Interventional Cardiology

This cardiac subspecialty uses minimally invasive, catheter-based technologies in a cath lab to diagnose and treat coronary artery disease (CAD). The main focus in on percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) to revascularize patients with CAD that is causing blockages resulting in ischemia or myocardial infarction. PCI mainly consists of angioplasty and implanting stents. Interventional cardiology has greatly expanded in scope over recent years to include a number of transcatheter structural heart interventions.

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Cribbs joins UAB as director of new Adult Congenital Heart Disease program

Marc Cribbs, M.D., has joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham Division of Cardiovascular Disease as director of the new Alabama Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program.

Expanded definition reveals post-PCI bleeding more common

Using an updated definition of post-PCI bleeding, an analysis of more than 1 million PCI procedures found that the rate of bleeding was 5.8 percent, more than double the previously reported rate of 2.4 percent. These findings were published in the September issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Interventions.

Non-chest pain ACS symptoms more common in young women

Although chest pain is the most common symptom of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in both young men and women, many women do not present with chest pain and have more non-chest pain symptoms than men, according to a study published online Sept. 16 in JAMA Internal Medicine.  

TCT at 25: An International Success Story

Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics, the annual scientific symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year in San Francisco, Oct. 27 – Nov. 1.

Consider CABG in patients with diabetes, multivessel disease

Score one for CABG over PCI in patients with diabetes and multivessel disease. According to a meta-analysis published online Sept. 13 in The Lancet, CABG reduces the long-term risk of death by about a third in these patients, regardless of the type of stent used.

Reduced door-to-balloon times have not reduced STEMI mortality

Although door-to-balloon times have considerably decreased across the country, the rate of in-hospital mortality among patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has not, according to a study published Sept. 5 in The New England Journal of Medicine.

ESC.13: Newer drug-eluting stents outshine others in women

Drug-eluting stents (DES) are safer and more effective than bare-metal stents in women with coronary artery disease, according to the results of an international study presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2013 in Amsterdam and simultaneously published online Sept. 2 in The Lancet. Women who received newer DES experienced fewer deaths or heart attacks than women with older DES or bare-metal stents.

Pre-CABG measurement of FFR may trim number of grafts

CABG guided by fractional flow reserve (FFR) was associated with fewer grafts, anastomoses and on-pump surgeries compared with grafts guided by angiography, according to a study published online Aug. 28 in Circulation.

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