In this report, some fluorinated polyphosphazenes and polymethacrylates were selected for evaluation as coronary stent coating. After applying the polymer film by dipcoating, the stents were implanted in porcine coronary arteries. No acute thrombotic occlusions were observed. The neointimal proliferation was studied by a 6 week follow-up of the minimal lumen stented diameter, using quantitative coronary analysis. All polymers demonstrated a slight hyperplasia, resulting in a 10-20% lumen narrowing at follow-up. Only for one fluorinated polymethacrylate, PFM-P75, a minimal neointimal response (3% lumen narrowing) was found.
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Medicine (Baltimore)
November 2024
Department of Sociology, Social Work and Public Health, Faculty of Labour Sciences, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain.
This study aimed to examine the employment status of patients who have experienced ischemic heart disease one year after undergoing cardiac rehabilitation. For this, a quasi-experimental pre-post study without a control group of active workers aged 18 to 65 years diagnosed with ischemic heart disease and included in a cardiac rehabilitation programme was conducted. Sociodemographic and occupational data, cardiovascular risk factors and clinical-therapeutic data on heart disease were collected.
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November 2024
Institute of Gerontology, Guangzhou Geriatric Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Rationale: Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is the leading global cause of death from cardiovascular disease, and the mortality rate increases in the presence of comorbidities such as renal abscess. The treatment of AMI combined with renal abscess is challenging, especially in combination with urinary tract obstruction, as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) can lead to progression of the renal abscess and deterioration of renal function. Currently, there is no consensus on the treatment of renal abscess in AMI.
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January 2025
Cardiology Department, Clinique Saint-Hilaire, Rouen, France. Email:
J Invasive Cardiol
January 2025
Minneapolis Heart Institute and Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Email:
Background: Upfront 2-stent techniques are often used in bifurcation percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), but there is controversy about optimal strategy selection.
Methods: The authors examined the clinical and angiographic characteristics and long-term outcomes of 232 bifurcation PCIs that were performed using the double kissing (DK) crush or culotte technique in 216 patients between 2014 and 2023 using data from the Prospective Global Registry for the Study of Bifurcation Lesion Interventions (NCT05100992). The inverse probability of treatment weighted (IPTW) Cox proportional hazards model was used to assess long-term outcomes.
J Invasive Cardiol
January 2025
Klinikum Fürth, Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Fürth, Germany.
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