Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has emerged as an efficacious and cost-effective treatment for inoperable patients with severe aortic stenosis. For high-risk patients, existing evidence suggests that TAVI has similar…
We aimed to evaluate the feasibility and safety of performing percutaneous carotid stent implantation with a newly designed double-layer stent using transradial slender 5Fr techniques. We recruited 10 consecutive patients…
We read the article by Dr. Rahul Sharma “The choice between an academic versus private practice career in cardiology: a fellow’s perspective.” Dr. Sharma has outlined traditional differences between academic…
There is a general sense that most outcomes trials in patients receiving dialysis failed to yield statistically significant benefits, in contrast to many cardiovascular (CV) trials in the general population….
Two recent studies in the New England Journal of Medicine attempted to cast some light on the question how percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) compares to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)…
The prognostic implications of several baseline preprocedural variables in patients with severe native valve aortic stenosis (AS) undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) are unclear. The goal of this study…
The red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is a quantitative measure of the variability in the size of circulating erythrocytes. We aimed to study whether higher levels of the RDW…
Electrocardiographic voltage has been used to determine the presence of left ventricular hypertrophy for about 70 years. Varying electrocardiographic criteria have been applied. We have found total 12-lead QRS voltage to…
The impact of antithrombotics on cancer is currently under intense investigation because of the excess of solid cancers in trials after thienopyridines such as TRITON (prasugrel), DAPT (prasugrel and clopidogrel),…
