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Interventional Cardiologists

Outpatient coronary angioplasty, is it possible?

Original title: Assessment of Clinical Outcomes related to Early Discharge alter elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: COED PCI Reference: Purushothaman Muthusamy...

Chronic Total Occlusions, challenging but very possible

Original title: Predictors of Reocclusion After Successful Drug-Eluting Stent–Supported Percutaneous Coronary Intervention of Chronic Total Occlusion. The Florence...

Does the systematic use of clopidogrel reduce events prior to angioplasty?

Original title: Association of Clopidogrel Pretreatment with mortality, Cardiovascular events, and Major Bleeding among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary...

Self-expanding stents improve positioning in primary angioplasty

Original title: Self-Expanding Versus Balloon-Expandable Stents in Acute Myocardial Infarction: Results From the APPOSITION II Study Reference: Robert-Jan van Geuns...

Revascularization reduces mortality in patients with high risk coronary artery disease based on multi-slice CT

Original title: All-cause mortality benefit of coronary revascularization vs. medical therapy in patients without known coronary artery disease...

Advances in Proximal Occlusion Devices for Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting

Original title: A Meta-Analysis of Proximal Oclusion Device Outcome in Carotid Artery Stenting Reference: Robert M Bersin, et al. Catheterization...

More evidence supports ventricular assist devices in complex angioplasty procedures

Original title: Percutaneous Left Ventricular Assist Device with Tandem Heart for High-Risk Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: The Mayo Clinic...

The largest series of abdominal aortic aneurysm with unfavorable neck anatomy

Original title: Outcomes of Endovascular Aneurysm Repair in Patients with Hostile Neck Anatomy Reference: Stather et al. European Journal of...