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ACS and Multivessel Disease: How to proceed

Gentileza del Dr. Javier Castro   In the daily practice, a high percentage of ST elevation myocardial infarction patients...

Are Pharmacoinvasive Strategy and Primary PCI Comparable?

The Strategic Reperfusion Early After Myocardial Infarction trial and the French Registry of Acute Myocardial Infarction 2015 suggest that...

Deferring Lesions by FFR in ACS: Yes or No?

Deferring treatment through angioplasty in non-ischemic lesions by fractional flow reserve (FFR) is associated with excellent long-term...

Intracoronary Abciximab reduces events in diabetics during PPCI

Diabetic patients have an increased risk of future cardiovascular events after an ST elevation MI. Administration of...

Closure Devices vs. Manual Compression

Courtesy of Dr. Guillermo Migliaro.   Post PCI major bleeding has been associated with short term mortality in acute...

DES in primary PCI: The Best Option?

Courtesy of Dr. Brian Nazareth Donato.   The relative safety of drug-eluting stents (DES) and conventional bare-metal stents (BMS) in...

No Extra Benefit for Combined Use of Bivalirudin and Transradial Approach

The aim of this meta-analyzis was to study the relation between bivalirudin and access site in patients undergoing...

All-Spectrum Transradial Approach: Safer than Femoral

Original Title: Radial vs femoral access for coronary interventions across the entire spectrum of patients with coronary...