Publications by authors named "Luca Raone"
: Cangrelor provides rapid platelet inhibition, making it a potential option for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survivors undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). However, clinical data on its use after OHCA are limited. This study investigates in-hospital outcomes of cangrelor use in this population.
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- The study evaluates various techniques for guiding percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to determine which yields the best patient outcomes.
- It analyzes data from 39 randomized trials involving over 29,000 patients, highlighting that intravascular imaging (like OCT and IVUS) and physiology-guided strategies (like FFR) significantly reduce cardiac death compared to traditional coronary angiography (CA).
- Overall, the results suggest that OCT is the most effective guidance method, leading to lower rates of myocardial infarction, stent thrombosis, and all-cause mortality compared to CA.
Background: Multivessel coronary artery disease (MVD) represents a common finding at invasive coronary angiography (ICA) among out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survivors. However, optimal invasive treatment strategy for MVD in OHCA remains unknown. Our study aims to assess if complete revascularization improves one-year clinical outcomes in these patients.
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- Current guidelines recommend keeping LDL-C levels below 55 mg/100 ml for patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS), but many patients struggle to reach this target due to poor medication adherence.
- A study analyzed 963 ACS patients, using the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale to categorize them into high adherence (HA) and low adherence (LA) groups, finding that 28.7% had low adherence.
- The results showed that HA patients were significantly more likely to achieve the LDL-C target compared to LA patients, indicating that adherence to lipid-lowering therapy plays a crucial role in reaching cholesterol goals.