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Choosing a particular oral anticoagulant and dose for stroke prevention in individual patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation: part 1
<span class="paragraphSection">Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) have a high risk of stroke and mortality, which can be considerably reduced by oral anticoagulants (OAC). Recently, four non-vitamin-K oral anticoagulants (NOACs) were compared with warfarin in large randomized trials for the prevention of stroke and systemic embolism. Today's clinician is faced with the difficult task of selecting a suitable OAC for a patient with a particular clinical profile or a particular pattern of risk factors and concomitant diseases. We reviewed analyses of subgroups of patients from trials of vitamin K antagonists vs. NOA...
Source: European Heart Journal - February 4, 2016 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research

Stroke in the TOTAL trial: a randomized trial of routine thrombectomy vs. percutaneous coronary intervention alone in ST elevation myocardial infarction
Conclusion Thrombectomy was associated with a significant increase in stroke. Based on these findings, future trials must carefully collect stroke to determine safety in addition to efficacy.
Source: European Heart Journal - September 14, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jolly, S. S., Cairns, J. A., Yusuf, S., Meeks, B., Gao, P., Hart, R. G., Kedev, S., Stankovic, G., Moreno, R., Horak, D., Kassam, S., Rokoss, M. J., Leung, R. C. M., El-Omar, M., Romppanen, H. O., Alazzoni, A., Alak, A., Fung, A., Alexopoulos, D., Schwalm Tags: Interventional cardiology Source Type: research

CardioPulse Articles * Editors' network of the European Society of Cardiology National Cardiovascular Journals: scientific input from the National Societies * Hand grip strength predicts myocardial infarction and stroke * Effect of remote ischaemic conditioning on clinical outcomes in patients presenting with an ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention
Source: European Heart Journal - August 3, 2015 Category: Cardiology Tags: CardioPulse Source Type: research

Stroke following percutaneous coronary intervention: type-specific incidence, outcomes and determinants seen by the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society 2007-12
Conclusions Incident ischaemic stroke complications have increased over time, whilst haemorrhagic stroke complications have decreased, driven through changes in clinical, procedural, drug-treatment, and demographic factors. Both ischaemic and haemorrhagic strokes are rare but devastating complications with high 30-day mortality and in-hospital MACE rates.
Source: European Heart Journal - July 1, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Kwok, C. S., Kontopantelis, E., Myint, P. K., Zaman, A., Berry, C., Keavney, B., Nolan, J., Ludman, P. F., de Belder, M. A., Buchan, I., Mamas, M. A., on behalf of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society and the National Institute for Cardiovascul Tags: Interventional cardiology Source Type: research

Coronary artery bypass grafting vs. percutaneous coronary intervention for patients with three-vessel disease: final five-year follow-up of the SYNTAX trial
Conclusion Five-year results of patients with 3VD treated with CABG or PCI using the first-generation paclitaxel-eluting DES suggest that CABG should remain the standard of care as it resulted in significantly lower rates of death, MI, and repeat revascularization, while stroke rates were similar. For patients with low SYNTAX scores, PCI is an acceptable revascularization strategy, although at a price of significantly higher rates of repeat revascularization. Clinical trial registration NCT00114972.
Source: European Heart Journal - October 21, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Head, S. J., Davierwala, P. M., Serruys, P. W., Redwood, S. R., Colombo, A., Mack, M. J., Morice, M.-C., Holmes, D. R., Feldman, T. E., Stahle, E., Underwood, P., Dawkins, K. D., Kappetein, A. P., Mohr, F. W. Tags: Coronary artery disease Source Type: research

Prasugrel plus bivalirudin vs. clopidogrel plus heparin in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
Conclusion In this randomized trial of STEMI patients, we were unable to demonstrate significant differences in net clinical outcome between prasugrel plus bivalirudin and clopidogrel plus heparin. Neither the composite of ischaemic complications nor bleeding were favourably affected by prasugrel plus bivalirudin compared with a regimen of clopidogrel plus unfractionated heparin. However, the results must be interpreted in view of the premature termination of the trial. Clinical trial registration information Unique identifier NCT00976092 (www.clinicaltrials.gov).
Source: European Heart Journal - September 7, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Schulz, S., Richardt, G., Laugwitz, K.-L., Morath, T., Neudecker, J., Hoppmann, P., Mehran, R., Gershlick, A. H., Tolg, R., Anette Fiedler, K., Abdel-Wahab, M., Kufner, S., Schneider, S., Schunkert, H., Ibrahim, T., Mehilli, J., Kastrati, A., and for the Tags: FASTTRACK CLINICAL RESEARCH Source Type: research

Contrast-induced acute kidney injury after primary percutaneous coronary intervention: results from the HORIZONS-AMI substudy
Conclusion Contrast-induced acute kidney injury is associated with poor short- and long-term outcomes after primary percutaneous coronary intervention in STEMI.
Source: European Heart Journal - June 14, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Narula, A., Mehran, R., Weisz, G., Dangas, G. D., Yu, J., Genereux, P., Nikolsky, E., Brener, S. J., Witzenbichler, B., Guagliumi, G., Clark, A. E., Fahy, M., Xu, K., Brodie, B. R., Stone, G. W. Tags: Interventional cardiology Source Type: research

Reperfusion therapy of acute ischaemic stroke and acute myocardial infarction: similarities and differences
The evolution of reperfusion therapy in acute myocardial infarction and acute ischaemic stroke has many similarities: thrombolysis is superior to placebo, intra-arterial thrombolysis is not superior to intravenous (i.v.), facilitated intervention is of questionable value, and direct mechanical recanalization without thrombolysis is proven (myocardial infarction) or promising (stroke) to be superior to thrombolysis—but only when started with no or minimal delay. However, there are also substantial differences. Direct catheter-based thrombectomy in acute ischaemic stroke is more difficult than primary angioplasty (in S...
Source: European Heart Journal - January 14, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Widimsky, P., Coram, R., Abou-Chebl, A. Tags: ESC 2013 Andreas Gr[uuml ]ntzig Lecture Source Type: research

Improved long-term clinical outcomes in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing remote ischaemic conditioning as an adjunct to primary percutaneous coronary intervention
Conclusion Remote ischaemic conditioning before primary percutaneous coronary intervention seemed to improve long-term clinical outcomes in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
Source: European Heart Journal - January 14, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Sloth, A. D., Schmidt, M. R., Munk, K., Kharbanda, R. K., Redington, A. N., Schmidt, M., Pedersen, L., Sorensen, H. T., Botker, H. E., CONDI Investigators Tags: FASTTRACK CLINICAL RESEARCH Source Type: research

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