Recommendations were produced for the following nine risk factors: old age (>65), chronic kidney disease (CKD), diabetes mellitus (DM), recurrent myocardial infarction (MI), multi-vessel disease (MVD), multiple stents, bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS) stent, left main stenting and peripheral artery disease (PAD). Strong ischaemic risk factors include DM, recurrent MI, MVD and/or >3 stents;…
Approximately 3.7 million people died from acute coronary syndrome worldwide in 2012. Acute coronary syndrome, also known as myocardial infarction or unstable angina pectoris, is caused by a sudden blockage of the blood supplied to the heartmuscle. Percutaneous coronary intervention is often used for acute coronary syndrome, but previous systematic reviews on the effects of drug-eluting stents …
The most dreaded complication with percutaneous coronary intervention with stents, either bare-metal or drug-eluting stents is stent thrombosis (ST) and it has a significant detrimental effect on the outcome for the patient. The initial attempts at intervention with bare-metal stents had much higher rates of ST compared with what is currently prevailing in the modern interventional world. Signi…
The groups were statistically similar with regards to baseline clinical and demographic features. The values of C-reactive protein, white blood cell and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio values were found to be statistically significantly higher in study group versus control group, but none of them were considered as an independent predictor of peripheral arterial disease according to multivar…