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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Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Rescue treatment with stenting, balloon angioplasty, and/or intraarterial thrombolysis or antiplatelets are often required to treat the underlying stenosis. 4 Recent literature has reported clinical benefits associated with rescue stenting in the setting of ICAD‐related MT‐refractory strokes.5

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

Written by Jesse McLaren A 70 year old with prior MIs and stents to LAD and RCA presented to the emergency department with 2 weeks of increasing exertional chest pain radiating to the left arm, associated with nausea. But no ECG met STEMI criteria so the patient was referred to cardiology as Non-STEMI.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MARCH 9, 2013

A stent was placed. For those who depend on echocardiogram to confirm the ECG findings of ischemia, this should be sobering. In this case, the duration of ischemia was so brief that there was no such evolution, and there was near-normalization. Ischemia may be so brief that Wellens' waves do not evolve 3. Lessons: 1.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 1, 2013

Precordial ST depression may be subendocardial ischemia or posterior STEMI. I have warned in the past that one must think of other etiologies of ischemia when there is tachycardia. The OM-1 was opened and stented, then the LAD was stented 3 days later. There is no ST elevation. How can we tell the difference?

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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. It was thought to be an in stent restenosis and thrombosis from a DES placed in the same region 6 months prior.

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Dr. Anish Koka

MAY 16, 2023

The diagnosis typically requires classic clinical features, with no evidence of obstructive coronary disease, and typical findings of ischemia on functional studies. Women also had more cardiovascular risk factors, including hypertension (66.6% versus 63.2%; P <0.001), hyperlipidemia (68.9% versus 66.3%; P =0.004), older age (62.4±7.9

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