When Should Ablation Be Considered in the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation – A Clinician’s View
Condition Points C CHF 1 H HTN 1 A2 Age ≥75 years 2 D Diabetes mellitus 1 S2 Prior stroke or TIA or TE 2 V Vascular disease 1…
Cost-Benefit of TAVR: Should Indications Be Expanded?
STS PROM (%) PARTNER A [3] 11.8 PARTNER B [4] 11.2 PARTNER TF continuous access 10.5 Corevalve extreme risk [9] 10.3 Corevalve extreme risk continuous access 9 Corevalve high…
Managing Intracoronary Thrombus During PCI
Setting Device End point Result Stone et al. [3] AMI (n = 496) GuardWirea Infarct size, ST-segment resolution Negative Muramatsu et al. [4] AMI (n = 341) Guardwirea Blush score 3 Negative Gick…
Myocardial Infarction Diagnosis, Troponin Elevation and Angiographic Coronary Artery Disease
(1) UCSF-Fresno Medical Education Program, Department of Cardiology, University of California, Fresno, CA, USA (2) Chief of Cardiology, UCSF Fresno, Fresno, CA, USA (3) Department of Medicine, UCSF Community Regional…
DAPT After Stenting in Stable and Acute Coronary Syndromes- Does the Drug Combination Really Matter?
Stable CAD ACS Usual TR High TR/low BR Usual TR High TR Usual BR High BR Usual BR High BR Clopidogrel +++ +++ + ++ – ++a Prasugrel –…
Coronary Stenting Remains the First Revascularization Option in Most Patients with a Clinical Indication for Myocardial Revascularization
Crude event rates % Kaplan-Meier estimates % Variables PCI (n = 1518) CABG (n = 1533) p PCI (n = 1518) CABG (n = 1533) HR (95 % CI) p Death 8.5(129/1518) 8.2 (125/1533) 0.74 8.5 8.2…
CT Angiography Versus Routine Stress Testing for Patients with Chest Pain Seen in the Emergency Room to Exclude Significant Coronary Artery Disease
Fig. 7.1 Acute chest pain with normal ECG in a 55 year old female with hypertension and hypercholesterolemia as coronary risk factors. The patient is rapidly discharged after computed tomography…
Editorial Comments on the Chapters
(1) Chief of Cardiology, UCSF Fresno, Fresno, CA, USA (2) Department of Medicine, UCSF Community Regional Medical Center, Fresno, CA, USA (3) Cardiac Unit, Department of Interventional Cardiology, Revista Argentina…
Advanced and Expensive Cardiovascular Procedures in the Very Elderly–Can We or Should We Limit Access?
(1) Department of Cardiology, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE, USA Pranav Kansara Email: pkansara@christianacare.org Abstract With the increasing proportion of elderly patients in the population, physicians are often…
Radial and Femoral Access in Percutaneous Intervention
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015John A. Ambrose and Alfredo E. Rodríguez (eds.)Controversies in Cardiology10.1007/978-3-319-20415-4_24 24. Radial and Femoral Access in Percutaneous Intervention Francesco Costa1, 2 and Marco Valgimigli3, 4 (1) Department of Interventional Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus…
