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Author(s):
Gaku Nakazawa
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Masataka Nakano
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Marc Vorpahl
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3 years ago
The limited information regarding the long-term safety of drug-eluting stents (DES) for the treatment of ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) has raised concern regarding its clinical safety, in particular with respect to the associated morbidity and mortality attributed to late stent thrombosis (LST). Observational studies in daily practice have shown that the risk of LST continues…
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Optimum Therapies for ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Managed with Primary Percutaneous Coronary…
Author(s):
Bruce R Brodie
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3 years ago
Article
Early Stent Thrombosis after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Acute Myocardial Infarction
Author(s):
Georgios J Vlachojannis
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Bimmer E Claessen
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George D Dangas
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3 years ago
Article
Evandro de Azambuja
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Job title: Head of the Medical Support Team, Jules Bordet Insitute, Brussels, Belgium
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Eric W Holroyd
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Chee W Khoo
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Rob Butler
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et al
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3 years ago
Major bleeding or haemorrhage following a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is not a benign event. There is now convincing evidence that it independently predicts increased mortality and adverse outcomes in patients.1,2 The adverse outcomes associated with a bleeding event are not just as a direct result of the haemorrhagic event, such as whether or not a patient survives their…
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Dhiraj Gupta
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Job title: Consultant Cardiologist
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Author(s):
Benjamin Galper
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Roxana Mehran
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3 years ago
Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) result from unstable coronary artery plaques that rupture and can lead to coronary ischaemia, unstable angina and myocardial infarction. The treatment goals in ACS focus on reducing ischaemia, preventing further progression of thrombotic plaque by disturbing the milieu of thrombosis and platelet aggregation taking place within the coronary artery and, in the case of…
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Author(s):
Sri Raveen Kandan
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Thomas W Johnson
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3 years ago
Antiplatelet Therapy
Current guidelines support the early administration of oral antiplatelet agents upstream of angiographic assessment and intervention.1 Aspirin is commonly given by the first medical contact and additional oral antiplatelet drugs are administered on arrival in hospital (see Figure 1).
Aspirin
The efficacy of aspirin in acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)…
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Author(s):
Kalpa De Silva
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1 year ago
Author(s):
Heinz Joachim Büttner
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Masahisa Yamane
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Nicolaus Reifart
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et al
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3 years ago
Introduction and Objectives
A symposium, chaired by Dr Heinz Joachim Büttner of Freiburg-Bad Krozingen (Germany) and Dr Masahisa Yamane of St Luke’s International Hospital (Tokyo, Japan) took place at EuroPCR, Paris on May 23rd, 2014. Its objectives were as follows: to learn how to improve the success of percutaneous intervention (PCI) in chronic total occlusion (CTO) by matching techniques to…
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