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Interventional Cardiology
13 Mins
30 Jun 2016

Evolution of Drug-Eluting Stent Drug Elution Profile: Is a Crystalline Drug Form the Ideal Solution?

Since its introduction into clinical practice, coronary angioplasty has seen game-changing advances incomparable to any other medical technology. In…
Interventional Cardiology
1 Mins
30 Jun 2016

A Randomised Comparison Between Drug-Eluting Balloon and Conventional Balloon Angioplasty for Lesions in the Penile Artery in Patients with Erectile Dysfunction: The Perfect-4 Study

Pelvic arterial insufficiency is present in >70% of patients aged >50 years with erectile dysfunction. One-third of the pelvic arterial lesions are…
Interventional Cardiology
6 Mins
30 Jun 2016

Two-Stent Strategy? Which One to Choose? First Case Example

Optimal treatment of bifurcation lesions is still a major challenge for coronary intervention. A planned two-stent approach may be more appropriate when…
Interventional Cardiology
8 Mins
30 Jun 2016

Thrombus Aspiration

ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction results from acute occlusion of a coronary artery. Mortality is high in this acute coronary syndrome…
Interventional Cardiology
2 Mins
30 Jun 2016

The Latest Cre8 Clinical Evidence in Diabetics Empowers Unique Amphilimus Formulation Efficacy: The Investigate Registry

The utilisation of drug-eluting stents (DES) has reached a large diffusion for treatment of coronary artery disease.1 However, patients with diabetes…
Interventional Cardiology
5 Mins
30 Jun 2016

Endovascular Treatment of Spontaneous Carotid Artery Dissection

Spontaneous carotid artery dissection (SCAD) is a common cause of ischaemic stroke in young patients. Though SCAD is usually defined as carotid artery…
Interventional Cardiology
1 Mins
30 Jun 2016

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Hospitals with and Without On-Site Cardiac Surgery Department: Insights from the Prospective German Aortic Valve Replacement Quality Assurance Registry (AQUA) in 17,919 Patients

Performing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) at hospitals with a cardiology, but no cardiac surgery (CS), department on-site is at great…
Interventional Cardiology
10 Mins
30 Jun 2016

Update on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

Aortic valve replacement is the mainstay of treatment for symptomatic severe aortic stenosis. In this setting, the rapidly evolving field of…
Interventional Cardiology
1 Mins
30 Jun 2016

Six-Month Invasive Safety Assessment in Humans of Renal Artery Denervation Using Symplicity Spyral™ Applied in the Main Trunk and Branches

Catheter-based renal denervation is a technique which aims to denervate the renal sympathetic nerves through the lumen of the renal artery to…
Interventional Cardiology
2 Mins
30 Jun 2016

Shear Stress Analysis After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention with Bioresorbable Scaffolds: A Convincing Tool for Seeing Results of Optimisation at Follow-Up

There are three main physical forces acting on the walls of the blood vessels; the blood pressure, circumferential stretch of the vessel wall caused…