Med Page Today

APRIL 30, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- For patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) and chronic limb-threatening ischemia, drug-eluting stents and drug-coated balloons did not improve amputation-free survival compared with balloon angioplasty alone in the BASIL.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

24: Joint American College of Cardiology/Journal of the American College of Cardiology Late-Breaking Clinical Trials (Session 402) Saturday, April 6 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. ET Main Tent (Hall B1) This session offers more insights from key clinical trials presented at ACC.24 24 and find out what it all means for your patients.

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Ken Grauer, MD

APRIL 9, 2023

As discussed in ECG Blog #108 — AIVR generally occurs in one of the following C linical S ettings : i ) As a rhythm during cardiac arrest; ii ) In the monitoring phase of acute MI ( especially with inferior MI ) ; or , iii ) As a reperfusion arrhythmia ( ie, following thrombolysis, acute angioplasty, or spontaneous reperfusion ).

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Heart 2023 Conference

APRIL 20, 2022

(Source: JAMA Cardiology) Patients with afib who survived an intracerebral haemorrhage had a very significant risk of cerebrovascular ischemia episodes and death in the following year, according to registry data. American College of Cardiology Journal) Are you thinking of stopping your antiplatelet medication too soon after angioplasty?

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Normally, concavity in ST segments suggests absence of anterior ischemia (though concavity by itself is not reassuring - see this study ). The lesion was intervened on with balloon angioplasty and had subsequent TIMI 3 flow. In there ECG evidence of possible ongoing ischemia? (ie, There was initially TIMI 0 flow. Herzog et al.

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Chest Pain Myocardial Infarction Cardiac Arrest Ischemia 52

Dr. Anish Koka

MAY 16, 2023

The CDC wonder database that tracks mortality data shows just how much more deadly heart disease is in men than women. The table below shows mortality from heart disease for men vs women in 2000. Men die of heart disease at more than two times the rate women die starting at the age of 35. This happens.

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