Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Cardiac Catheterization After a Three-Day Holiday Weekend Versus a Two-Day Weekend.

Objectives: The study aim is to determine whether invasive cardiac procedures following a 3-day (holiday) weekend have worse outcomes compared with procedures following a 2-day (normal) weekend.

Background: Catheterization laboratory schedules after 3-day holiday weekends tend to be overloaded with urgent procedures for patients who have waited up to 3 days. We hypothesized that this would be reflected by more procedural complications in patients undergoing procedures after a 3-day weekend.

Non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis: a rare presentation and literature review.

A 66-year-old woman with a remote history of breast cancer and prior tobacco use presented to the hospital with chest pain. She was found to have an elevated troponin consistent with a diagnosis of a non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI). A left heart catheterisation revealed non-obstructive coronary disease, and subsequent transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiograms demonstrated vegetations on both the mitral and aortic valves.