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Great Dispersion in the Prognosis of Patients with Angina and No Coronary Lesions

The prognosis of patients with symptoms of angina (with all their subjectivity) in a setting of no...

The Crucial Significance of Lifestyle Changes

Any change towards a healthier lifestyle, even if it seems small, can have a great impact, particularly...

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,...

CTO Revascularization Improves Quality of Life

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. The presence of CTO hovers around 15, 20% in coronary angiographies of patients with...

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 | TRANSIENT trial: What is the best timing for TRANSIENT STEMI revascularization?

The objective of this study was to determine the best time to revascularize a patient who is...