Coronary Disease - Other

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Anomalous Aortic Origin of a Coronary Artery

June 20, 2024 | Jo Chikwe

The prevalence of anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery is 0.4 percent to 0.8 percent. The decision to operate and choice of procedure can be challenging. This invited expert review by a panel of...

JANS Article

Anomalous Aortic Origin of a Coronary Artery

June 20, 2024 | Jo Chikwe

The prevalence of anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery is 0.4 percent to 0.8 percent. The decision to operate and choice of procedure can be challenging. This invited expert...

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Mechanical Circulatory Support in Cardiogenic Shock — Persistence and Progress

May 18, 2024 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

This article presents a succinct but comprehensive expert viewpoint on support in cardiogenic shock using the manuscript of the DanGer trial on promising results of Impella in a highly selected...

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Transconal Unroofing of Anomalous Intraseptal Left Coronary Artery with RVOT Patch Reconstruction

December 18, 2023 | Alyssa Kalustian…

This video is part of CTSNet’s 2023 Innovation Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. Improved understanding of risks associated with coronary anomalies, including myocardial...

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Survival of Multiple Arterial Grafting in Diabetic Populations: A 20-Year National Experience

August 30, 2023 | EACTS StaffSilver Contributor

Survival of diabetics after single or multiple coronary artery bypass grafting was compared in a national database over twenty years with 69,224 patients. End points were long-term all-cause mortality and...

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Minimally invasive coronary bypass surgery with bilateral internal thoracic arteries: Early outcomes and angiographic patency

November 15, 2021 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Interesting in its candour mini-series of partial arterial revascularisation by left thoracotomy. The perioperative graft failure is delt in some detail.

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Dual Antiplatelet Therapy after PCI in Patients at High Bleeding Risk

November 9, 2021 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A good-size Terumo-sponsored RCT that is set to impact on decisions to discontinue DAPT early after PCI with absorbable stent, a change that will somehow decrease the surgical risk of...

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Empagliflozin in Heart Failure with a Preserved Ejection Fraction

October 21, 2021 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A large randomised double-blinded trial reporting a considerable benefit ( 0.79 HR with very small p and supporting confidence intervals) of the Boehringer SGLPT-2 inhibitor regardless of presence of formal...

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Timing of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting After Acute Myocardial Infarction May Not Influence Mortality and Readmissions

June 15, 2021 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Fascinating confirmation of null hypotheses including bleeding complications and survival in a Pennsylvanian cohort study, despite the easily predictable previous PCI, hock, and IABP prevalence in the emergency group. The...

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New-Onset Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation Impact on 5-Year Clinical Outcomes and Costs

May 27, 2021 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

This month’s update on the economical and general aspects of the ROOBY-FS trial. The conclusion (on no impact of de novo post-CABG AF on the incidence of stroke nor the...

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Aspirin-Free Strategies in ACS: Is It the Drug or the Stent?

February 21, 2021 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

An editorial that may herald the decrease in aspirinization and the rise of ticagrelor monotherapy in Percutaneous stenting of coronary arteries. There might be a peripheral relevance to the group...

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Mortality with Paclitaxel-Coated Devices in Peripheral Artery Disease

December 10, 2020 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

An ad hoc interim analysis pursuant to previous publications raising concerns on Paclitaxel DCS in chronic critical and not-critical lower limb ischaemia. The short manuscript requires careful reading to form...

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Overall and Cause-Specific Mortality in Randomized Clinical Trials Comparing Percutaneous Interventions With Coronary Bypass Surgery: A Meta-Analysis

October 26, 2020 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Within the limitations of a meta-analysis, a useful work advancing that PCI may have a hitherto masked or hidden mortality

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