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Optimal Intervention Timing for NSTEMI with No Antiaggregant Pre-Treatment

Patients undergoing non-ST elevation MI (NSTEMI) who are not pre-treated with P2Y12 receptor inhibitors will benefit from...

Multiple vs. Culprit vessel MI in Cardiogenic Shock: Anything New?

The Shock Trial, the one that set revascularization as the standard strategy to treat all STEMI and...

Estimating the Risk of Infection for Healthcare Personnel

Roughly one out of every 100 healthcare workers at hospitals receiving COVID-19 patients become infected. Statistics are not...

Compare-Acute Sub-Study: Natural History of Non-Culprit Lesions in MI

The aim of this study was to determine the prognostic value of fractional flow reserve (FFR) of...

Bleeding and Cardiogenic Shock: An “Unholy Alliance”?

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Mortality in acute myocardial infarction (MI) with cardiogenic shock (CS) has been reduced over...

Priorities in the Cath Lab to Escape COVID-19 Tsunami

The pandemic tsunami of COVID-19 has hit all cath lab services, especially those performing primary PCI.  Passively waiting...

Covid-19 and Unaccounted Collateral Damage

Dr Metzler and collaborators carried out a retrospective search to find out the impact of the Covid-19...

More Data from the EXCEL and More Controversy

A thorough statistical analysis of the EXCEL has quite definitely shown that the likelihood of death, MI...