Ischemia

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The medical community needs to understand that uncontrolled open artery ischemia is not benign, a speaker said during the American Society for Preventive Cardiology Congress on CVD Prevention.

The American Society for Preventive Cardiology Congress on CVD Prevention will be held Friday through Sunday and focus on the expansion of the ABCs of prevention and the future of preventive CV care.

Early revascularization may confer mortality benefit in patients with moderate to severe myocardial ischemia identified on nuclear stress testing, regardless of left ventricular ejection fraction, researchers reported.

PHILADELPHIA — In this Healio video exclusive, Gina Lundberg, MD, FACC, provides an overview of the Heart in Diabetes CME conference presentation, titled “CVD in Women, Ischemia Diagnosis and Menopause Hormone Therapy.”

The inaugural chest pain guideline, from the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association, redefines how physicians discuss chest pain with patients and provides a detailed clinical decision pathway for diagnosis and management.

In patients with critical limb ischemia, CT-derived fractional flow reserve often detected silent coronary ischemia, and selective revascularization of those diagnosed with it improved outcomes, according to a presentation.

According to an analysis in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, the results of the ISCHEMIA trial of invasive vs. conservative treatment of stable ischemic heart disease may only be applicable to one-third of the real-world PCI population.

In patients with diabetes and chronic coronary disease, researchers found no incremental benefit employing routine invasive management compared with initial medical therapy, according to results from the ISCHEMIA trials.

CAD severity, not ischemia severity, was associated with 4-year risk for death and MI among patients with stable ischemic heart disease in the ISCHEMIA trial, researchers reported.