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Study Demonstrates Abelacimab Significantly Reduced Bleeding in Patients Regardless of Age, Bleeding Risk

DAIC

Ruff, MD, MPH, senior investigator of TIMI Group, director General Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and associate professor, Harvard Medical School. There is a need for safer anticoagulants that can prevent thrombotic events while minimizing excess bleeding, said Christian T.

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Fractional flow reserve for guiding coronary intervention and functional SYNTAX score

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Using a side branch stent increases the risk of stent thrombosis in the main vessel and is especially to be avoided in a thrombotic situation as in acute myocardial infarction. Usually a stent is considered in bifurcation disease only if the side branch is large and almost equal in size to the distal vessel.

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Highlights of ACC 2024

Cardiology Update

The primary non-inferiority endpoint was MACCE (a composite of cardiac death, MI, ischaemic stroke, stent thrombosis, or target vessel revascularisation). The primary superiority endpoint was clinically relevant bleeding (Bleeding Academic Research Consortium [known as BARC] types 2, 3, or 5).

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