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Correlation between simplified treadmill score, significantly stenosed blood vessels and SYNTAX score in CAD

The British Journal of Cardiology

The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between the simplified treadmill score (STS) and both the number of blood vessels with significant stenosis and the severity of the SYNTAX score in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD).

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Temporal Trend in Revascularization for Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy and Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease

Journal of the American Heart Association

A decline in CABG procedures was observed from 2007 to 2011 (annual percentage change, −11.5%;P=0.003), In the subsample of patients with proximal left anterior descending artery plus circumflex and right coronary artery, CABG was a predominant procedure until 2011, and the proportion of both procedures did not differ thereafter.

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Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center Tops 5,000 TAVR Procedures

DAIC

Every year, approximately 300,000 cardiac patients in the United States are diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis, with only 28% receiving a TAVR, leaving the majority untreated. It further reported that, in 2011, Morristown Medical Center was the first in New Jersey to offer TAVR for severe aortic stenosis.

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Association of coronary angiographic lesions and mortality in patients over 80 years with NSTEMI

Open Heart

Methods Patients >80 years of age who underwent CA at index NSTEMI during 2011–2014 were included. Coronary lesions were categorised into; one vessel disease (1VD), multi-vessel disease (MVD) and left main disease (LMD) and 0%–49% stenosis grade were considered as controls. –7.6) and HR 4.5 (1.6–12.5).

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Association Between Polyvascular Disease and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Outcomes: Insights from the STS/ACC TVT Registry

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Background:Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) is highly prevalent in patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, Ahead of Print. Exposure of interest was PVD. Primary outcome was all-cause mortality.

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Long?Term Stability of Patients Undergoing Endovascular Parent Artery Occlusion of Their Intracranial Artery

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

This study aimed to evaluate the long‐term clinical and radiological outcomes of patients who underwent PAO.MethodsThe patients who underwent endovascular PAO of their internal carotid or vertebral artery (VA) between April 2011 and March 2022 were included in this observational study. During an average follow‐up period of 45.8±25.8

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Redo-TAVR with balloon-expandable valves: outcomes from a national registry

Cardiology Update

The authors concluded that redo-TAVR with balloon-expandable valves, may potentially represent a reasonable treatment option for selected patients with failed TAVR. For more cardiology research news join our newsletter or follow us on Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn or Instagram.

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