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Long-term outcomes among stable post-acute myocardial infarction patients living in rural versus urban areas: insights from the prospective, observational TIGRIS registry

Open Heart

Background Insights on the differences in clinical outcomes, quality of life (QoL) and health resource utilisation (HRU) with different levels of care available to post-acute myocardial infarction (AMI) populations in rural and urban settings are limited. Methods The long-Term rIsk, clinical manaGement, and healthcare Resource utilisation of stable coronary artery dISease (TIGRIS), a prospective, observational registry, enrolled 8452 patients aged ≥50 years 1–3 years post-AMI from Ju

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90 years man gets a successful Beating Heart Bypass Surgery

Dr. Prateek Bhatnagar

In a very rare surgery, renowned heart surgeon Dr. Prateek Bhatnagar has successfully done a quadruple bypass surgery on a 90 years old man, hailing from Raipur. The bypass surgery was done on the beating heart using total arterial revascularisation. No cuts were made on the legs. The bypass operation was done without open heart surgery, without any cuts on heart and without stopping the heart.

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Novel Tenzing 7 Delivery Catheter for Thrombectomy in Acute Stroke: A Clinical Multicenter Experience

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology, Volume 3, Issue 6 , November 1, 2023. BackgroundPreliminary in vitro and early clinical experience of the Tenzing 7 delivery catheter demonstrated high success rates of aspiration catheter intracranial delivery with minimal complications. This study aimed to examine the efficacy, safety, and efficiency of the Tenzing 7 delivery catheter to deliver therapeutic devices in aspiration mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischemic strokes using clinical exp

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An alternative method of indexation in aortic stenosis: height-adjusted effective orifice area

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Although indexing effective orifice area (EOA) by body surface area (BSA) is recommended, this method has several disadvantages, since it corrects by acquired fatty tissue. Our aim was to analyze the value of.