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SCAI
Washington State's Health Care Authority is recommending restrictions on the coverage of angioplasty. Those recommendations, along with a technology assessment, will be reviewed by the state's Health Care Advisory Committee Jan. 15. SCAI is evaluating those recommendations and Gregory Weeks, MD, FSCAI, will be in attendance on behalf of SCAI to provide comments to the committee during its public hearing.
TCTMD
Bioresorbable scaffolds are potentially useful for treating the rare patients with ACS caused by spontaneous coronary artery dissection, according to a case report summarizing results for three patients. An expert says such patients, who tend to be younger with minimal atherosclerotic disease, may have more to gain from the disappearance of the scaffolds after two to three years, although there are limitations to the technology.
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Medscape
Combining an oral anticoagulant with dual-agent antiplatelet therapy after PCI performed for acute MI increases the risk of bleeding complications compared to DAPT alone, regardless of which P2Y12 receptor inhibitor — clopidogrel or prasugrel (Effient, Lilly/Daiichi-Sankyo) — is added to aspirin, suggests a secondary analysis of an observational study.
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For patients with chest pain and no known coronary artery disease, an evaluation strategy based on fractional flow reserve estimated using CT led to reduced costs within 90 days and less resource utilization compared with an invasive coronary angiography evaluation strategy. The quality of life and economic outcomes were based on data collected from the PLATFORM study.
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Pulsara
A study of 155 patients was recently published in Critical Pathways in Cardiology, and found an average decrease in door-to-needle time of 22% after implementing Pulsara's STOP STEMI© application. Read the full publication here.
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Healio
Interventional cardiologist Juan F. Granada, MD, executive director and chief innovation officer of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation's Skirball Center for Innovation, provides an overview of new technologies that took center stage at TCT 2015.
He highlights "extremely exciting" findings on the everolimus-eluting bioresorbable vascular scaffold (Absorb, Abbott Vascular) in patients with target lesion failure from the ASBORB III trial.
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Medscape
Simulation training may increase the performance of fellows relatively new to interventional cardiology, new research suggests.
A pilot study of 18 cardiology fellows in Germany showed that those randomized to receive about eight hours of mentored virtual-reality simulator training had a 5.8-point increase from baseline on a graded "skills score" after performing a catheter intervention on a heart-flow model, whereas those randomized to 4.5 hours of lectures had a 6.7-point decrease in skills score.
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TCTMD
Door-to-balloon time has been a commonly used metric for system performance in STEMI patients because it is relatively easy to measure, but new data from a substudy of the HORIZONS-AMI trial suggest that more attention should be paid to symptom duration since it may more accurately reflect the risk not only of myocardial injury but also long-term mortality.
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Medscape
Adults with congenital heart disease may be at increased risk for posttraumatic stress disorder, new research suggests.
In the study of 134 outpatients with ACHD, 21 percent had global post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, and 11 percent had symptoms directly related to their cardiac condition, as measured with two validated mental health scales.
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| Feb. 25 |
SCAI Session at CardioEgypt 2016 |
Cairo, EGYPT
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| March 17-20 |
SCAI Sessions at CIT |
Beijing, CHINA
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| March 19-20 |
SCAI Early Career Interventional Cardiology Course |
Kochin, INDIA
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| April 15-17 |
SCAI Fellows Course & Controversies Session at SACIS 2015 |
Dammam, SAUDI ARABIA
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| May 4-7 |
SCAI 2016 Scientific Sessions |
Orlando, FL
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