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Abstract WMP94: Trends in Co-morbidities and Mortality in Rescue Stenting and Elective Stenting for Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease: National Inpatient Sample Data Analysis

Stroke Journal

National Inpatient Sample (NIS) database from 2009 to 2020, evaluating patients who presented with stroke from ICAD and were treated with angioplasty and stenting and analyzed presenting co-morbidities and patient outcomes. There were significantly higher incidences in uncontrolled hypertension (28.2% vs 7.9%), diabetes (33.6%

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A dialysis patient with nonspecific symptoms and pseudonormalization of ST segments

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

His inpatient clinicians did not think that an urgent angiogram was warranted given that he was chest pain free, his EKG appeared nondiagnostic, and serial troponins were not elevating beyond 2 ug/L. The lesion was intervened on with balloon angioplasty and had subsequent TIMI 3 flow. There was initially TIMI 0 flow. Herzog et al.