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…
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…
(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…
(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…
© 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…
American Heart Association (AHA)/American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Diabetes Association (ADA) [22] 1. Aspirin is reasonable in diabetic patient whose 10 year risk of events is >10 % and who…
Distribution: jaw, neck, back, arm, abdomen, left chest Onset: at rest, during sleep, post-prandial, during mental stress Character: sharp, stabbing, fleeting Associated symptoms: nausea, vomiting, fatigue, dyspnea, palpitations, indigestion, sweating,…
Fig. 19.1 Impact of renal impairment on cardiovascular outcomes Patients with CKD are predisposed towards more complex CAD, with a higher prevalence of multivessel disease, proximal or left main disease…
17. Mancini GB, Hartigan PM, Shaw LJ, et al. Predicting outcome in the COURAGE trial (Clinical Outcomes Utilizing Revascularization and Aggressive Drug Evaluation): coronary anatomy versus ischemia. JACC Cardiovasc Interv….
(1) Division of Cardiology, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2) Division of Cardiology, The Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and the Heart and Stroke Richard Lewar Centre…
