Reference: Planer et al. International Journal of Cardiology 2012 (in press) Prognosis of patients enrolled in acute myocardial infarction with ST segment elevation (STEMI) has improved markedly, particularly as a result of reperfusion therapy. Despite these improvements, patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) are a high risk group in the short and long term compared with...
Summary of the presentations, original articles and major slides shown at an event which was, without question, an academic calendar marker, held in Munich from the 25th to 29th August 2012. If you cannot view the articles, click here
Reference: Wu C, Dyer AM, Kinas SB, et al. Impact of incomplete revascularization on long-term mortality after coronary stenting. Circ Cardiovasc Interv 2011; 4: 413-21. Complete revascularization was defined as a reduction of stenosis to less than 50% in all diseased (≥ 70% stenosis) lesions in major epicardial coronary vessels at the initial hospitalization or within...
Platelet Inhibition in the PLATO study: insights from the ECG substudy. En el Estudio PLATO quedó evidenciado que el Ticagrelor disminuyó la mortalidad a 12 meses en comparación con el Clopidogrel en el tratamiento de pacientes post-angioplastía por un síndrome coronario agudo o por un cuadro estable (4,5 vs. 5,9%; P<0.001). Estos resultados fueron del...