Primary Angioplasty
Is primary angioplasty cost effective in the UK? Results of a comprehensive decision analysis
... providing angioplasty, differential lengths of hospital stay and additional investment cost in new ...settings, primary angioplasty has the highest probability of being cost effective even at lower ...
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Debate: Should the elderly receive thrombolytic therapy or primary angioplasty?
... and primary angioplasty are both recommended reperfusion strategies for elderly patients presenting with myocardial infarction ...(MI). Primary angioplasty is most beneficial in high-risk ...
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Primary Angioplasty without Stenting for Symptomatic, High Grade Intracranial Stenosis with Poor Circulation
... For the endovascular therapy of intracranial stenosis, the most important factor is to reduce any perioperative complications. According to our experience, submaximal primary angioplasty may offer a safe ...
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Assessing the effectiveness of primary angioplasty compared with thrombolysis and its relationship to time delay: a Bayesian evidence synthesis
... long angioplasty-related time delays, the linear regression model estimated here will inevitably indicate that the relative treatment effect of primary angioplasty becomes negative at an unspecified ...
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Mortality in primary angioplasty patients starting antiplatelet therapy with prehospital prasugrel or clopidogrel: a 1-year follow-up from the European MULTIPRAC Registry
... Due to the difference in the labels of prasugrel and clopi- dogrel, the groups differed significantly in baseline char- acteristics. When performing multivariate adjustment for differences in baseline characteristics, ...
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Remote ischemic conditioning in ST elevation myocardial infarction as adjuvant to primary angioplasty (RIC STEMI): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... to primary angioplasty ” (RIC-STEMI) is an ongoing prospective, single-center, open-label, randomized controlled trial to assess whether RIC as an adjunctive therapy during primary PCI in patients ...
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Comparative efficacy of eptifibatide and abciximab in primary angioplasty study
... Background: Primary percutaneous intervention is the safest and most effective treatment modality for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (MI) in centers where catheterization facilities ...during ...
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Renal dysfunction in STEMI-patients undergoing primary angioplasty: higher prevalence but equal prognostic impact in female patients; an observational cohort study from the Belgian STEMI registry
... It has been demonstrated that women with STEMI under- going primary PCI (pPCI) have higher odds for in-hospital mortality than men. Some authors demonstrated that this difference is likely explained by their older ...
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Adenosine Stress Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Following Acute ST segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Post Primary Angioplasty
... Background: Adenosine stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has been proven an effective tool in detection of reversible ischemia. Limited evidence is available regarding its accuracy in the setting of acute ...
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Observational study on pharmacoinvasive strategy and primary angioplasty in a tertiary care centre in acute myocardial infarction patients
... Prehospital Fibrinolysis. Meta analysis of six randomized trials that compared in hospital fibrinolytic therapy and pre hospital fibrinolysis, for acute myocardial infarction patients they showed that the all cause ...
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A Rare Case of Acute Cerebrovascular Accident in the Post Partum Period after Primary Angioplasty during Pregnancy
... Electrocardiogram of the patient revealed hyperacute T waves, consistent with an anterior myocardial infarc- tion (Figure 1). A bed-side 2D-echo (Figure 2) verified severe hypokinesia in the LAD territory, with mild mi- ...
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The information needs of patients treated with primary angioplasty for heart attack: An exploratory study
... Objective: As early recovery is a challenging period for cardiac patients who frequently have ‘unmet’ health information needs, the objective of this study was to explore the information[r] ...
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Primary infragenicular angioplasty for diabetic neuroischemic foot ulcers following the angiosome distribution: a new paradigm for the vascular interventionist?
... Implementation of angiosome-based strategies in infragen- icular interventions may improve wound healing and limb preservation rates using bypass and endovascular techniques. It may also offer the opportunity in ...
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COMPLICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH ANGIOPLASTY
... surgery. Angioplasty and stend placement are the common, non-surgical procedures that can be used to open the blocked heart ...coronary angioplasty, Peripheral angioplasty, Carotid ...
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Acute Thrombotic Occlusion of Right Coronary and Left Circumflex Coronary Arteries in a Patient with Antiphospholipid Syndrome: Successful Stent Implantation
... performed primary angioplasty and stent implantation for both of the occluded coronary ...which primary coronary angioplasty with stent implantation was successfully performed for two coronary ...
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Anxiety and Depression in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angioplasty
... This is a descriptive cross-sectional study to estimate the prevalence of anxiety and depression among patients un- dergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) and their predictive factors. A total of 148 subjects ...
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Intracranial angioplasty: experience and complications
... PTA was performed in one patient with a 90% stenosis of the MCA at the M1 segment. Initially, two dilatations were performed with a 2-mm Stealth balloon catheter for 30 seconds at 6 atm with no improvement of the ...
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Diffusion weighted MR Imaging After Angioplasty or Angioplasty Plus Stenting of Arteries Supplying the Brain
... BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: There has been concern regarding the safety of revascu- larization procedures of vessels supplying the brain vessels because of the risk of cerebral embolization during the procedure. We have ...
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Angioplasty and stenting for mechanical thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke
... ischemic stroke (AIS) have large artery intracranial occlusions, and timely recanalization of these occlusions often leads to improved neurologic outcome. Starting with the widespread use of IV tissue plasminogen ...
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Cerebral Hemodynamic Changes after Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting
... Note:—TCD indicates transcranial Doppler; TIA, transient ischemic attack; MFV, mean flow velocity; PI, pulsatility index; MCA, middle cerebral artery; CAS, carotid angioplasty stent plac[r] ...
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