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• AHA 2018Speedy Angiography Needed in NSTE ACS Without Prior P2Y12 Inhibitor The EARLY trial also suggests that if there is a delay in sending a patient with non-ST- segment-elevation ACS to the cath lab, the patient should receive aggressive guideline-based medical therapy.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• REGROUP Lifts Cloud Over Endoscopic Vein Harvesting for CABG The less invasive approach is favored by patients, but earlier trials suggested safety concerns with endoscopic vein-graft harvesting.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• REDUCE-IT: 'A New Era' in CVD Prevention With High-Dose EPA High doses of a purified form of the omega-3 oil, eicosapentaenoic acid, showed a large, robust reduction in events, opening an exciting new avenue for CVD prevention, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• FDA Warns of Possible Maquet/Datascope IABP Battery Failure The company's intra-aortic balloon pumps may be at risk of shutting down while operating on its rechargeable battery system, the agency is warning clinicians.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Forearm Blood Flow Preserved Long After Radial Artery Harvest Although rarely used, follow-up out to 22 years provides assurance about the safety of radial artery harvesting in patients undergoing bypass surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2018
• ACEP 2018Hospital Reporting Unrelated to Better Patient Outcomes There is a broad consensus that measuring quality is important, but new emergency medicine data call some of these processes into question because they might not be improving patient care.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2018
• Bariatric Surgery Cuts CAD in Very Obese, but Do Effects Wane? Bariatric surgery reduces macrovascular disease in obese patients with diabetes. Although, weight regain remains a challenge in all patients, if expectations are realistic, it's a good treatment option.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2018
• TCT 2018NIRS-IVUS Imaging Spots Vulnerable Plaques, At-Risk Patients 'Of course, the million-dollar question is, What do you do differently with that information?' remarked one expert.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2018
• CMS Penalties and 30-Day Postdischarge Metrics: Next Chapter Survival didn't suffer after CMS started docking reimbursements based on 30-day readmissions related to heart failure and MI, contrary to an earlier study, an analysis of Medicare data suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2018
• TCT 2018PREPARE-CALC Favors Atherectomy for Heavily Calcified Lesions Rotational atherectomy proved more successful than modified cutting or scoring balloons at improving drug-eluting stent delivery in these tough-to-treat lesions.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2018
• TCT 2018OAC-ALONE: Don't Drop Antiplatelets in AF Post-Stenting Just Yet Oral anticoagulation (OAC) alone could not be shown to be noninferior to OAC plus antiplatelet therapies 1 year after coronary stenting, but study numbers may be at fault.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2018
• TCT 2018ABSORB Trials: Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold Still Not Up to Snuff Absorb BVS met its noninferiority end point against a metal drug-eluting stent but was linked to more adverse events in two large trials, despite better patient selection and improved technique.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2018
• Oscor Recalls Temporary Bipolar Pacing Leads The company issued the recall after reports of four nonfatal but serious injuries related to a failure of connector caps on temporary bipolar pacing leads with 2 mm unshrouded connectors.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2018
• TCT 2018ReCre8: Polymer-Free Drug-Eluting Stent Passes 1-Year Test The Cre8 stent was noninferior to the Resolute Integrity stent for target lesion failure, but two provocative subanalyses left experts calling for longer results.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018
• TCT 2018FAST-FFR: FFR From Angiography Accuracy Similar to Pressure Wire Fractional-flow reserve values acquired from angiograms during coronary revascularization could be the new standard of care, interventional cardiologists say.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018
• TCT 2018Patient-Prosthesis Mismatch Common in TAVR, Survival Suffers An STS/ACC TVT Registry analysis gives the largest review of this complication, but experts suggest that more details are needed to compare risks between balloon-expandable and self-expanding valves.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018
• TCT 2018TAVR Safe With Either of Two Valves, Two Types of Anesthesia High-risk patients receiving either a self-expandable CoreValve Evolut R or a balloon-expandable SAPIEN 3 valve under either local or general anesthesia had similar outcomes in SOLVE-TAVI.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018
• Alert FDA Approves Eluvia Paclitaxel-Polymer Stent for PAD Approval of the Boston Scientific stent for peripheral arterial disease, which is designed to delivery paclitaxel gradually over the course of a year, was based on the IMPERIAL trial.
  FDA Approvals, September 2018
• TCT 2018PADN-5: Ablation Reduces Pulmonary Hypertension in HF Pulmonary artery denervation improved hemodynamic and clinical outcomes at 6 months, but design flaws in the sham-controlled study may muddy the results, a clinical trials expert cautions.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018
• TCT 2018Indirect Annuloplasty Device Reduces Mitral Regurgitation In REDUCE-FMR, mean regurgitation volume was significantly decreased in HF patients receiving the Carillon mitral contour system vs sham-operated controls, despite a less severely ill population.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018