Background: Patients who suffered from acute coronary syndrome (ACS) need a tight follow-up in order to optimize therapy and prevent adverse events. The aim of the PONTE-SCA Puglia program was to evaluate the impact of an integrated management of patients between hospital and local territorial outpatient facilities on adherence and outcome of patients discharged after ACS event.
Methods: This was a prospective, longitudinal, cohort study which enrolled patients who suffered ACS and/or coronary revascularization in a Hub hospital of ASL Bari.
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv
August 2020
Background: The ULISSE registry evaluated the real-world performance of the Ultimaster® biodegradable polymer sirolimus-eluting stent (BP-SES) in a multicenter-independent cohort of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, including a large proportion of diabetes mellitus (DM) patients.
Methods: In this subgroup analysis, 1,660 consecutive patients, 2,422 lesions, treated with BP-SES enrolled in the ULISSE registry were divided in two groups: DM (485 patients, 728 lesions) and non-DM (1,175 patients, 1,694 lesions). Primary endpoint was target lesion failure (TLF), a composite endpoint of cardiac-death, target-vessel myocardial infarction (TV-MI), and clinically driven target lesion revascularization (TLR) at 1-year.
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv
December 2019
Int J Cardiol
September 2019
Background: This study aimed to evaluate real-world clinical outcome of patients needing short dual antiplatelet therapy (S-DAPT) following PCI with Ultimaster® thin-strut, biodegradable polymer sirolimus-eluting stent (BP-SES), which was supposed to induce faster stent endothelialization and reduce device thrombogenicity.
Methods: In this sub-group analysis of patients enrolled in the ULISSE registry, two groups were identified: 1) patients discharged with S-DAPT (≤3-month) due to high bleeding risk or need for urgent major non-cardiac surgery and 2) patients discharged with recommended DAPT (R-DAPT) duration (≥6-month). The primary ischemic-safety and bleeding-safety endpoints were TLF (composite of cardiac-death, target vessel MI, and clinically driven target lesion revascularization), and BARC major bleedings (≥type-3a) at 1-year follow-up.
Int J Cardiol
June 2018
Background: This study was designed to confirm in a large population of unselected patients the promising results of Ultimaster® biodegradable polymer sirolimus-eluting stent (BP-SES) already shown in previous trial.
Methods: ULISSE is an observational, multicenter, national registry evaluating all patients undergoing PCI with the Ultimaster® BP-SES. Incidence of 1-year TLF (cardiac death or target vessel MI or clinically indicated TLR) was the primary endpoint.
Objectives: This study sought to compare clinical outcome of polymer-free amphilimus-eluting stent (PF-AES) versus biodegradable-polymer biolimus-eluting stent (BD-BES) in "all-comer" diabetes mellitus (DM) and non-DM patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention.
Background: The PF-AES has shown promising preliminary results in patients with DM.
Methods: Data from 2 multicentre-national registries (the ASTUTE and the INSPIRE-1) were used to analyse 1776 patients stratified in non-DM and DM.
Endo-ventricular thrombosis represents a possible clinical complication of stress(takotsubo)-cardiomyopathy (SC). Depressed ventricular systolic ventricular function, localized left ventricular (LV) dyskinesis, but also an increased pro-thrombotic state induced by catecholamine surge may facilitate the occurrence of endovascular thrombosis in SC. SC, however, may also present as right ventricular (RV) dysfunction or even as biventricular ballooning.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKounis syndrome (KS) is a complex of cardiovascular symptoms and signs following either allergy or hypersensitivity and anaphylactic or anaphylactoid insults. We report the case of 57-year-old man, with hypertension and history of allergy, referred for facial rash and palpitations appeared after consumption of canned tuna fish. Suddenly, the patient collapsed: electrocardiogram showed ST-elevation in inferior leads.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRight coronary artery (RCA) occlusion in inferior acute myocardial infarction is usually heralded by ST-elevation both in inferior and in right precordial leads. We report the case of a 68-year-old male, who presented marked ST-elevation in inferior leads, mirrored by ST-depression in anterior-septal and lateral leads. Right precordial lead electrocardiogram unexpectedly showed ST-depression V1R-V5R leads.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is still a challenge, and the measurement of calcitonin in fine-needle aspiration (FNA) washout has been recently introduced. Rarely, MTC presents as a cyst and its preoperative detection is difficult.
Methods: A 66-year-old woman was referred to us with high serum calcitonin.
Background: Whether cyclosporine A (CsA) has beneficial effects in reperfused myocardial infarction (MI) is debated.
Objectives: This study investigated whether CsA improved ST-segment resolution in a randomized, multicenter phase II study.
Methods: The authors randomly assigned 410 patients from 31 cardiac care units, age 63 ± 12 years, with large ST-segment elevation MI within 6 h of symptom onset, Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) flow grade 0 to 1 in the infarct-related artery, and committed to primary percutaneous coronary intervention, to 2.
Objectives: INSPIRE-1 (Italian Nobori Stent ProspectIve REgistry-1) was designed and conducted to assess clinical performance of Nobori biolimus A9-eluting stent (BES) implantation in an unrestricted "real-world" cohort of patients.
Methods: Unrestricted consecutive high-risk patients treated with BES with biodegradable polymer (Nobori, Terumo, Tokyo, Japan) between February 2008 and July 2012 were prospectively enrolled in an independent multicenter registry and divided in two groups: complex and non complex lesions.
Results: 1066 patients (1589 lesions) treated with Nobori BES were analyzed.
Stress-induced cardiomyopathy or Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM) is a unique syndrome, characterized by transient left ventricular (LV) apical ballooning without significant coronary arteries stenosis, affecting mainly menopausal women. We present the case of a 70 year old woman with subacute stent thrombosis (ST) at the level of the right coronary artery and transient apical ballooning with normal flow of left and circumflex coronary arteries. TCM is frequently associated with emotional stress, but to date no case of ST triggering TCM have been reported.
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