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Mechanisms of Infarction in Coronary Arteries with Non-Significant Lesions

Infarctions with non-obstructive coronary artery disease, also known as MINOCA (myocardial infarction with nonobstructive coronary arteries), often...

Secondary Prevention: A Responsibility We Should Not Delegate

After coronary angioplasty, the use of drugs whose efficacy for the reduction of major events has been...

Off-hours Primary PCI Still Have the Highest Mortality Rate?

According to this contemporary study, in the current organized STEMI network, patients admitted to a tertiary high-volume...

International Consensus to Prevent Radial Artery Occlusion After Interventions

This study provides the steps to follow in order to prevent or at least reduce radial artery...

AHA 2019 | COMPLETE: Complete Revascularization Is Superior since It Treats Other Vulnerable Plaque

This COMPLETE sub-study using optical coherence tomography (OCT) showed the prevalence of vulnerable lesions other than the...

AHA 2019 | ISCHEMIA-CKD: Chronic Kidney Disease and Stable Coronary Disease

Among patients in the main ISCHEMIA trial, those with chronic kidney disease are a particularly high-risk subgroup....

Microvascular Angina Could Have Risk Gradients

This study recently published in JACC paves the way to identifying higher risk patients among those with...

AHA 2019 | TWILIGHT: Discontinue Aspirin after Acute Coronary Syndrome

This study findings confirm less bleeding at no extra cost of thrombotic events when aspirin is discontinued...