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Chronic Ischemic cardiopathy

Real-Life Functional Assessment of Coronary Stenosis: We Are Yet to Convert to It

The use of functional assessment of coronary stenosis (following the class IA recommendation in both American and European...

Angina Is as Subjective as Any Other Pain

Almost 80% of all patients randomized in this study reported Canadian Cardiovascular Society class II or III angina,...

Manual vs. Mechanical Compression after Transradial Catheterization

For patients undergoing transradial catheterization, whether puncture site compression is manual or mechanical has no significant difference...

More Bad News on Bioresorbable Scaffolds

A year after the implantation of everolimus-eluting bioresorbable scaffold Absorb 1.1, optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans showed neointima...

EuroPCR 2018 | Ultimaster Registry: Difference in Strut Thickness

This work compared the safety and efficacy of angioplasty with thin-strut (80 µm) sirolimus-eluting stents with a cobalt...

EuroPCR 2018 | Consistent CTO Study: Rechanneling with Current Techniques and SYNERGY Stents

This observational study included 231 patients from 6 sites who presented chronic total occlusions and underwent rechanneling procedures using...

EuroPCR 2018 | SYNTAX II: Results at 2 Years for Best Angioplasty vs. Surgery in Multivessel Disease

Since the publication of the original SYNTAX trial, there have been great technical advancements that have influenced...

EuroPCR 2018 | DESSOLV III: Bioabsorbable vs. Durable Polymer at 2 Years

Most drug-eluting stents are coated by a polymer that is used to contain the antiproliferative drug. Once...