Long-term Outcomes for Drug-eluting Balloons versus Drug-eluting Stents in the Treatment of Small Vessel Coronary Artery Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

This systematic review and meta-analysis compares long-term outcomes follow-up data comparing drug-eluting balloons (DEBs) and drug-eluting stents (DESs) in interventional treatment of small coronary artery disease (<3 mm). A systematic review was undertaken along with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. The primary outcome was 1-3-year performance of DEB versus DES in major adverse cardiac events.

Cardiac MRI e-prime predicts myocardial late gadolinium enhancement and diastolic dysfunction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Background: Myocardial fibrosis leads to diastolic dysfunction in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).

Objectives: To evaluate a manual method of measuring mitral annular relaxation velocity (termed cardiac MRI e') as a measure of diastolic dysfunction on routine cardiac MRI and its relationship with myocardial late-gadolinium enhancement (LGE) and feature tracking measures of diastolic dysfunction in patients with HCM.

Methods: CMR e', feature tracking measures of diastolic function, left atrial, left ventricular (LV) parameters and LGE were retrospectively measured in 75 patients with HCM (mean age, 54.

The evidence for the implantable loop recorder in patients with inherited arrhythmia syndromes: a review of the literature.

Risk stratification of patients with inherited arrhythmia syndromes (IASs) can be challenging. Recent guidelines acknowledge a place for considering the implantable loop recorder (ILR) to outrule malignant arrhythmia as a cause of syncope in certain inherited arrhythmia patients who are at low risk of sudden cardiac death. In this comprehensive literature review, we evaluate the available evidence for the use of the ILR in the IASs and in relatives of victims of sudden arrhythmic death syndrome.