Coronary artery disease
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Coronary artery disease · Nov 2012
Comparative StudyEffectiveness of everolimus-eluting stents in the treatment of drug-eluting stent versus bare-metal stent restenosis.
The efficacy of drug-eluting stents (DES) for the treatment of in-stent restenosis (ISR) after DES implantation is not well defined. This study compared the clinical outcome after the use of everolimus-eluting stents (EES) for the treatment of bare-metal stent (BMS) versus DES restenosis. ⋯ EES used for the treatment of DES-ISR is associated with higher rates of recurrent revascularization, MI, and MACE compared with EES for the treatment of BMS-ISR.
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Coronary artery disease · Nov 2012
Predictive value of red cell distribution width in intrahospital mortality and postintervention thrombolysis in myocardial infarction flow in patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction.
Recent studies have reported a strong independent association between increased red cell distribution width (RDW) and the risk of adverse outcomes in patients with heart failure, stable coronary disease, and acute coronary syndromes. However, in this study we aimed to determine the impact of an elevated RDW level on the postinterventional thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) flow and intrahospital mortality in patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction (AMI). ⋯ A high admission RDW level in patients with acute AMI undergoing a primary percutaneous coronary intervention was associated with an increased risk for intrahospital cardiovascular mortality, but was not associated with worse postinterventional TIMI flow.
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Coronary artery disease · Nov 2012
SYNTAX score: an independent predictor of long-term cardiac mortality in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
This observational study aimed to determine whether the SYNergy between percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with TAXUS drug-eluting stent and the cardiac surgery (SYNTAX) score can act as an independent predictor for cardiac death on long-term follow-up in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). ⋯ The SYNTAX score is a strong independent predictor of cardiac death in intermediate-risk to high-risk patients with acute STEMI.