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Friday, July 10, 2009 | Source: American Journal of Medicine: Cardiac CTA for Chest Pain Detects High Number of Insignificant Findings
By L.A. McKeown
A small portion of patients who present to the emergency department with acute chest pain have noncoronary incidental findings on cardiac computed tomographic…
Friday, July 10, 2009 | Source: JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions: Leading Japanese PCI Center Documents CTO Experience
By Caitlin E. Cox
Advances in technique and improved guidewires have improved success rates and curbed complications from percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for chronic…
Thursday, July 09, 2009 | Source: Circulation: Early Evaluation for ICD After Primary PCI May Prevent Sudden Deaths
By Jason Kahn
A system to determine which patients should receive implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)…
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 | Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery: Carotid Endarterectomy Imparts Long-Term Survival Benefit in the Very Elderly
By Caitlin E. Cox
Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) in elderly patients achieves short and long term results that are comparable to those found in younger patients. Furthermore,…
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 | Source: Heart: ECG Technique Reduces CTA Radiation Dosage by 75% vs. Standard Angiography
By Kim Dalton
Low dose multidetector CT angiography (CTA) provides accurate evaluation of coronary artery disease (CAD) at significantly lower radiation exposure than…
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 | Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions: SYNTAX Scoring Predicts Outcomes in Unprotected Left Main Patients Undergoing PCI
By L.A. McKeown
New research takes the SYNTAX score a step further by showing that it can be used to accurately predict cardiac mortality and major adverse cardiac events…
Monday, July 06, 2009 | Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions: Long-Term Survival Worse in Patients with Renal Impairment, Even with DES
By Kim Dalton
Patients with at least moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD) who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) face poorer long term outcomes compared…
Monday, July 06, 2009 | Source: Circulation: AAA Survival Improves as Endovascular Approach Gains Traction
By Jason Kahn
Over an 18 year period, survival rates from unruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair have improved, while those for ruptured AAAs have remained…
Thursday, July 02, 2009 | Source: American Journal of Cardiology: Higher Statin Dose Lowers Contrast Nephropathy in ACS Patients
By Jason Kahn
In a study of 2 statin doses (20 mg and 80 mg) given to patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) prior to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI),…
Thursday, July 02, 2009 | Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery: Endovascular Approach Takes Lead Over Surgery for AAA Repair
By Alison Palkhivala
Endovascular repair for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) is rapidly outstripping the conventional open surgical approach in the United States, particularly…