ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction results from acute occlusion of a coronary artery. Mortality is high in this acute coronary syndrome…

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

Spontaneous carotid artery dissection (SCAD) is a common cause of ischaemic stroke in young patients. Though SCAD is usually defined as carotid artery…

Performing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) at hospitals with a cardiology, but no cardiac surgery (CS), department on-site is at great…

Aortic valve replacement is the mainstay of treatment for symptomatic severe aortic stenosis. In this setting, the rapidly evolving field of…

Catheter-based renal denervation is a technique which aims to denervate the renal sympathetic nerves through the lumen of the renal artery to…

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

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the most common form of revascularisation in patients with coronary artery disease in both the elective and…

There is considerable variability in the selection of comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) for immediate coronary angiography…

Due to the difficulty of accessing small diameter vessels, modern transcatheter technologies remain problematic in the treatment of ischaemic…