ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction due to multivessel, multifocal coronary vasospasm
No abstract available (Source: Coronary Artery Disease)
Source: Coronary Artery Disease - February 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Tags: Images in CAD Source Type: research
Intravascular lithotripsy for the treatment of severe calcific neointimal hyperplasia in a bare metal stent 17 years after implantation
No abstract available (Source: Coronary Artery Disease)
Source: Coronary Artery Disease - February 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Tags: Images in CAD Source Type: research
Giant unruptured circumflex coronary artery aneurysms presenting as acute coronary syndrome
No abstract available (Source: Coronary Artery Disease)
Source: Coronary Artery Disease - February 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Tags: Images in CAD Source Type: research
Clopidogrel response in patients receiving the nonvitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants apixaban and rivaroxaban
No abstract available (Source: Coronary Artery Disease)
Source: Coronary Artery Disease - February 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Tags: Research Communications Source Type: research
Ticagrelor versus clopidogrel in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: postdischarge mild bleeding and its clinical impacts
No abstract available (Source: Coronary Artery Disease)
Source: Coronary Artery Disease - February 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Tags: Research Communications Source Type: research
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: presentation and management options
Coronary artery dissection is a serious, life-threatening heart condition. It can occur spontaneously or due to traumatic or iatrogenic causes. Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is often misdiagnosed as most patients present with symptoms resembling those of an acute coronary syndrome. Clinical sequelae of SCAD include debilitating morbidities such as myocardial infarction, myocardial ischaemia, sudden cardiac death, ventricular arrhythmias amongst many other myocardial ischaemia associated complications. There are two main methods of managing patients with SCAD; conservative management with medical therapy or ...
Source: Coronary Artery Disease - February 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Tags: State of the Art Source Type: research
Additional roles of diastolic parameters in the diagnosis of obstructive coronary artery disease
This study was performed to determine the relationships among these four parameters and obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD).
Methods
The study data were obtained from a nation-wide registry, composed of 1307 patients (age, 60.4 ± 10.8 years; 964 women) with normal LV ejection fraction (LVEF) who underwent invasive coronary angiography in the suspicion of CAD. Septal e´, E/e´, LA dimension (LAd), and TR velocity were assessed by transthoracic echocardiography.
Results
Compared with patients without obstructive CAD, those with obstructive CAD showed changes in diastolic parameters indicating more progr...
Source: Coronary Artery Disease - February 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Tags: Diagnosis of CAD Source Type: research
Effect of intervention timing on one-year mortality in elderly non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients
Background
The best timing for early invasive therapy in non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) patients remains controversial. We sought to determine the optimal timing of early catheterization in order to improve long-term outcomes in elderly (>65 years old) patients with NSTEMI.
Methods
Using data from the CRUSADE registry linked to Medicare claims, we evaluated the association of early catheterization within the first 24 h or earlier time cut-points of NSTEMI presentation with long-term mortality among older Medicare beneficiaries.
Results
Of 15 575 NSTEMI patients fr...
Source: Coronary Artery Disease - February 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Tags: Acute Coronary Syndromes Source Type: research
Comparison of plaque distribution and wire-free functional assessment in patients with stable angina and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction: an optical coherence tomography and quantitative flow ratio study
Background
Data comparing plaque characteristics and wire-free physiological assessment in the target vessel in patients with stable angina versus acute coronary syndrome are sparse. Therefore, we investigated the difference in plaque distribution between stable angina and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and explored the relationship between target vessel vulnerability by optical coherence tomography (OCT) and wire-free functional assessment with quantitative flow ratio (QFR).
Methods
Patients with stable angina (n = 25) and NSTEMI (n = 24) were in the final prospective study cohort from ...
Source: Coronary Artery Disease - February 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Tags: Acute Coronary Syndromes Source Type: research
The optimal duration of dual antiplatelet therapy in East Asian patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents: a meta-analysis of randomized trials
Conclusion
The short-term DAPT (≤6 months) might be a better choice for East Asian patients undergoing PCI with DES, especially the newer-generation DES. However, for high-risk patients such as diabetes, the analysis supported the longer DAPT. (Source: Coronary Artery Disease)
Source: Coronary Artery Disease - February 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Tags: PCI Source Type: research
Clinical and health status outcomes among patients treated with single as compared to multivessel angioplasty during chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary interventions: a report from the OPEN CTO registry
Background
Patients with coronary chronic total occlusions (CTO) often have multivessel coronary artery disease. We utilized the OPEN CTO study to evaluate patients who underwent single-vessel versus multivessel percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) during CTO PCI.
Methods
Patients were considered to have undergone single-vessel CTO PCI if they underwent target-vessel only CTO PCI. Patients who underwent multivessel PCI during their index CTO PCI procedure were considered to have undergone multivessel PCI. The additional lesions treated in the multivessel group could be either a separate CTO lesion in a separ...
Source: Coronary Artery Disease - February 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Tags: PCI Source Type: research
The association of diabetes mellitus with neointimal formation following deployment of second-generation drug-eluting stents: an optical coherence tomographic study
Conclusion
DM leads to significant increase in MNT and neointimal burden even with second-generation DES, nevertheless stent strut coverage, ST and NIH characteristics remained comparable among the cohorts at 1-year. (Source: Coronary Artery Disease)
Source: Coronary Artery Disease - February 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Tags: PCI Source Type: research
Scoring balloon predilation before bioresorbable vascular scaffold implantation in patients with in-stent restenosis: the RIBS VI ‘scoring’ study
Conclusion
This study suggests that results of conventional BVS implantation in patients with ISR are not improved by systematic predilation with SCB. ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02672878 (RIBS VI) and NCT03069066 (RIBS VI ‘Scoring’). (Source: Coronary Artery Disease)
Source: Coronary Artery Disease - February 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Tags: PCI Source Type: research
Comparison of coronary angioscopic findings 8 months after stent implantation between two kinds of biodegradable polymer-coated and one durable polymer-coated drug-eluting stent
Conclusions
Coronary angioscopic findings revealed that BP-EES, BP-SES, and DP-EES produced similar favorable NIC 8 months after stent implantation. (Source: Coronary Artery Disease)
Source: Coronary Artery Disease - February 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Tags: PCI Source Type: research
Successful percutaneous treatment of a large arteriovenous fistula between the right coronary artery to main pulmonary artery
No abstract available (Source: Coronary Artery Disease)
Source: Coronary Artery Disease - December 23, 2020 Category: Cardiology Tags: Images in CAD Source Type: research
