Superb Microvascular Imaging Is Superior to Doppler Imaging in Ruling Out Ulcerative Colitis Disease Activity.

Background: There is an unmet medical need for noninvasive techniques to determine disease activity in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and intestinal ultrasound (IUS) has shown promising performance in this regard. In addition to parameters such as bowel wall thickness, stratification, and mesenteric fat, color Doppler signals are used to determine inflammatory activity in the gut. However, whether superb microvascular imaging (SMI), a microvascular flow imaging technique, improves the diagnostic accuracy is currently unclear.

Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Cardiac Transplant Patients: A Binational Analysis Derived From the United Kingdom and United States.

Aims: To compare and contrast the indications, clinical and procedural characteristics, and periprocedural outcomes of patients with cardiac transplant undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the United States and United Kingdom.

Methods And Results: The British Cardiovascular Intervention Society Registry (BCIS) (2007-2014) and the United States National Inpatient Sample (NIS) (2004-2014) data were utilized for this analysis. There were 466 PCIs (0.