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GE HealthCare and Medis Medical Imaging Announce Collaboration Focused on Non-Invasive Coronary Assessments to Help Advance Precision Care in Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease

DAIC

Together, the two companies will work to further the development and commercialization of Medis Quantitative Flow Ratio (Medis QFR), a non-invasive approach to the assessment of coronary physiology, as part of GE HealthCare’s interventional cardiology portfolio built around the Allia Platform. Use Heart to Act on Angina.

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ORBITA 2: The power of PCI revealed for stable angina

Cardiology Update

The ORBITA-2 trial ( NCT03742050 ) investigated the efficacy of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) compared to placebo in 301 patients with stable angina. At the 12-week mark, the PCI group exhibited a significantly lower mean angina score (2.9) compared to the placebo group (5.6; odds ratio, 2.21; 95% CI, 1.41-3.47;

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Decoding the Menace Within: Unraveling Myocardial Bridges and Exercise-Induced Ischemia

Cardiology Update

The perplexing landscape of angina with nonobstructive coronary arteries (ANOCA) encompasses diverse pathophysiological entities, including coronary microvascular disease (CMD), coronary artery spasm, and the enigmatic myocardial bridging (MB).

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POST-PCI Surveillance Strategies for Multivessel or Left Main Coronary Artery Disease

Cardiology Update

The primary outcome was a composite of death from any cause, myocardial infarction, or hospitalization for unstable angina at 2 years. The analysis composed of participants with multivessel or left main CAD.

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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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Revascularization Strategies in Stable Coronary Artery Disease: ISCHEMIA Trial Insights

Cardiology Update

The study utilized the ISCHEMIA primary outcome, a composite measure of cardiovascular death, protocol-defined myocardial infarction, or hospitalization for unstable angina, heart failure, or resuscitated cardiac arrest. years, with 57.1% occurring within 30 days after CABG.

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Concerning EKG with a Non-obstructive angiogram. What happened?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The commonest causes of MINOCA include: atherosclerotic causes such as plaque rupture or erosion with spontaneous thrombolysis, and non-atherosclerotic causes such as coronary vasospasm (sometimes called variant angina or Prinzmetal's angina), coronary embolism or thrombosis, possibly microvascular dysfunction.

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