DAIC

APRIL 8, 2024

The study focused on patients who underwent PCI for acute coronary syndromes (ACS)—life-threatening conditions which include heart attacks and chest pain caused by decreased blood flow to the heart—with stents containing drugs to prevent further plaque buildup. Stents were supplied by Medtronic Corp.

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DAIC

APRIL 11, 2024

These new findings suggest that people with high-risk plaques that are likely to rupture could benefit from the procedure as a pre-emptive measure rather than waiting for a heart attack or other severe reduction in blood flow to occur. During PCI, an operator inserts a stent into a blocked artery through a catheter in the groin or arm.

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DAIC

MARCH 1, 2024

Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) approval for the AGENT Drug-Coated Balloon (DCB), which is indicated to treat coronary in-stent restenosis (ISR) in patients with coronary artery disease. ISR is the obstruction or narrowing of a stented vessel by plaque or scar tissue. vs. 28.7%; P=0.006).

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Diseased human arteries are most simply, reliably, and successfully treated with drug-eluting, balloon-expandable stents," said Lewis B. Encouraged by the early clinical results, Efemoral Medical is now developing an additional device for treating below-the-knee (infrapopliteal) arteries in patients with CLTI.

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DAIC

MARCH 13, 2024

suggest that the drug-coated balloon offers an effective treatment strategy for the management of coronary in-stent restenosis, or blockages recurring within previously placed stents. In particular, patients with multiple prior stents have very poor long-term outcomes.

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DAIC

MAY 3, 2024

Around 10% of Deaths from Coronary Stenting, Balloon Angioplasty are Preventable 9. 24: SGLT-2 Inhibitors Show Mixed Results After Heart Attack 10. New Study Published in JACC: Heart Failure Reveals that Despite Significant Efforts to Improve Acute Heart Failure Treatment Over the Past 20 Years, Management Remains Unchanged

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DAIC

APRIL 8, 2024

The findings call into question the routine use of beta blockers for all patients following a heart attack, which have stood as a mainstay of care for decades. Approximately 50% of heart attack survivors do not experience heart failure. Over a median follow-up period of 3.5

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

As a result, healthcare faces rising expenses from frequent emergency room visits, lengthy hospital stays, costly procedures like stent placements and bypass surgeries, as well as the long-term management of chronic conditions like heart failure (HF). These costs represent a massive portion of total health expenditures.

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DAIC

MAY 14, 2024

The impact of this narrowing can ultimately result in angina (chest pain), which has been shown to double the risk of major cardiovascular events,1 as well as myocardial infarction ( heart attack ) or even death.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MARCH 2, 2009

male presents because he "thought he might be having a heart attack." reports MI in 2001 with a stent placed in the "marginal" artery. First, this patient had a known stent in the "marginal" artery and thought he was having a heart attack. He reports intermittent CP and SOB for 2-3 days.

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AMS Cardiology

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Myth 1: Heart Disease Only Affects Older Adults While it’s true that age is a risk factor, heart disease can affect individuals of all ages. Recently there has been a concerning rise in heart attacks and strokes among young adults, often due to unhealthy lifestyle choices such as poor diet, lack of exercise and excessive stress.

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Physiologically Speaking

JANUARY 5, 2024

Is HIIT too dangerous for individuals after heart surgery or who’ve suffered a heart attack? Importantly, all of the participants had recently undergone percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) — a surgical procedure in which a stent is placed in a coronary artery to open up a blockage.

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DAIC

APRIL 5, 2024

IVL is a minimally invasive, catheter-based treatment for calcified arterial lesions, which can reduce blood flow and cause pain or heart attack. IVL helps restore blood flow by cracking calcium lesions using sonic pressure waves and is used in both CAD and PAD, often in combination with stenting.

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All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

APRIL 17, 2024

A view from the right side of the heart shows the right coronary artery which has been marked as RCA. This is another major blood vessel supplying oxygenated blood to the heart. Sudden blockage of any of these blood vessels can cause a heart attack. CT angiogram is useful in detecting major blocks in these blood vessels.

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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. Having no evidence of plaque on both of these tests reflects a very low risk of a heart attack in the next five to ten years.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MAY 13, 2024

He noted that his father died from a heart attack in his early 50s prompting his presentation to the emergency department. The culprit mid LAD lesion was stented. He reported substernal chest pressure with radiation to his left arm that started at work several hours prior to arrival and had somewhat improved since onset.

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MIBHS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Women often experience heart disease differently than men, with risk factors and symptoms that can be easily overlooked or misinterpreted. A key difference lies in how women and men experience heart attacks. Nausea or Vomiting : Women may experience digestive issues like nausea, vomiting, or indigestion during a heart attack.

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta

AUGUST 31, 2022

This is called the Primary Bank because it is only for those people who have never had a heart attack or a stroke but are looking to prevent one from happening by taking Aspirin daily. heart attacks or strokes) if you have no previous history of vascular events? These numbers are called the numbers needed to treat i.e

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Dr. Anish Koka

MAY 16, 2023

There may be no better study to symbolize the dysfunction that has invaded cardiology than the VIRGO trial, a study examining the outcomes of young patients (18-55) presenting to the hospital with a heart attack. More cardiac injury means more dead heart muscle, and a larger scar.

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta

MARCH 6, 2022

So cardiomyopathies, valve problems, myocarditis and previous heart attacks all cause a problem with the pumping function of the heart. Patients with a completely normal CT scan are very unlikely to have a heart attack within the next 3-5 years. The problem with CT scanning is if you see something.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

He stated it was similar to prior heart attacks. He was taken to the cath lab where he was found to have acute total occlusion of his saphenous vein graft to his RCA, which was stented. The pain was still ongoing at arrival. He also noted a bilateral "odd feeling" in his arms. No further troponins were measured.

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Dr. Anish Koka

JULY 15, 2023

Heartflow is a California based company that claims to be able to identify heart vessels leading to a lack of blood to the heart muscle that need coronary stents to fix. Does Brad need a Heartflow scan?

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Wellnest

JULY 19, 2023

Have you wondered what causes a heart attack? Three coronary arteries supply blood to the heart. When one of these arteries becomes completely blocked by a blood clot, it results in a heart attack, also known as MI (Myocardial infarction). So, how do you recognize a heart attack?

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MARCH 1, 2025

He reports this was similar to how he felt when he had his heart attack 4 years prior, now s/p 4 stents. As per Dr. Smith this patient has known coronary disease from a previous MI, and in his words his CP ( C hest P ain ) felt "like his previous heart attack". We are not told how ECG #1 was interpreted.

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