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At least every tenth patient undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) presents with one or more chronically occluded coronary arteries (CTO) [...]
2015 03 - 9 articles
At least every tenth patient undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) presents with one or more chronically occluded coronary arteries (CTO) [...]
We t hank Dr Rabaeus for his interest i n our article and wish to respond to the issues he has raised [...]
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18 March 2015
Atrial tachycardias can originate from almost any part of the atria, with a predilection for certain anatomical structures. Tachycardias originating from the peri-atrioventricular nodal region are rare, and can be challenging to ablate owing to the p...
Les maladies cardiovasculaires sont marquées par la progression lente durant plusieurs décennies de l’athérosclérose avec l’apparition tardive de symptômes lies à l’obstruction aiguë ou chronique des axes vasculaires [...]
A 56-year-old man was referred at 5 a.m. with severe central chest pain radiating into the left arm, which had awoken him from sleep one hour previously [...]
Sudden cardiac death belongs to the acute coronary syndromes, beside unstable angina and myocardial infarction. Today, 60%–80% of deaths due to myocardial infarction still occur outside the hospital. In order to detect individuals prone to such event...
18 March 2015
Imaging of myocardial perfusion with SPECT, SPECT/CT and PET/CT is widely used for the detection of flow-limiting epicardial lesions and risk stratification of patients with suspected or known CAD. While regional reductions in radiotracer uptake duri...
Aims: To investigate feasibility and safety of concomitant percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) as compared to PCI in combination with antithrombotic treatment in patients with coronary artery disease an...