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Job title: Clinical Cardiologist
DrJavier de Juan Bagudá is aClinical Cardiologist atUniversity Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, ES. He is a specialist in heart failure, hypertension andischemic heart disease. He has participated as Principal Investigator in several multicenter clinical trials and clinical registries. View more
Author(s): John S Rumsfeld , Gregory J Dehmer , Ralph G Brindis Added: 3 years ago
High-quality healthcare is that which increases “the likelihood of desired health outcomes and is consistent with standards of health care.”1 Inherent in such a definition is the critical role of measurement of patient outcomes and the ‘standards of healthcare,’ such as those reflected in evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.2 Unfortunately, when the quality of healthcare in the US is… View more

Standards & Guidelines
Author(s): Nathan T Glusenkamp , William J Oetgen , Brendan Mullen Added: 3 years ago
The past decade has seen impressive advances in cardiovascular (CV) care and reductions in patient mortality from CV disease (CVD). Between 1997 and 2007 (the year for which most recent final data are available), the death rate from CVD declined by 27.8 %. The actual number of CVD deaths per year declined by 14.2 % over this period. Meanwhile, the death rate for stroke fell by 44.8 % in the same… View more

Standards & Guidelines

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Zvonimir Krajcer Added: 3 years ago
Annually, in the US approximately 15,000 deaths are caused by a rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), making it the 13th leading cause of death. AAA is often referred to as ‘the silent killer’ and is estimated to affect 2.7 million Americans, half of whom are not correctly diagnosed.1 If left untreated, the risk of rupture is 80–90% through progressive thinning of the aortic vessel,… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Public Reporting of Cardiovascular Data: Benefits, Pitfalls, and Vision for the Future
Author(s): Gregory J Dehmer Added: 3 years ago
In what is often cited as the earliest public reporting of healthcare information, Florence Nightingale published mortality rates at British military hospitals caring for casualties of the Crimean War.1 Dr Ernest Codman, about 50 years later, called for the public release of surgical outcomes at his hospital, but was highly criticized for his effort eventually leading to the loss of his hospital… View more

Standards & Guidelines

Digital Health
Arrhythmogenic Cardiovascular Conditions Registries
Author(s): Melody Hermel , Rebecca Duffy , Alexander Orfanos , et al Added: 3 years ago
One of the fundamental principles of evidence-based medicine is that clinical care should be based on data derived from appropriately designed trials, registries, and observational data from patients. The best available evidence is then used to develop guidelines for clinical care, assess quality, measure performance, and improve patient outcomes. The highest level of evidence in clinical… View more

Standards & Guidelines

Heart Failure
Author(s): Ahmad Younes , Guilherme Ferragut Attizzani , Ankur Kalra Added: 3 years ago
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a recent innovation that has transformed the care of patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis. It has emerged as an alternative for surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) in prohibitive-, high-risk, and more recently, intermediate-risk surgical patients. More than 200,000 TAVRs have been performed in 65 countries around the world.1 As… View more

Vascular Disease and Surgery

Intervention
Feasibility, Safety, and Clinical Performance of Self-apposing Stents for Left Main Stenosis
Author(s): Krzysztof Pujdak , Jan Kähler , Marc Werner Added: 3 years ago
Significant stenosis of the left main (LM) coronary artery is observed in 7% of coronary angiographies.1 Coronary artery bypass grafting has traditionally been the treatment of choice. In recent years, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has evolved as an alternative, especially for low and intermediate SYNTAX score patients.2 However, during PCI of bifurcation lesions, approximately 50% of… View more

Intervention
TCT 23: IFR SWEDEHEART
Author(s): Matthias Gotberg Added: 5 months ago
TCT 23 - We are joined by Dr Matthias Götberg (Lund University, SE) to discuss recent findings from a study of the SWEDEHEART Registry, where the long-term outcomes of iFR vs FFR guided coronary revascularization were compared. Results suggest that in a national registry analysis of 42887 patients investigated with iFR or FFR with 5-year follow-up, similar outcomes were observed in MACE, all… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions

Intervention
John McNeill
Job title: Professor and head of School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
After graduating in medicine from the University of Adelaide Professor McNeil undertook specialist training to become qualified as a consultant in internal medicine and clinical pharmacology. He completed a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology at Melbourne University and was awarded a National Heart Foundation overseas postgraduate research scholarship to study epidemiology at the London School of… View more