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Polymer-Free DES Also Show Efficacy in Anticoagulated Patients with High Risk for Bleeding

Patients who receive chronic anticoagulation therapy and then undergo angioplasty are frequently discharged on a triple anti-thrombotic...

COMPASS: A New Place for Rivaroxaban in Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease

Combining low doses of rivaroxaban and aspirin seems to be the best strategy for patients with stable...

Pacemaker Implantation After TAVI Raises Costs But Not the Incidence of Adverse Events

This new meta-analysis did not manage to prove whether permanent pacemaker implantation after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)...

“Ad Hoc” PCI during TAVR: No Impact on Safety or Long Term Outcomes

According to a recent study published in Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions, screening for coronary artery disease (CAD) with an invasive...

Self-Expanding Stents Are Superior to Balloon-Expandable Stents in the Iliac Arteries

Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Severe atherosclerotic disease in iliac arteries is experienced by 15% of all men and 5%...

CANTOS: Anti-inflammatory Drug Canakinumab Seems to Reduce CV Events

This human monoclonal antibody that specifically targets inflammatory cells seems to reduce cardiovascular events when associated with...

VALIDATE-SWEDEHEART: bivalirudin seems to be losing ground

Another important work that does not see the benefits of bivalirudin over heparin as monotherapy as regards both...

SPYRAL HTN-OFF MED: Renal Denervation Reloaded?

This work presented at the ESC Congress 2017 held in Barcelona, simultaneously published in The Lancet, seems to...