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Chronic Ischemic cardiopathy

How to Discontinue Antiplatelet Therapy Prior Non-Cardiac Surgery

Both the indication and discontinuation of antiplatelet therapy to balance ischemic-bleeding risks has been left to physician...

[APT Medical Sponsored Clinical Case] Bilateral Distal Transradial Access for Chronic Total Occlusion Recanalization and Multivessel Coronary Disease Percutaneous Intervention

Introduction Chronic total occlusion (CTO) represents the most challenging setting for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and multivessel coronary...

CT and Angiography Agreement in Patients from the ISCHEMIA Trial

Computed tomographic (CT) angiography showed a high degree of agreement with conventional angiography to detect significant coronary...

IVUS vs OCT to Guide PCI: Which Should We Choose?

Controlling stent expansion with optical coherence tomography (OCT) based on an external elastic membrane–based protocol for stent...

The Future of Prevention? Stenting Vulnerable Fractional FFR Negative Lesions

For many patients, the first symptom of heart disease is acute MI, or even sudden death.  Changes in...

Impact of FFR After Stenting: Useful or Mere Fun Fact?

Suboptimal fractional flow reserve (FFR) results after stenting only have a moderate impact on clinical hard points...

Short Therapy and Monotherapy, Plenty of Evidence

A short dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) of 1 to 3 months followed by P2Y12 inhibitor monotherapy after...

Medical Therapy Optimization Achieved Prior Clinical Trial

12 weeks prior the ORBITA randomization, medical therapy optimization of all antianginal medication was achieved.   Most importantly, optimization...