James White, London, Canada, writes about the first evaluation of diagnostic utility for cardiac imaging in patients presenting with ventricular arrhythmias. [read more]
Marie-Claude Morice, Massy, France, analyses the results of a single-centre study comparing the outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve implantation in men and women. [read more]
Sachin Goel and Samir Kapadia, Cleveland Clinic, USA, say that PCI can be performed in severe aortic stenosis patients and coronary artery disease without an increase in short-term mortality or procedural complications. [read more]
Christian J Terkelsen, Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark, writes about the country’s reperfusion strategy and the importance of prehospital diagnosis and field-triage. [read more]
Manuel Castella, Barcelona, Spain, was a principal investigator in the FAST trial, he gives his insights into the design and outcomes of this trial that set out to compare endocardial catheter ablation isolation of the pulmonary veins vs. minimally invasive thoracoscopic surgical epicardial isolation for atrial fibrillation treatment. [read more]
Olaf Wendler, London, UK, summarises and comments on one-year outcomes from the SOURCE registry. SOURCE provided procedural results with the commercialised Edwards Sapien valve. [read more]
Sven Plein, Leeds, UK spoke to Cardiovascular News about the current trends in cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), the benefits of this modality and the recent use of CMR as an endpoint in acute myocardial infarction trials. [read more]
Amar Krishnaswamy and Murat Tuzcu, Cleveland Clinic, USA, speak on the resurgence of balloon aortic valvuloplasty as a treatment to bridge severely symptomatic patients to transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement, or to better understand the contribution of aortic stenosis to functional limitation in patients with multiple comorbidities. [read more]
Giuseppe De Luca, Novara, Italy, comments on the results of the DESSERT (Drug-eluting stents in primary angioplasty) cooperation, a meta-analysis of randomised trials which aimed to evaluate the risks and benefits of drug-eluting stents in comparison to bare metal stents in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention for STEMI. [read more]
Roberto M Lang, past president of the American Society of Echocardiography, spoke to Cardiovascular News about the use of 3D echocardiography and the future of the technique. [read more]
