The role of periprocedural hemodynamic variables during carotid stenting for the mid-term general mortality in advanced age patients.

Carotid stenting may produce significant bradycardia and/or hypotension. This may have negative short- and long-term effects for the elderly high-risk patients. Their cerebral hemodynamics is with exhausted adaptive capacity because of the multiple cardiovascular risk factors, advanced age, and significant stenosis.

Intracoronary electrocardiogram to guide percutaneous interventions in coronary bifurcations - a proof of concept: the FIESTA (Ffr vs. IcEcgSTA) study.

Aims: The aim of this study was to determine the accuracy of the intracoronary electrocardiogram (icECG) to detect ischaemia during bifurcation lesion percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with fractional flow reserve (FFR) as a reference.

Methods And Results: Patients with significant bifurcation lesions defined as FFR ≤0.80 were included.