When IVUS did not outperform angiography for guiding percutaneous interventions in two trials, the results offered more questions than answers.
CTAHN leads to acute management changes in a minority of patients, with the highest diagnostic yield found in stroke and headache cases.
• At a median follow-up of 2.9 years, primary endpoint events occurred in 33.7% of the IVUS-guided group and 30.9% in the angiography-guided group. • Statistical analysis showed a hazard ratio of 1.11 ...
Background Rapid access chest pain (RACP) clinics are designed to expedite cardiac assessment, but current pathways cause ...
Transradial access (TRA) results in a lower diagnostic success rate and longer procedural times compared with transfemoral access (TFA) in patients undergoing cerebral angiography, the randomized ...
An “optical biopsy” of intravascular plaque during stenting is more effective at reducing the rate of restenosis or thrombosis in people with moderately or severely calcified lesions than angiography ...
CMR‑based evaluation reduces radiation exposure for ED patients with indeterminate troponin levels and possible ACS.