Medical Xpress - Cardiology

MAY 17, 2024

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a surgical procedure that improves blood flow to the heart tissue and can effectively treat myocardial ischemia caused by coronary artery disease.

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CardiacWire

MAY 10, 2024

A study in the Journal of Vascular Surgery revealed that adding FFRCT assessments to patient workups prior to peripheral artery disease surgeries has a massive impact on coronary artery disease detection, treatments, and long-term outcomes.

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DAIC

MAY 8, 2024

1 Atherosclerosis is a systemic disease that affects multiple vascular regions and is particularly severe in PAD patients, where up to 80 percent suffer from concurrent coronary artery disease (CAD), historically linked with a mortality rate exceeding 50 percent within five years. Journal of Vascular Surgery, Mar.

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ECG Guru

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The most likely cause of this type of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia during a stress EKG is cardiac ischemia/coronary artery disease. The QT interval of the sinus beats does not appear prolonged, thus ruling out Torsades de Pointes tachycardia.

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EMS 12-Lead

APRIL 9, 2024

Many of the changes seen are reminiscent of LVH with “strain,” and downstream Echo may very well corroborate such a suspicion, but since the ECG isn’t the best tool for definitively establishing the presence of LVH, we must favor a subendocardial ischemia pattern, instead. Type I ischemia. Type II ischemia.

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DAIC

MARCH 27, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its DynamX BTK System, a novel, adaptive implant for use in the treatment of narrowed or blocked vessels below-the-knee (BTK) in patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI). The natural history of untreated severe or critical limb ischemia. 2013;382(9901):1329-1340. J Vasc Surg.

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DAIC

JULY 23, 2024

Yang is also winner of the SCCT Best Abstract Award for his submission, “Coronary CT Angiography-derived Precursors Of Acute Coronary Syndrome In Ischemia-causing Lesions.”

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DAIC

APRIL 11, 2024

PCI is commonly used to open blocked arteries to treat significant myocardial ischemia , which occurs when the heart muscle does not get enough oxygenated blood. To test this strategy, researchers enrolled 1,606 patients treated for coronary artery disease at 15 centers in four countries.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MARCH 17, 2024

Background Refractory angina (RA) is a chronic condition characterized by the presence of debilitating angina symptoms due to established reversible ischemia in the presence of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD).

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DAIC

MARCH 20, 2024

The Freesolve BTK RMS is designed for individuals suffering from chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI). CLTI is the most severe form of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), estimated to affect 11% of the 200 million people suffering from PAD globally. Jörg Pochert, President of Vascular Intervention at Biotronik.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In general, there is no debate here regarding the need for stenting a coronary artery. Share Stenting In Stable Coronary Artery Disease The real debate relates to the role of stenting in the setting of a severely narrow coronary artery outside the setting of a heart attack. Makes total sense.

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Cardiology Update

APRIL 30, 2024

The highly impactful International Study of Comparative Health Effectiveness With Medical and Invasive Approaches ( ISCHEMIA ) trial investigated the effectiveness of invasive (INV) versus conservative (CON) strategies for managing stable coronary artery disease. Original article: Gaudino M et al. EuroIntervention.

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All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

APRIL 21, 2024

indicates inducible ischemia while an FFR above 0.80 excludes ischemia in 90% of cases. FAME study showed that at one year follow up, rate of major adverse coronary events was reduced by approximately 30% by routinely measuring FFR. There is a strong correlation between FFR and inducible myocardial ischemia. in the study.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JANUARY 7, 2024

Introduction The use of contemporary drug-eluting stents (DES) has significantly improved outcomes of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). had multivessel disease (MVD) and in 3.3% At 1 year, only two (0.5%) subjects presented ischemia-driven TLR.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It further reported that these results underscore the strong and positive effect of the Cleerly products on clinical utility for patients with suspected coronary artery disease. “We High Diagnostic Accuracy Of AI-Ischemia in Comparison To PET, FFR-CT, SPECT, and Invasive FFR: A PACIFIC Sub-Study. James Min, M.D.

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All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

APRIL 13, 2024

This highlights the need for serial ECGs in acute coronary syndrome as initial ECGs may be near normal even in those with severe disease. Classical electrocardiographic pattern in left main coronary artery disease is ST elevation in aVR with extensive ST depression in other leads, most prominent in I, II and V4-V6.

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DAIC

MAY 16, 2024

Risk factors for PAD include smoking; having Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, chronic kidney disease, atherosclerosis in other parts of the body (such as coronary artery disease); and being age 75 years or older. It has been estimated that less than 5% of patients with PAD in the U.S.

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DAIC

MARCH 6, 2024

milla1cf Wed, 03/06/2024 - 18:48 March 6, 2024 — Cleerly , the company on a mission to create a new standard of care to aid in the diagnosis of heart disease, has been granted Breakthrough Device Designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) for its Coronary Artery Disease ( CAD ) Staging System.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 1, 2023

CT coronary angiography, in addition to a CT CAC, is arguably the best test for estimating whether someone has evidence of coronary artery disease and what that means for their near-term risk of a heart attack. 2019 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of chronic coronary syndromes. N Engl J Med.

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DAIC

JANUARY 23, 2024

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), caused by plaque buildup in arterial walls, is one of the leading causes of disability and death worldwide.1,2 1,2 ASCVD causes or contributes to conditions that include coronary artery disease (CAD), cerebrovascular disease, and peripheral vascular disease (inclusive of aortic aneurysm).3

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Coronary Artery Disease Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

Background Untreated multivessel disease (MVD) in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has been linked to a higher risk of recurrent ischemia and death within one year. The immediate non-IRA PCI is associated with a significantly lower occurrence of unplanned ischemia-driven PCI (OR 0.60; confidence interval [CI] 0.44–0.83)

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

His response: “subendocardial ischemia. Smith : It should be noted that, in subendocardial ischemia, in contrast to OMI, absence of wall motion abnormality is common. With the history of Afib, CTA abdomen was ordered to r/o mesenteric ischemia vs ischemic colitis vs small bowel obstruction. Anything more on history?

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Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

IntroductionTransient Ischemic Attack (TIA) is a common neurologic condition characterized by temporary, focal cerebral ischemia that results in reversible neurological deficits without tissue infarction. Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology, Volume 3, Issue S2 , November 1, 2023.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

By Magnus Nossen, edits by Grauer and Smith The patient is a 70-something female with DMII, HTN and an extensive prior history of coronary artery disease and myocardial infarctions. ECG#1 Assessing ischemia on an ECG with wide QRS complexes (AIVR, ventricular pacing, BBB, etc) can be challenging. What do you think?

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I quickly reviewed the patient’s records and saw that she was a 53 year old woman with a history of BMI 40, but no other identifiable risk factors for coronary artery disease. This proves effective treatment of the recurrent ischemia. The patient had no further symptoms of ischemia.

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Wellnest

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Poor blood supply Ischemia, or inadequate blood supply to the heart, is an abnormality that can be detected in an ECG test. Coronary artery disease Excessive cholesterol builds up plaque that blocks the arteries supplying blood to the heart. ECG machine can also help diagnose coronary artery disease.

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Dr. Anish Koka

MAY 16, 2023

Diamond and Forrester accomplished this by first establishing the prevalence of coronary artery disease based on how clinically likely patients with chest pain symptoms were found to have coronary disease based on a coronary angiogram. Thanks for reading Dr. Anish Koka's Newsletter! This happens.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 21, 2024

There is no definite evidence of acute ischemia. (ie, Simply stated — t he patient was having recurrent PMVT without Q Tc prolongation, and without evidence of ongoing transmural ischemia. ( If there had been ECG findings indicating reocclusion of the artery — an angiogram would have been warranted ).

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Angiogram No obstructive epicardial coronary artery disease Cannot exclude non-ACS causes of troponin elevation including coronary vasospasm, stress cardiomyopathy, microvascular disease, etc. Detailed coronary artery evaluation not performed. This suggests further severe ischemia.

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DAIC

JANUARY 3, 2024

Traditional methods of non-invasive ischemia testing (stress EKG , stress echo, SPECT , PET , direct-to-cath) can result in false negatives 20-30 percent of the time, which can lead to undetected disease, and false positives over 50 percent of the time, which can lead to unnecessary invasive procedures.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The logic of stenting obstructed coronary arteries is simple. The artery is blocked. A stent unblocks the artery. Subscribe now Stenting stable coronary artery disease has not been convincingly proven to reduce the risk of future heart attacks or death 1. Subscribe now 1 ISCHEMIA Research Group.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Women had less coronary artery disease: multivessel in 60.0% 1.14];P=0.49), with no significant sex‐by‐treatment‐group interactions.ConclusionsWomen had less extensive coronary artery disease and, therefore, lower revascularization rates in the invasive group. of invasive‐assigned men;P<0.001).

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DAIC

MARCH 28, 2024

milla1cf Thu, 03/28/2024 - 07:00 March 28, 2024 — Cleerly , the company on a mission to create a new standard of care to aid in the diagnosis of heart disease, shared findings from a study published online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging on March 13, 2024. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2024.01.007.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Important point: when there is diffuse subendocardial ischemia but no OMI, a wall motion abnormality will not necessarily be present. They agreed ischemia was likely in the setting of demand given DKA and infection. That this is all demand ischemia is unlikely. Lung exam showed diffuse B lines bilaterally. Aslanger's pattern.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

The diagnostic coronary angiogram identified only minimal coronary artery disease, but there was a severely calcified, ‘immobile’ aortic valve. DISCUSSION: The 12-lead EKG EMS initially obtained for this patient showed severe ischemia, with profound "infero-lateral" ST depression and reciprocal ST elevation in lead aVR.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

MAY 10, 2024

In a study published by the American Heart Association, “Sex and Age Differences in the Association of Depression With Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease and Adverse Cardiovascular Events,” researchers investigated 3,237 patients (35% women) undergoing coronary angiography to evaluate for coronary artery disease (CAD).

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

She requires maximal medical management per all current guidelines (including heparin and P2Y12 inhibitor per cardiology), as well as consideration for emergent cath in the case of persistent ischemia. So what will you do for this patient? They found an acute, total, thrombotic occlusion of the proximal LAD. They opened it. Patel et al.,

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