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EuroPCR 2018 | SCAAR Registry at 10 years: FFR improves decision making in the long term

The SCAAR registry aimed at showing the differences in mortality at very long term when using functional...

Maintaining Physical Activity After an Acute Myocardial Infarction Reduces Mortality

Performing a successful primary angioplasty and prescribing preventive medication without advising on the importance of keeping up...

Restenosis Does Not Seem as Benign as We Thought

Elective, uncomplicated repeat revascularization after stent restenosis is associated with higher mortality rates according to a new...

Hybrid Revascularization or Conventional Surgery: History Is Still Being Written

Hybrid revascularization seems to achieve results similar to those of conventional myocardial revascularization surgery at 5 years, although...

Constrictive Pericarditis After Pericardiocentesis

All interventional cardiologists must be able to perform a pericardiocentesis. Whether we deal with a chronic total...

Contrast Induced Kidney Injury, Infamous Problem with No Magical Solutions

In patients at high risk of developing kidney complications undergoing angiography, we did not observe benefits when...

Elderly Patients with ACS: Clopidogrel or Reduced-Dose Prasugrel?

Elderly patients are at elevated risk of both ischemic and bleeding complications after an acute coronary syndrome...

Peri-Procedural Infarction: More Frequent than and Not as Innocent as We Thought

Almost 30% of all patients experience some degree of myocardial injury after elective angioplasty, a statistic associated...