Myocardial Infarction

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The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 168: Humanoid Robots and AI in Surgery

August 6, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Aamir Amin, a cardiothoracic surgery resident at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UK, about humanoid robots and artificial intelligence (AI) in surgery. Dr....

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The First Prospective Safety and Effectiveness Trial of the Excimer Laser Assisted Nonocclusive Anastomosis System in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

August 20, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This single-center, single-arm prospective trial provides the first clinical safety and effectiveness data for the excimer laser-assisted non-occlusive anastomosis (ELANA) system in constructing the left internal thoracic artery (LITA)-to-left anterior...

Podcast

The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 168: Humanoid Robots and AI in Surgery

August 6, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Aamir Amin, a cardiothoracic surgery resident at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UK, about humanoid robots and artificial...

JANS Article

Ventricular Free-Wall Rupture, Ventricular Pseudoaneurysm, and Papillary Muscle Rupture Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction

July 29, 2026 | EACTS StaffSilver Contributor

This multisociety European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) consensus statement addresses three mechanical complications of acute myocardial infarction: ventricular free-wall rupture, pseudoaneurysm, and papillary muscle rupture....

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Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for Unprotected Left Main Stenosis: 10-Year Final Results From the Randomised, Open-Label, Non-Inferiority NOBLE Trial

May 13, 2026 | Vincent SierSilver Contributor

In this article, the authors report the 10-year final results of the NOBLE trial comparing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with newer generation drug–eluting stents vs coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)...

JANS Article

COVID‐19: The Rising Cost of Cardiac Surgery and Disease

December 4, 2020 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A brief and readable editorial on the United Kingdom prespective on the global impact of the pandemic to the delivery of cardiovascular care, attempting a semi-quantitative economic appraisal of the...

JANS Article

Cardiac Myosin Activation With Omecamtiv Mecarbil in Systolic Heart Failure

November 17, 2020 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A latge RCT of the first myosin inhibitor in severe chronic heart failure: somewhat difficult to interpret results, as deaths were slightly higher in the intervention group while there was...

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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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Implications of Alternative Definitions of Peri-Procedural Myocardial Infarction After Coronary Revascularization

October 12, 2020 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

An analysis, from the cardiology viewpoint, of the MI nomenclature issues around the external validity of the EXCEL trial that undermined the EACTS support of the relevant 2018 guidelines

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Place and Causes of Acute Cardiovascular Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic

October 4, 2020 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

The authors are concerned about the ‘deaths at home’ having the greatest contribution to the excess of acute cardiovascular deaths in that period of the recent epidemic, AND LOCKDOWN in...

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Early Rhythm-Control Therapy in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

October 1, 2020 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

Death from cardiovascular causes, stroke, or hospitalization with worsening of heart failure or acute coronary syndrome was reduced (P=0.005) by early pharmacogical or inteventional ablation for fast response-atrial fibrillation in...

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Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Drug-Eluting Stents: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis

September 15, 2020 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

An open-access large metanalysis on the utility and risks of antiplatelets after PCI. Of note, mortality was not a primary endpoint. The message is that long dual antiplatelet use is...

JANS Article

Obesity Phenotypes, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Diseases

May 23, 2020 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

a readable review that advances the position that Adolphe Quetelet’s formula is now clinically obsolete

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