Interventional Cardiology News

• EuroPCR 2023 No Signal of Higher Noncardiac Death With Revascularization Contrary to previous findings, no increased risk of noncardiac mortality was associated with revascularization in a meta-analysis of 18 trials.
  Medscape Medical News, May 30, 2023
• Ticagrelor, DAPT Equal in Preventing Repeat Revascularization After percutaneous coronary intervention, ticagrelor alone or with aspirin are equally effective in preventing repeat revascularization at one year in a post-hoc TWILIGHT analysis.
  MDedge News, May 30, 2023
• Real-World Data Validate ESC Risk Model in NSTE-ACS A real-world study has potentially validated a risk model put forward by the European Society of Cardiology for management of acute coronary syndromes without persistent ST-segment elevation.
  MDedge News, May 25, 2023
• EuroPCR 2023 Novel Bioadaptable Stent Noninferior to DES, With Advantages A new device called bioadaptable, as opposed to bioabsorbable, was noninferior to a widely used drug eluting stent, and associated with several vessel functional improvements, in the BIOADAPTER trial.
  MDedge News, May 23, 2023
• Distal Radial Access Doesn't Harm Hand Function at 1 Year A head-to-head comparison of distal vs proximal radial artery access for coronary interventions found no difference in hand function a year later.
  MDedge News, May 23, 2023
• EuroPCR 2023 Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Repair Effective in Real World "Real world" data show that safety and efficacy results with two transcatheter tricuspid valve repair systems mirror those seen in the clinical trials approvals were based on.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2023
• Endovascular Approach Best for Below-Knee Ischemia? For patients with chronic limb threatening ischemia due to atherosclerosis, first revascularization using endovascular treatment was superior to vein bypass surgery in the BASIL-2 trial.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2023
• Simple Insulin Sensitivity Score Stratifies Post-CABG Risk A simple-to-obtain measure of insulin resistance can stratify cardiac risk in patients who have undergone coronary artery bypass graft surgery to better guide follow-up care.
  First Look, May 10, 2023
• EHRA 2023 Hybrid Ablation Beats Endocardial Alone for Persistent AF A two-stage protocol of epicardial ablation followed by endocardial ablation controlled persistent atrial fibrillation better than endocardial ablation alone, in the CEASE-AF study.
  Medscape Medical News, April 24, 2023
• New ASE Guideline on Interventional Echocardiography Training The guideline outlines standards for training institutions and minimum competencies for clinicians who plan to specialize in the emerging subspecialty of interventional echocardiography.
  Medscape Medical News, April 06, 2023
• Disparities in MI Outcomes Persist Across Healthcare Systems Income-based disparities in care and outcomes for patients with acute MI are seen around the world, despite vastly different healthcare and social safety net systems, a new study shows.
  Medscape Medical News, April 05, 2023
• Music and Med School: Student Advises Contestants on The Voice A finalist of last season's nationally televised singing contest recounts his experience juggling med school and vocal performances with tips for those competing on the current show.
  Medscape Medical News, March 29, 2023
• High Biomarker Level Plus Diabetes Predict Bad PCI Outcomes High platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio and type 2 diabetes boosted the risk for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events and stent thrombosis in people undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.
  First Look, March 28, 2023
• ACC/WCC 2023 Half-dose TNK for STEMI Without Timely PCI: STREAM-2 For older patients with ST elevation MI where timely primary PCI is not possible, a pharmaco-invasive approach with half-dose tenecteplase is an effective alternative strategy, a new trial suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, March 09, 2023
• In Early Days, Bioabsorbable Stent Rivals Nonabsorbable Devices Late lumen loss with a new bioabsorbable drug-eluting stent is on par with nonabsorbable devices in early data.
  MDedge News, March 08, 2023
• ACC/WCC 2023 Encouraging 3-Year Data for TAVR in Low-Risk Patients: EVOLUT The 3-year results show that low-surgical-risk patients undergoing aortic valve replacement continue to show lower rates of all-cause mortality and disabling stroke with TAVR compared with surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, March 06, 2023
• ACC/WCC 2023 Intravascular Imaging Bests Angiography for Complex PCI In stent placement for complex coronary lesions, intravascular imaging reduces events relative to angiography.
  MDedge News, March 05, 2023
• ACC/WCC 2023 Viability-Guided PCI Doubted in Stable Severe CAD: REVIVED-BCIS2 Is myocardial viability testing for guiding PCI decisions currently used in the best way? A secondary analysis from the main trial suggests not.
  Medscape Medical News, March 04, 2023
• Risk for Stent Infection Low but May Be Underreported A systematic review of coronary stent infections leads an investigator to question whether these events are underreported.
  MDedge News, March 03, 2023
• ISC 2023 Tirofiban Superior to Aspirin in Stroke Without Large Occlusion Among patients with disabling strokes without medium or large occlusions, more of those taking tirofiban had good function at 90 days than those on aspirin, results of the RESCUE BT2 trial show.
  Medscape Medical News, March 02, 2023