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Author(s):
Krisztina M Zsebo
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Brian E Jaski
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3 years ago
Despite important therapeutic improvements in pharmacological and device therapies, the prognosis for patients with advanced cardiovascular disease is poor, even with optimal pharmacological and device management. Heart failure continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the US. It is the leading medical cause of hospitalization and is expected to result in an estimated direct and…
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Author(s):
Iosif Xenogiannis
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Charalampos Varlamos
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Despoina-Rafailia Benetou
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et al
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2 years ago
Author(s):
Alexander G Truesdell
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Matheen A Khuddus
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Sara C Martinez
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et al
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3 years ago
“When you fail to prepare, you’re preparing to fail.”
– Coach John Wooden
Ongoing technological and procedural innovations increasingly permit the safe and effective performance of ever more high-risk and complex percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) in the modern cardiac catheterization laboratory. Anatomic characteristics of higher risk include unprotected distal left main stenosis,…
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Author(s):
Ahmed M Alabbady
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Ahmed S Abdul-Al
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Kimberly A Skelding
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3 years ago
The introduction of percutaneous coronary angioplasty in 1977 by Dr Andreas Grüntzig1 was one of the most remarkable achievements in the cardiology realm, opening the door to numerous advancements in percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs). Due to advances in PCI techniques over the past four decades, catheters along with four generations of coronary stents have dramatically changed the…
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Author(s):
Barry L Carter
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3 years ago
A 2011 report from the American Heart Association states that “On the basis of 2007 mortality rate data, more than 2,200 Americans die of CVD every day, an average of 1 death every 39 seconds.”1 The economic cost of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the US was nearly $286 billion in 2007, which is 15 % of total healthcare expenditure.
There are 13 million people living with a diagnosis of CVD.2…
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Author(s):
Andrea Elliott
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Garima Dahyia
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Rajat Kalra
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et al
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2 years ago
Author(s):
Olivier F Bertrand
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Tift Mann
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3 years ago
The highlights of the last decade in interventional cardiology have been the introduction of drug-eluting stents and an overall simplification of percutaneous coronary interventional procedures from a technological standpoint. Indeed, most interventions currently consist of either direct stenting or pre-dilatation followed by stent implantation; the use of rotational atherectomy and other niche…
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Author(s):
Ali Nazmi Calik
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F Aaysha Cader
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Erik Rafflenbeul
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et al
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8 months ago
Author(s):
Ijeoma Isiadinso
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Nanette K Wenger
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3 years ago
Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease
CVD is the leading cause of death in Europe and the United States. CVD mortality is on the decline in many countries, and in several European countries, cancer has now surpassed CVD as the leading cause of death.1 However, CVD remains the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States and results in more female deaths than cancer, lung…
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Author(s):
Stuart J Beldner
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Francis E Marchlinski
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3 years ago
Accessory pathways are formed embryologically during cardiogenesis and may be broad, slanted, and occasionally particularly challenging to ablate. Right-and left-sided pathways are derived differently with right-sided pathways characteristically subendocardial as opposed to subepicardial. Successful ablation of right-sided pathways is frequently limited by catheter stability and ablation attempts…
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