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Contemporary Ventricular Assist Devices: Hemodynamic Consequences

Courtesy of Dr. Agustín Vecchia. Despite current technological advancements and improvement in reperfusion rates in a setting of infarction, cardiogenic...

Residual Thrombus After Aspiration Thrombectomy: Does It Affect the Outcome of Primary Angioplasty?

The aim of this study was to evaluate if the residual thrombus burden after aspiration thrombectomy may...

Cardiovascular Events Reduction: Bivalirudin or Heparin?

The MATRIX study did not find a clear advantage of bivalirudin over unfractioned heparin to reduce major...

Rechanneling a CTO in a Non-Infarct-Related Artery After Primary PCI: Yes or No?

Between 10% and 15% of patients admitted with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction present concurrent coronary chronic total...

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...