Interventional Cardiology News

• SCAI 2020To Fast or Not to Fast Before Elective Cardiac Catheterization No restriction of oral intake just as safe as traditional NPO strategy prior to nonemergent cardiac catheterization, a randomized controlled trial showed.
  Medscape Medical News, May 21, 2020
• SCAI 2020SCAI Weighs In on PCI at Ambulatory Surgical Centers The society stressed that quality must be the same as in the hospital setting, but no registry exists in this space to track ongoing quality or safety.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2020
• SCAI 2020TWILIGHT Outcomes Hold Regardless of Stent Platform Results of a new prespecified subanalysis may obviate concerns about the risk/benefit ratio of ticagrelor monotherapy after stenting in high-risk patients.
  Medscape Medical News, May 15, 2020
• SCAI 2020With Massive Reach, Telemedicine Transforms STEMI Care A telemedicine approach to remotely guide ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction treatment in four Latin American countries resulted in a mortality rate of 5.2%, results from an observational study showed.
  Medscape Medical News, May 15, 2020
• Alert Class I Recall for Applied Medical's Embolectomy Catheters More than 19,000 Python and Bard embolectomy catheters and OTW Latis cleaning catheters have been recalled because the catheter tip could detach during use causing patient harm.
  News Alerts, May 12, 2020
• Trial Suggests Benefit of Very Early Invasive Treatment for NSTE-ACS When No Pretreatment Given Very early invasive treatment cuts the risk of ischemic events in patients with NSTE-ACS who have not been pretreated, according to a new randomized trial.
  Reuters Health Information, May 05, 2020
• Should STEMI Care Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic? Cardiologists differ regarding the management of STEMI during the COVID-19 pandemic, with some favoring fibrinolytic therapy and others advocating continued use of primary PCI. Two new articles examine these contrasting perspectives.
  Reuters Health Information, May 05, 2020
• EuroPCR 2020 Canceled as SCAI, SCCT, TVT Go Virtual In a sign of the times and things to come, in-person cardiovascular society meetings pivot to virtual events.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2020
• Repeat TAVR Outcomes 'Reassuring' A registry study provides the largest cohort of redo TAVR patients to date and provides some comfort to clinicians concerned about long-term valve durability.
  Medscape Medical News, April 28, 2020
• ACC 2020AUGUSTUS: After ACS or PCI, Aspirin Gives AFib Patients Scant Benefit When patients with atrial fibrillation have an acute coronary syndrome event or undergo PCI, benefit from a triple antithrombotic regimen is only about 30 days, a post hoc analysis of AUGUSTUS shows.
  Medscape Medical News, April 27, 2020
• CVD Risk Scores May Underestimate Danger for Some Women With Ischemia Commonly used CVD risk scores fail to accurately predict MACE in women with evidence of ischemia and no obstructive coronary artery disease, a recent study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, April 23, 2020
• Consensus Recommendations on AMI Management During COVID-19 The ACC, ACEP, and SCAI provide consensus recommendations for a systematic approach for the care of patients with an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2020
• New Classification Urged for PFO-Associated Stroke A large group of experts is calling for a new classification of stroke likely to have been caused by a PFO, which they say will help raise awareness and improve detection and treatment of these patients.
  Medscape Medical News, April 21, 2020
• Could Preoperative Metformin Improve Major-Surgery Outcomes? An observational study hints that metformin may be 'an ideal pharmacologic prehabilitation agent, training patients' bodies to better respond to the major stress of a surgical intervention.'
  Medscape Medical News, April 17, 2020
• CABG Bests PCI in Evidence-Poor Arena of Systolic Dysfunction With the PCI vs CABG long-term trial experience short on patients with poor systolic function, a large propensity-matched cohort study for now could help guide treatment decisions, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2020
• ACC 2020TWILIGHT-COMPLEX: Tap Ticagrelor Monotherapy Early After Complex PCI Patients who underwent complex PCI for acute coronary syndrome followed by 3 months of dual-antiplatelet therapy with ticagrelor fared significantly better after the discontinuation of aspirin.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2020
• Global Appeal to MI, Stroke Patients to Seek Care Amid Pandemic Concerns of contracting COVID-19 and social distancing may be prompting patients to ignore their symptoms, 'causing a new public health crisis,' one observer says.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2020
• Both Doubts and Hope for Stents in Lipid-Rich Culprit Lesions Drug-eluting stent PCI of lipid-rich plaques by spectroscopic imaging did not adversely affect outcomes in the COLOR registry, researchers say. An editorialist said: 'The results were not favorable.'
  Medscape Medical News, April 13, 2020
• Alert FDA Class 1 Recall of Imager II Angiographic Catheters Boston Scientific's Imager II 5F angiographic catheters have been recalled because the catheter tip may become detached during a patient procedure or during procedure prep.
  News Alerts, April 07, 2020
• CABG Tied to Lower Death Rate in MI Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock Coronary-artery-bypass grafting (CABG) is associated with lower in-hospital mortality in myocardial infarction (MI) complicated by cardiogenic shock, compared with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), according to a database study.
  Reuters Health Information, April 06, 2020