This content is machine translated Aspirin-free strategy after PCI No reduction in bleeding (STOPDAPT-3 study) No ESC Congress without new studies on antithrombotic therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention. Recently, monotherapy with a P2Y12 blocker has increasingly emerged as an attractive alternative to dual antiplatelet therapy…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) Benefits of complete revascularization in elderly patients The benefit of complete revascularization in older patients (≥75 years) with myocardial infarction and multivessel disease is still unclear. At the ESC Congress, however, the results of the FIRE study…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated 40 years of percutaneous coronary intervention Update on indications, outcomes, and concomitant drug therapy. With PCI, mortality in acute coronary syndrome has been impressively reduced. An overview of current technical developments (stents), key treatment guidelines, and adjunctive therapies. Includes overview interventional vs surgical treatment…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated PCI according to the SYNTAX study Reason to adjust indications? Treatment of main-stem stenosis and multivessel disease by PCI is equivalent to bypass surgery when the syntax score is low. The complexity of coronary stenoses is crucial for the therapeutic…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Symposium Interventional Cardiology Too much of a good thing or not enough? The Interventional Cardiology Symposium at the University Hospital Zurich was also dedicated to anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents. Here, the question was “one, two, or three?” As it turned out, the…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Guidelines at the ESC Congress 2014 What is different, what is new? Several new guidelines were also presented at this year’s ESC Congress in Barcelona. Enclosed is an overview of recommendations from pulmonary embolism, myocardial revascularization, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, aortic disease, and noncardiac…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. Curative treatment approach for peritoneal carcinomatosis. In certain tumor types and in malignancies with limited peritoneal carcinomatosis, it is possible to pursue a curative approach even at this stage of the disease by combining cytoreductive surgery…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Cardiology Highlights 2013 New practice-relevant European guidelines What news did the 2013 European Congress of Cardiology in Amsterdam bring? Discussed were not only practice-relevant guidelines, but also the current trends regarding lifestyle modifications. Furthermore, studies on the…
