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Author(s): Justin E Davies Start date: Apr 13, 2015
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Author(s): Eduardo A Arias , Amit Bhan , Zhan Lim , et al Added: 3 years ago
During the past decade, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has revolutionised the interventional treatment of aortic stenosis (AS).1 It has rapidly evolved from a treatment used on a compassionate basis for inoperable patients to being the standard of care in high-risk AS.2,3 In that cohort it has proven to be non-inferior to surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) in terms of… View more
Author(s): Billy A Caceres Added: 10 months ago
Dr Billy A Caceres (Columbia University School of Nursing, US), a renowned expert and lead author, recently discussed findings from the study titled "Differences in Ideal Cardiovascular Health Between Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Adults" published in JAMA Cardiology. The study aimed to determine whether there are disparities in cumulative cardiovascular health (CVH) scores between sexual… View more
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Thrombosis, embolism & bleeding

Intervention

Coronary Artery Disease and Myocardial Infarction

Job title: Professor & Chief
Dr Dominick Angiolillo graduated from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Medical School in Rome, Italy and pursued training in interventional cardiology at the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain and received his Ph.D. in cellular and molecular cardiology.Dr Angiolillo is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology. In 2004, Dr… View more
Job title: Head of the Cardiological Rehabilitation Unit
Full Professor in of Exercise Science and Medicine at San Raffaele Telematic University of Rome. Head of the Cardiac Pulmonary Department at IRCCS San Raffaele in Rome. Prof Volterrani’s main research interests include heart failure, exercise training in cardiac rehabilitation, telemedicine, hyperkalaemia and kidney failure . He is and has been principal investigator in multiple international… View more
Author(s): Eulogio García Fernandez , Didier Carrie , Amadeu Betriu , et al Added: 3 years ago
Drug-eluting stents (DES) have demonstrated their efficacy in reducing restenosis and repeated revascularisation.1–4 Some concerns related to DES safety (increased late stent thrombosis, difficulties with antiplatelet therapy compliance) and cost restrictions have encouraged interventional cardiologists to be selective in the use of DES and bare-metal stents (BMS).5–8 The latest generation of BMS… View more
Author(s): Dominik Linz , Felix Mahfoud , Sebastian Ewen , et al Added: 3 years ago
The sympathetic nervous system regulates cardiac output, blood pressure (BP), heart rate and volume, electrolyte balance and composition of body fluids. The afferent signals to the brain are regulated by mechanosensitive baroreceptors, volume sensors and chemoreceptors located in the vessels and in many other organs, particularly in the heart, kidney, lung, brain and muscles. Sympathetic nervous… View more
Author(s): Daniel S Menees , Eric R Bates Added: 3 years ago
Nearly one-third of the approximately 30 million people undergoing non-cardiac surgery in the US each year have known coronary artery disease (CAD) or CAD risk factors.1,2 An estimated one million suffer peri-operative cardiac complications accounting for roughly US$20 billion in annual medical costs.3 Peri-operative myocardial infarction (MI) may affect as many as 34% of high-risk individuals… View more