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Study Shows Emergent Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients with Unstable Coronary Plaque Improves the Survival After Sudden Cardiac Arrest

The emergent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of unstable plaques, compared to stable…

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Elevated Coronary Sinus Neuropeptide Y Levels Are Associated With Adverse Outcomes in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

The study by Dr. Ajijola, published in JAMA Cardiology, found that elevated…

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The Sarcomeric Human Cardiomyopathy Registry: Race Associated with Disease Expression and Clinical Outcomes Among Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inherited genetic disorder of the…

GALILEO-4D: Rivaroxaban-Aspirin Based Anti-Thrombotic Therapy Post-TAVR Protects From Valve Leaflet Motion Abnormalities

An expanded analysis of 231 patients from the GALILEO trial comparing rivaroxaban-aspirin…

New-Onset AF After TAVR linked To Worse Long-Term Outcomes Compared With Patients With Pre-Existing AF and No AF

A registry-based cohort study including 72,660 Medicare patients with and without atrial…

Meta-analysis Shows Reduced 1-Year Mortality with TAVR in Low-Risk Severe AS Patients

In a meta-analysis of RCTs comparing TAVR (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement) versus…

Meta-analysis Shows Vitamin D Supplementation Does Not Improve Cardiovascular Outcomes

In the largest updated meta-analysis study conducted to understand the inverse association…

Antithrombotic therapy post TAVR: A double edged sword?

A multicenter, prospective nation-wide French registry evaluated whether oral anticoagulation therapy was…

Discharging Patients Is Safe, the Next Day After Minimalist TAVR

In a recent study published in the Journal of the American College…

Recent Trends of TAVR in France

In a recent study published in the Journal of the American College…

Delayed Coronary Obstruction: a post-TAVR Complication

A recently published study in the Journal of American College of Cardiology …

Assessment of Long-term Outcomes in Patients Undergoing SAVR

A contemporary cohort study recently published in Journal of the American College of…

Frailty and Conventional Risk Scores in Patients Undergoing TAVR

The usage of combined risk models of frailty and conventional risk scores…