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Author(s):
Mikhail Kosiborod
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Dalane W Kitzman
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2 years ago
In this series, on behalf of the investigators, Dr Mikhail Kosiborod (St Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, US) and Dr Dalane Kitzman (Wake Forest School of Medicine, North Carolina, US) address the PRESERVED-HF study.
In the first part of the programme, Dr Mikhail Kosiborod provides a comprehensive overview of the study, summarising the challenge of heart failure with…
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Author(s):
Raj Makkar
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5 months ago
In this insightful interview, investigator, Prof Raj R Makkar(Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, US) joins us to discuss the outcomes of repeat transcatheter aortic valve replacement with balloon-expandable valves.
Prof Makkar and his team used the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry to address a series of questions regarding the safety…
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Author(s):
H Vernon Anderson
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3 years ago
By now everyone is aware of the involvement of computers in cardiology. This involvement ranges from imaging (image capture, image display, image management), to tabulating simple clinical data items, to enormous electronic health records systems. Computers are the necessary substrate for everything that occurs in cardiology, not to mention all the rest of the healthcare system. However, for a…
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Author(s):
Felix Mahfoud
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1 year ago
In this short late-breaking interview, Prof Felix Mahfoud (Saarland University Hospital, DE) discusses the 3-year efficacy outcomes of the SPYRAL HTN-ON MED Pilot Study (NCT02439775). The global clinical study, presented at ACC.22, tested the long-term effect of renal denervation (Symplicity Spyral™ multi-electrode renal denervation system, Medtronic Vascular) on blood pressure reduction in…
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Angelo Auricchio
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Job title: Director of the Clinical Electrophysiology Unit
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Author(s):
Joseph P Drozda Jr
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3 years ago
Since its foundation six decades ago, the goal of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) has been to improve the quality of cardiovascular care. The College’s founders initially sought to accomplish this goal by providing the College’s members with access to high-quality educational opportunities such as the ACC’s highly successful annual scientific sessions. In 1984, the quest for improved…
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Author(s):
Krzysztof Pujdak
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Jan Kähler
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Marc Werner
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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…
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Foreword
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3 years ago
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Author(s):
Blair D Erb
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Joseph Allen
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Lisa Chambers
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et al
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3 years ago
In the fall of 2009, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) launched the Practice innovation and clinical excellence (PINNACLE) Network™.1 The foundation of the PINNACLE Network rested on three observations by ACC membership and staff:
The medical profession is in the midst of unprecedented social, political, and economic change that dramatically impacts how cardiovascular specialists…
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Author(s):
Ahmad Younes
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Guilherme Ferragut Attizzani
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Ankur Kalra
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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…
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