Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
Navigating value-based medicine helpful for interventional cardiology careers
NEW ORLEANS — Excelling at value-based medicine will be the key to navigating the increasingly challenging interventional cardiology job market, according to a presenter at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Annual Meeting.
PLATINUM Diversity: Race, sex, socioeconomic factors impact PCI outcomes
NEW ORLEANS — Women and minorities who undergo PCI with a drug-eluting stent appear to have greater risk for mortality and recurrent cardiac events within the first year of the procedure compared with white men, researchers reported at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Annual Meeting.
Robotic PCI via radial, femoral access yields high success
NEW ORLEANS — Access route does not appear to impact the clinical success or safety of robotic PCI. In a post hoc analysis of the PRECISION study, robotic procedures performed via transradial or transfemoral access yielded high clinical success, comparable radiation exposure and similar procedure times.
'Weekend' effect may impact PCI outcomes
NEW ORLEANS — In a study comparing hospital admissions for percutaneous coronary intervention on a weekend or weekday, patients who underwent procedures over the weekend had a higher rate of in-hospital mortality, longer hospital stay and increased cost of care.
BRAVO 3: New-onset AF after TAVR confers elevated risk for stroke
NEW ORLEANS — Patients with new-onset atrial fibrillation detected within 30 days after transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement had a fourfold elevated risk for stroke, according to new data from the BRAVO 3 trial.
Adventitial drug delivery yields benefit in PAD
NEW ORLEANS — Localized delivery of dexamethasone into the adventitia via a novel micro-infusion device resulted in significant reductions in inflammatory biomarkers, which may provide a new strategy for outcome prediction and personalized therapy for patients with peripheral artery disease.
Cell therapy for severe angina shows promise, but questions about future use remain
NEW ORLEANS — Patients with severe class III and IV refractory angina treated with stem cell therapy experienced significant improvements in exercise capacity and mortality, according to a meta-analysis of three cell-therapy trials.
30-day readmissions lower at high-volume TAVR centers
NEW ORLEANS — A new study highlights an inverse association between hospital transcatheter aortic valve replacement volume and 30-day readmission rates.
Optimization approaches key for radiation safety in children with heart disease
NEW ORLEANS — Consensus recommendations for ionizing radiation dose optimization and regulation of dose metrics are needed across multi-modality imaging procedures in children with congenital and acquired heart disease, a speaker said at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Annual Meeting.
Sleep deprivation: An oft-ignored occupational hazard in health care
NEW ORLEANS — Sleep deprivation in the medical community is not uncommon, but keynote speaker Arianna Huffington urged an audience of interventional health care professionals to be aware of the dangers of a lack of sleep and to break the sleep-deprivation cycle.