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Atrial Fibrillation and Dementia: Which Anticoagulant Agent Presents the Lowest Risk?

Atrial fibrillation is a risk factor for dementia and anticoagulant agents have been proven to decrease it....

AFIRE Trial: Atrial Fibrillation and PCI. What is the Ideal Therapy?

Patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) will benefit from rivaroxaban monotherapy both in terms...

Is Troponin Elevation After TAVR Related to Mortality?

Troponins have long had diagnostic value not only for infarction. Their ability to predict mortality is well...

First Guidelines Focused Specifically on Chest Pain Management

Many years of developing and waiting have led us to the latest guidelines published by ACC/AHA together...

ISCHEMIA: Prognosis is Determined by Anatomy, not Functionality

The ISCHEMIA study keeps providing scientific news. This work in patients with stable coronary artery disease had...

Fluoroscopy vs. Ultrasound Guided Femoral Access in TAVR

Ideally, we will not puncture the femoral artery blindly if we are planning to use a big...

10 Years Treating Bifurcations: Have We Made Progress?

Bifurcations have been, are and will be challenging. However, we have to admit we have gained experience...

Device Evolution Also Impacts on Valve in Valve

TAVR to treat dysfunctional biological prosthetics (ViV) with the last generation self-expandable supra-annular prosthetic offers excellent results...