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The Higher the LDL-C Level, the Greater the Benefit in Mortality with Aggressive Therapy

The latest studies seem to support higher baseline LDL-C levels would justify further intensifying and already aggressive...

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...

Baseline Pulmonary Hypertension Should Not Preclude TAVR

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) in patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) should not...

Liver Failure as a Challenge for TAVR

Although surgical risk scores do not include liver failure (LF), patients who suffer from it and undergo...

TAVR with Prior MRS: A New Challenge

The benefits of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) for high-risk, prohibitive-risk (class I) or intermediate-risk (class IIa) patients have...

Bicuspid Valves Do Not Increase Mortality in TAVR

The frequency of bicuspid aortic valves (BcAV) are around 1%, but in 60+ patients it is associated...

Significant Association Between Suprarenal Fixation of Endoprostheses and Renal Dysfunction

According to this meta-analysis, soon to be published in Eur. J. Vasc. Endovasc. Surg., endovascular abdominal aortic...

Constrictive Pericarditis After Pericardiocentesis

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