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Mar 26, 2024
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The main advantages of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) over conventional aortic valve replacement (cAVR) surgery are the avoidance of sternotomy, heart lung bypass and prolonged procedure times. These advantages facilitate early mobilisation and discharge – important both clinically and in terms of resource utilisation. Balanced against this, TAVI is less predictable than cAVR –…
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ESC 2023 — We are joined onsite by Dr Duk-Woo Park and Dr Do-Yoon Kang (Asan Medical Center, Seoul, KR) to discuss the findings from the OCTIVUS study (NCT03394079).
The OCTIVUS study (Seung-Jung Park, CardioVascular Research Foundation, Korea) aims to compare the clinical safety and efficacy of optimal coherence tomography (OCT) guided and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guided strategies in…
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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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With the increasing use of contrast agents for both diagnostic and interventional procedures, contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) has become an important medical concern. It is estimated that CI-AKI is the third most common cause of hospital-acquired renal failure and has significant prognostic implications for patients outcomes.1 The incidence of CI-AKI varies depending on the…
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The increased incidence of coronary artery disease, as well as the advances in device technology and improved potentialities of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), have resulted in a dramatic rise in the number of invasive coronary procedures (both diagnostic catheterisations and PCIs).1 These procedures normally used the transfemoral access, which involves the insertion of a catheter…
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The coexistence of heart and kidney disease represents an evolving epidemic in an ageing population, with chronic kidney disease (CKD) incidence rates increasing annually.1 The effect of dysfunction of one kidney mediates profound effects on the other, recently described and defined as five distinctive cardiorenal subtypes by the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative consensus group.2 Much work has…
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Today, in industrialised countries, we are treating more and more patients with coronary artery disease or structural heart disease, due, in part, to an increase in life expectancy over the last 50 years, as well as an increasing incidence of risk factors such as diabetes and obesity. Accordingly, there has been a rise in the use of contrast-enhanced diagnostic imaging and interventional…
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The rapid development of percutaneous coronary and peripheral vascular interventional technologies, as well as non-invasive computed tomography (CT)-based imaging systems, has led to a dramatic increase in the number of patients receiving intravenous or intra-arterial contrast media (CM). It has been estimated that more than 80 million doses (8 million litres) of contrast material are…
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