Fractional Flow Reserve Measurements in the Management of Acute Coronary Artery Syndrome

Cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of mortality and morbidity around the world. Coronary artery disease (CAD), commonly known as heart disease is the end product of atherosclerotic plaque formation. High blood pressure, smoking or high cholesterol levels are some of the risk factors that worsen the atherosclerotic...

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Management of Atrial Fibrillation

The human heart is a muscular pump which beats as a result of electrical impulses produced by a special group of cells in the heart that have the ability to generate electrical activity on their own. Any abnormalities in the heart rate or rhythm can be considered to be a fault in the electrical conduction system of the heart....

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Recent Advances in Cardiac Electrophysiology

Cardiology, being a prime medical speciality has always been in the forefront of inventing new diagnostic techniques, medical therapies, interventional procedures, medical imaging, continuous monitoring systems and more.  Among the many recent advancements, leadless pacemaker and thermocool smarttouch catheter offer...

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Use of Drug-Eluting Stents during Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Narrowing of arteries and obstruction in the blood supply to the heart may lead to major cardiovascular events such as ischemia, myocardial infarction (heart attack), stroke and more. Plaques that build-up in the coronary arteries can behave in different ways: a plaque that grows to certain size and stops, a plaque that eventually...

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Why Diagnosis of Treatment Resistant Hypertension is Important?

It is a well known fact that heart diseases have been claiming the lives of people more than any other disease. Termed as Coronary Heart Disease, this cardiac condition leads to heart attack, stroke and other major cardiovascular events. Treatment of coronary heart disease mainly focuses on controlling the risk factors by making lifestyle changes and prescribing drug treatments. High blood pressure (hypertension) and high blood cholesterol levels...

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Why FFR-Guided Revascularization Strategy Is More Effective?

Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) or Coronary Heart disease is a serious heart condition that occurs as a result of atherosclerosis. Hardening or narrowing of the artery (stenosis) causes an obstruction in the blood flow to the heart which may lead to major cardiovascular events. When the heart muscle is starved of oxygen, it...

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Why Timely Coronary Artery Disease Treatment is Crucial?

Heart muscle needs oxygen and nutrient rich blood to function properly and it is supplied by coronary arteries. When healthy, the coronary arteries remain strong, elastic and flexible which ensures the blood flow without any restrictions. However, the arterial health is compromised in some situations because of an underlying...

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Stenting and Bypass Surgery for Patients with Left Main Coronary Artery Disease

The heart is a fist-sized powerhouse that pumps oxygen and nutrient-rich blood throughout the body to keep us alive. Aorta that bifurcate into two major coronary arteries – Left Main Coronary Artery (LMCA) and Right Coronary Artery (RCA) supply blood to the heart tissues keeping them nourished so that they can function perfectly....

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Treatment of Coronary Artery Stenosis

We have been hearing a lot about the rapid advancements and changes in the field of medical technology ranging from patient registration to data assessment and diagnostic methods to surgical procedures. Yet, some diseases continue to remain as a dreadful term for us; heart disease is a case in point. Coronary Heart Disease...

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Fractional Flow Reserve Measurement and Optical Coherence Tomography in Guiding Coronary Interventions

Blockage of oxygen-rich blood supply to the heart due to the plaque build-up in coronary arteries is the primary cause for heart attacks. Termed as Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), this heart problem occurs due to a condition called atherosclerosis.  In some cases, plaque build-up is not just limited within a single epicardial...

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Cardiology Diseases, Disorders and Syndromes

All over the world, the death rate continues to increase as a restul of cardiology diseases. It is one of the critical issues in the medical world. Researchers and experts continue to innovate new technology, accessories and infrastructures, to help the increasing number of patients with cardiology diseases. Some common heart diseases and conditions include high cholesterol, Heart Failure, Atrial Fibrillation, Coronary Artery Disease, Mitral Valve...

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Participate in the Cardiologist Education Conference

Doctors go through essential cardiologist education training for many years to learn about medicine and heart surgery before they become heart surgeons. But, the number of the doctors in comparison to patients is few. As the number of heart patients is growing, researchers and expert cardiologists are working hard to provide...

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Cardiology Conferences aim to educate professionals

Cardiovascular disease is the world’s biggest killer. An estimated 17.3 million people died from CVDs in 2008 and this is believed to increase to more than 23 million people in 2030. Controlling these numbers is thus a major challenge and why major institutions and universities around the globe are working tirelessly to find...

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Is CABG getting safer?

Stroke is one of the most devastating complications after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, entailing permanent disability, a 3–6 fold increased risk of mortality, an incremental hospital resource consumption and a longer length of hospital stay. Notwithstanding advances in surgical, anaesthetic and medical management across the last 10 years, the risk of stroke after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) has not significantly declined,...

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FFR-Guided PCI Using Contemporary Drug-Eluting

Fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided drug-eluting stenting reduces death, myocardial infarction or urgent revascularisation, as compared to medical therapy in patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD), according to the results of the FAME 2 trial presented at the European Society of Cardiology’s (ESC) Congress. Whilst percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has been performed for more than 30 years, its benefits in terms of 'hard endpoints'...

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Cardiology Stem Cell Therapy Offers Cardiac Repair

Cardiology stem cell therapy offers great hope and is the topic of much discussion. Currently, basic research scientists and clinicians worldwide are investigating human embryonic cardiac stem cells, skeletal stem cells (myoblasts), adult bone marrow stem cells, cardiology stem cells and human umbilical cord stem cells for...

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How heart stents (and their relatives) have gone from strength to strength

Heart stents have come a long way since doctors first started using balloon angioplasty to treat narrowed coronary arteries. During this procedure, a very thin, long, balloon-tipped tube (catheter), is inserted into an artery in either the groin or arm and is moved to the site of the blockage with help from an X-ray. The balloon at the tip of the catheter is then inflated to compress the blockage and restore blood flow, and is then deflated to...

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Is CABG getting safer?

Stroke is one of the most devastating complications after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, entailing permanent disability, a 3–6 fold increased risk of mortality, an incremental hospital resource consumption and a longer length of hospital stay. Notwithstanding advances in surgical, anaesthetic and medical management across the last 10 years, the risk of stroke after coronary artery bypass graft(CABG) has not significantly declined,...

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The evolution of embolic protection devices

Manipulation of atherosclerotic lesions with wires, catheters, balloons, stents and other intravascular devices during invasive procedures releases are associated with small, but clinically important and discrepant, rates of procedural complications, including cerebral and myocardial ischaemic events, cranial nerve injury and access site haematoma. Embolic protection devices (EPDs) may lower the rate of ipsilateral ischaemic events during CAS and...

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The importance of Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) in Coronary Artery Disease Management

Patients with insufficient oxygen supply to the heart, or myocardial ischemia, may benefit from coronary intervention (PCI), such as stenting of partially occluded vessels. The course of treatment for patients with CAD depends on disease severity. While coronary angiography is always performed prior to PCI, it may underestimate or overestimate the severity of specific cardiac lesions. In contrast, Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) provides a...

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Advances in mitral valve disease treatment

Treatment of mitral valve disease is a very common condition, affecting about 3% of the population. Recent years have seen major advances in minimally invasive mitral valve surgery and several new catheter-based techniques are being clinically evaluated. Indeed, percutaneous therapy has emerged as an option for treatment of mitral valve disease including regurgitation and prolapse for selected, predominantly high-risk patients. Many patients...

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Advances in valve replacement

Aortic valve replacement is becoming more common with almost 5,000 aortic valve replacements being carried out on the NHS in England between April 2011 and April 2012. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is an established alternative to surgical valve replacement in the management of calcified severe aortic stenosis in those with co-morbidities or adverse features (advanced age, impaired left ventricular function), or in those where...

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Drug-eluting balloons more successful than other treament in coronary restenosis

Drug-Eluting Balloons (DEBs) are conventional semi-compliant angioplasty balloons covered with an antirestenotic drug which is released into the vessel wall during inflation of the balloon, usually at nominal pressures with a specific minimal inflation time. The active substance on the Drug-Eluting Balloons should be lipophilic enough to have a high absorption rate through the vessel wall to compensate for the short period of contact between the...

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Safer alternatives to conventional coronary artery bypass (CCAB)

Adverse clinical consequences associated with conventional coronary artery bypass graft surgery have largely been attributed to cardiopulmonary bypass circuit (CPB), hypothermic cardiac arrest, aortic cannulation and cross-clamping. Since the introduction of OPCAB for coronary artery disease, numerous studies have been published to evaluate the impact of OPCAB surgery compared with conventional coronary artery bypass graft surgery. However, subsequent...

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