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Impaired retinal microvascular function predicts long-term adverse events in patients with cardiovascular disease

By Theuerle JD, Al-Fiadh AH et al Endothelial dysfunction is a precursor to the development of symptomatic atherosclerosis. Retinal microvascular reactivity to flicker light stimulation…

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Low-temperature electrocautery reduces adverse effects from secondary cardiac implantable electronic device procedures: Insights from the WRAP-IT trial

By S Mittal et alTaken directly from Heart Rhythm Cardiac device procedures require tissue dissection to free existing device lead(s). The purpose of this study…

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Left atrial appendage occlusion in the UK: prospective registry and data linkage to Hospital Episode Statistics

By I Willits et al This single-arm study has reported the results of the real-world safety and efficacy of LAAO from a multicentre, prospective, observational…

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Multimodality imaging of myocardial viability: An expert consensus document from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI)

By Saadia Aslam This expert consensus document reviews current insight into the underlying pathophysiology and available methods for assessing viability. In particular the document reviews…

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In case you missed it: a summary of the BCS ’21 top 10 trials (Part II)

By Ahmed El-Medany One of the most popular sessions every year, an excellent variety of trials were presented at the 2021 BCS Annual Conference. For…

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Figure 1: Taken from Chen et al (2020). Incidence of clinically driven target lesion revascularisation (TLR), target vessel myocardial infarction (TVMI), and target lesion failure (TLF). The table shows the hazard ratio and 95% confidence interval for TLR, TVMI, and TLF in the two-stent vs provisional stent group.

In case you missed it: a summary of the BCS ’21 top 10 trials (Part I)

One of the most popular sessions every year, an excellent variety of trials were presented at the 2021 BCS Annual Conference. For those that were unable to attend, or for the sake of refreshing one’s memory, the following is a summary of all the trials presented…

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Novel pacing system improves clinical response in heart failure patients un-responsive to, or unsuitable for, cardiac resynchronisation therapy

overall, the results looked great. Hopefully, over the course of the next 12 months, we will finish recruitment for the final phase of the study to further confirm the primary safety and efficacy endpoints that we saw with the….

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Exercise training effective in reducing ambulatory blood pressure in resistant hypertension, results from the EnRicH trial

‘These findings provide clinicians with evidence to embrace moderate-intensity aerobic exercise as a standard coadjutant therapy targeting this patient population.’ The authors state.

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