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Chronic Ischemic cardiopathy

Predicting Coronary Angioplasty Benefits

Coronary angioplasty or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) reduces angina and improves quality of life in patients with...

Less Bivalirudin and Minimal Use of Ultrasound for Puncture Is the Worldwide Trend in Transradial Access

A worldwide survey shows there is much room for improvement as regards transradial access procedures, particularly for...

Coronary Disease in Diabetes: Diabetic Patients Have Much Greater Plaque Progression

Patients with diabetes mellitus experience significantly greater plaque progression, particularly regarding adverse plaque. Male sex and baseline...

AHA 2018 | Endoscopic Saphenous-Vein-Graft Harvesting in Patients Undergoing Myocardial Revascularization Surgery

For patients undergoing myocardial revascularization surgery, endoscopic harvesting of saphenous veins in expert hands is similar to...

AHA 2018 | New Physical Activity Guidelines Recommend Movement for All Ages

The new 2018 physical activity guidelines continue to recommend the same amount of physical activity (300 minutes of...

AHA 2018 | Freedom Long-Term Follow-up: Still in Favor of CABG

Nearly 8 years later, CABG maintains its benefit over PCI-DES in terms of mortality in diabetic patients...

Clinical Utility of CT-Derived FFR for Decision-Making

In this large international multicenter population, computed-tomography (CT)-derived fractional flow reserve (FFR) modified treatment recommendation in two-thirds...

Safety of Combining New Anticoagulant Agents and Dual Antiplatelet Therapy

Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia and its combination with a history of acute myocardial infarction...