Conference News

EuroPCR DESSOLVE III: Novel Drug-Eluting MiStent Passes 1-Year Test The ultrathin MiStent with a fast-dissolving polymer and prolonged drug elution held its ground for efficacy against the mainstay Xience stent.
News, June 01, 2017
EuroPCR Good News From the Far East for Beleaguered Absorb Scaffold Scaffold thrombosis, an Achilles' heel of the device, occurred in just one patient between years 2 and 3 in ABSORB JAPAN and ABSORB CHINA.
News, May 31, 2017
EuroPCR SURTAVI: Early Stroke Rate Favors TAVR Over Surgery Most disabling strokes clustered around the transcatheter aortic-valve implantation procedure itself, while extending days beyond surgical aortic replacement.
News, May 30, 2017
EuroPCR EuroCTO: PCI for Chronic Total Occlusion May Improve QOL PCI resulted in less angina than optimal medical therapy, though the trial was plagued by poor recruitment and leaves CTO PCI still seeking RCT validation.
News, May 26, 2017
SCAI Post-TAVR Bleeding Unaffected by Valve Type in BRAVO 3 Nor did the 30-day risk of cardiac events vary between patients receiving balloon-expandable on non-balloon-expandable valves in the post hoc analysis from the trial.
News, May 25, 2017
EuroPCR In ACS, Less Bleeding With Two-Step Post-PCI DAPT Strategy Switching to clopidogrel after 1 month of prasugrel or ticagrelor reduces bleeding without increasing ischemic events in the open-label, single-center TOPIC study.
News, May 23, 2017
SCAI 30-Day Readmissions Reduced at High-Volume TAVR Centers All TAVR centers should strive to be top performers, experts say, although the observational study doesn't explain causes of the difference. Readmissions at high-volume centers were also less costly.
News, May 22, 2017
HF CRT Landscape Shifts After New HF Guidelines in European Survey The pacing therapy is still often used in many patients without supporting data, or even against recommendations. Time to implement CRT performance measures in Europe, said an HF expert from France.
News, May 20, 2017
EuroPCR Transradial Access May Mitigate Acute Kidney Injury in ACS Data from a MATRIX substudy support a radial-first approach for ACS patients undergoing angiography or PCI, but operator expertise remains a critical part of the equation.
News, May 19, 2017
HRS Fewer Recurrences on Continued Antiarrhythmics After AF Ablation Restarting a drug regimen for atrial fibrillation that hadn't worked before ablation "might be enough to prevent recurrence" up to year after the procedure, researchers say.
News, May 18, 2017
EuroPCR Novel 2.0-mm Stent Promising for Super Small Coronary Vessels Currently there is no dedicated drug-eluting stent in this size, leaving an unmet clinical need for patients, including those with diabetes.
News, May 18, 2017
SCAI Early PCI, Better 28-Day Survival in NSTEMI Patients in ARIC Unlike other studies with a composite end point of death and MI, for example, this large, 25-year observational study examined risk of death, with early vs late revascularization after NSTEMI.
News, May 17, 2017
EuroPCR REPRISE 3: Device Efficacy Favors Lotus Over CoreValve The head-to-head comparison of two transcatheter valves marks a turning point in the evolution of TAVI and shows pros and cons for each valve.
News, May 17, 2017
HRS REVEAL-AF: Silent AF Common in Patients at Risk for AF, Stroke "The atrium doesn't care whether you have palpitations, dizziness, or no symptoms," notes a researcher; preventive anticoagulation is probably as important in silent AF AS in recognized AF, he said.
News, May 16, 2017
HRS NODE-1: Simple Nasal Spray May Short-circuit Acute PSVT Phase 2 data suggest it may be possible to safely convert paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia without heading to the emergency room.
News, May 16, 2017
SCAI Radial, Femoral Robotic PCI Success in Multisite PRECISION Study After correction for baseline differences, "clinical success, technical success, patient radiation exposure, and PCI procedure times were comparable to either radial or femoral access for robotic PCI."
News, May 16, 2017
SCAI Adventitial Steroid After PAD Angioplasty Blunts CRP Rise: DANCE
News, May 15, 2017
HRS AEIOU Advances Uninterrupted NOAC Strategy in AF Ablation The preliminary data don't prove fully uninterrupted apixaban is equivalent or better than holding a single dose of the factor Xa inhibitor but offers reassurance both strategies are reasonable.
News, May 15, 2017
HRS Delayed Anticoagulation Linked to Dementia Risk in AF Rates of dementia may increase when anticoagulation therapy is not promptly initiated in patients with atrial fibrillation, a new observational study suggests.
News, May 13, 2017
SCAI BRAVO 3 TAVR and AF: Stroke Risk, Discharge Meds Differ In the BRAVO-3 trial of patients who had transfemoral TAVR with procedural bivalirudin or heparin, patients with new-onset AF had a much greater stroke risk; there was also an "incredible" variation in discharge meds.
News, May 12, 2017

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