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Do Stents Make You Feel Better?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

The logic of stenting obstructed coronary arteries is simple. A stent unblocks the artery. Subscribe now Stenting stable coronary artery disease has not been convincingly proven to reduce the risk of future heart attacks or death 1. But coronary stenting is not the only way to reduce symptoms of angina. All is fixed.

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Do You Need A Stent To Treat Your Heart Disease?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

One of the most common questions I get is, “ Do I need a stent to treat my heart disease?” ” Typically, several of this person’s friends have had stents, so it seems natural to ask. First, we must understand what a stent is and why it is used. The stent ‘unblocks’ it. Flow is restored.

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Fractional flow reserve for guiding coronary intervention and functional SYNTAX score

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

indicates inducible ischemia while an FFR above 0.80 excludes ischemia in 90% of cases. If the FFR normalizes after stenting, the restenosis rates at six months is less than 5%. If the FFR normalizes after stenting, the restenosis rates at six months is less than 5%. Normal FFR is 1.0 and an FFR below 0.75 in the study.

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AI Measures Fat Around the Heart, a Key to Predicting Heart Attacks

DAIC

Diseased human arteries are most simply, reliably, and successfully treated with drug-eluting, balloon-expandable stents," said Lewis B. 2 An estimated 10% of patients with PAOD have its most severe form: chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI). Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2012;43:55-61. J Am Heart Assoc. DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.118.009724.

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Clinical study of reoperation for acute type A aortic dissection

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Method Between June 2018 and December 2022, 62 patients with type A aortic dissection (TAAD) underwent reoperation after previous surgical treatment. Outcome In the EVAR group, 47 patients (95.92%) were successfully implanted with overlapping stents, and 2 patients died in the perioperative period.

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Arrhythmia? Ischemia? Both? Electricity, drugs, lytics, cath lab? You decide.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

In some cases the ischemia can be seen "through" the flutter waves, whereas in other cases the arrhythmia must be terminated before the ischemia can be clearly distinguished. First , there can simply be diffuse ST depressions (which obligates reciprocal STE in aVR) associated with tachycardia which are not indicative of ischemia.

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What do you think the echocardiogram shows in this case?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Here is the EMS ECG: Obviously massive diffuse subendocardial ischemia, with profound STD and STE in aVR Of course this pattern is most often seen from etoliogies other than ACS. The ECG only tells you there is ischemia, not the etiology of it. Nevertheless, the clinical situation made other etiologies unlikely.