Intervention News

A new guideline on lower-extremity peripheral artery disease encouraged managing care with a multispecialty team and having patients undergo structured exercise programs.

A percutaneous approach to treatment of severe aortic stenosis and complex CAD was superior to surgical valve replacement and CABG, a speaker reported.

A drug-eluting coronary implant adaptable to vessel physiology with uncaging elements was linked to less target lesion failure and target vessel failure at 2 years compared with a drug-eluting stent, researchers reported.

Endovascular therapy with stent implantation confers similar outcomes and lower complication rates vs. vascular bypass surgery for symptomatic femoropopliteal peripheral artery disease, regardless of sex, a speaker reported.

Two catheter-directed thrombectomy devices demonstrated efficacy and safety in the treatment of acute intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism, speakers reported.

Despite significant decline in heart attacks since 2004, inequities in STEMI management and mortality by age, gender, income and race, speakers reported.

Use of radial access for PCI has increased greatly in the U.S. over the last decade and is associated with lower risk for mortality, bleeding and nonfatal vascular complications compared with a transfemoral approach, a speaker reported.

AI accurately predicted several measures of cardiac function from coronary angiography that would otherwise require additional tests such as echocardiography or catheterization, a speaker reported.

ATLANTA — A system of standalone chest pain units set up in Karachi, Pakistan was associated with good metrics and outcomes for patients with STEMI who could not easily get to a hospital.

In a first-in-human study, a new class of transcatheter heart valve demonstrated good safety and restored aortic blood flow to levels similar to a healthy aortic valve at 1 year, a speaker reported.