

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Coronary wire loss: part of jailed wire behind stent struts, protruding in aorta
30 Aug 2019
Guidewire loss when the jailed wire is seen to protrudes into the aorta can occur: learn the step-by-step approach to managing this complication here.

THEMIS - Main results of the effect of Ticagrelor on health outcomes in diabetes mellitus patients intervention study
03 Sep 2019

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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.

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PCR @ ESC Congress 2019 and the World Congress of Cardiology: the interventional cardiology perspective!
19 Jul 2019
What was new and hot in interventional cardiology at ESC Congress 2019!

Case study: Entrapment of rota burr
19 Aug 2019
This is the case of a 63 y/o male, who experienced CAD with stenting for LCx 3 years ago, who suffers from hypertension and Diabetes mellitus type 2 and is in the end stage of renal disease with hemodialysis.
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Mechanical circulatory support devices to protect patients during high-risk PCI
Performing high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in complex patients requires the interventional cardiologist to use mechanical circulatory support devices to achieve safer outcomes. Which patients are most at risk of complex PCI? What are the best mechanical circulatory support devices currently available and which has the strongest...
