More than 10 million people, many elderly and likely to harbor cardiovascular (CV) disease, embark on cruise ship travel worldwide every year. The clinical presentation and outcome of CV emergencies…
We sought to determine the outcome with undersized drug-eluting stents for percutaneous coronary intervention of saphenous vein graft lesions. Using intravascular ultrasound guidance, 209 saphenous vein graft lesions were treated…
Although cilostazol has decreased restenosis and target lesion revascularization (TLR) after drug-eluting stent implantation, it is not known if this effect is durable at 2 years. We analyzed 2 randomized…
In this study we investigated the impact of acute coronary syndromes (ACSs) on clinical outcomes in patients with unprotected left main coronary artery (ULMCA) stenosis treated with drug-eluting stents (DESs)….
Compared to unfractionated heparin (UFH), bivalirudin decreases bleeding during percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs). We sought to investigate the association between periprocedural bleeding and 1-year mortality as a function of antithrombotic…
The additive prognostic value of coronary flow reserve (CFR) over regional wall motion has been established, but there is more than a binary (normal–abnormal) response in CFR, which can be…
Long-term survival in Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) survivors is complicated by an increased risk for coronary artery disease (CAD) due to radiation-induced endothelial damage. Our objective was to quantify total coronary…
Some investigations have looked into the ability of measurements of apolipoprotein B/apolipoprotein A-I (apoB/apoA-I) ratio to predict cardiovascular events. We hypothesized that a decrease in the apoB/apoA-1 ratio by statin…
Previous studies have suggested that patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) in rural areas may have worse outcomes due to limited availability of specialists, fewer resources, and less institutional funding….
