Establishing a Contemporary Training Curriculum for the Next Generation of Interventional Cardiology Fellows

Establishing A Contemporary Training Curriculum for the Next Generation of Interventional Cardiology Fellows.

Multivessel Revascularization and ST-Segment–Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Do We Have the Complete Answer? David A. Wood, MD; John A. Cairns, MD; Shamir R. Mehta, MD, MSc · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · e005215 Bypass Graft Failure: Changing What We Can, Accepting What We Cannot Change, and Developing the Science to Know the Difference Judit Karacsonyi, MD; Emmanoui...

Curriculum and syllabus for Interventional Cardiology subspecialty training in Europe.

Contemporary Reviews in Interventional Cardiology

Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States in both women and men, and each year for more than 2 decades, more women than men have died (Figure 1). In 2006, 41.3 million women (34.9%) and 38.7 million men (37.6%) were living with cardiovascular disease, reflecting mortality in 454.6 thousand women and 409.9 thousand men in 2005, with coronary heart disease res...

Contemporary Reviews in Interventional Cardiology

A hybrid strategy is a combination of catheter-based therapy and traditional surgical intervention. This concept of combining the tools available only in the catheterization laboratory with the tools available only to the surgeon in order to minimize surgical morbidity has evolved since its implementation in the 1990s.1 Over the past decade, with advancement in stent technology and refinement o...

[Training in radiological protection for interventional cardiology].

Interventional cardiology in Spain has gained great prestige and the country is a reference for many Latin American and European colleagues. Nevertheless, the development of the clinical and technological aspects of the discipline does not seem to have been accompanied by a similar development in radiological safety measures for professionals and patients. In 1994, the Food and Drug Administrat...