Cardiology update 2016

[Update on interventional cardiology].

This article contains a review of the most important studies on interventional cardiology reported in either publications or presentations. In the area of coronary interventions, ST-elevation myocardial infarction continues to take center place: recent studies have confirmed the importance of timely intervention and the safety of drug-eluting stents. The numerous studies that have compared diff...

Clinical Cardiology: Physician Update

The practice of cardiology is increasingly driven by evidence-based medicine centering around the results of clinical trials.1 In this inaugural article of Clinical Cardiology: Physician Update, I will focus on the design, analysis, and interpretation of clinical trials in cardiovascular medicine. Armed with the tools described herein, clinicians will be better equipped to understand and synthe...

European Society of Cardiology congress update, Rome, 27–31 August 2016

Update on interventional cardiology 2013.

The present article reviews the most important publications and studies in the field of interventional cardiology in 2013. Coronary interventions for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction are among the most important, with studies that assess different devices and pharmacologic and mechanical strategies in primary angioplasty. Increasingly large groups of patients (with diabetes, of advanc...

European Society of Cardiology 2016 Congress.

A meta-analysis of 31 randomized trials enrolling 192,000 patients was performed to examine the effect of aspirin doses on bleeding. It was found that low daily doses (equivalent to 81 mg in the U.S.) were remarkably safer than higher ones (above 200 mg), particularly in terms of gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. Victor L. Serebruany, MD, PhD, from the Sinai Center for Thrombosis Research at John...