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Do Stents Make You Feel Better?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Whether stenting a narrowed coronary artery improves symptoms such as chest pain (angina) or shortness of breath is a very different question. Share Angina The classic definition of angina involves the sensation of tightness in the centre of the chest that is brought on with exertion and is relieved with rest. The result?

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Fate of coronary arteries in Constrictive pericarditis

Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

There has been many reports of patients with angina in CP (Ref 1). 2017) Now Robots are being tried to assist in this delicate surgery (CTS-NET 2023 Total Robotic Pericardiectomy for Constrictive Pericarditis) Reference 1.Mahé Angina caused by calcific constrictive pericarditis. 2017 Jan-Feb;59(4):327-340. Ann Intern Med.

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Post-event follow-up costs in patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in Spain

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Patients with a new or recurrent episode of ASCVD (angina, acute myocardial infarction, transient ischemic attack, stroke, or peripheral arterial disease) between 1-Jan-2017 and 31-Dec-2018 were included. The resources use within two years of the diagnosis was estimated in order to estimate the average cost of patient follow-up.

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Safe Deferral of Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography for Patients With a Low Pretest Probability of Coronary Artery Disease in 2019 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines

Journal of the American Heart Association

The overall mortality, cardiac deaths, myocardial infarctions, and hospitalizations for unstable angina were acquired from national registry data for 1 to 10 years of follow‐up (median, 4 years). PTP was calculated according to the 2013 and 2019 ESC guidelines.

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Lowering Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events by Treating Residual Inflammatory Risk

DAIC

12,16 In 2017, CANTOS (Canakinumab Anti-inflammatory Thrombosis Outcomes Study) provided proof-of-principle that inflammation inhibition in the absence of lipid lowering can significantly reduce cardiovascular event rates and helped to define the interleukin-1 (IL-1) to IL-6 to CRP pathway as a central target in CV disease.16

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The “open data” movement runs aground on FOURIER

Dr. Anish Koka

Discovering discrepancies in a major published trial from the pharma-academic complex would be a boost to those seeking to force trial data to be public, and that is exactly what a group of investigators attempted to do with a major cholesterol lowering trial published in 2017. But first, some background. Cholesterol lowering is big business.

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Occlusion/reperfusion through 6 ‘normal’ ECGs

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Eur Heart J 2017 Driver BE, Shroff GR, Smith SW. But others are not as fortunate, so we should learn from these near misses to better identify signs of occlusion and reperfusion. Arch Cardiovasc Dis 2013 Khan AR et al. Posterior reperfusion T-waves: Wellens’ syndrome of the posterior wall. Emerg Med J 2017;34(2):119–23.

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