Sabawoon Mirwais, M.D.
Integrated Management of Atrial Fibrillation in Primary Care Demonstrates 45% Reduction in All-Cause Mortality Compared to Usual Care in Elderly Patients
In a recent Dutch study, published in European Heart Journal, integrated care for elderly atrial fibrillation (AF) patients in primary care showed a 45% reduction in all-cause mortality when compared with usual care.
SCOPE I: ACURATE Neo (Self-Expanding TAVR System) Struggles to Have An Edge On SAPIEN 3 (Balloon-Expandable TAVR System)
Results of a randomized trial presented at TCT 2019 and simultaneously published in The Lancet, showed that TAVR with the self-expanding ACURATE neo (Boston Scientific) did not meet non-inferiority compared to the balloon-expandable SAPIEN 3 (Edwards Lifesciences) in terms of early safety and clinical efficacy outcomes.
SYNTAXES Study: No Significant Difference In All-Cause Death At 10 Years Between PCI and CABG Results of a 10-year Follow-up Study presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2019
A follow-up of a multicenter, randomized controlled trial, the results of which were debuted at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2019, has shown that at 10 years, no statistically significant difference existed in all-cause mortality between percutaneous coronary intevention (PCI) using first-generation paclitaxel-eluting stents and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). However, CABG was shown to provide significant survival benefit in patients with three-vessel disease, but not in patients with left main coronary artery disease.
