Long-Term Outcome of Drug-Coated Balloon vs Drug-Eluting Stent for Small Coronary Vessels: PICCOLETO-II 3-Year Follow-Up: JACC Journals The promise of drug coated balloons for small vessels (2 to 2.75mm)! Summary 👇👇👇

1/15 🤔Why does ticagrelor cause dyspnea? In one analysis, dyspnea was the number one reason for drug discontinuation, accounting for 56% of withdrawals! Let's have a look at this unexpected side effect of an anti-platelet agent. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24612612/

Dr Rajeev agarwal Prakash Sanzgiri Abad khan,MD/DM Dr G Rajesh (Gopalan Nair Rajesh). Hany Ragy Gurusher Panjrath Puja K. Mehta, MD SEGA Rajeev Gupta Sudha Iyer Italo Kumamoto Harriette Van Spall, MD MPH 🇨🇦 SREEVATSA NADIG DM FSCAI FESC One in five pts have a recurrent event within a year post ACS , yet only 1/2 of pts get their lipids checked within the first year and only 1/3 of pts reach LDLc targets. We have to do better.

And the Heart Team was born: Mamas A. Mamas Ash Paul Gregg W. Stone MD David J. Cohen, MD, MSc SABOURETCardiologist Prof.N John Camm Faisal Bakaeen MD Rafa Sádaba Victor Dayan Patrick Myers Ovidio García RUI M S ALMEIDA Sunil V. Rao Dr Roxana Mehran Dr. Deepak L. Bhatt Marc Ruel, MD, MPH Salvatore Brugaletta Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai Mariell Jessup Rahat Warraich PhD Husam H Balkhy

Over the last 30y, primary PCI (pPCI) has evolved from an experimental ‘rescue’ intervention to an essential routine procedure responsible for saving millions of lives. However, its path to success required perseverance & was far from smooth ➡️ow.ly/uwb250OuzAe Eric Topol

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Meta-analysis SGLT2 inhibitors ⬇️ heart failure events & cardiovascular death in ppl of HF, T2DM and CKD Consistent in patients with varying combinations of these diseases jacc.org/doi/abs/10.101… Great paper by Mikhail Kosiborod Muthu Vaduganathan Javed Butler Dr. Deepak L. Bhatt et al

When JACK NICHOLSON won a BAFTA for Chinatown, he accepted the award from the set of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. One of the great acceptance speeches.

next frontier for primary #PCI is microvascular obstruction treatment. but first of all it is important to diagnose it. here a state of the art on how to recognize #MVO recognition. which is the treatment?jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.…

Doctors leaving medicine: “those leaving medicine are the ones whose sense of mission & moral duty to their patients translate to untold hours of unpaid labor — they are the ones who do the extra, stay the extra and pay a deep personal price for it.” sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

Breaking news from Novo Nordisk. In the randomized, double-blind SELECT trial, semaglutide 2.4 mg as an adjunct to standard of care reduced MACE by 20% in 17,604 adults with established CVD with overweight or obesity and without prior history of diabetes. Let's wait for the NNT.

2023 AHA/ACC/ACCP/ASPC/NLA/PCNA Guideline for the Management of Patients With Chronic Coronary Disease: JACC Journals Guidelines are detailed: reading them slowly. Please, read full doc! Thread #15: What is need/duration of beta blockers in coronary disease? 🥸📷👇

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This may be one of the reasons why femoral artery access with a micropuncture needle could not demonstrate superiority over conventional access. Always do 4 things for access. 1. Landmarks (below inguinal lig) 2. Palpate the artery. 3. Use imaging. 4. Safe-zone arteriotomy

Blood pressure does not always correlate with perfusion. I can’t emphasize this enough. A patient can have a normal blood pressure yet freezing cold extremities, severe skin mottling, and be profoundly malperfused in florid shock. Understanding this concept will literally save

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I created this short animation to illustrate which drugs are currently under investigation and appear most promising in targeting key steps of the inflammatory cascade—with the hope of demonstrating a reduction in cardiovascular events without incurring a significant cost in