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5 Years of FAST-MI: If Unable to Meet the Timeline, Thrombolization Is the Way to Go

A large proportion of patients undergo primary angioplasty beyond the timelines recommended by clinical practice guidelines. These...

Cath Lab Management Protocol for the COVID-19 Outbreak

The Interventional Cardiology Association and the Cardiac Beat Association from the Spanish Society of Cardiology have released...

Impella and Adverse Events

Long after AHA 2019 had presented observational studies showing adverse events associated to Impella, JAMA is finally...

ACC Recommendations against the New Coronavirus

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has launched a document summarizing the potential implications of the new...

TAVR: Should Transradial Approach be the Second Access Site?

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. One of the major challenges we interventional cardiologists still face is access management....

Chronic Coronary Syndromes Nowadays

Multiple drugs and treatment strategies have emerged in recent years to change significantly the prognosis of patients...

Onyx ONE: More Options for Patients at High Risk for Bleeding

Since November 2015, when the LEADERS FREE was published in NEJM, polymer-free drug coated stents had undoubtedly...

Repeat Revascularization Is Not Benign, at Least in Left Main Disease

After the “EXCEL scandal” at the end of last year, study investigators have been publishing explanations and...