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Implementation of a Multidimensional Strategy to Reduce Post-PCI Bleeding Risk

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:The American College of Cardiology Reduce the Risk: PCI Bleed Campaign was a hospital-based quality improvement campaign designed to reduce post-percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) bleeding events.

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Time to TAVI: streamlining the pathway to treatment

Open Heart

However, this has been associated with delays to treatment, in breach of British Cardiovascular Intervention Society targets. Data were collected retrospectively for all outpatients referred for consideration of TAVI to a Heart Valve Centre from November 2020 to November 2021.

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Statewide Initiative to Reduce Patient Radiation Doses During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:Improved radiation safety practices are needed across hospitals performing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

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Transcatheter Palliation With Pulmonary Artery Flow Restrictors in Neonates With Congenital Heart Disease: Feasibility, Outcomes, and Comparison With a Historical Hybrid Stage 1 Cohort

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, Ahead of Print. Cox regression was used to evaluate the association between palliation strategy and 6-month mortality.Results:From 2021 to 2023, 17 patients (median age, 4 days; interquartile range [IQR], 2–8; median weight, 2.5 kilograms [IQR, 2.1–3.3])

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Lifelong risk of stroke after TAVR: Findings from SwissTAVI Registry

Cardiology Update

In a recent article published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, investigators presented comprehensive examination of both short- and long-term stroke risks post-TAVR, offering insights into evolving trends and predictors. Between February 2011 and June 2021, 11,957 consecutive TAVR patients (average age 81.8 ± 6.5

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Reperfusion in Patients With ST-Segment–Elevation Myocardial Infarction With Cardiogenic Shock and Prolonged Interhospital Transport Times

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:In patients with ST-segment–elevation myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock, primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI) is the preferred revascularization option. pharmacoinvasive and 46.2% pharmacoinvasive and 46.2%

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Excimer Laser Coronary Angioplasty

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

But, still they also did not increase MACCE, major bleeding or death when a large database of the British Cardiovascular Interventional Society was analyzed and published in 2021, which had nearly 1500 cases of laser angioplasty and about 150 cases of RASER angioplasty.