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4 Jul 2014

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Review and Current State Of The Art

Since the introduction of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) 12 years ago, the treatment options for severe, symptomatic aortic valve…
4 Jul 2014

Recent Advances in Surgical and Percutaneous Mitral Valve Therapies – Implications of an Integrated Approach to Mitral Regurgitation

For these patients, transcatheter-based therapies represent an attractive option. While most interventional techniques are still in experimental or early…
4 Jul 2014

Coronary Chronic Total Occlusions in the Setting of Acute Myocardial Infarction

Approximately 10-15% of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are…
4 Jul 2014

Percutaneous Recanalisation of Coronary Artery Chronic Total Occlusions: A 2014 Update

Coronary chronic total occlusions (CTOs) are frequently encountered in clinical practice, and their presence influences management decisions; patients…
30 Jun 2013

A New Combination of Factor XA Inhibition and Standard Antiplatelet Therapy to Prevent More Recurrent Cardiovascular Events in Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)

Coronary artery disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide. There has been tremendous progress in the management of Acute Coronary Syndrome…
30 Jun 2013

New Concepts for Sympathetic Renal Artery Denervation: Review of Existing Literature and Case Report

Arterial hypertension (HTN) is one of the major risk factors for cardiovascular disease, and also leads to hypertensive heart disease, hypertensive…
30 Jun 2013

Ice-Assisted Transcatheter Closure of Interatrial Shunts: Ten-Year Follow-Up

Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) is rapidly becoming a necessary tool in the catheterisation laboratory. We sought to prospectively evaluate…
30 Jun 2013

Occupational Risks of Chronic Low Dose Radiation Exposure in Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory: The Italian Healthy Cath Lab Study

Contemporary interventional cardiologists have an exposure per person, per year, two to ten times higher than that of diagnostic radiologists. Cumulative…