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CULPRIT-SHOCK Results Will Transform Guidelines and Clinical Practice

 Courtesy of the SBHCI. After treating the culprit lesion in patients with acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic...

DARE: Drug-Coated Balloons Compete with DES for the Treatment of In-Stent Restenosis

Courtesy of the Brazilian Society of Hemodynamics and Interventional Cardiology (SBHCI). The SeQuent Please paclitaxel-coated balloon provides non-inferior...

TCT Conference 2017

Here you will find the highlights of the TCT Conference 2017, held on October 29-31 and November...

SYNTAX II: Better Stents, IVUS, FFR, or a Combination of All of Them to Catch Up with Surgery

In patients with 3-vessel disease, surgery obtained better outcomes than angioplasty, according to results from the SYNTAX...

FOURIER: Efficacy of Evolocumab for Ultra-Low LDL Levels

It seems that a LDL level of 70 mg/dL is no longer low enough for high-risk secondary patients;...

DETO2X-AMI: Supplemental O2 Provides No Benefit for Patients with Suspected Infarction

According to this study simultaneously presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2017 and published in...

COMPASS: A New Place for Rivaroxaban in Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease

Combining low doses of rivaroxaban and aspirin seems to be the best strategy for patients with stable...

CANTOS: Anti-inflammatory Drug Canakinumab Seems to Reduce CV Events

This human monoclonal antibody that specifically targets inflammatory cells seems to reduce cardiovascular events when associated with...